netdev - Re: [RFC] tcp: use order-3 pages in tcp

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Message-ID: <505B4E13.5000501@hp.com>
Date:	Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:10:43 -0700
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] tcp: use order-3 pages in tcp_sendmsg()

On 09/19/2012 10:37 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> loopback is lossless, so its always surprising we can have TCP
> retransmits on this medium ;)

Is it lossless?

raj@...dy:~/netperf2_trunk$ netstat -s | grep pru
     19 packets pruned from receive queue because of socket buffer overrun

raj@...dy:~/netperf2_trunk$ src/netperf -t TCP_RR -- -b 256 -D -o 
burst_size,local_transport_retrans,remote_transport_retrans
MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET 
to localhost.localdomain () port 0 AF_INET : nodelay : histogram : demo 
: first burst 256
Initial Burst Requests,Local Transport Retransmissions,Remote Transport 
Retransmissions
256,151,94

raj@...dy:~/netperf2_trunk$ netstat -s | grep pru    26 packets pruned 
from receive queue because of socket buffer overrun
raj@...dy:~/netperf2_trunk$ uname -a
Linux tardy 2.6.38-16-generic #67-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 6 17:58:38 UTC 2012 
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Admittedly, my test is on an older kernel, but have things changed in 
this regard since then?   I had to get a bit more contrived on a later 
kernel in a VM (vs what is running directly on my workstation):

raj@...dy-ubuntu-1204:~$ netstat -s | grep -e prune -e retrans    1 
segments retransmited
     4 packets pruned from receive queue because of socket buffer overrun
     1 fast retransmits
raj@...dy-ubuntu-1204:~$ netperf -t TCP_RR -- -b 1024 -D -S 16K -o 
local_transport_retrans,remote_transport_retrans
MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET 
to localhost () port 0 AF_INET : nodelay : demo : first burst 1024
Local Transport Retransmissions,Remote Transport Retransmissions
1,0
raj@...dy-ubuntu-1204:~$ netstat -s | grep -e prune -e retrans    2 
segments retransmited
     7 packets pruned from receive queue because of socket buffer overrun
     2 fast retransmits
raj@...dy-ubuntu-1204:~$ uname -a
Linux tardy-ubuntu-1204 3.6.0-rc3+ #7 SMP Mon Sep 10 14:46:05 PDT 2012 
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

rick
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