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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2012-05-02 06:28:41 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-05-03 05:08:58 +0400
commitb49960a05e32121d29316cfdf653894b88ac9190 (patch)
tree101bb83073486809d5cc84505fecf772f4a77599 /Documentation
parent84768edbb2721637620b2d84501bb0d5aed603f1 (diff)
downloadlinux-b49960a05e32121d29316cfdf653894b88ac9190.tar.xz
tcp: change tcp_adv_win_scale and tcp_rmem[2]
tcp_adv_win_scale default value is 2, meaning we expect a good citizen skb to have skb->len / skb->truesize ratio of 75% (3/4) In 2.6 kernels we (mis)accounted for typical MSS=1460 frame : 1536 + 64 + 256 = 1856 'estimated truesize', and 1856 * 3/4 = 1392. So these skbs were considered as not bloated. With recent truesize fixes, a typical MSS=1460 frame truesize is now the more precise : 2048 + 256 = 2304. But 2304 * 3/4 = 1728. So these skb are not good citizen anymore, because 1460 < 1728 (GRO can escape this problem because it build skbs with a too low truesize.) This also means tcp advertises a too optimistic window for a given allocated rcvspace : When receiving frames, sk_rmem_alloc can hit sk_rcvbuf limit and we call tcp_prune_queue()/tcp_collapse() too often, especially when application is slow to drain its receive queue or in case of losses (netperf is fast, scp is slow). This is a major latency source. We should adjust the len/truesize ratio to 50% instead of 75% This patch : 1) changes tcp_adv_win_scale default to 1 instead of 2 2) increase tcp_rmem[2] limit from 4MB to 6MB to take into account better truesize tracking and to allow autotuning tcp receive window to reach same value than before. Note that same amount of kernel memory is consumed compared to 2.6 kernels. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index bd80ba5847d2..1619a8c80873 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ tcp_adv_win_scale - INTEGER
(if tcp_adv_win_scale > 0) or bytes-bytes/2^(-tcp_adv_win_scale),
if it is <= 0.
Possible values are [-31, 31], inclusive.
- Default: 2
+ Default: 1
tcp_allowed_congestion_control - STRING
Show/set the congestion control choices available to non-privileged
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
net.core.rmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_RCVBUF disables
automatic tuning of that socket's receive buffer size, in which
case this value is ignored.
- Default: between 87380B and 4MB, depending on RAM size.
+ Default: between 87380B and 6MB, depending on RAM size.
tcp_sack - BOOLEAN
Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS).