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David S. Miller 834e0ecf81 Merge branch 'tcp-remove-prequeue-and-header-prediction'
Florian Westphal says:

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tcp: remove prequeue and header prediction

During a hallway discussion with Eric Dumazet at Netdev 1.2 in
Tokyo some maybe-not-so-useful-anymore TCP stack features came up,
among these header prediction and prequeueing.

In brief, TCP prequeue assumes a single-process-blocking-read design,
which is not that common anymore. The most frequently used high-performance
networking program that is an excellent fit for these features is netperf.

The idea behind prequeueing is to move part of tcp processing, including
retransmit queue cleaning, to process context.

With (e)poll designs, prequeue is always skipped, so for such programs
this is dead-code removal.

Header prediction is also less useful nowadays.
For packet trains, GRO will do packet aggregation so we do not get the
per-packet benefit that this had before GRO anymore.

Because of SACK, header prediction also will be ineffective once
a connection suffers even light packet losses.

code removal aside, after this change processing always occurs in BH
context, this allows to experiment e.g. with doing bulk freeing of
skb heads when incoming ACKs clean packets from the retransmit queue.

There are no changes since the RFC, except in last patch (i missed
another no-longer-used mib counter). I also edited a few commit messages.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-07-31 14:37:50 -07:00
arch x86: mark kprobe templates as character arrays, not single characters 2017-07-20 11:34:47 -07:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-07-11 15:36:52 -07:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-07-14 22:49:50 -07:00
Documentation tcp: remove low_latency sysctl 2017-07-31 14:37:49 -07:00
drivers net: fec: Allow reception of frames bigger than 1522 bytes 2017-07-30 19:26:01 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs rxrpc: Move the packet.h include file into net/rxrpc/ 2017-07-21 11:00:20 +01:00
include tcp: remove unused mib counters 2017-07-31 14:37:50 -07:00
init random: do not ignore early device randomness 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
ipc ipc/util.h: update documentation for ipc_getref() and ipc_putref() 2017-07-12 16:26:02 -07:00
kernel bpf: dev_map_alloc() shouldn't return NULL 2017-07-24 16:23:05 -07:00
lib net netlink: Add new type NLA_BITFIELD32 2017-07-30 19:28:08 -07:00
mm Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-15 12:00:42 -07:00
net tcp: remove unused mib counters 2017-07-31 14:37:50 -07:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-07-21 03:38:43 +01:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v4.13 (2nd) 2017-07-13 13:37:57 -07:00
security Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-07-21 03:38:43 +01:00
sound sound fixes for 4.13-rc1 2017-07-14 12:44:00 -07:00
tools bpf: testing: fix devmap tests 2017-07-29 14:13:20 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt Second batch of KVM updates for v4.13 2017-07-15 10:18:16 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade 2010-09-19 22:54:11 -04:00
MAINTAINERS libnvdimm for 4.13-rc2 2017-07-20 10:17:53 -07:00
Makefile Linux v4.13-rc1 2017-07-15 15:22:10 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.