From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
To: Neil Davies <neil.davies@pnsol.com>
Cc: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Bloat] Best practices for paced TCP on Linux?
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 17:16:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120407151600.GA21452@uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8C78AC1F-7305-4623-ADE6-1535CAA1FCBF@pnsol.com>
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 04:08:20PM +0100, Neil Davies wrote:
> That is the general idea - the issue is that the dynamic arrival rate as
> "round trip window size" double just dramatically exceeds the available
> buffering at some intermediate point - it is self inflicted (intra stream)
> congestion with the effect of dramatically increasing the quality
> attenuation (delay and loss) for streams flowing through that point.
We've been tuning our stream to have more consistent frame sizes (adjusting
the VBV settings); that seems to have alleviated the problems somewhat.
> The packet train may also be an issue, especially if there is h/w assist
> for TCP (which might well be the case here, as the interface was a 10G
> one, comments Steinar?) - we have observed an interesting phenomena in
> access networks where packet trains arrive (8+ packets back to pack at 10G)
> for service down a low speed (2M) link - this leads to the effective
> transport delay being highly non-stationary - with all that implies for the
> other flows on that link.
The card is a standard Intel 10GigE card, and we've turned off segmentation
offload to avoid this precise issue.
I've also tried hacking VLC to pace out the packets a bit more, but it didn't
really seem to give the effect I had hoped, especially as things sometimes
would glitch even without any packets actually being lost (which would
contradict my “10GigE is too bursty” guess). The VBV tuning was a lot more
efficient.
/* Steinar */
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-06 21:37 Steinar H. Gunderson
2012-04-06 21:49 ` Dave Taht
2012-04-06 22:21 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2012-04-07 15:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-07 15:25 ` Dave Taht
2012-04-07 15:35 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2012-04-07 15:48 ` Dave Taht
2012-04-07 15:52 ` Dave Taht
2012-04-07 17:10 ` Jonathan Morton
2012-04-07 17:18 ` Dave Taht
2012-04-07 17:44 ` Jonathan Morton
2012-04-07 18:10 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2012-04-07 18:27 ` Jonathan Morton
2012-04-07 18:56 ` Dave Taht
2012-04-07 18:50 ` Dave Taht
2012-04-07 18:54 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2012-04-07 19:01 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2012-04-07 19:08 ` Jonathan Morton
2012-04-07 19:38 ` Dave Taht
2012-04-07 20:16 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2012-04-14 0:37 ` Rick Jones
2012-04-07 21:13 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2012-04-07 21:31 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2012-04-07 19:02 ` Dave Taht
2012-04-07 21:49 ` Fred Baker
2012-04-07 22:36 ` Dave Taht
2012-04-07 23:59 ` Fred Baker
2012-04-07 20:27 ` Neil Davies
2012-04-14 0:35 ` Rick Jones
2012-04-14 21:06 ` Roger Jørgensen
2012-04-16 17:05 ` Rick Jones
2012-04-07 11:54 ` Neil Davies
2012-04-07 14:17 ` Fred Baker
2012-04-07 15:08 ` Neil Davies
2012-04-07 15:16 ` Steinar H. Gunderson [this message]
2012-04-14 0:44 ` Rick Jones
2012-04-07 14:48 ` Dave Taht
2012-05-12 20:08 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
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