Quoting r. David S. Miller <[email protected]>:
> The path an SKB can take is opaque and unknown until the very last
> moment it is actually given to the device transmit function.
Why, I was proposing looking at dst cache. If that's NULL, well,
we won't stretch ACKs. Worst case we apply the wrong optimization.
Right?
> People need to get the "special case this topology" ideas out of their
> heads. :-)
Okay, I get that.
What I'd like to clarify, however: rfc2581 explicitly states that in some cases
it might be OK to generate ACKs less frequently than every second full-sized
segment. Given Matt's measurements, TCP on top of IP over InfiniBand on Linux
seems to hit one of these cases. Do you agree to that?
--
Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies
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