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Message-ID: <CY1PR0501MB14364126B3236BFB8253DA89B0870@CY1PR0501MB1436.namprd05.prod.outlook.com>
Date:   Thu, 3 May 2018 14:27:34 +0000
From:   Michael Wenig <mwenig@...are.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net] tcp: restore autocorking

Thank you, Eric, for fixing this!

Michael 

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Dumazet [mailto:edumazet@...gle.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2018 8:25 PM
To: David S . Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>; Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>; Michael Wenig <mwenig@...are.com>; Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] tcp: restore autocorking

When adding rb-tree for TCP retransmit queue, we inadvertently broke TCP autocorking.

tcp_should_autocork() should really check if the rtx queue is not empty.

Tested:

Before the fix :
$ nstat -n;./netperf -H 10.246.7.152 -Cc -- -m 500;nstat | grep AutoCork MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 10.246.7.152 () port 0 AF_INET
Recv   Send    Send                          Utilization       Service Demand
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed              Send     Recv     Send    Recv
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput  local    remote   local   remote
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/s  % S      % S      us/KB   us/KB

540000 262144    500    10.00      2682.85   2.47     1.59     3.618   2.329
TcpExtTCPAutoCorking            33                 0.0

// Same test, but forcing TCP_NODELAY
$ nstat -n;./netperf -H 10.246.7.152 -Cc -- -D -m 500;nstat | grep AutoCork MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 10.246.7.152 () port 0 AF_INET : nodelay
Recv   Send    Send                          Utilization       Service Demand
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed              Send     Recv     Send    Recv
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput  local    remote   local   remote
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/s  % S      % S      us/KB   us/KB

540000 262144    500    10.00      1408.75   2.44     2.96     6.802   8.259
TcpExtTCPAutoCorking            1                  0.0

After the fix :
$ nstat -n;./netperf -H 10.246.7.152 -Cc -- -m 500;nstat | grep AutoCork MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 10.246.7.152 () port 0 AF_INET
Recv   Send    Send                          Utilization       Service Demand
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed              Send     Recv     Send    Recv
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput  local    remote   local   remote
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/s  % S      % S      us/KB   us/KB

540000 262144    500    10.00      5472.46   2.45     1.43     1.761   1.027
TcpExtTCPAutoCorking            361293             0.0

// With TCP_NODELAY option
$ nstat -n;./netperf -H 10.246.7.152 -Cc -- -D -m 500;nstat | grep AutoCork MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 10.246.7.152 () port 0 AF_INET : nodelay
Recv   Send    Send                          Utilization       Service Demand
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed              Send     Recv     Send    Recv
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput  local    remote   local   remote
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/s  % S      % S      us/KB   us/KB

540000 262144    500    10.00      5454.96   2.46     1.63     1.775   1.174
TcpExtTCPAutoCorking            315448             0.0

Fixes: 75c119afe14f ("tcp: implement rb-tree based retransmit queue")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Reported-by: Michael Wenig <mwenig@...are.com>
Tested-by: Michael Wenig <mwenig@...are.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c index 44be7f43455e4aefde8db61e2d941a69abcc642a..c9d00ef54deca15d5760bcbe154001a96fa1e2a7 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ static bool tcp_should_autocork(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,  {
 	return skb->len < size_goal &&
 	       sock_net(sk)->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_autocorking &&
-	       skb != tcp_write_queue_head(sk) &&
+	       !tcp_rtx_queue_empty(sk) &&
 	       refcount_read(&sk->sk_wmem_alloc) > skb->truesize;  }
 
--
2.17.0.441.gb46fe60e1d-goog

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