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| author | Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> | 2012-05-02 13:30:03 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-05-02 20:56:10 -0400 |
| commit | eed530b6c67624db3f2cf477bac7c4d005d8f7ba (patch) | |
| tree | c07096807ead2adb9d85e85d1a9cd1ada85755ac /net/ipv4/tcp.c | |
| parent | 1fbc340514fc3003514bd681b372e1f47ae6183f (diff) | |
| download | lwn-eed530b6c67624db3f2cf477bac7c4d005d8f7ba.tar.gz lwn-eed530b6c67624db3f2cf477bac7c4d005d8f7ba.zip | |
tcp: early retransmit
This patch implements RFC 5827 early retransmit (ER) for TCP.
It reduces DUPACK threshold (dupthresh) if outstanding packets are
less than 4 to recover losses by fast recovery instead of timeout.
While the algorithm is simple, small but frequent network reordering
makes this feature dangerous: the connection repeatedly enter
false recovery and degrade performance. Therefore we implement
a mitigation suggested in the appendix of the RFC that delays
entering fast recovery by a small interval, i.e., RTT/4. Currently
ER is conservative and is disabled for the rest of the connection
after the first reordering event. A large scale web server
experiment on the performance impact of ER is summarized in
section 6 of the paper "Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP”,
IMC 2011. http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2011/docs/p155.pdf
Note that Linux has a similar feature called THIN_DUPACK. The
differences are THIN_DUPACK do not mitigate reorderings and is only
used after slow start. Currently ER is disabled if THIN_DUPACK is
enabled. I would be happy to merge THIN_DUPACK feature with ER if
people think it's a good idea.
ER is enabled by sysctl_tcp_early_retrans:
0: Disables ER
1: Reduce dupthresh to packets_out - 1 when outstanding packets < 4.
2: (Default) reduce dupthresh like mode 1. In addition, delay
entering fast recovery by RTT/4.
Note: mode 2 is implemented in the third part of this patch series.
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/tcp.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c index 9670af341931..6802c89bc44d 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c @@ -395,6 +395,7 @@ void tcp_init_sock(struct sock *sk) tp->mss_cache = TCP_MSS_DEFAULT; tp->reordering = sysctl_tcp_reordering; + tcp_enable_early_retrans(tp); icsk->icsk_ca_ops = &tcp_init_congestion_ops; sk->sk_state = TCP_CLOSE; @@ -2495,6 +2496,8 @@ static int do_tcp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, err = -EINVAL; else tp->thin_dupack = val; + if (tp->thin_dupack) + tcp_disable_early_retrans(tp); break; case TCP_REPAIR: |