Re: net: more accurate skb truesize - regression on Microblaze

[Michal Simek <monstr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/10/2012 11:52 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 11:38 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 11:29 +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> > > On 04/10/2012 11:24 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 11:11 +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > ~ # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem
> > > > > 4096    87380   130048
> > > >
> > > > Are they default values, or tuned by admin ?
> > > >
> > > > 130048 bytes isnt enough to let TCP open its rcv window.
> > >
> > > yep. Default value after powerup. What's wrong with that?
> > >
> > > Michal
> >
> > I guess your tcp performance is driven by these numbers mostly.
> >
> > receive window wont grow above 64K in these case. a tcpdump could
> > confirm the issue.
> >
> > Do you have 130000 pages of memory ?
> >
> > Seems the net/ipv4/tcp.c code is wrong (or the comment is wrong)
> >
> > Since its not 1/128 but 1/1024 ....
> >
> >
> >          /* Set per-socket limits to no more than 1/128 the pressure threshold */
> >          limit = nr_free_buffer_pages()<<  (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
> >          limit = max(limit, 128UL);
> >          max_share = min(4UL*1024*1024, limit);
> >
> >          sysctl_tcp_wmem[0] = SK_MEM_QUANTUM;
> >          sysctl_tcp_wmem[1] = 16*1024;
> >          sysctl_tcp_wmem[2] = max(64*1024, max_share);
> >
> >          sysctl_tcp_rmem[0] = SK_MEM_QUANTUM;
> >          sysctl_tcp_rmem[1] = 87380;
> >          sysctl_tcp_rmem[2] = max(87380, max_share);
>
> OK there is a bug introduced in commit
> c43b874d5d714f271b80d4c3f49e05d0cbf51ed2
> (tcp: properly initialize tcp memory limits)
>
> I'll send a patch to change :
>
> limit = nr_free_buffer_pages()<<  (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
>
> back to
>
> limit = nr_free_buffer_pages()<<  (PAGE_SHIFT - 7);
>
>
> You could try this :)

sure.

~ # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem
4096    87380   1040384

Regression is till 5% which is much better on hw design without csum support.

I will also test it with csum support and let you know.

Michal



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