linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 005/149] tcp: cubic: fix bug in bictcp

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Message-ID: <lsq.1382345188.328121826@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:46:28 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Yuchung Cheng" <ycheng@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"Neal Cardwell" <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 005/149] tcp: cubic: fix bug in bictcp_acked()

3.2.52-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

[ Upstream commit cd6b423afd3c08b27e1fed52db828ade0addbc6b ]

While investigating about strange increase of retransmit rates
on hosts ~24 days after boot, Van found hystart was disabled
if ca->epoch_start was 0, as following condition is true
when tcp_time_stamp high order bit is set.

(s32)(tcp_time_stamp - ca->epoch_start) < HZ

Quoting Van :

 At initialization & after every loss ca->epoch_start is set to zero so
 I believe that the above line will turn off hystart as soon as the 2^31
 bit is set in tcp_time_stamp & hystart will stay off for 24 days.
 I think we've observed that cubic's restart is too aggressive without
 hystart so this might account for the higher drop rate we observe.

Diagnosed-by: Van Jacobson <vanj@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c
index b9d22e6..b78eac2 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ static void bictcp_acked(struct sock *sk, u32 cnt, s32 rtt_us)
 		return;
 
 	/* Discard delay samples right after fast recovery */
-	if ((s32)(tcp_time_stamp - ca->epoch_start) < HZ)
+	if (ca->epoch_start && (s32)(tcp_time_stamp - ca->epoch_start) < HZ)
 		return;
 
 	delay = (rtt_us << 3) / USEC_PER_MSEC;

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