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| author |   Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com> | 2015-03-06 11:18:23 +0800 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-03-06 14:57:41 -0500 |
| commit | 6b58e0a5f32dedb609438bb9c9c82aa6e23381f2 (patch) | |
| tree | dcfd707a04fd8295b1384cc18fc60addf22ae23a /net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | |
| parent | ipv4: Raise tcp PMTU probe mss base size (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-6b58e0a5f32dedb609438bb9c9c82aa6e23381f2.tar.xz linux-dev-6b58e0a5f32dedb609438bb9c9c82aa6e23381f2.zip | |
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 'net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c index 5a2dfed4783b..35790d977a2b 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c @@ -2460,6 +2460,7 @@ static int __net_init tcp_sk_init(struct net *net) } net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_ecn = 2; net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_base_mss = TCP_BASE_MSS; + net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_probe_threshold = TCP_PROBE_THRESHOLD; return 0; fail: |