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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
Cc: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Bloat] What is wrong with Microsoft's receive window auto-tuning?
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:13:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1410469999.7106.58.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140911174037.GA22515@sesse.net>

On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 19:40 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:05:46AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >> Is anyone aware of any research either pointing out how their tuning
> >> algorithm works, or of known bugs/problems with the algorithm?
> > How BDP suggests a receive window of 750k ?
> > 
> > If BDP _is_ 750k, then 3.8 MB receive window is not insane, it depends
> > on the amount of drops and how fast you want to recover from drops.
> 
> If it helps, I've seen problems in Linux' auto-tuning as well, so this is
> seemingly a hard problem :-)

Right. Note we did some changes in the DRS code in latest linux versions
(3.13 If I remember well)

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b0983d3c9b132c33b6fb2e28d157a1edc18a173c






  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-11 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-01 17:23 Jerry Jongerius
2014-09-11 17:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-09-11 17:40   ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2014-09-11 21:13     ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2014-09-12 11:03   ` Jerry Jongerius

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