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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tcp: properly increase rcv_ssthresh for ofo packets
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 10:35:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1378488958.31445.47.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

TCP receive window handling is multi staged.

A socket has a memory budget, static or dynamic, in sk_rcvbuf.

Because we do not really know how this memory budget translates to
a TCP window (payload), TCP announces a small initial window
(about 20 MSS).

When a packet is received, we increase TCP rcv_win depending
on the payload/truesize ratio of this packet. Good citizen
packets give a hint that it's reasonable to have rcv_win = sk_rcvbuf/2

This heuristic takes place in tcp_grow_window()

Problem is : We currently call tcp_grow_window() only for in-order
packets.

This means that reorders or packet losses stop proper grow of
rcv_win, and senders are unable to benefit from fast recovery,
or proper reordering level detection.

Really, a packet being stored in OFO queue is not a bad citizen.
It should be part of the game as in-order packets.

In our traces, we very often see sender is limited by linux small
receive windows, even if linux hosts use autotuning (DRS) and should
allow rcv_win to grow to ~3MB.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 1969e16..28708d3 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -4141,6 +4141,7 @@ static void tcp_data_queue_ofo(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 		if (!tcp_try_coalesce(sk, skb1, skb, &fragstolen)) {
 			__skb_queue_after(&tp->out_of_order_queue, skb1, skb);
 		} else {
+			tcp_grow_window(sk, skb);
 			kfree_skb_partial(skb, fragstolen);
 			skb = NULL;
 		}
@@ -4216,8 +4217,10 @@ add_sack:
 	if (tcp_is_sack(tp))
 		tcp_sack_new_ofo_skb(sk, seq, end_seq);
 end:
-	if (skb)
+	if (skb) {
+		tcp_grow_window(sk, skb);
 		skb_set_owner_r(skb, sk);
+	}
 }
 
 static int __must_check tcp_queue_rcv(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int hdrlen,

             reply	other threads:[~2013-09-06 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-06 17:35 Eric Dumazet [this message]
2013-09-06 18:48 ` [PATCH] tcp: properly increase rcv_ssthresh for ofo packets David Miller

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