On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
>
> Over the years, TCP BDP has increased a lot, and is typically
> in the order of ~10 Mbytes with help of clever Congestion Control
> modules.
>
> In presence of packet losses, TCP stores incoming packets into an out of
> order queue, and number of skbs sitting there waiting for the missing
> packets to be received can match the BDP (~10 Mbytes)
>
> In some cases, TCP needs to make room for incoming skbs, and current
> strategy can simply remove all skbs in the out of order queue as a last
> resort, incurring a huge penalty, both for receiver and sender.
>
> Unfortunately these 'last resort events' are quite frequent, forcing
> sender to send all packets again, stalling the flow and wasting a lot of
> resources.
>
> This patch cleans only a part of the out of order queue in order
> to meet the memory constraints.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
> Cc: Neal Cardwell <[email protected]>
> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <[email protected]>
> Cc: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <[email protected]>
> Cc: C. Stephen Gun <[email protected]>
> Cc: Van Jacobson <[email protected]>
> ---

Nice.

Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <[email protected]>

neal

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