On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 10:57 AM Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> wrote:
>
> Jean-Louis Dupond reported poor iscsi TCP receive performance
> that we tracked to backlog drops.
>
> Apparently we fail to send window updates reflecting the
> fact that we are under stress.
>
> Note that we might lack a proper window increase when
> backlog is fully processed, since __release_sock() clears
> sk->sk_backlog.len _after_ all skbs have been processed.
>
> This should not matter in practice. If we had a significant
> load through socket backlog, we are in a dangerous
> situation.
>
> Reported-by: Jean-Louis Dupond <jean-lo...@dupond.be>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardw...@google.com>

Nice. Thanks!

neal

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