From e72a42b699ba49590d177847407e6ff161daded1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yuchung Cheng Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 12:00:06 -0700 Subject: tcp: allow at most one TLP probe per flight [ Upstream commit 76be93fc0702322179bb0ea87295d820ee46ad14 ] Previously TLP may send multiple probes of new data in one flight. This happens when the sender is cwnd limited. After the initial TLP containing new data is sent, the sender receives another ACK that acks partial inflight. It may re-arm another TLP timer to send more, if no further ACK returns before the next TLP timeout (PTO) expires. The sender may send in theory a large amount of TLP until send queue is depleted. This only happens if the sender sees such irregular uncommon ACK pattern. But it is generally undesirable behavior during congestion especially. The original TLP design restrict only one TLP probe per inflight as published in "Reducing Web Latency: the Virtue of Gentle Aggression", SIGCOMM 2013. This patch changes TLP to send at most one probe per inflight. Note that if the sender is app-limited, TLP retransmits old data and did not have this issue. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/tcp.h | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/tcp.h') diff --git a/include/linux/tcp.h b/include/linux/tcp.h index 60aea230dc6a..61eb40fef759 100644 --- a/include/linux/tcp.h +++ b/include/linux/tcp.h @@ -209,6 +209,8 @@ struct tcp_sock { u8 reord; /* reordering detected */ } rack; u16 advmss; /* Advertised MSS */ + u8 tlp_retrans:1, /* TLP is a retransmission */ + unused_1:7; u32 chrono_start; /* Start time in jiffies of a TCP chrono */ u32 chrono_stat[3]; /* Time in jiffies for chrono_stat stats */ u8 chrono_type:2, /* current chronograph type */ @@ -229,7 +231,7 @@ struct tcp_sock { syn_data_acked:1,/* data in SYN is acked by SYN-ACK */ save_syn:1, /* Save headers of SYN packet */ is_cwnd_limited:1;/* forward progress limited by snd_cwnd? */ - u32 tlp_high_seq; /* snd_nxt at the time of TLP retransmit. */ + u32 tlp_high_seq; /* snd_nxt at the time of TLP */ /* RTT measurement */ u64 tcp_mstamp; /* most recent packet received/sent */ -- cgit v1.2.3