Commit 114f39fe authored May 02, 2018 by Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller May 03, 2018

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: 75c119af ("tcp: implement rb-tree based retransmit queue")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Michael Wenig <mwenig@vmware.com>
Tested-by: Michael Wenig <mwenig@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Michael Wenig <mwenig@vmware.com>
Tested-by: Michael Wenig <mwenig@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent eb80ca47

net/ipv4/tcp.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -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;
		}

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