[TCP]: Move to new TSO segmenting scheme.

Make TSO segment transmit size decisions at send time not earlier.

The basic scheme is that we try to build as large a TSO frame as
possible when pulling in the user data, but the size of the TSO frame
output to the card is determined at transmit time.

This is guided by tp->xmit_size_goal.  It is always set to a multiple
of MSS and tells sendmsg/sendpage how large an SKB to try and build.

Later, tcp_write_xmit() and tcp_push_one() chop up the packet if
necessary and conditions warrant.  These routines can also decide to
"defer" in order to wait for more ACKs to arrive and thus allow larger
TSO frames to be emitted.

A general observation is that TSO elongates the pipe, thus requiring a
larger congestion window and larger buffering especially at the sender
side.  Therefore, it is important that applications 1) get a large
enough socket send buffer (this is accomplished by our dynamic send
buffer expansion code) 2) do large enough writes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/tcp.h b/include/linux/tcp.h
index dfd93d03f5d2..e4fd82e42104 100644
--- a/include/linux/tcp.h
+++ b/include/linux/tcp.h
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ struct tcp_sock {
         __u32   max_window;     /* Maximal window ever seen from peer   */
         __u32   pmtu_cookie;    /* Last pmtu seen by socket             */
         __u32   mss_cache;      /* Cached effective mss, not including SACKS */
-        __u16   mss_cache_std;  /* Like mss_cache, but without TSO */
+        __u16   xmit_size_goal; /* Goal for segmenting output packets   */
         __u16   ext_header_len; /* Network protocol overhead (IP/IPv6 options) */
         __u8    ca_state;       /* State of fast-retransmit machine     */
         __u8    retransmits;    /* Number of unrecovered RTO timeouts.  */