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  1. 21 Dec, 2010 2 commits
    • Nandita Dukkipati's avatar
      TCP: increase default initial receive window. · 356f0398
      Nandita Dukkipati authored 
      This patch changes the default initial receive window to 10 mss
(defined constant). The default window is limited to the maximum
of 10*1460 and 2*mss (when mss > 1460).

draft-ietf-tcpm-initcwnd-00 is a proposal to the IETF that recommends
increasing TCP's initial congestion window to 10 mss or about 15KB.
Leading up to this proposal were several large-scale live Internet
experiments with an initial congestion window of 10 mss (IW10), where
we showed that the average latency of HTTP responses improved by
approximately 10%. This was accompanied by a slight increase in
retransmission rate (0.5%), most of which is coming from applications
opening multiple simultaneous connections. To understand the extreme
worst case scenarios, and fairness issues (IW10 versus IW3), we further
conducted controlled testbed experiments. We came away finding minimal
negative impact even under low link bandwidths (dial-ups) and small
buffers.  These results are extremely encouraging to adopting IW10.

However, an initial congestion window of 10 mss is useless unless a TCP
receiver advertises an initial receive window of at least 10 mss.
Fortunately, in the large-scale Internet experiments we found that most
widely used operating systems advertised large initial receive windows
of 64KB, allowing us to experiment with a wide range of initial
congestion windows. Linux systems were among the few exceptions that
advertised a small receive window of 6KB. The purpose of this patch is
to fix this shortcoming.

References:
1. A comprehensive list of all IW10 references to date.
http://code.google.com/speed/protocols/tcpm-IW10.html

2. Paper describing results from large-scale Internet experiments with IW10.
http://ccr.sigcomm.org/drupal/?q=node/621

3. Controlled testbed experiments under worst case scenarios and a
fairness study.
http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/79/slides/tcpm-0.pdf

4. Raw test data from testbed experiments (Linux senders/receivers)
with initial congestion and receive windows of both 10 mss.
http://research.csc.ncsu.edu/netsrv/?q=content/iw10

5. Internet-Draft. Increasing TCP's Initial Window.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tcpm-initcwnd/Signed-off-by: default avatarNandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      356f0398
    • Eric Dumazet's avatar
      net_sched: sch_sfq: better struct layouts · eda83e3b
      Eric Dumazet authored 
      Here is a respin of patch.

I'll send a short patch to make SFQ more fair in presence of large
packets as well.

Thanks

[PATCH v3 net-next-2.6] net_sched: sch_sfq: better struct layouts

This patch shrinks sizeof(struct sfq_sched_data)
from 0x14f8 (or more if spinlocks are bigger) to 0x1180 bytes, and
reduce text size as well.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   4821     152       0    4973    136d old/net/sched/sch_sfq.o
   4627     136       0    4763    129b new/net/sched/sch_sfq.o

All data for a slot/flow is now grouped in a compact and cache friendly
structure, instead of being spreaded in many different points.

struct sfq_slot {
        struct sk_buff  *skblist_next;
        struct sk_buff  *skblist_prev;
        sfq_index       qlen; /* number of skbs in skblist */
        sfq_index       next; /* next slot in sfq chain */
        struct sfq_head dep; /* anchor in dep[] chains */
        unsigned short  hash; /* hash value (index in ht[]) */
        short           allot; /* credit for this slot */
};
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      eda83e3b
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