Commit 10d3be56 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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tcp-tso: do not split TSO packets at retransmit time 



Linux TCP stack painfully segments all TSO/GSO packets before retransmits.

This was fine back in the days when TSO/GSO were emerging, with their
bugs, but we believe the dark age is over.

Keeping big packets in write queues, but also in stack traversal
has a lot of benefits.
 - Less memory overhead, because write queues have less skbs
 - Less cpu overhead at ACK processing.
 - Better SACK processing, as lot of studies mentioned how
   awful linux was at this ;)
 - Less cpu overhead to send the rtx packets
   (IP stack traversal, netfilter traversal, drivers...)
 - Better latencies in presence of losses.
 - Smaller spikes in fq like packet schedulers, as retransmits
   are not constrained by TCP Small Queues.

1 % packet losses are common today, and at 100Gbit speeds, this
translates to ~80,000 losses per second.
Losses are often correlated, and we see many retransmit events
leading to 1-MSS train of packets, at the time hosts are already
under stress.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 8cee83dd

include/net/tcp.h

+2 −2
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@@ -538,8 +538,8 @@ __u32 cookie_v6_init_sequence(const struct sk_buff *skb, __u16 *mss); 
void __tcp_push_pending_frames(struct sock *sk, unsigned int cur_mss,

			       int nonagle);

bool tcp_may_send_now(struct sock *sk);

int __tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *, struct sk_buff *);

int tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *, struct sk_buff *);

int __tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int segs);

int tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int segs);

void tcp_retransmit_timer(struct sock *sk);

void tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue(struct sock *);

void tcp_simple_retransmit(struct sock *);

net/ipv4/tcp_input.c

+1 −1
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@@ -5545,7 +5545,7 @@ static bool tcp_rcv_fastopen_synack(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *synack, 
	if (data) { /* Retransmit unacked data in SYN */

		tcp_for_write_queue_from(data, sk) {

			if (data == tcp_send_head(sk) ||

			    __tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, data))

			    __tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, data, 1))

				break;

		}

		tcp_rearm_rto(sk);

net/ipv4/tcp_output.c

+29 −35
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@@ -2268,7 +2268,7 @@ void tcp_send_loss_probe(struct sock *sk) 
	if (WARN_ON(!skb || !tcp_skb_pcount(skb)))

		goto rearm_timer;



	if (__tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, skb))

	if (__tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, skb, 1))

		goto rearm_timer;



	/* Record snd_nxt for loss detection. */
@@ -2571,17 +2571,17 @@ static void tcp_retrans_try_collapse(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *to, 
 * state updates are done by the caller.  Returns non-zero if an

 * error occurred which prevented the send.

 */

int __tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)

int __tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int segs)

{

	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);

	struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk);

	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);

	unsigned int cur_mss;

	int err;

	int diff, len, err;



	/* Inconslusive MTU probe */

	if (icsk->icsk_mtup.probe_size) {



	/* Inconclusive MTU probe */

	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.
@@ -2614,30 +2614,27 @@ int __tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb) 
	    TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq != tp->snd_una)

		return -EAGAIN;



	if (skb->len > cur_mss) {

		if (tcp_fragment(sk, skb, cur_mss, cur_mss, GFP_ATOMIC))

	len = cur_mss * segs;

	if (skb->len > len) {

		if (tcp_fragment(sk, skb, len, cur_mss, GFP_ATOMIC))

			return -ENOMEM; /* We'll try again later. */

	} else {

		int oldpcount = tcp_skb_pcount(skb);



		if (unlikely(oldpcount > 1)) {

		if (skb_unclone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC))

			return -ENOMEM;

			tcp_init_tso_segs(skb, cur_mss);

			tcp_adjust_pcount(sk, skb, oldpcount - tcp_skb_pcount(skb));

		}



		diff = tcp_skb_pcount(skb);

		tcp_set_skb_tso_segs(skb, cur_mss);

		diff -= tcp_skb_pcount(skb);

		if (diff)

			tcp_adjust_pcount(sk, skb, diff);

		if (skb->len < cur_mss)

			tcp_retrans_try_collapse(sk, skb, cur_mss);

	}



	/* RFC3168, section 6.1.1.1. ECN fallback */

	if ((TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tcp_flags & TCPHDR_SYN_ECN) == TCPHDR_SYN_ECN)

		tcp_ecn_clear_syn(sk, skb);



	tcp_retrans_try_collapse(sk, skb, cur_mss);



	/* Make a copy, if the first transmission SKB clone we made

	 * is still in somebody's hands, else make a clone.

	 */



	/* make sure skb->data is aligned on arches that require it

	 * and check if ack-trimming & collapsing extended the headroom

	 * beyond what csum_start can cover.
@@ -2653,20 +2650,22 @@ int __tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb) 
	}



	if (likely(!err)) {

		segs = tcp_skb_pcount(skb);



		TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->sacked |= TCPCB_EVER_RETRANS;

		/* Update global TCP statistics. */

		TCP_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), TCP_MIB_RETRANSSEGS);

		TCP_ADD_STATS(sock_net(sk), TCP_MIB_RETRANSSEGS, segs);

		if (TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tcp_flags & TCPHDR_SYN)

			NET_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPSYNRETRANS);

		tp->total_retrans++;

		tp->total_retrans += segs;

	}

	return err;

}



int tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)

int tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int segs)

{

	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);

	int err = __tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, skb);

	int err = __tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, skb, segs);



	if (err == 0) {

#if FASTRETRANS_DEBUG > 0
@@ -2757,6 +2756,7 @@ void tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue(struct sock *sk) 


	tcp_for_write_queue_from(skb, sk) {

		__u8 sacked = TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->sacked;

		int segs;



		if (skb == tcp_send_head(sk))

			break;
@@ -2764,14 +2764,8 @@ void tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue(struct sock *sk) 
		if (!hole)

			tp->retransmit_skb_hint = skb;



		/* Assume this retransmit will generate

		 * only one packet for congestion window

		 * calculation purposes.  This works because

		 * tcp_retransmit_skb() will chop up the

		 * packet to be MSS sized and all the

		 * packet counting works out.

		 */

		if (tcp_packets_in_flight(tp) >= tp->snd_cwnd)

		segs = tp->snd_cwnd - tcp_packets_in_flight(tp);

		if (segs <= 0)

			return;



		if (fwd_rexmitting) {
@@ -2808,7 +2802,7 @@ begin_fwd: 
		if (sacked & (TCPCB_SACKED_ACKED|TCPCB_SACKED_RETRANS))

			continue;



		if (tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, skb))

		if (tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, skb, segs))

			return;



		NET_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), mib_idx);

net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c

+2 −2
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@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ void tcp_retransmit_timer(struct sock *sk) 
			goto out;

		}

		tcp_enter_loss(sk);

		tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, tcp_write_queue_head(sk));

		tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, tcp_write_queue_head(sk), 1);

		__sk_dst_reset(sk);

		goto out_reset_timer;

	}
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ void tcp_retransmit_timer(struct sock *sk) 


	tcp_enter_loss(sk);



	if (tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, tcp_write_queue_head(sk)) > 0) {

	if (tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, tcp_write_queue_head(sk), 1) > 0) {

		/* Retransmission failed because of local congestion,

		 * do not backoff.

		 */

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