Subject: [PATCH 20/27] tcp: when rearming RTO, if RTO time is in past then fire RTO ASAP

From: Neal Cardwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 17:53:36 -0400

[ Upstream commit cdbeb633ca71a02b7b63bfeb94994bf4e1a0b894 ]

In some situations tcp_send_loss_probe() can realize that it's unable
to send a loss probe (TLP), and falls back to calling tcp_rearm_rto()
to schedule an RTO timer. In such cases, sometimes tcp_rearm_rto()
realizes that the RTO was eligible to fire immediately or at some
point in the past (delta_us <= 0). Previously in such cases
tcp_rearm_rto() was scheduling such "overdue" RTOs to happen at now +
icsk_rto, which caused needless delays of hundreds of milliseconds
(and non-linear behavior that made reproducible testing
difficult). This commit changes the logic to schedule "overdue" RTOs
ASAP, rather than at now + icsk_rto.

Fixes: 6ba8a3b19e76 ("tcp: Tail loss probe (TLP)")
Suggested-by: Yuchung Cheng <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email-masked]>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 57bcae81fe42..fbaac4423a99 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -3007,8 +3007,7 @@ void tcp_rearm_rto(struct sock *sk)
 			/* delta may not be positive if the socket is locked
 			 * when the retrans timer fires and is rescheduled.
 			 */
-			if (delta > 0)
-				rto = delta;
+			rto = max(delta, 1);
 		}
 		inet_csk_reset_xmit_timer(sk, ICSK_TIME_RETRANS, rto,
 					  TCP_RTO_MAX);
-- 
2.13.5