netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: Fix CWV being too strict on thin streams

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Date:	Tue, 22 Sep 2015 09:09:10 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Bendik Rønning Opstad <bro.devel@...il.com>
Cc:	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Andreas Petlund <apetlund@...ula.no>,
	Carsten Griwodz <griff@...ula.no>,
	Jonas Markussen <jonassm@....uio.no>,
	Kenneth Klette Jonassen <kennetkl@....uio.no>,
	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: Fix CWV being too strict on thin streams

On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 07:46 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> 
> Ahem.
> 
> packetdrill can make this in one script, as you can exactly control the
> packets that the 'remote' peer would answer.
> 
> No need for complex setup. You should try it, and as a bonus we could
> easily reproduce the problem and check the fix.
> 
> Let see if we can cook a packetdrill scenario.


Following packetdrill skeleton will provide you a connexion with cwnd=1
sshtresh=2  (without patching kernel)

// Establish a connection and send 1 MSS.
0     socket(..., SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP) = 3
   +0 setsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0
   +0 setsockopt(3, SOL_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, [1], 4) = 0
   +0 bind(3, ..., ...) = 0
   +0 listen(3, 1) = 0

   +0 < S 0:0(0) win 65535 <mss 1000,sackOK,nop,nop>
   +0 > S. 0:0(0) ack 1 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK>
+.200 < . 1:1(0) ack 1 win 65535
   +0 accept(3, ..., ...) = 4

   +0 write(4, ..., 100) = 100
   +0 > P. 1:101(100) ack 1
+.000 %{ print  tcpi_rto }%

// TLP
+.500~+.505 > P. 1:101(100) ack 1
// RTO
+.600~+.605 > P. 1:101(100) ack 1

+.200 < . 1:1(0) ack 101 win 65535
// cwnd should be 2, ssthresh should be 7
2.000 write(4, ..., 100) = 100
   +0  > P. 101:201(100) ack 1

// TLP
+.500~+.505 > P. 101:201(100) ack 1
// RTO
+1.200~+1.210 > P. 101:201(100) ack 1

   +0 %{ print "tcpi_snd_cwnd=%d" % tcpi_snd_cwnd }%
   +0 %{ print "tcpi_snd_ssthresh=%d" % tcpi_snd_ssthresh }%


Then we can add a bunch of  +.01 write(4, ..., 100) = 100




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