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authorJohn Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>2005-11-10 17:11:48 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2005-11-10 17:11:48 -0800
commit326f36e9e7de362e09745ce6f84b65e7ccac33ba (patch)
treebf8e56d28a8de0fbbeb4e79bea565f2e31abe07e /net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
parent9772efb970780aeed488c19d8b4afd46c3b484af (diff)
[TCP]: receive buffer growth limiting with mixed MTU
This is a patch for discussion addressing some receive buffer growing issues. This is partially related to the thread "Possible BUG in IPv4 TCP window handling..." last week. Specifically it addresses the problem of an interaction between rcvbuf moderation (receiver autotuning) and rcv_ssthresh. The problem occurs when sending small packets to a receiver with a larger MTU. (A very common case I have is a host with a 1500 byte MTU sending to a host with a 9k MTU.) In such a case, the rcv_ssthresh code is targeting a window size corresponding to filling up the current rcvbuf, not taking into account that the new rcvbuf moderation may increase the rcvbuf size. One hunk makes rcv_ssthresh use tcp_rmem[2] as the size target rather than rcvbuf. The other changes the behavior when it overflows its memory bounds with in-order data so that it tries to grow rcvbuf (the same as with out-of-order data). These changes should help my problem of mixed MTUs, and should also help the case from last week's thread I think. (In both cases though you still need tcp_rmem[2] to be set much larger than the TCP window.) One question is if this is too aggressive at trying to increase rcvbuf if it's under memory stress. Orignally-from: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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