Re: idea -- MAX_PUSH_RESOURCE_SIZE

How does it slow things down compared to your solution?  With yours, a large resource simply couldn’t be pushed.  With the small window approach, the large resource still gets pushed if the client doesn’t already have it cached, but it caps the amount of wasted data if the object is already in the client’s cache.  You still have savings on the parsing of the initial resource (i.e. the delay before the client would have requested it), so push remains useful for larger resources.

At the cost of an extra WINDOW_UPDATE frame on every client request, of course.

Sent from Windows Mail

From: Peter Lepeska<mailto:bizzbyster@gmail.com>
Sent: ?Monday?, ?November? ?4?, ?2013 ?1?:?08? ?PM
To: William Chan (陈智昌)<mailto:willchan@chromium.org>
Cc: Martin Thomson<mailto:martin.thomson@gmail.com>, HTTP Working Group<mailto:ietf-http-wg@w3.org>

I understand that we want to minimize the config settings but this alternative solution has the much worse consequence of slowing down pushed resources in the 99% case when we expect the browser to actually use what we are pushing.

If it is between no new config setting and starting with small per stream receive windows by default to limit the damage of unused pushed resources, I am fine with no new config setting.

I think the receive windows should be configured to maximize performance and we should be very cautious any time we tweak them to deliver other functionality due to the possible side effect of slower transmissions.

Isn't HTTP 2.0 supposed to primarily be about faster? We need to stick to that original goal!

Peter


On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:29 AM, William Chan (陈智昌) <willchan@chromium.org<mailto:willchan@chromium.org>> wrote:
Note that the FF strategy (which we've discussed Chromium side) is to start with smaller per-stream receive windows by default, and upgrade them immediately for normal streams, or as Pat calls them, "pull" streams. This would let stuff like push streams, or as Chromium is discussing, web platform prefetch/prerender/etc streams, start with smaller receive windows.


On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com<mailto:martin.thomson@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 4 November 2013 10:00, Peter Lepeska <bizzbyster@gmail.com<mailto:bizzbyster@gmail.com>> wrote:
> As per above, the browser currently can only set max concurrent streams to
> limit the amount of data pushed to it but perhaps better is to set a max
> size of file that the browser is willing to accept via server push.

We are, as much as possible, attempting to limit the number of
settings that we allow in the protocol.  I take that to mean that
there needs to be a high bar on the addition of settings.
Specifically, if there is an alternative solution to the problem, then
it's not enough.

In this case, if you are concerned about the size, the flow control
window will allow you to control the size and give you time to
generate RST_STREAM as appropriate.  ...Trade off as appropriate
against your desire to maximize throughput.