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Date:      Thu, 1 Mar 2007 15:53:13 -0500
From:      Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>
To:        Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, rwatson@freebsd.org, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, kmacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Large TCP send socket buffer optimizations
Message-ID:  <DABA390F-20B5-4602-9DAE-F0C39B37B56A@siliconlandmark.com>
In-Reply-To: <45E7020D.2000605@freebsd.org>
References:  <45E6E2E8.5060408@freebsd.org> <17894.61337.772803.325091@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <45E7020D.2000605@freebsd.org>

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On Mar 1, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>> Andre Oppermann writes:
>>  > This patch solves the problem by maintaining an offset pointer  
>> in the socket
>>  > buffer to give tcp_output() the closest mbuf right away  
>> avoiding the traversal
>>  > from the beginning.
>>  >  > With this patch we should be able to compete nicely for the  
>> Internet land
>>  > speed record again.
>> Great news.  I will test soon.
>> Have you found the bug which makes a freebsd sender spew
>> duplicate acks?  This will have a negative affect on
>> any benchmarks..
>
> No, not yet.  And my current test environment doesn't lend itself  
> to reproduce
> the bug easily.  I'm very likely to need further input from you and  
> will send
> you some patches for instrumentation in the near future.

Please CC me on the patches. Did you get a chance to check out the  
pcap that I linked to?

Andy

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