Re: Large Frame Proposal

To be clear, my issue is that this change makes determining valid
frame lengths dependent on the session state which to me seems a step
backwards both in terms of protocol layering and in terms of the
achievable decoding throughput based on the simple frame layout.

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Jeff Pinner <jpinner@twitter.com> wrote:
> Reading through I am -1 on the frame layout changes.
>
> I would be fine with un-reserving the first two bits and simply
> requiring 64kb frames, but I feel like needing to compare allowed
> sizes against SETTINGS that may change dynamically is a more
> complicated change.
>
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:37 PM, William Chan (陈智昌)
> <willchan@chromium.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:36 PM, William Chan (陈智昌) <willchan@chromium.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Mike Belshe <mike@belshe.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Greg.
>>>>
>>>> I believe your proposal is preferable to what we have today in H2.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Greg Wilkins <gregw@intalio.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike,
>>>>>
>>>>> I think the settings are needed with the ability to send larger frame
>>>>> sizes.   If I understand the feedback from SPDY correctly, the larger frame
>>>>> sizes there were some endpoints that were lazy with their frame sizes and
>>>>> sent overly large ones that hurt multiplexing.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> OK - thanks for clarifying.   I don't recall any such learning from SPDY.
>>>> It certainly wasn't learning while I was at Google.
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, Patrick identified these issues after you stopped working on SPDY.
>>
>>
>> Clarification: Patrick identified actual abuses live in the wild. Not
>> theoretical. We indeed talked about the theoretical issue back when you were
>> still at Google.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> BTW, some history:
>>>> * SPDY originally used large frames too - 24bits - and let you use it as
>>>> you wished.  Some people worried that these large frame sizes would be
>>>> abused someday and felt compelled to shrink them.  But, as far as I know,
>>>> those arguments were only theoretical.  The fact is that you're really only
>>>> going to hurt yourself; and 'you' is the server.  Proxies are a different
>>>> story.
>>>>
>>>> * SPDY's final field sizes were not arbitrary - they were an evolution
>>>> based on lessons of what is valuable and what works.  Initially all headers
>>>> were limited to 16k-ish.  This was because we didn't "like" large headers.
>>>> But, when put to practice there are edge cases which needed to be dealt
>>>> with, and some apps out there, wisely or not, use ridiculously sized
>>>> headers.  It just happens.  Increasing the size was always preferable
>>>> because:
>>>>    a) we learned that the constraint itself wasn't very valuable and
>>>> didn't make anything materially better.
>>>>    b) there were edge cases where the constraint just didn't work, and
>>>> the solutions were worse than the initial problem.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The intention of the proposal is to allow large frame sizes IF NEEDED,
>>>>> but to use the settings to constrain implementations to the 16KB that has
>>>>> been selected as a reasonable one-size-fits-all for todays traffic.   The
>>>>> settings can then be adjusted without needing to rev the spec or deploy
>>>>> extensions as experience is gained, traffic changes, networks change etc.
>>>>> It may well be that they are adjusted down initially as much as they are
>>>>> adjusted up.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> So I don't see it as a compromise - it is simply moving the limit that
>>>>> must exist from being a fixed capability of the framing layer to be an
>>>>> explicitly managed parameter of the protocol.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ok. I don't see any real need for these either.  They may introduce new
>>>> oddities if someone goes crazy with them.  I'd lean toward not adding these
>>>> if possible.
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> cheers
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 8 July 2014 10:07, Mike Belshe <mike@belshe.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 12:50 AM, Greg Wilkins <gregw@intalio.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> squid3@treenet.co.nz
>>>>>>> Greg Wilkins gregw@intalio.com
>>>>>>> Jason Greene jgreene@redhat.com
>>>>>>> Keith Morgan K.Morgan@iaea.org
>>>>>>> Poul-Henning Kamp phk@phk.freebsd.dk
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2013AprJun/0926.html
>>>>>>> [2] http://httparchive.org/interesting.php
>>>>>>> [3]
>>>>>>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2014AprJun/1664.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Greg Wilkins <gregw@intalio.com>
>>>>>>> http://eclipse.org/jetty HTTP, SPDY, Websocket server and client that
>>>>>>> scales
>>>>>>> http://www.webtide.com  advice and support for jetty and cometd.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Greg Wilkins <gregw@intalio.com>
>>>>> http://eclipse.org/jetty HTTP, SPDY, Websocket server and client that
>>>>> scales
>>>>> http://www.webtide.com  advice and support for jetty and cometd.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>

Received on Wednesday, 9 July 2014 02:17:30 UTC

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