diff --git a/include/linux/tcp.h b/include/linux/tcp.h
index c723a465125d..6433cc8b4667 100644
--- a/include/linux/tcp.h
+++ b/include/linux/tcp.h
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 
 
 #include <linux/skbuff.h>
+#include <linux/win_minmax.h>
 #include <net/sock.h>
 #include <net/inet_connection_sock.h>
 #include <net/inet_timewait_sock.h>
@@ -234,9 +235,7 @@ struct tcp_sock {
 	u32	mdev_max_us;	/* maximal mdev for the last rtt period	*/
 	u32	rttvar_us;	/* smoothed mdev_max			*/
 	u32	rtt_seq;	/* sequence number to update rttvar	*/
-	struct rtt_meas {
-		u32 rtt, ts;	/* RTT in usec and sampling time in jiffies. */
-	} rtt_min[3];
+	struct  minmax rtt_min;
 
 	u32	packets_out;	/* Packets which are "in flight"	*/
 	u32	retrans_out;	/* Retransmitted packets out		*/
diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index fdfbedd61c67..2f1648af4d12 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ static inline bool tcp_ca_dst_locked(const struct dst_entry *dst)
 /* Minimum RTT in usec. ~0 means not available. */
 static inline u32 tcp_min_rtt(const struct tcp_sock *tp)
 {
-	return tp->rtt_min[0].rtt;
+	return minmax_get(&tp->rtt_min);
 }
 
 /* Compute the actual receive window we are currently advertising.
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 7dae800092e6..e79ed17ccfd6 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ void tcp_init_sock(struct sock *sk)
 
 	icsk->icsk_rto = TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT;
 	tp->mdev_us = jiffies_to_usecs(TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT);
-	tp->rtt_min[0].rtt = ~0U;
+	minmax_reset(&tp->rtt_min, tcp_time_stamp, ~0U);
 
 	/* So many TCP implementations out there (incorrectly) count the
 	 * initial SYN frame in their delayed-ACK and congestion control
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index dad3e7eeed94..6886f386464f 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -2879,67 +2879,13 @@ static void tcp_fastretrans_alert(struct sock *sk, const int acked,
 	*rexmit = REXMIT_LOST;
 }
 
-/* Kathleen Nichols' algorithm for tracking the minimum value of
- * a data stream over some fixed time interval. (E.g., the minimum
- * RTT over the past five minutes.) It uses constant space and constant
- * time per update yet almost always delivers the same minimum as an
- * implementation that has to keep all the data in the window.
- *
- * The algorithm keeps track of the best, 2nd best & 3rd best min
- * values, maintaining an invariant that the measurement time of the
- * n'th best >= n-1'th best. It also makes sure that the three values
- * are widely separated in the time window since that bounds the worse
- * case error when that data is monotonically increasing over the window.
- *
- * Upon getting a new min, we can forget everything earlier because it
- * has no value - the new min is <= everything else in the window by
- * definition and it's the most recent. So we restart fresh on every new min
- * and overwrites 2nd & 3rd choices. The same property holds for 2nd & 3rd
- * best.
- */
 static void tcp_update_rtt_min(struct sock *sk, u32 rtt_us)
 {
-	const u32 now = tcp_time_stamp, wlen = sysctl_tcp_min_rtt_wlen * HZ;
-	struct rtt_meas *m = tcp_sk(sk)->rtt_min;
-	struct rtt_meas rttm = {
-		.rtt = likely(rtt_us) ? rtt_us : jiffies_to_usecs(1),
-		.ts = now,
-	};
-	u32 elapsed;
+	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
+	u32 wlen = sysctl_tcp_min_rtt_wlen * HZ;
 
-	/* Check if the new measurement updates the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd choices */
-	if (unlikely(rttm.rtt <= m[0].rtt))
-		m[0] = m[1] = m[2] = rttm;
-	else if (rttm.rtt <= m[1].rtt)
-		m[1] = m[2] = rttm;
-	else if (rttm.rtt <= m[2].rtt)
-		m[2] = rttm;
-
-	elapsed = now - m[0].ts;
-	if (unlikely(elapsed > wlen)) {
-		/* Passed entire window without a new min so make 2nd choice
-		 * the new min & 3rd choice the new 2nd. So forth and so on.
-		 */
-		m[0] = m[1];
-		m[1] = m[2];
-		m[2] = rttm;
-		if (now - m[0].ts > wlen) {
-			m[0] = m[1];
-			m[1] = rttm;
-			if (now - m[0].ts > wlen)
-				m[0] = rttm;
-		}
-	} else if (m[1].ts == m[0].ts && elapsed > wlen / 4) {
-		/* Passed a quarter of the window without a new min so
-		 * take 2nd choice from the 2nd quarter of the window.
-		 */
-		m[2] = m[1] = rttm;
-	} else if (m[2].ts == m[1].ts && elapsed > wlen / 2) {
-		/* Passed half the window without a new min so take the 3rd
-		 * choice from the last half of the window.
-		 */
-		m[2] = rttm;
-	}
+	minmax_running_min(&tp->rtt_min, wlen, tcp_time_stamp,
+			   rtt_us ? : jiffies_to_usecs(1));
 }
 
 static inline bool tcp_ack_update_rtt(struct sock *sk, const int flag,
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
index f63c73dc0acb..568947110b60 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ struct sock *tcp_create_openreq_child(const struct sock *sk,
 
 		newtp->srtt_us = 0;
 		newtp->mdev_us = jiffies_to_usecs(TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT);
-		newtp->rtt_min[0].rtt = ~0U;
+		minmax_reset(&newtp->rtt_min, tcp_time_stamp, ~0U);
 		newicsk->icsk_rto = TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT;
 
 		newtp->packets_out = 0;