From 1d155a6c311d0e7855181638b3b8b6e76302fe6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 21:55:07 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] tcp_cubic: better follow cubic curve after idle period [ Upstream commit 30927520dbae297182990bb21d08762bcc35ce1d ] Jana Iyengar found an interesting issue on CUBIC : The epoch is only updated/reset initially and when experiencing losses. The delta "t" of now - epoch_start can be arbitrary large after app idle as well as the bic_target. Consequentially the slope (inverse of ca->cnt) would be really large, and eventually ca->cnt would be lower-bounded in the end to 2 to have delayed-ACK slow-start behavior. This particularly shows up when slow_start_after_idle is disabled as a dangerous cwnd inflation (1.5 x RTT) after few seconds of idle time. Jana initial fix was to reset epoch_start if app limited, but Neal pointed out it would ask the CUBIC algorithm to recalculate the curve so that we again start growing steeply upward from where cwnd is now (as CUBIC does just after a loss). Ideally we'd want the cwnd growth curve to be the same shape, just shifted later in time by the amount of the idle period. Reported-by: Jana Iyengar Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Sangtae Ha Cc: Lawrence Brakmo Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c index 06d3d66..4f0c402 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c @@ -151,6 +151,21 @@ static void bictcp_init(struct sock *sk) tcp_sk(sk)->snd_ssthresh = initial_ssthresh; } +static void bictcp_cwnd_event(struct sock *sk, enum tcp_ca_event event) +{ + if (event == CA_EVENT_TX_START) { + s32 delta = tcp_time_stamp - tcp_sk(sk)->lsndtime; + struct bictcp *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk); + + /* We were application limited (idle) for a while. + * Shift epoch_start to keep cwnd growth to cubic curve. + */ + if (ca->epoch_start && delta > 0) + ca->epoch_start += delta; + return; + } +} + /* calculate the cubic root of x using a table lookup followed by one * Newton-Raphson iteration. * Avg err ~= 0.195% @@ -450,6 +465,7 @@ static struct tcp_congestion_ops cubictcp __read_mostly = { .cong_avoid = bictcp_cong_avoid, .set_state = bictcp_state, .undo_cwnd = bictcp_undo_cwnd, + .cwnd_event = bictcp_cwnd_event, .pkts_acked = bictcp_acked, .owner = THIS_MODULE, .name = "cubic", -- 2.7.4