Re: [multipathtcp] how to deal with GRO when we use MPTCP?
Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Wed, 22 March 2017 15:42 UTC
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Subject: Re: [multipathtcp] how to deal with GRO when we use MPTCP?
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FYI - we had experience with GRO on Linux where it acted against spec, coalescing packets with EDO headers even when these options were different between adjacent packets. We also saw performance plummet when GRO was enabled even when it was not supposed to coalesce packets. See Sec 5.2 of the following: H. Trieu, J. Touch, T. Faber, “Implementation of the TCP Extended Data Offset Option <http://www.isi.edu/touch/pubs/isi-tr-2015-696.pdf>,” USC/ISI Tech. Report ISI-TR-696, Mar. 2015. Note that we were unable to pinpoint the issue, which might have been in our implementation. Joe On 3/22/2017 1:54 AM, Olivier Bonaventure wrote: > ... > > GRO should not coalesce packets from an MPTCP sender that does not use > TSO and thus send packets with different DSN values. If you see a > network interface that behaves badly, please report this on the > mptcp-dev mailing list > > > Olivier > > _______________________________________________ > multipathtcp mailing list > multipathtcp@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/multipathtcp