netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] tcp: smoother receiver autotuning

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Date:   Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:59:09 -0500
From:   Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
        Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>,
        Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>,
        Priyaranjan Jha <priyarjha@...gle.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] tcp: smoother receiver autotuning

On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 8:55 PM, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> wrote:
> Back in linux-3.13 (commit b0983d3c9b13 ("tcp: fix dynamic right sizing"))
> I addressed the pressing issues we had with receiver autotuning.
>
> But DRS suffers from extra latencies caused by rcv_rtt_est.rtt_us
> drifts. One common problem happens during slow start, since the
> apparent RTT measured by the receiver can be inflated by ~50%,
> at the end of one packet train.
>
> Also, a single drop can delay read() calls by one RTT, meaning
> tcp_rcv_space_adjust() can be called one RTT too late.
>
> By replacing the tri-modal heuristic with a continuous function,
> we can offset the effects of not growing 'at the optimal time'.
>
> The curve of the function matches prior behavior if the space
> increased by 25% and 50% exactly.
>
> Cost of added multiply/divide is small, considering a TCP flow
> typically would run this part of the code few times in its life.
>
> I tested this patch with 100 ms RTT / 1% loss link, 100 runs
> of (netperf -l 5), and got an average throughput of 4600 Mbit
> instead of 1700 Mbit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
> Acked-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>

Thanks, Eric!

neal