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>
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