From 86de5921a3d5dd246df661e09bdd0a6131b39ae3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 05:53:59 -0800 Subject: 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 Tested-by: Jean-Louis Dupond Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/tcp.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/tcp.h') diff --git a/include/linux/tcp.h b/include/linux/tcp.h index 8ed77bb4ed86..a9b0280687d5 100644 --- a/include/linux/tcp.h +++ b/include/linux/tcp.h @@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ struct tcp_sock { u32 rcv_tstamp; /* timestamp of last received ACK (for keepalives) */ u32 lsndtime; /* timestamp of last sent data packet (for restart window) */ u32 last_oow_ack_time; /* timestamp of last out-of-window ACK */ + u32 compressed_ack_rcv_nxt; u32 tsoffset; /* timestamp offset */ -- cgit