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TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option or sysctl was added in linux-3.12 as a step to enable bigger tcp sndbuf limits. It works reasonably well, but the following happens : Once the limit is reached, TCP stack generates an [E]POLLOUT event for every incoming ACK packet. This causes a high number of context switches. This patch implements the strategy David Miller added in sock_def_write_space() : - If TCP socket has a notsent_lowat constraint of X bytes, allow sendmsg() to fill up to X bytes, but send [E]POLLOUT only if number of notsent bytes is below X/2 This considerably reduces TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT overhead, while allowing to keep the pipe full. Tested: 100 ms RTT netem testbed between A and B, 100 concurrent TCP_STREAM A:/# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem 4096 262144 64000000 A:/# super_netperf 100 -H B -l 1000 -- -K bbr & A:/# grep TCP /proc/net/sockstat TCP: inuse 203 orphan 0 tw 19 alloc 414 mem 1364904 # This is about 54 MB of memory per flow :/ A:/# vmstat 5 5 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ------cpu----- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st 0 0 0 256220672 13532 694976 0 0 10 0 28 14 0 1 99 0 0 2 0 0 256320016 13532 698480 0 0 512 0 715901 5927 0 10 90 0 0 0 0 0 256197232 13532 700992 0 0 735 13 771161 5849 0 11 89 0 0 1 0 0 256233824 13532 703320 0 0 512 23 719650 6635 0 11 89 0 0 2 0 0 256226880 13532 705780 0 0 642 4 775650 6009 0 12 88 0 0 A:/# echo 2097152 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat A:/# grep TCP /proc/net/sockstat TCP: inuse 203 orphan 0 tw 19 alloc 414 mem 86411 # 3.5 MB per flow A:/# vmstat 5 5 # check that context switches have not inflated too much. procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ------cpu----- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st 2 0 0 260386512 13592 662148 0 0 10 0 17 14 0 1 99 0 0 0 0 0 260519680 13592 604184 0 0 512 13 726843 12424 0 10 90 0 0 1 1 0 260435424 13592 598360 0 0 512 25 764645 12925 0 10 90 0 0 1 0 0 260855392 13592 578380 0 0 512 7 722943 13624 0 11 88 0 0 1 0 0 260445008 13592 601176 0 0 614 34 772288 14317 0 10 90 0 0 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.