From: David Morley Date: Tue, 9 May 2023 18:05:58 +0000 (+0000) Subject: tcp: make the first N SYN RTO backoffs linear X-Git-Tag: v6.6.7~2536^2~299 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ccce324dabfe2143519daf50ed8b1ef1d0c542f7;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-starfive.git tcp: make the first N SYN RTO backoffs linear Currently the SYN RTO schedule follows an exponential backoff scheme, which can be unnecessarily conservative in cases where there are link failures. In such cases, it's better to aggressively try to retransmit packets, so it takes routers less time to find a repath with a working link. We chose a default value for this sysctl of 4, to follow the macOS and IOS backoff scheme of 1,1,1,1,1,2,4,8, ... MacOS and IOS have used this backoff schedule for over a decade, since before this 2009 IETF presentation discussed the behavior: https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/75/slides/tcpm-1.pdf This commit makes the SYN RTO schedule start with a number of linear backoffs given by the following sysctl: * tcp_syn_linear_timeouts This changes the SYN RTO scheme to be: init_rto_val for tcp_syn_linear_timeouts, exp backoff starting at init_rto_val For example if init_rto_val = 1 and tcp_syn_linear_timeouts = 2, our backoff scheme would be: 1, 1, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ... Signed-off-by: David Morley Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Tested-by: David Morley Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230509180558.2541885-1-morleyd.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni --- diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst index 6ec06a3..3f6d3d5 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst @@ -881,9 +881,10 @@ tcp_fastopen_key - list of comma separated 32-digit hexadecimal INTEGERs tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 127. Default value - is 6, which corresponds to 63seconds till the last retransmission - with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout - for an active TCP connection attempt will happen after 127seconds. + is 6, which corresponds to 67seconds (with tcp_syn_linear_timeouts = 4) + till the last retransmission with the current initial RTO of 1second. + With this the final timeout for an active TCP connection attempt + will happen after 131seconds. tcp_timestamps - INTEGER Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323. @@ -946,6 +947,16 @@ tcp_pacing_ca_ratio - INTEGER Default: 120 +tcp_syn_linear_timeouts - INTEGER + The number of times for an active TCP connection to retransmit SYNs with + a linear backoff timeout before defaulting to an exponential backoff + timeout. This has no effect on SYNACK at the passive TCP side. + + With an initial RTO of 1 and tcp_syn_linear_timeouts = 4 we would + expect SYN RTOs to be: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 4, ... (4 linear timeouts, + and the first exponential backoff using 2^0 * initial_RTO). + Default: 4 + tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window can be consumed by a single TSO frame. diff --git a/include/net/netns/ipv4.h b/include/net/netns/ipv4.h index db762e3..a4efb7a 100644 --- a/include/net/netns/ipv4.h +++ b/include/net/netns/ipv4.h @@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ struct netns_ipv4 { int sysctl_udp_rmem_min; u8 sysctl_fib_notify_on_flag_change; + u8 sysctl_tcp_syn_linear_timeouts; #ifdef CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV u8 sysctl_udp_l3mdev_accept; diff --git a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c index 40fe70f..6ae3345 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c +++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ static int ip_ttl_min = 1; static int ip_ttl_max = 255; static int tcp_syn_retries_min = 1; static int tcp_syn_retries_max = MAX_TCP_SYNCNT; +static int tcp_syn_linear_timeouts_max = MAX_TCP_SYNCNT; static int ip_ping_group_range_min[] = { 0, 0 }; static int ip_ping_group_range_max[] = { GID_T_MAX, GID_T_MAX }; static u32 u32_max_div_HZ = UINT_MAX / HZ; @@ -1470,6 +1471,15 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_net_table[] = { .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO, .extra2 = &tcp_plb_max_cong_thresh, }, + { + .procname = "tcp_syn_linear_timeouts", + .data = &init_net.ipv4.sysctl_tcp_syn_linear_timeouts, + .maxlen = sizeof(u8), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = proc_dou8vec_minmax, + .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO, + .extra2 = &tcp_syn_linear_timeouts_max, + }, { } }; diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c index 39bda2b..db24ed8 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c @@ -3275,6 +3275,7 @@ static int __net_init tcp_sk_init(struct net *net) else net->ipv4.tcp_congestion_control = &tcp_reno; + net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_syn_linear_timeouts = 4; return 0; } diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c index b839c2f..0d93a25 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c @@ -234,14 +234,19 @@ static int tcp_write_timeout(struct sock *sk) struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk); struct net *net = sock_net(sk); bool expired = false, do_reset; - int retry_until; + int retry_until, max_retransmits; if ((1 << sk->sk_state) & (TCPF_SYN_SENT | TCPF_SYN_RECV)) { if (icsk->icsk_retransmits) __dst_negative_advice(sk); retry_until = icsk->icsk_syn_retries ? : READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_syn_retries); - expired = icsk->icsk_retransmits >= retry_until; + + max_retransmits = retry_until; + if (sk->sk_state == TCP_SYN_SENT) + max_retransmits += READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_syn_linear_timeouts); + + expired = icsk->icsk_retransmits >= max_retransmits; } else { if (retransmits_timed_out(sk, READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_retries1), 0)) { /* Black hole detection */ @@ -577,8 +582,12 @@ out_reset_timer: icsk->icsk_retransmits <= TCP_THIN_LINEAR_RETRIES) { icsk->icsk_backoff = 0; icsk->icsk_rto = min(__tcp_set_rto(tp), TCP_RTO_MAX); - } else { - /* Use normal (exponential) backoff */ + } else if (sk->sk_state != TCP_SYN_SENT || + icsk->icsk_backoff > + READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_syn_linear_timeouts)) { + /* Use normal (exponential) backoff unless linear timeouts are + * activated. + */ icsk->icsk_rto = min(icsk->icsk_rto << 1, TCP_RTO_MAX); } inet_csk_reset_xmit_timer(sk, ICSK_TIME_RETRANS,