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tcp: extend F-RTO to catch more spurious timeouts 

Current F-RTO reverts cwnd reset whenever a never-retransmitted
packet was (s)acked. The timeout can be declared spurious because
the packets acknoledged with this ACK was transmitted before the
timeout, so clearly not all the packets are lost to reset the cwnd.

This nice detection does not really depend F-RTO internals. This
patch applies the detection universally. On Google servers this
change detected 20% more spurious timeouts.

Suggested-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Yuchung Cheng 2017-01-12 22:11:37 -08:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent a0370b3f3f
commit 89fe18e44f
1 changed files with 19 additions and 14 deletions
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net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
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@ -1939,7 +1939,6 @@ void tcp_enter_loss(struct sock *sk)
struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
struct net *net = sock_net(sk);
struct sk_buff *skb;
bool new_recovery = icsk->icsk_ca_state < TCP_CA_Recovery;
bool is_reneg; /* is receiver reneging on SACKs? */
bool mark_lost;
@ -2000,13 +1999,15 @@ void tcp_enter_loss(struct sock *sk)
tp->high_seq = tp->snd_nxt;
tcp_ecn_queue_cwr(tp);
/* F-RTO RFC5682 sec 3.1 step 1: retransmit SND.UNA if no previous
* loss recovery is underway except recurring timeout(s) on
* the same SND.UNA (sec 3.2). Disable F-RTO on path MTU probing
/* F-RTO RFC5682 sec 3.1 step 1 mandates to disable F-RTO
* if a previous recovery is underway, otherwise it may incorrectly
* call a timeout spurious if some previously retransmitted packets
* are s/acked (sec 3.2). We do not apply that retriction since
* retransmitted skbs are permanently tagged with TCPCB_EVER_RETRANS
* so FLAG_ORIG_SACK_ACKED is always correct. But we do disable F-RTO
* on PTMU discovery to avoid sending new data.
*/
tp->frto = sysctl_tcp_frto &&
(new_recovery || icsk->icsk_retransmits) &&
!inet_csk(sk)->icsk_mtup.probe_size;
tp->frto = sysctl_tcp_frto && !inet_csk(sk)->icsk_mtup.probe_size;
}
/* If ACK arrived pointing to a remembered SACK, it means that our
@ -2740,14 +2741,18 @@ static void tcp_process_loss(struct sock *sk, int flag, bool is_dupack,
tcp_try_undo_loss(sk, false))
return;
if (tp->frto) { /* F-RTO RFC5682 sec 3.1 (sack enhanced version). */
/* Step 3.b. A timeout is spurious if not all data are
* lost, i.e., never-retransmitted data are (s)acked.
*/
if ((flag & FLAG_ORIG_SACK_ACKED) &&
tcp_try_undo_loss(sk, true))
return;
/* The ACK (s)acks some never-retransmitted data meaning not all
* the data packets before the timeout were lost. Therefore we
* undo the congestion window and state. This is essentially
* the operation in F-RTO (RFC5682 section 3.1 step 3.b). Since
* a retransmitted skb is permantly marked, we can apply such an
* operation even if F-RTO was not used.
*/
if ((flag & FLAG_ORIG_SACK_ACKED) &&
tcp_try_undo_loss(sk, tp->undo_marker))
return;
if (tp->frto) { /* F-RTO RFC5682 sec 3.1 (sack enhanced version). */
if (after(tp->snd_nxt, tp->high_seq)) {
if (flag & FLAG_DATA_SACKED || is_dupack)
tp->frto = 0; /* Step 3.a. loss was real */