From ae8064ac32d07f609114d73928cdef803be87134 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Heffner Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:36:48 -0700 Subject: [TCP]: Bound TSO defer time This patch limits the amount of time you will defer sending a TSO segment to less than two clock ticks, or the time between two acks, whichever is longer. On slow links, deferring causes significant bursts. See attached plots, which show RTT through a 1 Mbps link with a 100 ms RTT and ~100 ms queue for (a) non-TSO, (b) currnet TSO, and (c) patched TSO. This burstiness causes significant jitter, tends to overflow queues early (bad for short queues), and makes delay-based congestion control more difficult. Deferring by a couple clock ticks I believe will have a relatively small impact on performance. Signed-off-by: John Heffner Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/tcp.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/tcp.h b/include/linux/tcp.h index 0e058a2d1c6..2d36f6db370 100644 --- a/include/linux/tcp.h +++ b/include/linux/tcp.h @@ -342,6 +342,8 @@ struct tcp_sock { unsigned long last_synq_overflow; + __u32 tso_deferred; + /* Receiver side RTT estimation */ struct { __u32 rtt; -- cgit v1.2.3