kernel/linux.git/include/linux/tcp.h, branch v7.0-rc7

tcp: accecn: detect loss ACK w/ AccECN option and add TCP_ACCECN_OPTION_PERSIST

2026-02-03T14:13:25+00:00

Detect spurious retransmission of a previously sent ACK carrying the AccECN option after the second retransmission. Since this might be caused by the middlebox dropping ACK with options it does not recognize, disable the sending of the AccECN option in all subsequent ACKs. This patch follows Section 3.2.3.2.2 of AccECN spec (RFC9768), and a new field (accecn_opt_sent_w_dsack) is added to indicate that an AccECN option was sent with duplicate SACK info. Also, a new AccECN option sending mode is added to tcp_ecn_option sysctl: (TCP_ECN_OPTION_PERSIST), which ignores the AccECN fallback policy and persistently sends AccECN option once it fits into TCP option space. Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang Acked-by: Paolo Abeni Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260131222515.8485-13-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

tcp: try to avoid safer when ACKs are thinned

2026-02-03T14:13:24+00:00

Add newly acked pkts EWMA. When ACK thinning occurs, select between safer and unsafe cep delta in AccECN processing based on it. If the packets ACKed per ACK tends to be large, don't conservatively assume ACE field overflow. This patch uses the existing 2-byte holes in the rx group for new u16 variables withtout creating more holes. Below are the pahole outcomes before and after this patch: [BEFORE THIS PATCH] struct tcp_sock { [...] u32 delivered_ecn_bytes[3]; /* 2744 12 */ /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */ [...] __cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_rx[0]; /* 2816 0 */ [...] /* size: 3264, cachelines: 51, members: 177 */ } [AFTER THIS PATCH] struct tcp_sock { [...] u32 delivered_ecn_bytes[3]; /* 2744 12 */ u16 pkts_acked_ewma; /* 2756 2 */ /* XXX 2 bytes hole, try to pack */ [...] __cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_rx[0]; /* 2816 0 */ [...] /* size: 3264, cachelines: 51, members: 178 */ } Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen Co-developed-by: Chia-Yu Chang Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang Acked-by: Paolo Abeni Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260131222515.8485-2-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

tcp: preserve const qualifier in tcp_rsk() and inet_rsk()

2026-01-22T03:20:04+00:00

We can change tcp_rsk() and inet_rsk() to propagate their argument const qualifier thanks to container_of_const(). Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260120125353.1470456-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

tcp: move mtu_info to remove two 32bit holes

2025-09-23T00:55:25+00:00

This removes 8bytes waste on 64bit builds. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250919204856.2977245-8-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

tcp: move tcp_clean_acked to tcp_sock_read_tx group

2025-09-23T00:55:25+00:00

tp->tcp_clean_acked is fetched in tx path when snd_una is updated. This field thus belongs to tcp_sock_read_tx group. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250919204856.2977245-7-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

tcp: move recvmsg_inq to tcp_sock_read_txrx

2025-09-23T00:55:25+00:00

Fill a hole in tcp_sock_read_txrx, instead of possibly wasting a cache line. Note that tcp_recvmsg_locked() is also reading tp->repair, so this removes one cache line miss in tcp recvmsg(). Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250919204856.2977245-6-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

tcp: move tcp->rcv_tstamp to tcp_sock_write_txrx group

2025-09-23T00:55:24+00:00

tcp_ack() writes this field, it belongs to tcp_sock_write_txrx. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250919204856.2977245-5-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

tcp: accecn: AccECN option failure handling

2025-09-18T06:47:52+00:00

AccECN option may fail in various way, handle these: - Attempt to negotiate the use of AccECN on the 1st retransmitted SYN - From the 2nd retransmitted SYN, stop AccECN negotiation - Remove option from SYN/ACK rexmits to handle blackholes - If no option arrives in SYN/ACK, assume Option is not usable - If an option arrives later, re-enabled - If option is zeroed, disable AccECN option processing This patch use existing padding bits in tcp_request_sock and holes in tcp_sock without increasing the size. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916082434.100722-9-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

tcp: accecn: AccECN option send control

2025-09-18T06:47:52+00:00

Instead of sending the option in every ACK, limit sending to those ACKs where the option is necessary: - Handshake - "Change-triggered ACK" + the ACK following it. The 2nd ACK is necessary to unambiguously indicate which of the ECN byte counters in increasing. The first ACK has two counters increasing due to the ecnfield edge. - ACKs with CE to allow CEP delta validations to take advantage of the option. - Force option to be sent every at least once per 2^22 bytes. The check is done using the bit edges of the byte counters (avoids need for extra variables). - AccECN option beacon to send a few times per RTT even if nothing in the ECN state requires that. The default is 3 times per RTT, and its period can be set via sysctl_tcp_ecn_option_beacon. Below are the pahole outcomes before and after this patch, in which the group size of tcp_sock_write_tx is increased from 89 to 97 due to the new u64 accecn_opt_tstamp member: [BEFORE THIS PATCH] struct tcp_sock { [...] u64 tcp_wstamp_ns; /* 2488 8 */ struct list_head tsorted_sent_queue; /* 2496 16 */ [...] __cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_tx[0]; /* 2521 0 */ __cacheline_group_begin__tcp_sock_write_txrx[0]; /* 2521 0 */ u8 nonagle:4; /* 2521: 0 1 */ u8 rate_app_limited:1; /* 2521: 4 1 */ /* XXX 3 bits hole, try to pack */ /* Force alignment to the next boundary: */ u8 :0; u8 received_ce_pending:4;/* 2522: 0 1 */ u8 unused2:4; /* 2522: 4 1 */ u8 accecn_minlen:2; /* 2523: 0 1 */ u8 est_ecnfield:2; /* 2523: 2 1 */ u8 unused3:4; /* 2523: 4 1 */ [...] __cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_txrx[0]; /* 2628 0 */ [...] /* size: 3200, cachelines: 50, members: 171 */ } [AFTER THIS PATCH] struct tcp_sock { [...] u64 tcp_wstamp_ns; /* 2488 8 */ u64 accecn_opt_tstamp; /* 2596 8 */ struct list_head tsorted_sent_queue; /* 2504 16 */ [...] __cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_tx[0]; /* 2529 0 */ __cacheline_group_begin__tcp_sock_write_txrx[0]; /* 2529 0 */ u8 nonagle:4; /* 2529: 0 1 */ u8 rate_app_limited:1; /* 2529: 4 1 */ /* XXX 3 bits hole, try to pack */ /* Force alignment to the next boundary: */ u8 :0; u8 received_ce_pending:4;/* 2530: 0 1 */ u8 unused2:4; /* 2530: 4 1 */ u8 accecn_minlen:2; /* 2531: 0 1 */ u8 est_ecnfield:2; /* 2531: 2 1 */ u8 accecn_opt_demand:2; /* 2531: 4 1 */ u8 prev_ecnfield:2; /* 2531: 6 1 */ [...] __cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_txrx[0]; /* 2636 0 */ [...] /* size: 3200, cachelines: 50, members: 173 */ } Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang Co-developed-by: Ilpo Järvinen Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916082434.100722-8-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

tcp: accecn: AccECN option

2025-09-18T06:47:52+00:00

The Accurate ECN allows echoing back the sum of bytes for each IP ECN field value in the received packets using AccECN option. This change implements AccECN option tx & rx side processing without option send control related features that are added by a later change. Based on specification: https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-28.txt (Some features of the spec will be added in the later changes rather than in this one). A full-length AccECN option is always attempted but if it does not fit, the minimum length is selected based on the counters that have changed since the last update. The AccECN option (with 24-bit fields) often ends in odd sizes so the option write code tries to take advantage of some nop used to pad the other TCP options. The delivered_ecn_bytes pairs with received_ecn_bytes similar to how delivered_ce pairs with received_ce. In contrast to ACE field, however, the option is not always available to update delivered_ecn_bytes. For ACK w/o AccECN option, the delivered bytes calculated based on the cumulative ACK+SACK information are assigned to one of the counters using an estimation heuristic to select the most likely ECN byte counter. Any estimation error is corrected when the next AccECN option arrives. It may occur that the heuristic gets too confused when there are enough different byte counter deltas between ACKs with the AccECN option in which case the heuristic just gives up on updating the counters for a while. tcp_ecn_option sysctl can be used to select option sending mode for AccECN: TCP_ECN_OPTION_DISABLED, TCP_ECN_OPTION_MINIMUM, and TCP_ECN_OPTION_FULL. This patch increases the size of tcp_info struct, as there is no existing holes for new u32 variables. Below are the pahole outcomes before and after this patch: [BEFORE THIS PATCH] struct tcp_info { [...] __u32 tcpi_total_rto_time; /* 244 4 */ /* size: 248, cachelines: 4, members: 61 */ } [AFTER THIS PATCH] struct tcp_info { [...] __u32 tcpi_total_rto_time; /* 244 4 */ __u32 tcpi_received_ce; /* 248 4 */ __u32 tcpi_delivered_e1_bytes; /* 252 4 */ __u32 tcpi_delivered_e0_bytes; /* 256 4 */ __u32 tcpi_delivered_ce_bytes; /* 260 4 */ __u32 tcpi_received_e1_bytes; /* 264 4 */ __u32 tcpi_received_e0_bytes; /* 268 4 */ __u32 tcpi_received_ce_bytes; /* 272 4 */ /* size: 280, cachelines: 5, members: 68 */ } This patch uses the existing 1-byte holes in the tcp_sock_write_txrx group for new u8 members, but adds a 4-byte hole in tcp_sock_write_rx group after the new u32 delivered_ecn_bytes[3] member. Therefore, the group size of tcp_sock_write_rx is increased from 96 to 112. Below are the pahole outcomes before and after this patch: [BEFORE THIS PATCH] struct tcp_sock { [...] u8 received_ce_pending:4; /* 2522: 0 1 */ u8 unused2:4; /* 2522: 4 1 */ /* XXX 1 byte hole, try to pack */ [...] u32 rcv_rtt_last_tsecr; /* 2668 4 */ [...] __cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_rx[0]; /* 2728 0 */ [...] /* size: 3200, cachelines: 50, members: 167 */ } [AFTER THIS PATCH] struct tcp_sock { [...] u8 received_ce_pending:4;/* 2522: 0 1 */ u8 unused2:4; /* 2522: 4 1 */ u8 accecn_minlen:2; /* 2523: 0 1 */ u8 est_ecnfield:2; /* 2523: 2 1 */ u8 unused3:4; /* 2523: 4 1 */ [...] u32 rcv_rtt_last_tsecr; /* 2668 4 */ u32 delivered_ecn_bytes[3];/* 2672 12 */ /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */ [...] __cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_rx[0]; /* 2744 0 */ [...] /* size: 3200, cachelines: 50, members: 171 */ } Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Co-developed-by: Chia-Yu Chang Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916082434.100722-7-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni