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From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>,
	 "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
	 Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuni1840@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v1 net-next 3/8] tcp: Stop collapsing if not bloated.
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2026 04:00:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261114040101.1043546-4-kuniyu@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261114040101.1043546-1-kuniyu@google.com>

Even when a skb is not bloated, tcp_collapse() starts collapsing
if the next skb has overlapping data.

Also, tcp_collapse() does not stop until it reaches the tail or
unmergable skb (SYN/FIN, unreadable frags).

Assume we detect a low-density skb followed by fully-packed 4K-MSS
GRO skbs:

             skb->len  truesize  scaling_ratio
  skb    #1      1448      2944      125 (49%)
  skb    #2     65536     66432      252 (98%)
  skb    #3     65536     66432      252 (98%)
  ...
  skb    #9     65536     66432      252 (98%)
  --------------------------------------------
  total                  534400

Then, even the high-density skbs are repacked into lower-density
skbs, and we end up consuming much more memory.

             skb->len  truesize  scaling_ratio
  nskb   #1      3776      4352      222 (86%)
  nskb   #2      3776      4352      222 (86%)
  ...
  nskb #139      3776      4352      222 (86%)
  nskb #140       872      2304       96 (37%)
  --------------------------------------------
  total                  607232 (+72832!)

Even if we find a collapsible skb, we should not collapse
subsequent skbs with scaling_ratio >= TCP_COLLAPSE_SCALING_RATIO.

Conversely, even if tp->scaling_ratio is smaller than
TCP_COLLAPSE_SCALING_RATIO, we should repack skbs once we
start collapsing, which results in higher-density skb.

Let's remove the next skb condition in the first loop,
search for collapsible bloated skb range, and repeat
collapsing for each range.

Note that even when the next skb is not bloated, we must
collapse it for OOO rbtree if it has overlapping data.

	if ((list || !before(TCP_SKB_CB(n)->seq, sub_end)) &&
	    !tcp_collapse_skb_bloated(n, sub_end,
				      TCP_COLLAPSE_SCALING_RATIO))

For example, bloated skb_1 and non-bloated skb_2 have overlapping
data and only skb_1 is collapsed to nskb_1 and nskb_2.

   skb_1 = [1000, 5000]
   skb_2 = [2000, 66000]

Then, nskb_2 will be inserted after skb_2 in rbtree, wrongly
setting tp->ooo_last_skb to 5000.

  nskb_1 = [1000, 4776]
   skb_2 = [2000, 66000]
  nskb_2 = [4776, 5000]

This case is still inefficient, but a later patch handles this.

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index e07f43347409..5bd42a74c6f5 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -5839,7 +5839,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *tcp_collapse_one(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 }
 
 /* Collapse contiguous sequence of skbs head..tail with
- * sequence numbers start..end.
+ * sequence numbers start..sub_end.
  *
  * If tail is NULL, this means until the end of the queue.
  *
@@ -5848,15 +5848,18 @@ static struct sk_buff *tcp_collapse_one(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
  */
 static void
 tcp_collapse(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff_head *list, struct rb_root *root,
-	     struct sk_buff *head, struct sk_buff *tail, u32 start, u32 end)
+	     struct sk_buff *head, struct sk_buff *tail, u32 start)
 {
 	struct sk_buff *skb = head, *n;
 	struct sk_buff_head tmp;
 	u8 scaling_ratio;
+	u32 sub_end;
 
 	scaling_ratio = min(tcp_sk(sk)->scaling_ratio,
 			    TCP_COLLAPSE_SCALING_RATIO);
 
+	__skb_queue_head_init(&tmp);
+
 	/* First, check that queue is collapsible and find
 	 * the point where collapsing can be useful.
 	 */
@@ -5872,38 +5875,48 @@ tcp_collapse(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff_head *list, struct rb_root *root,
 
 		/* The first skb to collapse is:
 		 * - not SYN/FIN and
-		 * - the unread portion starting from "start" is bloated, or
-		 *   overlaps to the next one and mptcp allow collapsing.
+		 * - the unread portion starting from "start" is bloated.
 		 */
-		if (!skb_frags_readable(skb) ||
-		    TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tcp_flags & (TCPHDR_SYN | TCPHDR_FIN))
-			goto skip_this;
-
-		if (tcp_collapse_skb_bloated(skb, start, scaling_ratio))
-			break;
-
-		if (n && n != tail && skb_frags_readable(n) &&
-		    tcp_skb_can_collapse_rx(skb, n) &&
-		    TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq != TCP_SKB_CB(n)->seq)
+		if (skb_frags_readable(skb) &&
+		    !(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tcp_flags & (TCPHDR_SYN | TCPHDR_FIN)) &&
+		    tcp_collapse_skb_bloated(skb, start, scaling_ratio))
 			break;
 
-skip_this:
 		/* Decided to skip this, advance start seq. */
 		start = TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq;
 	}
 
 	if (!skb || skb == tail)
-		return;
+		goto end;
 
-	__skb_queue_head_init(&tmp);
+	/* Second, find consecutive collapsible skb. */
+	sub_end = TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq;
+
+	for (n = tcp_skb_next(skb, list); n && n != tail; n = tcp_skb_next(n, list)) {
+		if (!skb_frags_readable(n) ||
+		    TCP_SKB_CB(n)->tcp_flags & (TCPHDR_SYN | TCPHDR_FIN) ||
+		    !tcp_skb_can_collapse_rx(skb, n))
+			break;
+
+		if (!after(TCP_SKB_CB(n)->end_seq, sub_end))
+			continue;
+
+		/* seq and end_seq must increase monotonically for rbtree. */
+		if ((list || !before(TCP_SKB_CB(n)->seq, sub_end)) &&
+		    !tcp_collapse_skb_bloated(n, sub_end,
+					      TCP_COLLAPSE_SCALING_RATIO))
+			break;
 
-	while (before(start, end)) {
-		int copy = min_t(int, TCP_COLLAPSE_MAX_SIZE, end - start);
+		sub_end = TCP_SKB_CB(n)->end_seq;
+	}
+
+	while (before(start, sub_end)) {
+		int copy = min_t(int, TCP_COLLAPSE_MAX_SIZE, sub_end - start);
 		struct sk_buff *nskb;
 
 		nskb = alloc_skb(copy, GFP_ATOMIC);
 		if (!nskb)
-			break;
+			goto end;
 
 		memcpy(nskb->cb, skb->cb, sizeof(skb->cb));
 		TCP_SKB_CB(nskb)->has_rxtstamp = false;
@@ -5942,15 +5955,11 @@ tcp_collapse(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff_head *list, struct rb_root *root,
 			}
 			if (!before(start, TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq)) {
 				skb = tcp_collapse_one(sk, skb, list, root);
-				if (!skb ||
-				    skb == tail ||
-				    !tcp_skb_can_collapse_rx(nskb, skb) ||
-				    (TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tcp_flags & (TCPHDR_SYN | TCPHDR_FIN)) ||
-				    !skb_frags_readable(skb))
-					goto end;
 			}
 		}
 	}
+
+	goto restart;
 end:
 	skb_queue_walk_safe(&tmp, skb, n)
 		tcp_rbtree_insert(root, skb);
@@ -5989,7 +5998,7 @@ static void tcp_collapse_ofo_queue(struct sock *sk)
 			if (range_truesize != head->truesize ||
 			    end - start >= SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(PAGE_SIZE)) {
 				tcp_collapse(sk, NULL, &tp->out_of_order_queue,
-					     head, skb, start, end);
+					     head, skb, start);
 			} else {
 				sum_tiny += range_truesize;
 				if (sum_tiny > sk->sk_rcvbuf >> 3)
@@ -6103,8 +6112,7 @@ static int tcp_prune_queue(struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *in_skb)
 		if (!skb_queue_empty(&sk->sk_receive_queue))
 			tcp_collapse(sk, &sk->sk_receive_queue, NULL,
 				     skb_peek(&sk->sk_receive_queue),
-				     NULL,
-				     tp->copied_seq, tp->rcv_nxt);
+				     NULL, tp->copied_seq);
 
 		if (tcp_can_ingest(sk, in_skb))
 			return 0;
-- 
2.56.0.611.g1030f0b940-goog


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-11-14  4:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-14  4:00 [PATCH v1 net-next 0/8] tcp: Prevent tcp_collapse() from bloating queue Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-11-14  4:00 ` [PATCH v1 net-next 1/8] tcp: Clean up the first loop in tcp_collapse() Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-11-14  4:00 ` [PATCH v1 net-next 2/8] tcp: Don't collapse high density skb Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-11-14  4:00 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima [this message]
2026-11-14  4:00 ` [PATCH v1 net-next 4/8] net: Move SKB_SMALL_HEAD_CACHE_SIZE to skbuff.h Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-11-14  4:00 ` [PATCH v1 net-next 5/8] tcp: Skip collapsing if collapsed skb is less-dense Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-11-14  4:00 ` [PATCH v1 net-next 6/8] tcp: Allocate all new skb before collapsing Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-11-14  4:00 ` [PATCH v1 net-next 7/8] tcp: Batch memory accounting in tcp_collapse() Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-11-14  4:00 ` [PATCH v1 net-next 8/8] selftest: packetdrill: Add test for tcp_collapse() Kuniyuki Iwashima

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