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| author | Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com> | 2015-03-06 06:18:23 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-03-06 22:57:41 +0300 |
| commit | 6b58e0a5f32dedb609438bb9c9c82aa6e23381f2 (patch) | |
| tree | dcfd707a04fd8295b1384cc18fc60addf22ae23a /net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | |
| 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 'net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c index d151539da8e6..d3c09c12ee81 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c +++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c @@ -883,6 +883,13 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_net_table[] = { .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, }, + { + .procname = "tcp_probe_threshold", + .data = &init_net.ipv4.sysctl_tcp_probe_threshold, + .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, + }, { } }; |