auto tuning tcp

[Andre Oppermann]

On 13.11.2012 09:18, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> On 11/13/12 12:06 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote:
>> On 13.11.2012 07:45, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>> If you are concerned about the space/time tradeoff I'm pretty happy with making it 1/2, 1/4th, 1/8th
>>> the size of maxsockets.  (smaller?)
>>>
>>> Would that work better?
>>
>> I'd go for 1/8 or even 1/16 with a lower bound of 512.  More than
>> that is excessive.
>
> I'm OK with 1/8.  All I'm really going for is trying to make it somewhat better than 512 when un-tuned.
 >
>> PS: Please note that my patch for mbuf and maxfiles tuning is not yet
>> in HEAD, it's still sitting in my tcp_workqueue branch.  I still have
>> to search for derived values that may get totally out of whack with
>> the new scaling scheme.
>>
> This is cool!  Thank you for the feedback.
>
> Would you like me to put this on a user branch somewhere for you to merge into your perf branch?

I can put it into my branch and also merge it to HEAD with
a "Submitted by: alfred" line.

-- 
Andre