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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2020-09-30 05:54:57 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-09-30 14:21:30 -0700
commita37c2134bed6f28c6d6aefa2699331e6e4e9c4f1 (patch)
treef1ce9d23e66fd51f5efcd7ea38663db68f27d5ca /include/net/inet_connection_sock.h
parentb6b6d6533a14b5ddcf9f9c5239fc3721fc6beda0 (diff)
tcp: add exponential backoff in __tcp_send_ack()
Whenever host is under very high memory pressure, __tcp_send_ack() skb allocation fails, and we setup a 200 ms (TCP_DELACK_MAX) timer before retrying. On hosts with high number of TCP sockets, we can spend considerable amount of cpu cycles in these attempts, add high pressure on various spinlocks in mm-layer, ultimately blocking threads attempting to free space from making any progress. This patch adds standard exponential backoff to avoid adding fuel to the fire. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/inet_connection_sock.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/inet_connection_sock.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h b/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h
index 79875f976190..7338b3865a2a 100644
--- a/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h
+++ b/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ struct inet_connection_sock {
__u8 pending; /* ACK is pending */
__u8 quick; /* Scheduled number of quick acks */
__u8 pingpong; /* The session is interactive */
- /* one byte hole. */
+ __u8 retry; /* Number of attempts */
__u32 ato; /* Predicted tick of soft clock */
unsigned long timeout; /* Currently scheduled timeout */
__u32 lrcvtime; /* timestamp of last received data packet */
@@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ static inline void inet_csk_clear_xmit_timer(struct sock *sk, const int what)
#endif
} else if (what == ICSK_TIME_DACK) {
icsk->icsk_ack.pending = 0;
+ icsk->icsk_ack.retry = 0;
#ifdef INET_CSK_CLEAR_TIMERS
sk_stop_timer(sk, &icsk->icsk_delack_timer);
#endif