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| author | Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com> | 2015-03-06 06:18:23 +0300 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-03-06 22:57:41 +0300 |
| commit | 6b58e0a5f32dedb609438bb9c9c82aa6e23381f2 (patch) | |
| tree | dcfd707a04fd8295b1384cc18fc60addf22ae23a /net | |
| parent | dcd8fb8533ceb493146ce030d15f7965b82d0c27 (diff) | |
| download | linux-6b58e0a5f32dedb609438bb9c9c82aa6e23381f2.tar.xz | |
ipv4: Use binary search to choose tcp PMTU probe_size
Current probe_size is chosen by doubling mss_cache,
the probing process will end shortly with a sub-optimal
mss size, and the link mtu will not be taken full
advantage of, in return, this will make user to tweak
tcp_base_mss with care.
Use binary search to choose probe_size in a fine
granularity manner, an optimal mss will be found
to boost performance as its maxmium.
In addition, introduce a sysctl_tcp_probe_threshold
to control when probing will stop in respect to
the width of search range.
Test env:
Docker instance with vxlan encapuslation(82599EB)
iperf -c 10.0.0.24 -t 60
before this patch:
1.26 Gbits/sec
After this patch: increase 26%
1.59 Gbits/sec
Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com>
Acked-by: John Heffner <johnwheffner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 14 |
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c index d151539da8e6..d3c09c12ee81 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c +++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c @@ -883,6 +883,13 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_net_table[] = { .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, }, + { + .procname = "tcp_probe_threshold", + .data = &init_net.ipv4.sysctl_tcp_probe_threshold, + .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, + }, { } }; diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c index 5a2dfed4783b..35790d977a2b 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c @@ -2460,6 +2460,7 @@ static int __net_init tcp_sk_init(struct net *net) } net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_ecn = 2; net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_base_mss = TCP_BASE_MSS; + net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_probe_threshold = TCP_PROBE_THRESHOLD; return 0; fail: diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c index 8bbd86cd81c8..ed024cbb097f 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c @@ -1842,11 +1842,13 @@ static int tcp_mtu_probe(struct sock *sk) struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk); struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk); struct sk_buff *skb, *nskb, *next; + struct net *net = sock_net(sk); int len; int probe_size; int size_needed; int copy; int mss_now; + int interval; /* Not currently probing/verifying, * not in recovery, @@ -1859,11 +1861,17 @@ static int tcp_mtu_probe(struct sock *sk) tp->rx_opt.num_sacks || tp->rx_opt.dsack) return -1; - /* Very simple search strategy: just double the MSS. */ + /* Use binary search for probe_size between tcp_mss_base, + * and current mss_clamp. if (search_high - search_low) + * smaller than a threshold, backoff from probing. + */ mss_now = tcp_current_mss(sk); - probe_size = 2 * tp->mss_cache; + probe_size = tcp_mtu_to_mss(sk, (icsk->icsk_mtup.search_high + + icsk->icsk_mtup.search_low) >> 1); size_needed = probe_size + (tp->reordering + 1) * tp->mss_cache; - if (probe_size > tcp_mtu_to_mss(sk, icsk->icsk_mtup.search_high)) { + interval = icsk->icsk_mtup.search_high - icsk->icsk_mtup.search_low; + if (probe_size > tcp_mtu_to_mss(sk, icsk->icsk_mtup.search_high) || + interval < max(1, net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_probe_threshold)) { /* TODO: set timer for probe_converge_event */ return -1; } |