tcp: do not delay ACK in DCTCP upon CE status change

Per DCTCP RFC8257 (Section 3.2) the ACK reflecting the CE status change
has to be sent immediately so the sender can respond quickly:

""" When receiving packets, the CE codepoint MUST be processed as follows:

   1.  If the CE codepoint is set and DCTCP.CE is false, set DCTCP.CE to
       true and send an immediate ACK.

   2.  If the CE codepoint is not set and DCTCP.CE is true, set DCTCP.CE
       to false and send an immediate ACK.
"""

Previously DCTCP implementation may continue to delay the ACK. This
patch fixes that to implement the RFC by forcing an immediate ACK.

Tested with this packetdrill script provided by Larry Brakmo

0.000 socket(..., SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP) = 3
0.000 setsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0
0.000 setsockopt(3, SOL_TCP, TCP_CONGESTION, "dctcp", 5) = 0
0.000 bind(3, ..., ...) = 0
0.000 listen(3, 1) = 0

0.100 < [ect0] SEW 0:0(0) win 32792 <mss 1000,sackOK,nop,nop,nop,wscale 7>
0.100 > SE. 0:0(0) ack 1 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 8>
0.110 < [ect0] . 1:1(0) ack 1 win 257
0.200 accept(3, ..., ...) = 4
   +0 setsockopt(4, SOL_SOCKET, SO_DEBUG, [1], 4) = 0

0.200 < [ect0] . 1:1001(1000) ack 1 win 257
0.200 > [ect01] . 1:1(0) ack 1001

0.200 write(4, ..., 1) = 1
0.200 > [ect01] P. 1:2(1) ack 1001

0.200 < [ect0] . 1001:2001(1000) ack 2 win 257
+0.005 < [ce] . 2001:3001(1000) ack 2 win 257

+0.000 > [ect01] . 2:2(0) ack 2001
// Previously the ACK below would be delayed by 40ms
+0.000 > [ect01] E. 2:2(0) ack 3001

+0.500 < F. 9501:9501(0) ack 4 win 257

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

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_dctcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_dctcp.c
index 078328afbfe3..8b637f9f23a2 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_dctcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_dctcp.c
@@ -129,12 +129,15 @@ static void dctcp_ce_state_0_to_1(struct sock *sk)
 	struct dctcp *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
 	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 
-	/* State has changed from CE=0 to CE=1 and delayed
-	 * ACK has not sent yet.
-	 */
-	if (!ca->ce_state &&
-	    inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ack.pending & ICSK_ACK_TIMER)
-		__tcp_send_ack(sk, ca->prior_rcv_nxt);
+	if (!ca->ce_state) {
+		/* State has changed from CE=0 to CE=1, force an immediate
+		 * ACK to reflect the new CE state. If an ACK was delayed,
+		 * send that first to reflect the prior CE state.
+		 */
+		if (inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ack.pending & ICSK_ACK_TIMER)
+			__tcp_send_ack(sk, ca->prior_rcv_nxt);
+		tcp_enter_quickack_mode(sk, 1);
+	}
 
 	ca->prior_rcv_nxt = tp->rcv_nxt;
 	ca->ce_state = 1;
@@ -147,12 +150,15 @@ static void dctcp_ce_state_1_to_0(struct sock *sk)
 	struct dctcp *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
 	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 
-	/* State has changed from CE=1 to CE=0 and delayed
-	 * ACK has not sent yet.
-	 */
-	if (ca->ce_state &&
-	    inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ack.pending & ICSK_ACK_TIMER)
-		__tcp_send_ack(sk, ca->prior_rcv_nxt);
+	if (ca->ce_state) {
+		/* State has changed from CE=1 to CE=0, force an immediate
+		 * ACK to reflect the new CE state. If an ACK was delayed,
+		 * send that first to reflect the prior CE state.
+		 */
+		if (inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ack.pending & ICSK_ACK_TIMER)
+			__tcp_send_ack(sk, ca->prior_rcv_nxt);
+		tcp_enter_quickack_mode(sk, 1);
+	}
 
 	ca->prior_rcv_nxt = tp->rcv_nxt;
 	ca->ce_state = 0;