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authorYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>2012-05-02 13:30:03 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-05-02 20:56:10 -0400
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tcp: early retransmit
This patch implements RFC 5827 early retransmit (ER) for TCP. It reduces DUPACK threshold (dupthresh) if outstanding packets are less than 4 to recover losses by fast recovery instead of timeout. While the algorithm is simple, small but frequent network reordering makes this feature dangerous: the connection repeatedly enter false recovery and degrade performance. Therefore we implement a mitigation suggested in the appendix of the RFC that delays entering fast recovery by a small interval, i.e., RTT/4. Currently ER is conservative and is disabled for the rest of the connection after the first reordering event. A large scale web server experiment on the performance impact of ER is summarized in section 6 of the paper "Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP”, IMC 2011. http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2011/docs/p155.pdf Note that Linux has a similar feature called THIN_DUPACK. The differences are THIN_DUPACK do not mitigate reorderings and is only used after slow start. Currently ER is disabled if THIN_DUPACK is enabled. I would be happy to merge THIN_DUPACK feature with ER if people think it's a good idea. ER is enabled by sysctl_tcp_early_retrans: 0: Disables ER 1: Reduce dupthresh to packets_out - 1 when outstanding packets < 4. 2: (Default) reduce dupthresh like mode 1. In addition, delay entering fast recovery by RTT/4. Note: mode 2 is implemented in the third part of this patch series. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/include/linux/tcp.h b/include/linux/tcp.h
index 278af9ea42d4..7859b416d46e 100644
--- a/include/linux/tcp.h
+++ b/include/linux/tcp.h
@@ -372,6 +372,7 @@ struct tcp_sock {
repair : 1,
unused : 1;
u8 repair_queue;
+ u8 do_early_retrans:1;/* Enable RFC5827 early-retransmit */
/* RTT measurement */
u32 srtt; /* smoothed round trip time << 3 */