netdev - [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 13/22] net/smc: correct settings of RMB window update limit

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Message-Id: <20220401144729.1955554-13-sashal@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri,  1 Apr 2022 10:47:20 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Dust Li <dust.li@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, kgraul@...ux.ibm.com,
        kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 13/22] net/smc: correct settings of RMB window update limit

From: Dust Li <dust.li@...ux.alibaba.com>

[ Upstream commit 6bf536eb5c8ca011d1ff57b5c5f7c57ceac06a37 ]

rmbe_update_limit is used to limit announcing receive
window updating too frequently. RFC7609 request a minimal
increase in the window size of 10% of the receive buffer
space. But current implementation used:

  min_t(int, rmbe_size / 10, SOCK_MIN_SNDBUF / 2)

and SOCK_MIN_SNDBUF / 2 == 2304 Bytes, which is almost
always less then 10% of the receive buffer space.

This causes the receiver always sending CDC message to
update its consumer cursor when it consumes more then 2K
of data. And as a result, we may encounter something like
"TCP silly window syndrome" when sending 2.5~8K message.

This patch fixes this using max(rmbe_size / 10, SOCK_MIN_SNDBUF / 2).

With this patch and SMC autocorking enabled, qperf 2K/4K/8K
tcp_bw test shows 45%/75%/40% increase in throughput respectively.

Signed-off-by: Dust Li <dust.li@...ux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 net/smc/smc_core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/smc/smc_core.c b/net/smc/smc_core.c
index 7dc907a45c68..a28e06c70e52 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_core.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_core.c
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ struct smc_buf_desc *smc_buf_get_slot(struct smc_link_group *lgr,
  */
 static inline int smc_rmb_wnd_update_limit(int rmbe_size)
 {
-	return min_t(int, rmbe_size / 10, SOCK_MIN_SNDBUF / 2);
+	return max_t(int, rmbe_size / 10, SOCK_MIN_SNDBUF / 2);
 }

 static struct smc_buf_desc *smc_new_buf_create(struct smc_link_group *lgr,
-- 
2.34.1