From 86de5921a3d5dd246df661e09bdd0a6131b39ae3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 05:53:59 -0800 Subject: tcp: defer SACK compression after DupThresh Jean-Louis reported a TCP regression and bisected to recent SACK compression. After a loss episode (receiver not able to keep up and dropping packets because its backlog is full), linux TCP stack is sending a single SACK (DUPACK). Sender waits a full RTO timer before recovering losses. While RFC 6675 says in section 5, "Algorithm Details", (2) If DupAcks < DupThresh but IsLost (HighACK + 1) returns true -- indicating at least three segments have arrived above the current cumulative acknowledgment point, which is taken to indicate loss -- go to step (4). ... (4) Invoke fast retransmit and enter loss recovery as follows: there are old TCP stacks not implementing this strategy, and still counting the dupacks before starting fast retransmit. While these stacks probably perform poorly when receivers implement LRO/GRO, we should be a little more gentle to them. This patch makes sure we do not enable SACK compression unless 3 dupacks have been sent since last rcv_nxt update. Ideally we should even rearm the timer to send one or two more DUPACK if no more packets are coming, but that will be work aiming for linux-4.21. Many thanks to Jean-Louis for bisecting the issue, providing packet captures and testing this patch. Fixes: 5d9f4262b7ea ("tcp: add SACK compression") Reported-by: Jean-Louis Dupond Tested-by: Jean-Louis Dupond Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp_output.c') diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c index 9c34b97d365d..3f510cad0b3e 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c @@ -180,10 +180,10 @@ static inline void tcp_event_ack_sent(struct sock *sk, unsigned int pkts, { struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk); - if (unlikely(tp->compressed_ack)) { + if (unlikely(tp->compressed_ack > TCP_FASTRETRANS_THRESH)) { NET_ADD_STATS(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPACKCOMPRESSED, - tp->compressed_ack); - tp->compressed_ack = 0; + tp->compressed_ack - TCP_FASTRETRANS_THRESH); + tp->compressed_ack = TCP_FASTRETRANS_THRESH; if (hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&tp->compressed_ack_timer) == 1) __sock_put(sk); } -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b