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

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Mon Mar 20 05:35:54 PST 2006


Quoting Arjan van de Ven <arjan at infradead.org>:
> > I read it as if he was proposing to have a sysctl knob to turn off
> > TCP congestion control completely (which has so many issues it's not
> > even funny.)
> 
> owww that's so bad I didn't even consider that

No, I think that comment was taken out of thread context. We were talking about
stretching ACKs - while avoiding stretch ACKs is important for TCP congestion
control, it's not the only mechanism.

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Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies



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