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From: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring•com>
To: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail•com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>,
	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp•com>,
	Steven Brudenell <steven.brudenell@gmail•com>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: tbf/htb qdisc limitations
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:51:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101027005143.bfa8fbfd.billfink@mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101020110612.GA18315@ff.dom.local>

On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Jarek Poplawski wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 03:37:24AM -0400, Bill Fink wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 09:24:34PM -0400, Bill Fink wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 16 Oct 2010, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> > > ...
> > > > > http://code.google.com/p/pspacer/wiki/HTBon10GbE
> > > > >  
> > > > > If it doesn't help reconsider hfsc.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for the link.  From his results, it appears you can
> > > > get better accuracy by keeping TSO/GSO enabled and upping
> > > > the tc mtu parameter to 64000.  I will have to try that out.
> > > 
> > > Sure, but you have to remember that scheduler doesn't know real packet
> > > sizes and rate tables are less accurate especially for smaller packets,
> > > so it depends on conditions.
> > 
> > On my testing on the real data path, TSO/GSO enabled did seem
> > to give more accurate results for a single stream.  But when
> > I tried multiple 10-GigE paths simultaneously, each with a
> > single stream across it, non-TSO/GSO seemed to fare better
> > overall.
> 
> Btw, if you find time I would be interested in checking an opposite
> concept of lower than real mtu (256) to use rate tables different way
> (other tbf parameters without change). The patch below is needed for
> this to work.

Sorry.  I'm totally swamped at work currently and won't be able
to investigate that.

						-Bill



> diff --git a/net/sched/sch_tbf.c b/net/sched/sch_tbf.c
> index 641a30d..9ac3460 100644
> --- a/net/sched/sch_tbf.c
> +++ b/net/sched/sch_tbf.c
> @@ -123,9 +123,6 @@ static int tbf_enqueue(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc* sch)
>  	struct tbf_sched_data *q = qdisc_priv(sch);
>  	int ret;
>  
> -	if (qdisc_pkt_len(skb) > q->max_size)
> -		return qdisc_reshape_fail(skb, sch);
> -
>  	ret = qdisc_enqueue(skb, q->qdisc);
>  	if (ret != NET_XMIT_SUCCESS) {
>  		if (net_xmit_drop_count(ret))

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-27  4:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-08 20:58 tbf/htb qdisc limitations Steven Brudenell
2010-10-10 11:23 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-10-11 22:27   ` Steven Brudenell
2010-10-12 10:10     ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-10-12 19:31       ` Steven Brudenell
2010-10-12 21:59         ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-10-12 22:17           ` Rick Jones
2010-10-13  6:26             ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-10-14  3:36               ` Bill Fink
2010-10-14  4:01                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-14  6:34                   ` Bill Fink
2010-10-14  6:44                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-10-14  7:13                   ` Bill Fink
2010-10-14  8:09                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-10-14  8:50                       ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-10-15  6:37                         ` Bill Fink
2010-10-15  6:44                           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-15 21:37                             ` Bill Fink
2010-10-15 22:05                               ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-10-16  4:51                                 ` Bill Fink
2010-10-16 20:58                                   ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-10-17  1:24                                     ` Bill Fink
2010-10-17 20:36                                       ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-10-19  7:37                                         ` Bill Fink
2010-10-20 11:06                                           ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-10-27  4:51                                             ` Bill Fink [this message]
2010-10-27  9:48                                               ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-10-15  8:18                           ` Jarek Poplawski

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