Going Big with TCP Packets

Re:Going Big with TCP Packets by bogomipz on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @01:25PM (#30363669)

Can someone say what the benefit of this is over just using existing Ethernet jumbo frames?

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Re:Going Big with TCP Packets by justsomehnguy on Thursday February 17, 2022 @05:07AM (#30371439)

> existing Ethernet jumbo frames

9000 / 1500 = 6

> Enabling a packet size of 185,000 bytes

185000 / 1500 = 123.3

Jumbo would give you [up to] 6 times less packets for the same bandwidth => 6 times less overhead on the packet processing.

BIG TCP could give up to 123 times less packets (only theoretically, of course) but surely would dramatically lower the processing overhead for the big payloads.

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Re:Going Big with TCP Packets by bogomipz on Thursday February 17, 2022 @10:46AM (#30374302)

Tank you for the clear break down. This puts it into perspective. That is indeed significant. Cheers.

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