Previously the bbr->idle_restart tracking was zeroing out the
bbr->idle_restart bit upon ACKs that did not SACK or ACK anything,
e.g. receiving incoming data or receiver window updates. In such
situations BBR would forget that this was a restart-from-idle
situation, and if the min_rtt had expired it would unnecessarily enter
PROBE_RTT (even though we were actually restarting from idle but had
merely forgotten that fact).
The fix is simple: we need to remember we are restarting from idle
until we receive a S/ACK for some data (a S/ACK for the first flight
of data we send as we are restarting).
This commit is a stable candidate for kernels back as far as 4.9.
Fixes: 0f8782ea1497 ("tcp_bbr: add BBR congestion control")
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardw...@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ych...@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soh...@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Priyaranjan Jha <priyar...@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yousuk Seung <ysse...@google.com>
---
net/ipv4/tcp_bbr.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_bbr.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_bbr.c
index 158d105e76da1..58e2f479ffb4d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_bbr.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_bbr.c
@@ -806,7 +806,9 @@ static void bbr_update_min_rtt(struct sock *sk, const
struct rate_sample *rs)
}
}
}
- bbr->idle_restart = 0;
+ /* Restart after idle ends only once we process a new S/ACK for data */
+ if (rs->delivered > 0)
+ bbr->idle_restart = 0;
}
static void bbr_update_model(struct sock *sk, const struct rate_sample *rs)
--
2.17.0.441.gb46fe60e1d-goog
