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From: Sebastian Moeller <moeller0@gmx.de>
To: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
Cc: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>,
	bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Bloat] benefits of ack filtering
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 09:45:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <401BE104-CFCC-449C-9904-A7C118B869E2@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1711301623270.2950@nftneq.ynat.uz>

Hi All,

you do realize that the worst case is going to stay at 35KPPS? If we assume simply that the 100Mbps download rate is not created by a single flow but by many flows (say 70K flows) the discussed ACK frequency reduction schemes will not work that well. So ACK thinning is a nice optimization, but will not help the fact that some ISPs/link technologies simply are asymmetric and the user will suffer under some traffic conditions. Now the 70K flow example is too extreme, but the fact is at hight flow number with sparse flows (so fewer ACKs per flow in the queue and fewer ACKs per flow reaching the end NIC in a GRO-collection interval (I naively assume there is a somewhat fixed but small interval in which packets of the same flow are collected for GRO)) there will be problems. (Again, I am all for allowing the end user to configure ACK filtering thinning, but I would rather see ISPs sell less imbalanced links ;) )

Best Regards
	Sebastian

> On Dec 1, 2017, at 01:28, David Lang <david@lang.hm> wrote:
> 
> 35K PPS of acks is insane, one ack every ms is FAR more than enough to do 'fast recovery', and outside the datacenter, one ack per 10ms is probably more than enough.
> 
> Assuming something that's not too assymetric, thinning out the acks may not make any difference in the transfer rate of a single data flow in one direction, but if you step back and realize that there may be a need to transfer data in the other direction, things change here.
> 
> If you have a fully symmetrical link, and are maxing it out in both direction, going from 35K PPs of aks competing with data packets and gonig down to 1k PPS or 100 PPS (or 10 PPS) would result in a noticable improvement in the flow that the acks are competing against.
> 
> Stop thinking in terms of single-flow benchmarks and near idle 'upstream' paths.
> 
> David Lang
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-01  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-28 21:48 Dave Taht
2017-11-29  6:09 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2017-11-29  9:34   ` Sebastian Moeller
2017-11-29 12:49     ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2017-11-29 13:13       ` Luca Muscariello
2017-11-29 14:31         ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2017-11-29 14:36           ` Jonathan Morton
2017-11-29 15:24             ` Andrés Arcia-Moret
2017-11-29 15:53           ` Luca Muscariello
     [not found]             ` <CAJq5cE3qsmy8EFYZmQsLL_frm8Tty9Gkm92MQPZ649+kpM1oMw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-11-29 16:13               ` Jonathan Morton
2017-11-30  7:03             ` Michael Welzl
2017-11-30  7:24               ` Dave Taht
2017-11-30  7:45               ` Dave Taht
2017-11-30  7:48               ` Jonathan Morton
2017-11-30  8:00                 ` Luca Muscariello
2017-11-30 10:24                 ` Eric Dumazet
2017-11-30 13:04                   ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2017-11-30 15:51                     ` Eric Dumazet
2017-12-01  0:28                     ` David Lang
2017-12-01  7:09                       ` Jan Ceuleers
2017-12-01 12:53                         ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2017-12-01 13:13                           ` [Bloat] [Make-wifi-fast] " Кирилл Луконин
2017-12-01 13:22                             ` Luca Muscariello
2017-12-11 17:42                             ` Simon Barber
2017-12-01 13:17                           ` [Bloat] " Luca Muscariello
2017-12-01 13:40                             ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2017-12-01 17:42                               ` Dave Taht
2017-12-01 20:39                                 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2017-12-03  5:20                                   ` [Bloat] [Make-wifi-fast] " Bob McMahon
2017-12-03 10:35                                     ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2017-12-03 11:40                                       ` Jan Ceuleers
2017-12-03 13:57                                         ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2017-12-03 14:07                                           ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2017-12-03 19:53                                             ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2017-12-03 14:09                                           ` Ryan Mounce
2017-12-03 19:54                                             ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2017-12-03 20:14                                               ` Sebastian Moeller
2017-12-03 22:27                                                 ` Dave Taht
2017-12-03 15:25                                           ` Robert Bradley
2017-12-04  3:44                                         ` Dave Taht
2017-12-04 14:38                                           ` David Collier-Brown
2017-12-04 15:44                                             ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2017-12-04 17:17                                               ` David Collier-Brown
2017-12-03 19:04                                       ` Bob McMahon
2017-12-01 21:17                                 ` Bob McMahon
2017-12-01  8:45                       ` Sebastian Moeller [this message]
2017-12-01 10:45                         ` [Bloat] " Luca Muscariello
2017-12-01 18:43                           ` Dave Taht
2017-12-01 18:57                             ` Luca Muscariello
2017-12-01 19:36                               ` Dave Taht
2017-11-30 14:51                   ` Neal Cardwell
2017-11-30 15:55                     ` Eric Dumazet
2017-11-30 15:57                       ` Neal Cardwell
2017-11-29 16:50       ` Sebastian Moeller
2017-12-12 19:27         ` Benjamin Cronce
2017-12-12 20:04           ` Dave Taht
2017-12-12 21:03           ` David Lang
2017-12-12 21:29             ` Jonathan Morton
2017-12-12 22:03           ` Jonathan Morton
2017-12-12 22:21             ` David Lang
     [not found]               ` <CAJq5cE3nfSQP0GCLjp=X0T-iHHgAs=YUCcr34e3ARgkrGZe-wg@mail.gmail.com>
2017-12-12 22:41                 ` Jonathan Morton
2017-12-13  9:46                   ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2017-12-13 10:03                     ` Jonathan Morton
2017-12-13 12:11                       ` Sebastian Moeller
2017-12-13 12:18                         ` Jonathan Morton
2017-12-13 12:36                     ` Sebastian Moeller
2017-12-13 12:39             ` Luca Muscariello
2017-11-29 18:21   ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2017-11-29 18:41     ` Dave Taht
2017-11-29 23:29       ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2017-11-29 23:59       ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-30  0:21         ` Eric Dumazet
2017-12-11 20:15   ` Benjamin Cronce
2017-11-29 18:28 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2017-11-29 18:48   ` Dave Taht
2017-12-11 18:30   ` Jonathan Morton

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