From 7b0eb22b1d3b049306813a4aaa52966650f7491c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Ilpo=20J=C3=A4rvinen?= Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:03:35 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [TCP] FRTO: Use Disorder state during operation instead of Open MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Retransmission counter assumptions are to be changed. Forcing reason to do this exist: Using sysctl in check would be racy as soon as FRTO starts to ignore some ACKs (doing that in the following patches). Userspace may disable it at any moment giving nice oops if timing is right. frto_counter would be inaccessible from userspace, but with SACK enhanced FRTO retrans_out can include other than head, and possibly leaving it non-zero after spurious RTO, boom again. Luckily, solution seems rather simple: never go directly to Open state but use Disorder instead. This does not really change much, since TCP could anyway change its state to Disorder during FRTO using path tcp_fastretrans_alert -> tcp_try_to_open (e.g., when a SACK block makes ACK dubious). Besides, Disorder seems to be the state where TCP should be if not recovering (in Recovery or Loss state) while having some retransmissions in-flight (see tcp_try_to_open), which is exactly what happens with FRTO. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c index 194e880..e806839 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -1286,7 +1286,8 @@ void tcp_enter_frto(struct sock *sk) } tcp_sync_left_out(tp); - tcp_set_ca_state(sk, TCP_CA_Open); + tcp_set_ca_state(sk, TCP_CA_Disorder); + tp->high_seq = tp->snd_nxt; tp->frto_highmark = tp->snd_nxt; tp->frto_counter = 1; } @@ -2014,8 +2015,7 @@ tcp_fastretrans_alert(struct sock *sk, u32 prior_snd_una, /* E. Check state exit conditions. State can be terminated * when high_seq is ACKed. */ if (icsk->icsk_ca_state == TCP_CA_Open) { - if (!sysctl_tcp_frto) - BUG_TRAP(tp->retrans_out == 0); + BUG_TRAP(tp->retrans_out == 0); tp->retrans_stamp = 0; } else if (!before(tp->snd_una, tp->high_seq)) { switch (icsk->icsk_ca_state) { -- 2.7.4