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Date:      Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:11:53 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Patrick Kelsey <pkelsey@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: option TCP_RFC7413 is not in GENERIC
Message-ID:  <1521216713.99081.55.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAD44qMUR_bKOzaWLMatGT3xXWdovWm3Abv8zwu=NCVm6YjEkiQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <1521062028.2511351.1303413736.6960BF4F@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20180314233811.GA35025@mail.bsd4all.net> <CAD44qMUR_bKOzaWLMatGT3xXWdovWm3Abv8zwu=NCVm6YjEkiQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, 2018-03-16 at 16:04 +0000, Patrick Kelsey wrote:
> The current thinking is that users who care
> about such performance differences are dealing with extreme workloads that
> already motivate them to compile their own kernels, or are working with
> very resource-constrained platforms, so the way forward is to keep the
> TCP_RFC7413 kernel option around and enable it by default for the
> server-class platforms (armd64 and arm64).

I have no idea what TCP_RFC7413 even is, but I know I was forced to add
it to my kernel config when I installed the bind911 package during a
recent upgrade.  This is on a tiny NUC for which saturating even one of
its gbe interfaces would count as "extreme workload". :)

-- Ian



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