netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: set SK_MEM

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Date:   Mon, 31 Oct 2016 12:08:48 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: set SK_MEM_QUANTUM to 4096

On Mon, 2016-10-31 at 15:01 -0400, Neal Cardwell wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> >
> > Systems with large pages (64KB pages for example) do not always have
> > huge quantity of memory.
> >
> > A big SK_MEM_QUANTUM value leads to fewer interactions with the
> > global counters (like tcp_memory_allocated) but might trigger
> > memory pressure much faster, thus suboptimal TCP performance
> > since windows are lowered to ridiculous values.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> > ---
> 
>  Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
> 
> Thanks, Eric!


Please disregard this patch, I need to change sk_prot_mem_limits() as
well, since tcp_mem[] and udp_mem[] are given in page units.