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author | Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com> | 2015-03-06 03:18:23 (GMT) |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-03-06 19:57:41 (GMT) |
commit | 6b58e0a5f32dedb609438bb9c9c82aa6e23381f2 (patch) | |
tree | dcfd707a04fd8295b1384cc18fc60addf22ae23a /include/net/netns | |
parent | dcd8fb8533ceb493146ce030d15f7965b82d0c27 (diff) | |
download | linux-6b58e0a5f32dedb609438bb9c9c82aa6e23381f2.tar.xz |
ipv4: Use binary search to choose tcp PMTU probe_size
Current probe_size is chosen by doubling mss_cache,
the probing process will end shortly with a sub-optimal
mss size, and the link mtu will not be taken full
advantage of, in return, this will make user to tweak
tcp_base_mss with care.
Use binary search to choose probe_size in a fine
granularity manner, an optimal mss will be found
to boost performance as its maxmium.
In addition, introduce a sysctl_tcp_probe_threshold
to control when probing will stop in respect to
the width of search range.
Test env:
Docker instance with vxlan encapuslation(82599EB)
iperf -c 10.0.0.24 -t 60
before this patch:
1.26 Gbits/sec
After this patch: increase 26%
1.59 Gbits/sec
Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com>
Acked-by: John Heffner <johnwheffner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/netns')
-rw-r--r-- | include/net/netns/ipv4.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/netns/ipv4.h b/include/net/netns/ipv4.h index 1085e12f..e051d39 100644 --- a/include/net/netns/ipv4.h +++ b/include/net/netns/ipv4.h @@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ struct netns_ipv4 { int sysctl_tcp_fwmark_accept; int sysctl_tcp_mtu_probing; int sysctl_tcp_base_mss; + int sysctl_tcp_probe_threshold; struct ping_group_range ping_group_range; |