kernel/linux.git/include/linux/tcp.h, branch v6.6.132

tcp: defer regular ACK while processing socket backlog

2026-03-04T12:20:22+00:00

[ Upstream commit 133c4c0d37175f510a10fa9bed51e223936073fc ] This idea came after a particular workload requested the quickack attribute set on routes, and a performance drop was noticed for large bulk transfers. For high throughput flows, it is best to use one cpu running the user thread issuing socket system calls, and a separate cpu to process incoming packets from BH context. (With TSO/GRO, bottleneck is usually the 'user' cpu) Problem is the user thread can spend a lot of time while holding the socket lock, forcing BH handler to queue most of incoming packets in the socket backlog. Whenever the user thread releases the socket lock, it must first process all accumulated packets in the backlog, potentially adding latency spikes. Due to flood mitigation, having too many packets in the backlog increases chance of unexpected drops. Backlog processing unfortunately shifts a fair amount of cpu cycles from the BH cpu to the 'user' cpu, thus reducing max throughput. This patch takes advantage of the backlog processing, and the fact that ACK are mostly cumulative. The idea is to detect we are in the backlog processing and defer all eligible ACK into a single one, sent from tcp_release_cb(). This saves cpu cycles on both sides, and network resources. Performance of a single TCP flow on a 200Gbit NIC: - Throughput is increased by 20% (100Gbit -> 120Gbit). - Number of generated ACK per second shrinks from 240,000 to 40,000. - Number of backlog drops per second shrinks from 230 to 0. Benchmark context: - Regular netperf TCP_STREAM (no zerocopy) - Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8481C (Saphire Rapids) - MAX_SKB_FRAGS = 17 (~60KB per GRO packet) This feature is guarded by a new sysctl, and enabled by default: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_backlog_ack_defer Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh Acked-by: Dave Taht Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Stable-dep-of: 87b08913a9ae ("inet: move icmp_global_{credit,stamp} to a separate cache line") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

tcp: new TCP_INFO stats for RTO events

2024-10-17T13:24:23+00:00

[ Upstream commit 3868ab0f192581eff978501a05f3dc2e01541d77 ] The 2023 SIGCOMM paper "Improving Network Availability with Protective ReRoute" has indicated Linux TCP's RTO-triggered txhash rehashing can effectively reduce application disruption during outages. To better measure the efficacy of this feature, this patch adds three more detailed stats during RTO recovery and exports via TCP_INFO. Applications and monitoring systems can leverage this data to measure the network path diversity and end-to-end repair latency during network outages to improve their network infrastructure. The following counters are added to tcp_sock in order to track RTO events over the lifetime of a TCP socket. 1. u16 total_rto - Counts the total number of RTO timeouts. 2. u16 total_rto_recoveries - Counts the total number of RTO recoveries. 3. u32 total_rto_time - Counts the total time spent (ms) in RTO recoveries. (time spent in CA_Loss and CA_Recovery states) To compute total_rto_time, we add a new u32 rto_stamp field to tcp_sock. rto_stamp records the start timestamp (ms) of the last RTO recovery (CA_Loss). Corresponding fields are also added to the tcp_info struct. Signed-off-by: Aananth V Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Stable-dep-of: 27c80efcc204 ("tcp: fix TFO SYN_RECV to not zero retrans_stamp with retransmits out") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

tcp: set TCP_USER_TIMEOUT locklessly

2023-08-06T07:24:55+00:00

icsk->icsk_user_timeout can be set locklessly, if all read sides use READ_ONCE(). Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2023-07-20T22:52:55+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR. No conflicts or adjacent changes. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

tcp: annotate data-races around fastopenq.max_qlen

2023-07-20T19:34:18+00:00

This field can be read locklessly. Fixes: 1536e2857bd3 ("tcp: Add a TCP_FASTOPEN socket option to get a max backlog on its listner") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230719212857.3943972-12-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

tcp: get rid of sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale

2023-07-19T01:41:18+00:00

With modern NIC drivers shifting to full page allocations per received frame, we face the following issue: TCP has one per-netns sysctl used to tweak how to translate a memory use into an expected payload (RWIN), in RX path. tcp_win_from_space() implementation is limited to few cases. For hosts dealing with various MSS, we either under estimate or over estimate the RWIN we send to the remote peers. For instance with the default sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale value, we expect to store 50% of payload per allocated chunk of memory. For the typical use of MTU=1500 traffic, and order-0 pages allocations by NIC drivers, we are sending too big RWIN, leading to potential tcp collapse operations, which are extremely expensive and source of latency spikes. This patch makes sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale obsolete, and instead uses a per socket scaling factor, so that we can precisely adjust the RWIN based on effective skb->len/skb->truesize ratio. This patch alone can double TCP receive performance when receivers are too slow to drain their receive queue, or by allowing a bigger RWIN when MSS is close to PAGE_SIZE. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230717152917.751987-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

tcp: preserve const qualifier in tcp_sk()

2023-03-18T12:23:34+00:00

We can change tcp_sk() to propagate its argument const qualifier, thanks to container_of_const(). We have two places where a const sock pointer has to be upgraded to a write one. We have been using const qualifier for lockless listeners to clearly identify points where writes could happen. Add tcp_sk_rw() helper to better document these. tcp_inbound_md5_hash(), __tcp_grow_window(), tcp_reset_check() and tcp_rack_reo_wnd() get an additional const qualififer for their @tp local variables. smc_check_reset_syn_req() also needs a similar change. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: add u32 counter in tcp_sock and an SNMP counter for PLB

2022-10-28T09:47:42+00:00

A u32 counter is added to tcp_sock for counting the number of PLB triggered rehashes for a TCP connection. An SNMP counter is also added to count overall PLB triggered rehash events for a host. These counters are hooked up to PLB implementation for DCTCP. TCP_NLA_REHASH is added to SCM_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS that reports the rehash attempts triggered due to PLB or timeouts. This gives a historical view of sustained congestion or timeouts experienced by the TCP connection. Signed-off-by: Mubashir Adnan Qureshi Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2022-10-04T00:44:18+00:00

Merge in the left-over fixes before the net-next pull-request. Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_ppe.c ae3ed15da588 ("net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: fix state in __mtk_foe_entry_clear") 9d8cb4c096ab ("net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: add foe_entry_size to mtk_eth_soc") https://lore.kernel.org/all/6cb6893b-4921-a068-4c30-1109795110bb@tessares.net/ kernel/bpf/helpers.c 8addbfc7b308 ("bpf: Gate dynptr API behind CAP_BPF") 5679ff2f138f ("bpf: Move bpf_loop and bpf_for_each_map_elem under CAP_BPF") 8a67f2de9b1d ("bpf: expose bpf_strtol and bpf_strtoul to all program types") https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221003201957.13149-1-daniel@iogearbox.net/ Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

tcp: fix tcp_cwnd_validate() to not forget is_cwnd_limited

2022-09-30T11:37:45+00:00

This commit fixes a bug in the tracking of max_packets_out and is_cwnd_limited. This bug can cause the connection to fail to remember that is_cwnd_limited is true, causing the connection to fail to grow cwnd when it should, causing throughput to be lower than it should be. The following event sequence is an example that triggers the bug: (a) The connection is cwnd_limited, but packets_out is not at its peak due to TSO deferral deciding not to send another skb yet. In such cases the connection can advance max_packets_seq and set tp->is_cwnd_limited to true and max_packets_out to a small number. (b) Then later in the round trip the connection is pacing-limited (not cwnd-limited), and packets_out is larger. In such cases the connection would raise max_packets_out to a bigger number but (unexpectedly) flip tp->is_cwnd_limited from true to false. This commit fixes that bug. One straightforward fix would be to separately track (a) the next window after max_packets_out reaches a maximum, and (b) the next window after tp->is_cwnd_limited is set to true. But this would require consuming an extra u32 sequence number. Instead, to save space we track only the most important information. Specifically, we track the strongest available signal of the degree to which the cwnd is fully utilized: (1) If the connection is cwnd-limited then we remember that fact for the current window. (2) If the connection not cwnd-limited then we track the maximum number of outstanding packets in the current window. In particular, note that the new logic cannot trigger the buggy (a)/(b) sequence above because with the new logic a condition where tp->packets_out > tp->max_packets_out can only trigger an update of tp->is_cwnd_limited if tp->is_cwnd_limited is false. This first showed up in a testing of a BBRv2 dev branch, but this buggy behavior highlighted a general issue with the tcp_cwnd_validate() logic that can cause cwnd to fail to increase at the proper rate for any TCP congestion control, including Reno or CUBIC. Fixes: ca8a22634381 ("tcp: make cwnd-limited checks measurement-based, and gentler") Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: Kevin(Yudong) Yang Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller