netdev - [PATCH net-next 1/3] tcp: do not try to defer skbs with eor mark (MSG

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Date:   Sun, 11 Nov 2018 06:41:29 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 1/3] tcp: do not try to defer skbs with eor mark (MSG_EOR)

Applications using MSG_EOR are giving a strong hint to TCP stack :

Subsequent sendmsg() can not append more bytes to skbs having
the EOR mark.

Do not try to TSO defer suchs skbs, there is really no hope.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 9c34b97d365d719ff76250bc9fe7fa20495a3ed2..35feadf480300cd061411d65257f06ee658daa3c 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -1944,6 +1944,10 @@ static bool tcp_tso_should_defer(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	if ((skb != tcp_write_queue_tail(sk)) && (limit >= skb->len))
 		goto send_now;
 
+	/* If this packet won't get more data, do not wait. */
+	if (TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->eor)
+		goto send_now;
+
 	win_divisor = READ_ONCE(sock_net(sk)->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_tso_win_divisor);
 	if (win_divisor) {
 		u32 chunk = min(tp->snd_wnd, tp->snd_cwnd * tp->mss_cache);
-- 
2.19.1.930.g4563a0d9d0-goog