Hi,
yes, FreeBSD is blasting the full socket buffer onto the net
when the destination is "local".
I think it was introduced when the T/TCP changes were committed,
it kind-of makes sense with T/TCP, but other than that
it is a very bad idea to have it on by default.
For one, in many nets including a 100/10 switch, or slow receivers,
it tends to cause an immediate loss on the first window of data
because of the overload at the switch or the receiver.
cheers
luigi
>
> Hi folks,
>
> At the last IETF meeting there were some debates around FreeBSD using a
> 16-KB initial congestion window in TCP when destination IP address is from
> the local subnet. Does anybody remember when it was introduced into the
> code and what kind of ideas were behind?
>
> Some reasons were given why it may not be a good idea:
>
> -the benefit of not having slow start on LANs is very small, i.e. some
> milliseconds
>
> -it is not a conformant TCP feature, i.e. not allowed by TCP Congestion
> Control (RFC2581) and is explicitly given in Known TCP Implementation
> Problems (RFC2525) "2.1 No initial slow start" and "2.3 Uninitialized
> CWND"
>
> -people may have the same subnet mask also over a slow PPP link. In this
> case the effect of the huge initial window is quite bad, see for example
> http://www.cs.Helsinki.FI/u/gurtov/papers/effect_of_delays_on_tcp_performance.pdf
>
> -in case of congestion on Ethernet, packets queues build up at the
> network interfaces in hosts and agressive TCP start-up behaviour can
> further increase congestion losses
>
> What are your thoughts on this?
>
> Andrei
>
> tcp_output.c:
>
> int ss_fltsz = 1;
> SYSCTL_INT(_net_inet_tcp, OID_AUTO, slowstart_flightsize, CTLFLAG_RW,
> &ss_fltsz, 1, "Slow start flight size");
>
> int ss_fltsz_local = TCP_MAXWIN; /* something large */
> SYSCTL_INT(_net_inet_tcp, OID_AUTO, local_slowstart_flightsize,
> CTLFLAG_RW,
> &ss_fltsz_local, 1, "Slow start flight size for local networks");
>
> [...]
> if (
> in_localaddr(tp->t_inpcb->inp_faddr)
> )
> tp->snd_cwnd = tp->t_maxseg * ss_fltsz_local;
> else
> tp->snd_cwnd = tp->t_maxseg * ss_fltsz;
>
>
>
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