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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: kuznet@ms2•inr.ac.ru, johnpol@2ka•mipt.ru, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Netchannles: first stage has been completed. Further ideas.
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:26:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C10042.1020503@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060720.215504.41641534.davem@davemloft.net>

> All this talk reminds me of one thing, how expensive tcp_ack() is.
> And this expense has nothing to do with TCP really.  The main cost is
> purging and freeing up the skbs which have been ACK'd in the
> retransmit queue.
> 
> So tcp_ack() sort of inherits the cost of freeing a bunch of SKBs
> which haven't been touched by the cpu in some time and are thus nearly
> guarenteed to be cold in the cache.
> 
> This is the kind of work we could think about batching to user
> sleeping on some socket call.

Ultimately isn't that just trying to squeeze the balloon?

rick jones

nice to see people seeing ACKs as expensive though :)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-21 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-18  8:16 Netchannles: first stage has been completed. Further ideas Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-18  8:34 ` David Miller
2006-07-18  8:50   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-18 11:16 ` Christian Borntraeger
2006-07-18 11:51   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-18 12:36     ` Christian Borntraeger
2006-07-18 19:11       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-18 21:20         ` David Miller
2006-07-18 12:15 ` Jörn Engel
2006-07-18 19:08   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-19 11:00     ` Jörn Engel
2006-07-20  7:42       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-18 23:01 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-07-19  0:39   ` David Miller
2006-07-19  5:38   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-19  6:30     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-19 13:19     ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-07-20  7:32       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-20 16:41         ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-07-20 21:08           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-20 21:21             ` Ben Greear
2006-07-21  7:19               ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-21  7:20                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-21 16:14                 ` Ben Greear
2006-07-21 16:27                   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-22 13:23                   ` Caitlin Bestler
2006-07-20 21:40             ` Ian McDonald
2006-07-21  7:26               ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-20 22:59             ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-07-21  4:55               ` David Miller
2006-07-21  7:10                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-21  7:47                   ` David Miller
2006-07-21  9:06                     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-21  9:19                       ` David Miller
2006-07-21  9:39                         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-21  9:46                           ` David Miller
2006-07-21  9:55                             ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-21 16:26                 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2006-07-21 20:57                   ` David Miller
2006-07-19 19:52   ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-07-19 20:01     ` David Miller
2006-07-19 20:16       ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-07-24 18:54       ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-07-24 20:52         ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-07-27  2:17   ` Rusty Russell
2006-07-27  5:17     ` David Miller
2006-07-27  5:46       ` Rusty Russell
2006-07-27  6:00         ` David Miller
2006-07-27 18:54           ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-07-28  8:21             ` David Miller
2006-07-28  5:54           ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-01  4:47             ` David Miller
2006-08-01  6:36               ` Rusty Russell
2006-07-27 16:33         ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-07-27 16:51           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-27 20:56             ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-07-28  5:17               ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-28  5:34                 ` David Miller
2006-07-28  5:47                   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-28  4:49           ` Rusty Russell

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