When TCP receives an out-of-order packet, it immediately sends a SACK packet, generating network load but also forcing the receiver to send 1-MSS pathological packets, increasing its RTX queue length/depth, and thus processing time.
Wifi networks suffer from this aggressive behavior, but generally speaking, all these SACK packets add fuel to the fire when networks are under congestion. This patch adds a high resolution timer and tp->compressed_ack counter. Instead of sending a SACK, we program this timer with a small delay, based on SRTT and capped to 2.5 ms : delay = min ( 5 % of SRTT, 2.5 ms) If subsequent SACKs need to be sent while the timer has not yet expired, we simply increment tp->compressed_ack When timer expires, a SACK is sent with the latest information. Note that tcp_sack_new_ofo_skb() is able to force a SACK to be sent if the sack blocks need to be shuffled, even if the timer has not expired. A new SNMP counter is added in the following patch. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> --- include/linux/tcp.h | 2 ++ include/net/tcp.h | 3 +++ net/ipv4/tcp.c | 1 + net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------ net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 7 +++++++ net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 6 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/tcp.h b/include/linux/tcp.h index 807776928cb8610fe97121fbc3c600b08d5d2991..72705eaf4b84060a45bf04d5170f389a18010eac 100644 --- a/include/linux/tcp.h +++ b/include/linux/tcp.h @@ -218,6 +218,7 @@ struct tcp_sock { reord:1; /* reordering detected */ } rack; u16 advmss; /* Advertised MSS */ + u8 compressed_ack; 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 */ @@ -297,6 +298,7 @@ struct tcp_sock { u32 sacked_out; /* SACK'd packets */ struct hrtimer pacing_timer; + struct hrtimer compressed_ack_timer; /* from STCP, retrans queue hinting */ struct sk_buff* lost_skb_hint; diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h index 6ffc8bd894876ad23407f5ec4994350139af85e7..c8c65ae62955eb12a9a6489fa8e008fd89f89f16 100644 --- a/include/net/tcp.h +++ b/include/net/tcp.h @@ -560,6 +560,9 @@ static inline void tcp_clear_xmit_timers(struct sock *sk) if (hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&tcp_sk(sk)->pacing_timer) == 1) __sock_put(sk); + if (hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&tcp_sk(sk)->compressed_ack_timer) == 1) + __sock_put(sk); + inet_csk_clear_xmit_timers(sk); } diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c index 62b776f9003798eaf06992a4eb0914d17646aa61..0a2ea0bbf867271db05aedd7d48b193677664321 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c @@ -2595,6 +2595,7 @@ int tcp_disconnect(struct sock *sk, int flags) dst_release(sk->sk_rx_dst); sk->sk_rx_dst = NULL; tcp_saved_syn_free(tp); + tp->compressed_ack = 0; /* Clean up fastopen related fields */ tcp_free_fastopen_req(tp); diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c index 99fcab7e6570c8b8758ea4b15cdd26df29fb4fd6..58feea67b6bb147fa9e75b8b514a9a41576b512b 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -4242,6 +4242,8 @@ static void tcp_sack_new_ofo_skb(struct sock *sk, u32 seq, u32 end_seq) * If the sack array is full, forget about the last one. */ if (this_sack >= TCP_NUM_SACKS) { + if (tp->compressed_ack) + tcp_send_ack(sk); this_sack--; tp->rx_opt.num_sacks--; sp--; @@ -5074,6 +5076,7 @@ static inline void tcp_data_snd_check(struct sock *sk) static void __tcp_ack_snd_check(struct sock *sk, int ofo_possible) { struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk); + unsigned long delay; /* More than one full frame received... */ if (((tp->rcv_nxt - tp->rcv_wup) > inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ack.rcv_mss && @@ -5085,15 +5088,31 @@ static void __tcp_ack_snd_check(struct sock *sk, int ofo_possible) (tp->rcv_nxt - tp->copied_seq < sk->sk_rcvlowat || __tcp_select_window(sk) >= tp->rcv_wnd)) || /* We ACK each frame or... */ - tcp_in_quickack_mode(sk) || - /* We have out of order data. */ - (ofo_possible && !RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&tp->out_of_order_queue))) { - /* Then ack it now */ + tcp_in_quickack_mode(sk)) { +send_now: tcp_send_ack(sk); - } else { - /* Else, send delayed ack. */ + return; + } + + if (!ofo_possible || RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&tp->out_of_order_queue)) { tcp_send_delayed_ack(sk); + return; } + + if (!tcp_is_sack(tp) || tp->compressed_ack >= 127) + goto send_now; + tp->compressed_ack++; + + if (hrtimer_is_queued(&tp->compressed_ack_timer)) + return; + + /* compress ack timer : 5 % of srtt, but no more than 2.5 ms */ + + delay = min_t(unsigned long, 2500 * NSEC_PER_USEC, + tp->rcv_rtt_est.rtt_us * (NSEC_PER_USEC >> 3)/20); + sock_hold(sk); + hrtimer_start(&tp->compressed_ack_timer, ns_to_ktime(delay), + HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED_SOFT); } static inline void tcp_ack_snd_check(struct sock *sk) diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c index 0d8f950a9006598c70dbf51e281a3fe32dfaa234..7ee98aad82b758674ca7f3e90bd3fc165e8fcd45 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c @@ -162,6 +162,13 @@ static void tcp_event_data_sent(struct tcp_sock *tp, /* Account for an ACK we sent. */ 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)) { + tp->compressed_ack = 0; + if (hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&tp->compressed_ack_timer) == 1) + __sock_put(sk); + } tcp_dec_quickack_mode(sk, pkts); inet_csk_clear_xmit_timer(sk, ICSK_TIME_DACK); } diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c index 92bdf64fffae3a5be291ca419eb21276b4c8cbae..3b3611729928f77934e0298bb248e55c7a7c5def 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c @@ -708,6 +708,27 @@ static void tcp_keepalive_timer (struct timer_list *t) sock_put(sk); } +static enum hrtimer_restart tcp_compressed_ack_kick(struct hrtimer *timer) +{ + struct tcp_sock *tp = container_of(timer, struct tcp_sock, compressed_ack_timer); + struct sock *sk = (struct sock *)tp; + + bh_lock_sock(sk); + if (!sock_owned_by_user(sk)) { + if (tp->compressed_ack) + tcp_send_ack(sk); + } else { + if (!test_and_set_bit(TCP_DELACK_TIMER_DEFERRED, + &sk->sk_tsq_flags)) + sock_hold(sk); + } + bh_unlock_sock(sk); + + sock_put(sk); + + return HRTIMER_NORESTART; +} + void tcp_init_xmit_timers(struct sock *sk) { inet_csk_init_xmit_timers(sk, &tcp_write_timer, &tcp_delack_timer, @@ -715,4 +736,8 @@ void tcp_init_xmit_timers(struct sock *sk) hrtimer_init(&tcp_sk(sk)->pacing_timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED_SOFT); tcp_sk(sk)->pacing_timer.function = tcp_pace_kick; + + hrtimer_init(&tcp_sk(sk)->compressed_ack_timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, + HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED_SOFT); + tcp_sk(sk)->compressed_ack_timer.function = tcp_compressed_ack_kick; } -- 2.17.0.441.gb46fe60e1d-goog