netdev - [PATCH net-next 3/3] tcp: remove obsolete check in __tcp_retransmit

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Date:   Thu, 11 Mar 2021 12:35:06 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
        Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
        Neil Spring <ntspring@...com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 3/3] tcp: remove obsolete check in __tcp_retransmit_skb()

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

TSQ provides a nice way to avoid bufferbloat on individual socket,
including retransmit packets. We can get rid of the old
heuristic:

	/* Do not sent more than we queued. 1/4 is reserved for possible
	 * copying overhead: fragmentation, tunneling, mangling etc.
	 */
	if (refcount_read(&sk->sk_wmem_alloc) >
	    min_t(u32, sk->sk_wmem_queued + (sk->sk_wmem_queued >> 2),
		  sk->sk_sndbuf))
		return -EAGAIN;

This heuristic was giving false positives according to Jakub,
whenever TX completions are delayed above RTT. (Ack packets
are processed by TCP stack before clones are orphaned/freed)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 0dbf208a4f2f17c630084e87f4a9a2ad0dc24168..bde781f46b41a5dd9eb8db3fb65b45d73e592b4b 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -3151,14 +3151,6 @@ int __tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int segs)
 	if (icsk->icsk_mtup.probe_size)
 		icsk->icsk_mtup.probe_size = 0;
 
-	/* Do not sent more than we queued. 1/4 is reserved for possible
-	 * copying overhead: fragmentation, tunneling, mangling etc.
-	 */
-	if (refcount_read(&sk->sk_wmem_alloc) >
-	    min_t(u32, sk->sk_wmem_queued + (sk->sk_wmem_queued >> 2),
-		  sk->sk_sndbuf))
-		return -EAGAIN;
-
 	if (skb_still_in_host_queue(sk, skb))
 		return -EBUSY;
 
-- 
2.31.0.rc2.261.g7f71774620-goog