Thread (50 messages) 50 messages, 11 authors, 2008-02-03

Re: [PATCH] Disable TSO for non standard qdiscs

From: Stephen Hemminger <hidden>
Date: 2008-01-31 18:09:04

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:37:35 +0100
Andi Kleen [off-list ref] wrote:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:01:00PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
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Andi Kleen wrote:
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Fix the broken qdisc instead.
What do you mean? I don't think the qdiscs are broken.
I cannot think of any way how e.g. TBF can do anything useful
with large TSO packets.

Someone posted a patch some time ago to calculate the amount
of tokens needed in max_size portions and use that, but IMO
people should just configure TBF with the proper MTU for TSO.
TBF with 64k atomic units will always be chunky and uneven. I don't
think that's a useful goal. 

-Andi
Then change TBF to use skb_gso_segment?  Be careful, the fact that
one skb ends up queueing multiple skb's would cause issues to parent
qdisc (ie work generating qdisc).

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Stephen Hemminger [off-list ref]
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