tcp: add tcp_add_backlog()

When TCP operates in lossy environments (between 1 and 10 % packet
losses), many SACK blocks can be exchanged, and I noticed we could
drop them on busy senders, if these SACK blocks have to be queued
into the socket backlog.

While the main cause is the poor performance of RACK/SACK processing,
we can try to avoid these drops of valuable information that can lead to
spurious timeouts and retransmits.

Cause of the drops is the skb->truesize overestimation caused by :

- drivers allocating ~2048 (or more) bytes as a fragment to hold an
  Ethernet frame.

- various pskb_may_pull() calls bringing the headers into skb->head
  might have pulled all the frame content, but skb->truesize could
  not be lowered, as the stack has no idea of each fragment truesize.

The backlog drops are also more visible on bidirectional flows, since
their sk_rmem_alloc can be quite big.

Let's add some room for the backlog, as only the socket owner
can selectively take action to lower memory needs, like collapsing
receive queues or partial ofo pruning.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

3 files changed, 31 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index a5af6be3a572..dd99679e2e51 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -1161,6 +1161,7 @@ static inline void tcp_prequeue_init(struct tcp_sock *tp)
 }
 
 bool tcp_prequeue(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb);
+bool tcp_add_backlog(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb);
 
 #undef STATE_TRACE
 
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
index ad41e8ecf796..53e80cd004b6 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
@@ -1532,6 +1532,34 @@ bool tcp_prequeue(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(tcp_prequeue);
 
+bool tcp_add_backlog(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	u32 limit = sk->sk_rcvbuf + sk->sk_sndbuf;
+
+	/* Only socket owner can try to collapse/prune rx queues
+	 * to reduce memory overhead, so add a little headroom here.
+	 * Few sockets backlog are possibly concurrently non empty.
+	 */
+	limit += 64*1024;
+
+	/* In case all data was pulled from skb frags (in __pskb_pull_tail()),
+	 * we can fix skb->truesize to its real value to avoid future drops.
+	 * This is valid because skb is not yet charged to the socket.
+	 * It has been noticed pure SACK packets were sometimes dropped
+	 * (if cooked by drivers without copybreak feature).
+	 */
+	if (!skb->data_len)
+		skb->truesize = SKB_TRUESIZE(skb_end_offset(skb));
+
+	if (unlikely(sk_add_backlog(sk, skb, limit))) {
+		bh_unlock_sock(sk);
+		__NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPBACKLOGDROP);
+		return true;
+	}
+	return false;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(tcp_add_backlog);
+
 /*
  *	From tcp_input.c
  */
@@ -1662,10 +1690,7 @@ process:
 	if (!sock_owned_by_user(sk)) {
 		if (!tcp_prequeue(sk, skb))
 			ret = tcp_v4_do_rcv(sk, skb);
-	} else if (unlikely(sk_add_backlog(sk, skb,
-					   sk->sk_rcvbuf + sk->sk_sndbuf))) {
-		bh_unlock_sock(sk);
-		__NET_INC_STATS(net, LINUX_MIB_TCPBACKLOGDROP);
+	} else if (tcp_add_backlog(sk, skb)) {
 		goto discard_and_relse;
 	}
 	bh_unlock_sock(sk);
diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
index e4f55683af31..5bf460bd299f 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
@@ -1467,10 +1467,7 @@ process:
 	if (!sock_owned_by_user(sk)) {
 		if (!tcp_prequeue(sk, skb))
 			ret = tcp_v6_do_rcv(sk, skb);
-	} else if (unlikely(sk_add_backlog(sk, skb,
-					   sk->sk_rcvbuf + sk->sk_sndbuf))) {
-		bh_unlock_sock(sk);
-		__NET_INC_STATS(net, LINUX_MIB_TCPBACKLOGDROP);
+	} else if (tcp_add_backlog(sk, skb)) {
 		goto discard_and_relse;
 	}
 	bh_unlock_sock(sk);