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authorPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>2023-10-23 13:44:41 -0700
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2023-10-25 12:23:34 -0700
commit9fdc779331bd3e0b2570c2bced396d53a04a33b9 (patch)
tree6bff7ca9d002a84a3c4f727384939ab386ff0d6b /net/mptcp/sockopt.c
parenta1ab24e5fc4a3048a1b3a24ab0ddc7b73358baa9 (diff)
mptcp: ignore notsent_lowat setting at the subflow level
Any latency related tuning taking action at the subflow level does not really affect the user-space, as only the main MPTCP socket is relevant. Anyway any limiting setting may foul the MPTCP scheduler, not being able to fully use the subflow-level cwin, leading to very poor b/w usage. Enforce notsent_lowat to be a no-op on every subflow. Note that TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT is currently not supported, and properly dealing with that will require more invasive changes. Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau <martineau@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau <martineau@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231023-send-net-next-20231023-2-v1-8-9dc60939d371@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mptcp/sockopt.c')
-rw-r--r--net/mptcp/sockopt.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mptcp/sockopt.c b/net/mptcp/sockopt.c
index abf0645cb65d..72858d7d8974 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/sockopt.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/sockopt.c
@@ -1452,6 +1452,12 @@ void mptcp_sockopt_sync_locked(struct mptcp_sock *msk, struct sock *ssk)
ssk->sk_rcvlowat = 0;
+ /* subflows must ignore any latency-related settings: will not affect
+ * the user-space - only the msk is relevant - but will foul the
+ * mptcp scheduler
+ */
+ tcp_sk(ssk)->notsent_lowat = UINT_MAX;
+
if (READ_ONCE(subflow->setsockopt_seq) != msk->setsockopt_seq) {
sync_socket_options(msk, ssk);