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Reduce default maximum UDP payload size to the ethernet MTU
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Drastically reduces the size and sparsity of the quinn receive buffer
for no performance cost in typical applications.
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Ralith committed Jul 31, 2023
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7 changes: 5 additions & 2 deletions quinn-proto/src/config.rs
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Expand Up @@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ impl EndpointConfig {
|| Box::<RandomConnectionIdGenerator>::default();
Self {
reset_key,
max_udp_payload_size: MAX_UDP_PAYLOAD.into(), // See RFC 9000 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9000.html#section-18.2-4.10.1)
max_udp_payload_size: (1500u32 - 28).into(), // Ethernet MTU minus IP + UDP headers
connection_id_generator_factory: Arc::new(cid_factory),
supported_versions: DEFAULT_SUPPORTED_VERSIONS.to_vec(),
grease_quic_bit: true,
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///
/// Must be greater or equal than 1200.
///
/// Defaults to 65527, which is the maximum permitted UDP payload.
/// Defaults to 1472, which is the largest UDP payload that can be transmitted in the typical
/// 1500 byte Ethernet MTU. Deployments on links with larger MTUs (e.g. loopback or Ethernet
/// with jumbo frames) can raise this to improve performance at the cost of a linear increase in
/// datagram receive buffer size.
pub fn max_udp_payload_size(&mut self, value: u16) -> Result<&mut Self, ConfigError> {
if !(1200..=65_527).contains(&value) {
return Err(ConfigError::OutOfBounds);
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