netdev - [PATCH v2] tcp: reduce the bloat caused by tcp_is_cwnd

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Sat, 22 Feb 2014 22:25:57 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
	Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@...gle.com>,
	Van Jacobson <vanj@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] tcp: reduce the bloat caused by tcp_is_cwnd_limited()

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

tcp_is_cwnd_limited() allows GSO/TSO enabled flows to increase
their cwnd to allow a full size (64KB) TSO packet to be sent.

Non GSO flows only allow an extra room of 3 MSS.

For most flows with a BDP below 10 MSS, this results in a bloat
of cwnd reaching 90, and an inflate of RTT.

Thanks to TSO auto sizing, we can restrict the bloat to the number
of MSS contained in a TSO packet (tp->xmit_size_goal_segs), to keep
original intent without performance impact.

Because we keep cwnd small, it helps to keep TSO packet size to their
optimal value.

Example for a 10Mbit flow, with low TCP Small queue limits (no more than
2 skb in qdisc/device tx ring)

Before patch :

lpk51:~# ./ss -i dst lpk52:44862 | grep cwnd
         cubic wscale:6,6 rto:215 rtt:15.875/2.5 mss:1448 cwnd:96
ssthresh:96
send 70.1Mbps unacked:14 rcv_space:29200

After patch :

lpk51:~# ./ss -i dst lpk52:52916 | grep cwnd
         cubic wscale:6,6 rto:206 rtt:5.206/0.036 mss:1448 cwnd:15
ssthresh:14
send 33.4Mbps unacked:4 rcv_space:29200

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@...gle.com>
Cc: Van Jacobson <vanj@...gle.com> 
---
v2: addressed Neal point about keeping first condition.

 net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
index ad37bf18ae4b..2388275adb9b 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
@@ -290,8 +290,7 @@ bool tcp_is_cwnd_limited(const struct sock *sk, u32 in_flight)
 	left = tp->snd_cwnd - in_flight;
 	if (sk_can_gso(sk) &&
 	    left * sysctl_tcp_tso_win_divisor < tp->snd_cwnd &&
-	    left * tp->mss_cache < sk->sk_gso_max_size &&
-	    left < sk->sk_gso_max_segs)
+	    left < tp->xmit_size_goal_segs)
 		return true;
 	return left <= tcp_max_tso_deferred_mss(tp);
 }


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html