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authorYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>2020-07-23 22:00:06 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-07-23 22:23:32 +0300
commit76be93fc0702322179bb0ea87295d820ee46ad14 (patch)
tree891afae4e889aa7c865a071edf882b33b54ae171 /net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
parent17ad73e941b71f3bec7523ea4e9cbc3752461c2d (diff)
downloadlinux-76be93fc0702322179bb0ea87295d820ee46ad14.tar.xz
tcp: allow at most one TLP probe per flight
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 <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp_input.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_input.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 9615e72656d1..518f04355fbf 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -3488,10 +3488,8 @@ static void tcp_replace_ts_recent(struct tcp_sock *tp, u32 seq)
}
}
-/* This routine deals with acks during a TLP episode.
- * We mark the end of a TLP episode on receiving TLP dupack or when
- * ack is after tlp_high_seq.
- * Ref: loss detection algorithm in draft-dukkipati-tcpm-tcp-loss-probe.
+/* This routine deals with acks during a TLP episode and ends an episode by
+ * resetting tlp_high_seq. Ref: TLP algorithm in draft-ietf-tcpm-rack
*/
static void tcp_process_tlp_ack(struct sock *sk, u32 ack, int flag)
{
@@ -3500,7 +3498,10 @@ static void tcp_process_tlp_ack(struct sock *sk, u32 ack, int flag)
if (before(ack, tp->tlp_high_seq))
return;
- if (flag & FLAG_DSACKING_ACK) {
+ if (!tp->tlp_retrans) {
+ /* TLP of new data has been acknowledged */
+ tp->tlp_high_seq = 0;
+ } else if (flag & FLAG_DSACKING_ACK) {
/* This DSACK means original and TLP probe arrived; no loss */
tp->tlp_high_seq = 0;
} else if (after(ack, tp->tlp_high_seq)) {