From 2349262397b89a421adfd142aad2a7dd33710f26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yuchung Cheng Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:54:20 -0700 Subject: tcp: remove cwnd moderation after recovery For non-SACK connections, cwnd is lowered to inflight plus 3 packets when the recovery ends. This is an optional feature in the NewReno RFC 2582 to reduce the potential burst when cwnd is "re-opened" after recovery and inflight is low. This feature is questionably effective because of PRR: when the recovery ends (i.e., snd_una == high_seq) NewReno holds the CA_Recovery state for another round trip to prevent false fast retransmits. But if the inflight is low, PRR will overwrite the moderated cwnd in tcp_cwnd_reduction() later regardlessly. So if a receiver responds bogus ACKs (i.e., acking future data) to speed up transfer after recovery, it can only induce a burst up to a window worth of data packets by acking up to SND.NXT. A restart from (short) idle or receiving streched ACKs can both cause such bursts as well. On the other hand, if the recovery ends because the sender detects the losses were spurious (e.g., reordering). This feature unconditionally lowers a reverted cwnd even though nothing was lost. By principle loss recovery module should not update cwnd. Further pacing is much more effective to reduce burst. Hence this patch removes the cwnd moderation feature. v2 changes: revised commit message on bogus ACKs and burst, and missing signature Signed-off-by: Matt Mathis Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 11 ----------- 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp_input.c') diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c index e6e65f79ade8..f87b84a75691 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -2252,16 +2252,6 @@ static void tcp_update_scoreboard(struct sock *sk, int fast_rexmit) } } -/* CWND moderation, preventing bursts due to too big ACKs - * in dubious situations. - */ -static inline void tcp_moderate_cwnd(struct tcp_sock *tp) -{ - tp->snd_cwnd = min(tp->snd_cwnd, - tcp_packets_in_flight(tp) + tcp_max_burst(tp)); - tp->snd_cwnd_stamp = tcp_time_stamp; -} - static bool tcp_tsopt_ecr_before(const struct tcp_sock *tp, u32 when) { return tp->rx_opt.saw_tstamp && tp->rx_opt.rcv_tsecr && @@ -2410,7 +2400,6 @@ static bool tcp_try_undo_recovery(struct sock *sk) /* Hold old state until something *above* high_seq * is ACKed. For Reno it is MUST to prevent false * fast retransmits (RFC2582). SACK TCP is safe. */ - tcp_moderate_cwnd(tp); if (!tcp_any_retrans_done(sk)) tp->retrans_stamp = 0; return true; -- cgit