[openib-general] Re: TSO and IPoIB performance degradation

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>:
> The path an SKB can take is opaque and unknown until the very last
> moment it is actually given to the device transmit function.

Why, I was proposing looking at dst cache. If that's NULL, well,
we won't stretch ACKs. Worst case we apply the wrong optimization.
Right?

> People need to get the "special case this topology" ideas out of their
> heads. :-)

Okay, I get that.

What I'd like to clarify, however: rfc2581 explicitly states that in some cases
it might be OK to generate ACKs less frequently than every second full-sized
segment. Given Matt's measurements, TCP on top of IP over InfiniBand on Linux
seems to hit one of these cases.  Do you agree to that?

-- 
Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies