On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 11:56 +0100, George Dunlap wrote: > Is the problem perhaps that netback/netfront delays TX completion? > Would it be better to see if that can be addressed properly, so that > the original purpose of the patch (fighting bufferbloat) can be > achieved while not degrading performance for Xen? Or at least, so > that people get decent perfomance out of the box without having to > tweak TCP parameters?
Sure, please provide a patch, that does not break back pressure. But just in case, if Xen performance relied on bufferbloat, it might be very difficult to reach a stable equilibrium : Any small change in stack or scheduling might introduce a significant difference in 'raw performance'. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
