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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor•org>
To: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google•com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, Tom Herbert <therbert@google•com>,
	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google•com>,
	Matt Mathis <mattmathis@google•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP.
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 22:05:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m262m0lh0q.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1313134197-5082-1-git-send-email-nanditad@google.com> (Nandita Dukkipati's message of "Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:29:57 -0700")

Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google•com> writes:
> +
> +	if (tcp_packets_in_flight(tp) > tp->snd_ssthresh) {
> +		if (WARN_ON(!tp->prr_cwnd))
> +			tp->prr_cwnd = 1;
> +		sndcnt = DIV_ROUND_UP(tp->prr_delivered * tp->snd_ssthresh,
> +				      tp->prr_cwnd) - tp->prr_out;
> +	} else {
> +		sndcnt = min_t(int, delta,
> +			       max_t(int, tp->prr_delivered -
> tp->prr_out,

u32s here? This will likely do bad things with large enough windows.

The rest looks good to me as code, but I don't claim to fully understand the 
algorithm. Perhaps a sysctl to turn it off and a linux mib counter when 
it triggers would be useful in addition.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux•intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-14  5:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-12  7:29 [PATCH] Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP Nandita Dukkipati
2011-08-12 11:36 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2011-08-19  7:34   ` Nandita Dukkipati
2011-08-14  5:05 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2011-08-19  7:34   ` Nandita Dukkipati
2011-08-19  7:33 ` [PATCH v2] " Nandita Dukkipati
2011-08-19 10:25   ` Ilpo Järvinen
2011-08-20  1:28     ` Nandita Dukkipati
2011-08-20 12:41       ` Ilpo Järvinen
2011-08-22  6:21         ` Nandita Dukkipati
2011-08-19 10:26   ` David Miller
2011-08-20  1:29     ` Nandita Dukkipati
2011-08-20  1:29   ` [PATCH v3] " Nandita Dukkipati
2011-08-22  6:21     ` [PATCH v4] " Nandita Dukkipati
2011-08-25  2:43       ` David Miller

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