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| author | Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> | 2017-04-07 11:42:05 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2017-04-07 11:44:00 -0700 |
| commit | cc663f4d4c97b7297fb45135ab23cfd508b35a77 (patch) | |
| tree | fd04acd46637db063b4b2ea1528c7b43e1542461 /net | |
| parent | 16cf72bb085626ae1323e59985d6cbb58a8f71d8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-cc663f4d4c97b7297fb45135ab23cfd508b35a77.tar.bz2 | |
tcp: restrict F-RTO to work-around broken middle-boxes
The recent extension of F-RTO 89fe18e44 ("tcp: extend F-RTO
to catch more spurious timeouts") interacts badly with certain
broken middle-boxes. These broken boxes modify and falsely raise
the receive window on the ACKs. During a timeout induced recovery,
F-RTO would send new data packets to probe if the timeout is false
or not. Since the receive window is falsely raised, the receiver
would silently drop these F-RTO packets. The recovery would take N
(exponentially backoff) timeouts to repair N packet losses. A TCP
performance killer.
Due to this unfortunate situation, this patch removes this extension
to revert F-RTO back to the RFC specification.
Fixes: 89fe18e44f7e ("tcp: extend F-RTO to catch more spurious timeouts")
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c index 2c1f59386a7b..659d1baefb2b 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -1935,6 +1935,7 @@ void tcp_enter_loss(struct sock *sk) struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk); struct net *net = sock_net(sk); struct sk_buff *skb; + bool new_recovery = icsk->icsk_ca_state < TCP_CA_Recovery; bool is_reneg; /* is receiver reneging on SACKs? */ bool mark_lost; @@ -1994,15 +1995,18 @@ void tcp_enter_loss(struct sock *sk) tp->high_seq = tp->snd_nxt; tcp_ecn_queue_cwr(tp); - /* F-RTO RFC5682 sec 3.1 step 1 mandates to disable F-RTO - * if a previous recovery is underway, otherwise it may incorrectly - * call a timeout spurious if some previously retransmitted packets - * are s/acked (sec 3.2). We do not apply that retriction since - * retransmitted skbs are permanently tagged with TCPCB_EVER_RETRANS - * so FLAG_ORIG_SACK_ACKED is always correct. But we do disable F-RTO - * on PTMU discovery to avoid sending new data. + /* F-RTO RFC5682 sec 3.1 step 1: retransmit SND.UNA if no previous + * loss recovery is underway except recurring timeout(s) on + * the same SND.UNA (sec 3.2). Disable F-RTO on path MTU probing + * + * In theory F-RTO can be used repeatedly during loss recovery. + * In practice this interacts badly with broken middle-boxes that + * falsely raise the receive window, which results in repeated + * timeouts and stop-and-go behavior. */ - tp->frto = sysctl_tcp_frto && !inet_csk(sk)->icsk_mtup.probe_size; + tp->frto = sysctl_tcp_frto && + (new_recovery || icsk->icsk_retransmits) && + !inet_csk(sk)->icsk_mtup.probe_size; } /* If ACK arrived pointing to a remembered SACK, it means that our |