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Date:      Sat, 9 Aug 2014 22:58:25 +0200
From:      Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Niu Zhixiong <kaiaixi@gmail.com>, Bill Yuan <bycn82@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: A problem on TCP in High RTT Environment.
Message-ID:  <3F6BC212-4223-4AAC-8668-A27075DC55C2@lurchi.franken.de>
In-Reply-To: <20140809204500.GG83475@funkthat.com>
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On 09 Aug 2014, at 22:45, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote:

> Michael Tuexen wrote this message on Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 21:51 +0200:
>>=20
>> On 09 Aug 2014, at 20:42, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote:
>>=20
>>> Niu Zhixiong wrote this message on Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 20:34 +0800:
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>=20
>>>> Last month, I send problems related to FTP/TCP in a high RTT =
environment.
>>>> After that, I setup a simulation environment(Dummynet) to test TCP =
and SCTP
>>>> in high delay environment. After finishing the test, I can see TCP =
is
>>>> always slower than SCTP. But, I think it is not possible. (Plz see =
the
>>>> figure in the attachment). When the delay is 200ms(means =
RTT=3D400ms).
>>>> Besides, the TCP is extremely slow.
>>>>=20
>>>> ALL BW=3D20Mbps, DELAY=3D 0 ~ 200MS, Packet LOSS =3D 0 (by =
dummynet)
>>>>=20
>>>> This is my parameters:
>>>> FreeBSD vfreetest0 10.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Aug  7
>>>> 11:04:15 HKT 2014
>>>>=20
>>>> sysctl net.inet.tcp
>>>=20
>>> [...]
>>>=20
>>>> net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_auto: 0
>>>=20
>>> [...]
>>>=20
>>>> net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_auto: 0
>>>=20
>>> Try enabling this...  This should allow the buffer to grow large =
enough
>>> to deal w/ the higher latency...
>>>=20
>>> Also, make sure your program isn't setting the recv buffer size as =
that
>>> will disable the auto growing...
>> I think the program sets the buffer to 2MB, which it also does for =
SCTP.
>> So having both statically at the same size makes sense for the =
comparison.
>> I remember that there was a bug in the combination of LRO and delayed =
ACK,
>> which was fixed, but I don't remember it was fixed before 10.0...
>=20
> Sounds like disabling LRO and TSO would be a useful test to see if =
that
> improves things...  But hiren said that the fix made it, so...
>=20
>>> If you use netstat -a, you should be able to see the send-q on the
>>> sender grow as necessary...
>=20
> Also, getting the send-q output while it's running would let us know
> if the buffer is getting to 2MB or not...
That is correct. Niu: Can you provide this?

Best regards
Michael
>=20
> --=20
>  John-Mark Gurney				Voice: +1 415 225 5579
>=20
>     "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."
>=20




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