On Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:44:27 -0400 Willem de Bruijn wrote: > Wang Zhan wrote: >> On Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:07:09 -0400 Willem de Bruijn wrote: >> > Somewhat tangential, but an entirely different practical approach >> > could be to disable BIG-TCP when such a patch from BIG-TCP capable to >> > non-capable device is encountered. >> >> That means a single device in the topology which does not support BIG TCP >> forces every other device to turn BIG TCP off, to avoid the degradation. >> So with mixed devices and a dynamic topology, BIG TCP cannot be enabled at >> all. > > True. A question is how likely such a scenario with mixed devices is. > I.e., is it worth the code complexity.
I cannot say how common the mixed case is, but with this patch enabling BIG TCP on a device becomes a local decision: if the peer supports it the path is faster, and if it does not the path stays at what it would be without BIG TCP. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
