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Date:      Fri, 13 Sep 2013 21:38:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
To:        "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>
Cc:        "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro@yandex-team.ru>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@freebsd.org>, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@freebsd.org>, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Net <net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Network stack changes
Message-ID:  <1087948919.23486338.1379122730412.JavaMail.root@uoguelph.ca>
In-Reply-To: <CAOFF%2BZ0afxp%2BZyD9%2BmFmoMopfXSSaZ10t2i3fJMwEPxi278R%2Bw@mail.gmail.com>

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Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
> >
> 
> > And any time you increase latency, that will have a negative impact
> > on
> > NFS performance. NFS RPCs are usually small messages (except Write
> > requests
> > and Read replies) and the RTT for these (mostly small,
> > bidirectional)
> > messages can have a significant impact on NFS perf.
> >
> > rick
> >
> >
> this may be a bit off topic but not much... I have wondered with all
> of the
> new
> tcp algorithms
> http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2011/03/summary-of-five-new-tcp-congestion.html
> 
> what algorithm is best suited for NFS over gigabit Ethernet, say
> FreeBSD to
> FreeBSD.
> and further more would a NFS optimized tcp algorithm be useful?
> 
I have no idea what effect they might have. NFS traffic is quite different than
streaming or bulk data transfer. I think this might make a nice research
project for someone.

rick

> Sam Fourman Jr.
> 



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