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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2018-11-20 05:53:59 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-11-21 15:49:52 -0800
commit86de5921a3d5dd246df661e09bdd0a6131b39ae3 (patch)
treeefa8b73f929d9a2e136aaa0e0fa1605d6c12ed1e /net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
parentb5dd186d10ba59e6b5ba60e42b3b083df56df6f3 (diff)
tcp: defer SACK compression after DupThresh
Jean-Louis reported a TCP regression and bisected to recent SACK compression. After a loss episode (receiver not able to keep up and dropping packets because its backlog is full), linux TCP stack is sending a single SACK (DUPACK). Sender waits a full RTO timer before recovering losses. While RFC 6675 says in section 5, "Algorithm Details", (2) If DupAcks < DupThresh but IsLost (HighACK + 1) returns true -- indicating at least three segments have arrived above the current cumulative acknowledgment point, which is taken to indicate loss -- go to step (4). ... (4) Invoke fast retransmit and enter loss recovery as follows: there are old TCP stacks not implementing this strategy, and still counting the dupacks before starting fast retransmit. While these stacks probably perform poorly when receivers implement LRO/GRO, we should be a little more gentle to them. This patch makes sure we do not enable SACK compression unless 3 dupacks have been sent since last rcv_nxt update. Ideally we should even rearm the timer to send one or two more DUPACK if no more packets are coming, but that will be work aiming for linux-4.21. Many thanks to Jean-Louis for bisecting the issue, providing packet captures and testing this patch. Fixes: 5d9f4262b7ea ("tcp: add SACK compression") Reported-by: Jean-Louis Dupond <jean-louis@dupond.be> Tested-by: Jean-Louis Dupond <jean-louis@dupond.be> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp_output.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_output.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 9c34b97d365d..3f510cad0b3e 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -180,10 +180,10 @@ static inline void tcp_event_ack_sent(struct sock *sk, unsigned int pkts,
{
struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
- if (unlikely(tp->compressed_ack)) {
+ if (unlikely(tp->compressed_ack > TCP_FASTRETRANS_THRESH)) {
NET_ADD_STATS(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPACKCOMPRESSED,
- tp->compressed_ack);
- tp->compressed_ack = 0;
+ tp->compressed_ack - TCP_FASTRETRANS_THRESH);
+ tp->compressed_ack = TCP_FASTRETRANS_THRESH;
if (hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&tp->compressed_ack_timer) == 1)
__sock_put(sk);
}