[Bloat] Trying to *really* understand Linux pacing

Dave Taht dave.taht at gmail.com
Mon Feb 19 09:02:24 EST 2024


also your investigation showed me a probably bug in cake's
gso-splitting. thanks!

However, after capturing the how as you just have, deeper
understanding the effects on the network itself of this stuff would be
great.

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 8:54 AM Michael Welzl via Bloat
<bloat at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I’m now finally done updating the document, based on inputs from various folks in this round - most notably Neal, who went to great lengths to help me understand what I saw in my tests (thank you!).  Now the description should be mostly correct (I hope) and pretty complete, and it also includes TSO / GSO.
>
> Comments are still welcome if anyone sees a mistake or something:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-uXnPDcVBKmg5krkG5wYBgaA2yLSFK_kZa7xGDWc7XU/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Several people have in the meanwhile told me that this is useful for the community. I’m glad to hear that!  I really only started this for myself, just to understand what’s going on. Now I believe I do… but hey, if this helps others too, this is great!   So, please feel free to forward this.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
>
> On 7 Feb 2024, at 21:13, Neal Cardwell <ncardwell at google.com> wrote:
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> Thanks, Michael, for the nice doc! This is really nice for the Linux networking community to have. I posted a few comments.
>
> thanks,
> neal
>
>
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