From: Yuchung Cheng ycheng@google.com
commit 7ae189759cc48cf8b54beebff566e9fd2d4e7d7c upstream
Previously TCP socket's retrans_stamp is not set if the retransmission has failed to send. As a result if a socket is experiencing local issues to retransmit packets, determining when to abort a socket is complicated w/o knowning the starting time of the recovery since retrans_stamp may remain zero.
This complication causes sub-optimal behavior that TCP may use the latest, instead of the first, retransmission time to compute the elapsed time of a stalling connection due to local issues. Then TCP may disrecard TCP retries settings and keep retrying until it finally succeed: not a good idea when the local host is already strained.
The simple fix is to always timestamp the start of a recovery. It's worth noting that retrans_stamp is also used to compare echo timestamp values to detect spurious recovery. This patch does not break that because retrans_stamp is still later than when the original packet was sent.
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng ycheng@google.com Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell ncardwell@google.com Reviewed-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh soheil@google.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Qiumiao Zhang zhangqiumiao1@huawei.com --- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 9 ++++----- net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c | 23 +++-------------------- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c index 97b9d671a83c..6710056fd1b2 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c @@ -3011,13 +3011,12 @@ int tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int segs) #endif TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->sacked |= TCPCB_RETRANS; tp->retrans_out += tcp_skb_pcount(skb); - - /* Save stamp of the first retransmit. */ - if (!tp->retrans_stamp) - tp->retrans_stamp = tcp_skb_timestamp(skb); - }
+ /* Save stamp of the first (attempted) retransmit. */ + if (!tp->retrans_stamp) + tp->retrans_stamp = tcp_skb_timestamp(skb); + if (tp->undo_retrans < 0) tp->undo_retrans = 0; tp->undo_retrans += tcp_skb_pcount(skb); diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c index 7c7f7e6cd955..9a904bf8decc 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c @@ -22,28 +22,14 @@ #include <linux/gfp.h> #include <net/tcp.h>
-static u32 tcp_retransmit_stamp(const struct sock *sk) -{ - u32 start_ts = tcp_sk(sk)->retrans_stamp; - - if (unlikely(!start_ts)) { - struct sk_buff *head = tcp_rtx_queue_head(sk); - - if (!head) - return 0; - start_ts = tcp_skb_timestamp(head); - } - return start_ts; -} - static u32 tcp_clamp_rto_to_user_timeout(const struct sock *sk) { struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk); u32 elapsed, start_ts; s32 remaining;
- start_ts = tcp_retransmit_stamp(sk); - if (!icsk->icsk_user_timeout || !start_ts) + start_ts = tcp_sk(sk)->retrans_stamp; + if (!icsk->icsk_user_timeout) return icsk->icsk_rto; elapsed = tcp_time_stamp(tcp_sk(sk)) - start_ts; remaining = icsk->icsk_user_timeout - elapsed; @@ -198,10 +184,7 @@ static bool retransmits_timed_out(struct sock *sk, if (!inet_csk(sk)->icsk_retransmits) return false;
- start_ts = tcp_retransmit_stamp(sk); - if (!start_ts) - return false; - + start_ts = tcp_sk(sk)->retrans_stamp; if (likely(timeout == 0)) { linear_backoff_thresh = ilog2(TCP_RTO_MAX/rto_base);