On Wed, 2015-06-03 at 11:10 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> Xen virtual network driver has higher latency than a physical NIC.
> Having only 128K as limit for TSQ introduced 30% regression in guest
> throughput.
> 
> This patch raises the limit to 256K. This reduces the regression to 8%.
> This buys us more time to work out a proper solution in the long run.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com>
> Cc: David Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com>
> ---
>  net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
> index 190538a..eeb59be 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
> @@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ int sysctl_tcp_retrans_collapse __read_mostly = 1;
>   */
>  int sysctl_tcp_workaround_signed_windows __read_mostly = 0;
>  
> -/* Default TSQ limit of two TSO segments */
> -int sysctl_tcp_limit_output_bytes __read_mostly = 131072;
> +/* Default TSQ limit of four TSO segments */
> +int sysctl_tcp_limit_output_bytes __read_mostly = 262144;
>  
>  /* This limits the percentage of the congestion window which we
>   * will allow a single TSO frame to consume.  Building TSO frames

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>


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