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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: menglong8.dong@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net,
	yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, dsahern@kernel.org,
	imagedong@tencent.com, ycheng@google.com, kuniyu@amazon.co.jp,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: snmp: add statistics for tcp small queue check
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 08:37:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANn89iJ0Txbb7wvgKSPMLhHE0X8cadayN8ULZJkEvrC8YTwkow@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211129075707.47ab0ffe@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>

On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 7:57 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 28 Nov 2021 14:01:02 +0800 menglong8.dong@gmail.com wrote:
> > Once tcp small queue check failed in tcp_small_queue_check(), the
> > throughput of tcp will be limited, and it's hard to distinguish
> > whether it is out of tcp congestion control.
> >
> > Add statistics of LINUX_MIB_TCPSMALLQUEUEFAILURE for this scene.
>
> Isn't this going to trigger all the time and alarm users because of the
> "Failure" in the TCPSmallQueueFailure name?  Isn't it perfectly fine
> for TCP to bake full TSQ amount of data and have it paced out onto the
> wire? What's your link speed?

Yes, I would be curious to have some instructions on how this new SNMP
variable can be used,
in a concrete case.

Like, how getting these SNMP values can translate to an action, giving
more throughput ?

  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-29 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-28  6:01 [PATCH v2 net-next] net: snmp: add statistics for tcp small queue check menglong8.dong
2021-11-29 13:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2021-11-29 15:57 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-11-29 16:37   ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2021-11-30 14:36   ` Menglong Dong
2021-11-30 15:23     ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-11-30 15:55       ` Eric Dumazet
2021-12-01  2:05         ` Menglong Dong

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