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| author | Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> | 2025-10-11 11:57:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> | 2025-10-14 12:21:48 +0200 |
| commit | 295ce1eb36ae47dc862d6c8a1012618a25516208 (patch) | |
| tree | e3c5d4f9792d68f7923a5e05b5f2048713aaa096 /net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | |
| parent | 75527d61d60d493d1eb064f335071a20ca581f54 (diff) | |
tcp: fix tcp_tso_should_defer() vs large RTT
Neal reported that using neper tcp_stream with TCP_TX_DELAY
set to 50ms would often lead to flows stuck in a small cwnd mode,
regardless of the congestion control.
While tcp_stream sets TCP_TX_DELAY too late after the connect(),
it highlighted two kernel bugs.
The following heuristic in tcp_tso_should_defer() seems wrong
for large RTT:
delta = tp->tcp_clock_cache - head->tstamp;
/* If next ACK is likely to come too late (half srtt), do not defer */
if ((s64)(delta - (u64)NSEC_PER_USEC * (tp->srtt_us >> 4)) < 0)
goto send_now;
If next ACK is expected to come in more than 1 ms, we should
not defer because we prefer a smooth ACK clocking.
While blamed commit was a step in the good direction, it was not
generic enough.
Another patch fixing TCP_TX_DELAY for established flows
will be proposed when net-next reopens.
Fixes: 50c8339e9299 ("tcp: tso: restore IW10 after TSO autosizing")
Reported-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Tested-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251011115742.1245771-1-edumazet@google.com
[pabeni@redhat.com: fixed whitespace issue]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp_output.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c index bb3576ac0ad7..b94efb3050d2 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c @@ -2369,7 +2369,8 @@ static bool tcp_tso_should_defer(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, u32 max_segs) { const struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk); - u32 send_win, cong_win, limit, in_flight; + u32 send_win, cong_win, limit, in_flight, threshold; + u64 srtt_in_ns, expected_ack, how_far_is_the_ack; struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk); struct sk_buff *head; int win_divisor; @@ -2431,9 +2432,19 @@ static bool tcp_tso_should_defer(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, head = tcp_rtx_queue_head(sk); if (!head) goto send_now; - delta = tp->tcp_clock_cache - head->tstamp; - /* If next ACK is likely to come too late (half srtt), do not defer */ - if ((s64)(delta - (u64)NSEC_PER_USEC * (tp->srtt_us >> 4)) < 0) + + srtt_in_ns = (u64)(NSEC_PER_USEC >> 3) * tp->srtt_us; + /* When is the ACK expected ? */ + expected_ack = head->tstamp + srtt_in_ns; + /* How far from now is the ACK expected ? */ + how_far_is_the_ack = expected_ack - tp->tcp_clock_cache; + + /* If next ACK is likely to come too late, + * ie in more than min(1ms, half srtt), do not defer. + */ + threshold = min(srtt_in_ns >> 1, NSEC_PER_MSEC); + + if ((s64)(how_far_is_the_ack - threshold) > 0) goto send_now; /* Ok, it looks like it is advisable to defer. |