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tcp: avoid slow start during fast recovery on new losses
authorYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Sat, 31 Oct 2020 01:34:12 +0000 (18:34 -0700)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Tue, 3 Nov 2020 01:17:40 +0000 (17:17 -0800)
commit45cba3e41de7daf6d3303484635d3f6e171f1068
tree5cbfde6801bc23707c370074c95c09b3b1013c58
parentf580c5c99f6d4817933f895191aeed474ff9ab3e
tcp: avoid slow start during fast recovery on new losses

During TCP fast recovery, the congestion control in charge is by
default the Proportional Rate Reduction (PRR) unless the congestion
control module specified otherwise (e.g. BBR).

Previously when tcp_packets_in_flight() is below snd_ssthresh PRR
would slow start upon receiving an ACK that
   1) cumulatively acknowledges retransmitted data
   and
   2) does not detect further lost retransmission

Such conditions indicate the repair is in good steady progress
after the first round trip of recovery. Otherwise PRR adopts the
packet conservation principle to send only the amount that was
newly delivered (indicated by this ACK).

This patch generalizes the previous design principle to include
also the newly sent data beside retransmission: as long as
the delivery is making good progress, both retransmission and
new data should be accounted to make PRR more cautious in slow
starting.

Suggested-by: Matt Mathis <mattmathis@google.com>
Suggested-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201031013412.1973112-1-ycheng@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
include/net/tcp.h
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
net/ipv4/tcp_recovery.c