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From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
To: mptcp@lists.linux.dev
Subject: [PATCH mptcp-next v2 00/10] mptcp: address stall under memory pressure
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:51:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1777318959.git.pabeni@redhat.com> (raw)

This an attempt to fix the data transfer stall reported by Geliang and
Gang more carefully enforcing memory constraints at the MPTCP level.

Patch 1/10 moves the bound check before entering the TCP socket.
Patch 2, 3, 4 and 5 are cleanups/refactors finalized to safely re-using
TCP helpers on MPTCP skbs.
Patch 6 makes TCP pruning related helpers available to MPTCP and patch 7
makes use of them. Patch 8 addresses an edge scenario that could still
lead to transfer stall under memory pressure.
Finally patch 9 and 10 improve the MPTCP-level retransmission schema to
make recovery from memory pressure significanly faster.

Note that the diffstat is biases by the quite large patch 4/9, which
contains mechanical transformation of existing code; "real" changes are
noticiable smaller.

Tested successfully vs the test cases proposed by Geliang and Gang and
vs the selftests.
---
Notes:
- Sashiko apparently can't understand that mptcp_data_lock() &&
sk not owned by the user-space is equivalent to the sk socket lock. As a
consequences marks incorrectly as racy a few accesses under the data
lock to the sk_rcvbuf.
- mptcp_join with "4 subflows with under pressure" may require longer
than default timeout, as the transfer in such condition can be really
slow.

Paolo Abeni (10):
  mptcp: move checks vs rcvbuf size earlier in the RX path
  mptcp: drop the mptcp_ooo_try_coalesce() helper
  mptcp: drop the cant_coalesce CB field
  mptcp: remove CB offset field
  mptcp: sync mptcp skb cb layout with tcp one
  tcp: expose the tcp_collapse_ofo_queue() helper to mptcp usage, too
  mptcp: implemented OoO queue pruning
  mptcp: track prune recovery status
  mptcp: move the retrans loop to a separate helper
  mptcp: let the retrans scheduler do its job.

 include/net/tcp.h    |   8 +
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c |  55 +++---
 net/mptcp/fastopen.c |   9 +-
 net/mptcp/mib.c      |   3 +
 net/mptcp/mib.h      |   3 +
 net/mptcp/options.c  |  58 ++++++-
 net/mptcp/protocol.c | 403 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 net/mptcp/protocol.h |  18 +-
 net/mptcp/subflow.c  |  10 ++
 9 files changed, 398 insertions(+), 169 deletions(-)

-- 
2.53.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-04-27 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-27 19:51 Paolo Abeni [this message]
2026-04-27 19:51 ` [PATCH mptcp-next v2 01/10] mptcp: move checks vs rcvbuf size earlier in the RX path Paolo Abeni
2026-04-27 19:52 ` [PATCH mptcp-next v2 02/10] mptcp: drop the mptcp_ooo_try_coalesce() helper Paolo Abeni
2026-04-27 19:52 ` [PATCH mptcp-next v2 03/10] mptcp: drop the cant_coalesce CB field Paolo Abeni
2026-04-27 19:52 ` [PATCH mptcp-next v2 04/10] mptcp: remove CB offset field Paolo Abeni
2026-04-27 19:52 ` [PATCH mptcp-next v2 05/10] mptcp: sync mptcp skb cb layout with tcp one Paolo Abeni
2026-04-27 19:52 ` [PATCH mptcp-next v2 06/10] tcp: expose the tcp_collapse_ofo_queue() helper to mptcp usage, too Paolo Abeni
2026-04-27 19:52 ` [PATCH mptcp-next v2 07/10] mptcp: implemented OoO queue pruning Paolo Abeni
2026-04-27 19:52 ` [PATCH mptcp-next v2 08/10] mptcp: track prune recovery status Paolo Abeni
2026-04-27 19:52 ` [PATCH mptcp-next v2 09/10] mptcp: move the retrans loop to a separate helper Paolo Abeni
2026-04-27 19:52 ` [PATCH mptcp-next v2 10/10] mptcp: let the retrans scheduler do its job Paolo Abeni
2026-04-27 21:31 ` [PATCH mptcp-next v2 00/10] mptcp: address stall under memory pressure MPTCP CI
2026-04-28 17:22 ` Paolo Abeni

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