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From: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei•com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
Cc: <davem@davemloft•net>, <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	<brouer@redhat•com>, <jpirko@redhat•com>, <jbrouer@redhat•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v4 1/2] net: sched: tbf: fix calculation of max_size
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 17:47:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <529DA8C1.4000504@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1386058339.30495.19.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>

On 2013/12/3 16:12, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 15:44 +0800, Yang Yingliang wrote:
>> On 2013/12/3 12:59, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 11:26 +0800, Yang Yingliang wrote:
>>>
>>>> +	for (max_size = 0; max_size < MAX_PKT_LEN; max_size++)
>>>> +		if (psched_l2t_ns(&q->rate, max_size) > q->buffer)
>>>> +			break;
>>>> +	if (--max_size <= 0)
>>>> +		goto unlock_done;
>>>> +
>>>
>>> This seems dubious. With your new code, max_size < 65536
>>>
>>> Prior code had :
>>>
>>> for (n = 0; n < 256; n++)
>>>     if (rtab->data[n] > qopt->buffer)
>>>         break;
>>> max_size = (n << qopt->rate.cell_log) - 1;
>>>
>>> So we could have much bigger max_size.
>>>
>>> The reason I ask is that its possible to have qdisc_pkt_len(skb) being
>>> bigger than 65536, for TCP packets with low MSS value.
>>>
>>
>> Hmmm, if qdisc_pkt_len(skb) is bigger than 65536, skb_is_gso(skb) is true,
>> it will go into tbf_segment(). If I am wrong, please point me out, thanks!
>>
>> BTW, 65536 is suggested by Jesper, I'm a little uncertain about it. He is, too.
>> Do you or some other developers have stronger opinions on this?
> 
> We do not want to go to tbf_segment() if we programmed tbf to allow TSO
> packets of 68.000 bytes being sent without being segmented.

I mean a 64KB TSO packet's "qdisc_pkt_len(skb)" is bigger than 65536, but it will go
to tbf_segment(), so the TSO packet of 64KB can be enqueued.

> 
> TSO packet of 64KB -> about 45 frames if MSS=1448, 45*1514 = 68130 bytes
> 
> Have you tried to use TBF on a 10 Gbps link, say with one TCP flow ?

Yes, I had tried it with intel82599 nic.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-03  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-03  3:26 [PATCH net v4 0/2] net: sched: fix some issues Yang Yingliang
2013-12-03  3:26 ` [PATCH net v4 1/2] net: sched: tbf: fix calculation of max_size Yang Yingliang
2013-12-03  4:51   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-12-03  6:09     ` Yang Yingliang
2013-12-03  4:59   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-12-03  7:44     ` Yang Yingliang
2013-12-03  8:12       ` Eric Dumazet
2013-12-03  9:47         ` Yang Yingliang [this message]
2013-12-03 11:32           ` Yang Yingliang
2013-12-03 14:51             ` Eric Dumazet
2013-12-04  1:53               ` Yang Yingliang
2013-12-03  3:26 ` [PATCH net v4 2/2] net: sched: htb: fix calculation of quantum Yang Yingliang

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