netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: usec resolution SYN/ACK RTT

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Date:	Mon, 21 Sep 2015 16:19:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ycheng@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ncardwell@...gle.com, edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: usec resolution SYN/ACK RTT

From: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 11:36:14 -0700

> Currently SYN/ACK RTT is measured in jiffies. For LAN the SYN/ACK
> RTT is often measured as 0ms or sometimes 1ms, which would affect
> RTT estimation and min RTT samping used by some congestion control.
> 
> This patch improves SYN/ACK RTT to be usec resolution if platform
> supports it. While the timestamping of SYN/ACK is done in request
> sock, the RTT measurement is carefully arranged to avoid storing
> another u64 timestamp in tcp_sock.
> 
> For regular handshake w/o SYNACK retransmission, the RTT is sampled
> right after the child socket is created and right before the request
> sock is released (tcp_check_req() in tcp_minisocks.c)
> 
> For Fast Open the child socket is already created when SYN/ACK was
> sent, the RTT is sampled in tcp_rcv_state_process() after processing
> the final ACK an right before the request socket is released.
> 
> If the SYN/ACK was retransmistted or SYN-cookie was used, we rely
> on TCP timestamps to measure the RTT. The sample is taken at the
> same place in tcp_rcv_state_process() after the timestamp values
> are validated in tcp_validate_incoming(). Note that we do not store
> TS echo value in request_sock for SYN-cookies, because the value
> is already stored in tp->rx_opt used by tcp_ack_update_rtt().
> 
> One side benefit is that the RTT measurement now happens before
> initializing congestion control (of the passive side). Therefore
> the congestion control can use the SYN/ACK RTT.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied.
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