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authorYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>2017-01-12 22:11:33 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-01-13 22:37:16 -0500
commit57dde7f70de34d4251f291c9eac7ad920aaf56b2 (patch)
tree6a5cc3ba86e42a21bd829fa81299121e636027ae /net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
parentdeed7be78f512d003c6290da0a781479b31b3d74 (diff)
tcp: add reordering timer in RACK loss detection
This patch makes RACK install a reordering timer when it suspects some packets might be lost, but wants to delay the decision a little bit to accomodate reordering. It does not create a new timer but instead repurposes the existing RTO timer, because both are meant to retransmit packets. Specifically it arms a timer ICSK_TIME_REO_TIMEOUT when the RACK timing check fails. The wait time is set to RACK.RTT + RACK.reo_wnd - (NOW - Packet.xmit_time) + fudge This translates to expecting a packet (Packet) should take (RACK.RTT + RACK.reo_wnd + fudge) to deliver after it was sent. When there are multiple packets that need a timer, we use one timer with the maximum timeout. Therefore the timer conservatively uses the maximum window to expire N packets by one timeout, instead of N timeouts to expire N packets sent at different times. The fudge factor is 2 jiffies to ensure when the timer fires, all the suspected packets would exceed the deadline and be marked lost by tcp_rack_detect_loss(). It has to be at least 1 jiffy because the clock may tick between calling icsk_reset_xmit_timer(timeout) and actually hang the timer. The next jiffy is to lower-bound the timeout to 2 jiffies when reo_wnd is < 1ms. When the reordering timer fires (tcp_rack_reo_timeout): If we aren't in Recovery we'll enter fast recovery and force fast retransmit. This is very similar to the early retransmit (RFC5827) except RACK is not constrained to only enter recovery for small outstanding flights. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
index 29a9bd5f1225..953c02a8566e 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -563,6 +563,9 @@ void tcp_write_timer_handler(struct sock *sk)
event = icsk->icsk_pending;
switch (event) {
+ case ICSK_TIME_REO_TIMEOUT:
+ tcp_rack_reo_timeout(sk);
+ break;
case ICSK_TIME_EARLY_RETRANS:
tcp_resume_early_retransmit(sk);
break;