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Date:      Wed, 14 Aug 2013 16:27:19 -0700
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Net <net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: TSO and FreeBSD vs Linux
Message-ID:  <CAN6yY1u01WkywPM5J62cBOpqL6Gc5x9yYPhhXv0aAceYhFYCgQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>wrote:

> On 8/14/13 3:23 PM, Lawrence Stewart wrote:
>
>> On 08/14/13 16:33, Julian Elischer wrote:
>>
>>  They switched to using an initial window of 10 segments some time ago.
>>>> FreeBSD starts with 3 or more recently, 10 if you're running recent
>>>> 9-STABLE or 10-CURRENT.
>>>>
>>> I tried setting initial values as shown:
>>>    net.inet.tcp.local_slowstart_**flightsize: 10
>>>    net.inet.tcp.slowstart_**flightsize: 10
>>> it didn't seem to make too much difference but I will redo the test.
>>>
>> Assuming this is still FreeBSD 8.0 as you mentioned out-of-band,
>> changing those variables without disabling rfc3390 will have no effect.
>>
>> I think (check the driver code in question as I'm not sure) that if you
>> "ifconfig <if> lro" and the driver has hardware support or has been made
>> aware of our software implementation, it should DTRT.
>>
>
> so I ran on 9.2-beta ( a week or two old) and it had similar problems..
> only worse.. 9.2 actually sends multiple packets when is doesn't need to..
>     http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/fbsd9.png
>

Ack! (Sorry) I could have sworn that this had been fixed. Has it been
re-broken?
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com



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