Re: on the wire behaviour of TSO on/off is supposed to be the same yes?

[Rick Jones <rick.jones2@xxxxxx>]

David S. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:10:46 -0800
> Rick Jones <rick.jones2@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> > The other relates to the business of disabling TSO on a connection upon packet 
> > loss.
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> There cannot possibly any compliance issues resulting from turning
> off an optimization in the face of packet loss.
I was a bit vague - compliance with the benchmark run and report rules, not with 
RFC's.
> > Internet connected systems experience non-trivial packet loss rates and so if TSO 
> > disabled upon packet loss it means a given benchmark result using TSO deviates 
> > even more from reality than one without TSO.
>
> And running the benchmark over a local gigabit subnet doesn't deviate
> from what Internet connected systems can expect to achieve how-so?
Benchmarking, not logic...

> Oh you mean I really can get 60,000 web or database connections a second
> when the users are over modems half-way across the planet?  Give me a
> break...
If there are enough users :)

> Anyways, see my other posting, we'll be able to keep TSO enabled in
> the face of packet loss, but that is an optimization not a correctness
> fix.
Cool.

rick jones