From cc639aa3c2f5ec7189a2917af49559006f678c62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2022 17:34:07 -0700 Subject: tcp: fix potential xmit stalls caused by TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT [ Upstream commit 4bfe744ff1644fbc0a991a2677dc874475dd6776 ] I had this bug sitting for too long in my pile, it is time to fix it. Thanks to Doug Porter for reminding me of it! We had various attempts in the past, including commit 0cbe6a8f089e ("tcp: remove SOCK_QUEUE_SHRUNK"), but the issue is that TCP stack currently only generates EPOLLOUT from input path, when tp->snd_una has advanced and skb(s) cleaned from rtx queue. If a flow has a big RTT, and/or receives SACKs, it is possible that the notsent part (tp->write_seq - tp->snd_nxt) reaches 0 and no more data can be sent until tp->snd_una finally advances. What is needed is to also check if POLLOUT needs to be generated whenever tp->snd_nxt is advanced, from output path. This bug triggers more often after an idle period, as we do not receive ACK for at least one RTT. tcp_notsent_lowat could be a fraction of what CWND and pacing rate would allow to send during this RTT. In a followup patch, I will remove the bogus call to tcp_chrono_stop(sk, TCP_CHRONO_SNDBUF_LIMITED) from tcp_check_space(). Fact that we have decided to generate an EPOLLOUT does not mean the application has immediately refilled the transmit queue. This optimistic call might have been the reason the bug seemed not too serious. Tested: 200 ms rtt, 1% packet loss, 32 MB tcp_rmem[2] and tcp_wmem[2] $ echo 500000 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat $ cat bench_rr.sh SUM=0 for i in {1..10} do V=`netperf -H remote_host -l30 -t TCP_RR -- -r 10000000,10000 -o LOCAL_BYTES_SENT | egrep -v "MIGRATED|Bytes"` echo $V SUM=$(($SUM + $V)) done echo SUM=$SUM Before patch: $ bench_rr.sh 130000000 80000000 140000000 140000000 140000000 140000000 130000000 40000000 90000000 110000000 SUM=1140000000 After patch: $ bench_rr.sh 430000000 590000000 530000000 450000000 450000000 350000000 450000000 490000000 480000000 460000000 SUM=4680000000 # This is 410 % of the value before patch. Fixes: c9bee3b7fdec ("tcp: TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reported-by: Doug Porter Cc: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh Cc: Neal Cardwell Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- include/net/tcp.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/net') diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h index 3f0d654984cf..f0d2e2571f56 100644 --- a/include/net/tcp.h +++ b/include/net/tcp.h @@ -594,6 +594,7 @@ void tcp_synack_rtt_meas(struct sock *sk, struct request_sock *req); void tcp_reset(struct sock *sk); void tcp_skb_mark_lost_uncond_verify(struct tcp_sock *tp, struct sk_buff *skb); void tcp_fin(struct sock *sk); +void tcp_check_space(struct sock *sk); /* tcp_timer.c */ void tcp_init_xmit_timers(struct sock *); -- cgit v1.2.3