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authorPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>2021-08-14 01:15:42 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2021-08-14 13:37:25 +0300
commit71b7dec27f340c4ab90ef39ae096d8bb2e1c851c (patch)
treee0261e6240435e71bdae81139820adf14089bc3b /net/mptcp/protocol.c
parent33d41c9cd74c56643a710810703b6bce6eb25efa (diff)
downloadlinux-71b7dec27f340c4ab90ef39ae096d8bb2e1c851c.tar.xz
mptcp: less aggressive retransmission strategy
The current mptcp re-inject strategy is very aggressive, we have mptcp-level retransmissions even on single subflow connection, if the link in-use is lossy. Let's be a little more conservative: we do retransmit only if at least a subflow has write and rtx queue empty. Additionally use the backup subflows only if the active subflows are stale - no progresses in at least an rtx period and ignore stale subflows for rtx timeout update Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/207 Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mptcp/protocol.c')
-rw-r--r--net/mptcp/protocol.c25
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/mptcp/protocol.c b/net/mptcp/protocol.c
index 08fa2c73a7e5..decbb4295ae1 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/protocol.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.c
@@ -420,7 +420,8 @@ static long mptcp_timeout_from_subflow(const struct mptcp_subflow_context *subfl
{
const struct sock *ssk = mptcp_subflow_tcp_sock(subflow);
- return inet_csk(ssk)->icsk_pending ? inet_csk(ssk)->icsk_timeout - jiffies : 0;
+ return inet_csk(ssk)->icsk_pending && !subflow->stale_count ?
+ inet_csk(ssk)->icsk_timeout - jiffies : 0;
}
static void mptcp_set_timeout(struct sock *sk)
@@ -2100,8 +2101,9 @@ static void mptcp_timeout_timer(struct timer_list *t)
*/
static struct sock *mptcp_subflow_get_retrans(const struct mptcp_sock *msk)
{
+ struct sock *backup = NULL, *pick = NULL;
struct mptcp_subflow_context *subflow;
- struct sock *backup = NULL;
+ int min_stale_count = INT_MAX;
sock_owned_by_me((const struct sock *)msk);
@@ -2114,11 +2116,11 @@ static struct sock *mptcp_subflow_get_retrans(const struct mptcp_sock *msk)
if (!mptcp_subflow_active(subflow))
continue;
- /* still data outstanding at TCP level? Don't retransmit. */
- if (!tcp_write_queue_empty(ssk)) {
- if (inet_csk(ssk)->icsk_ca_state >= TCP_CA_Loss)
- continue;
- return NULL;
+ /* still data outstanding at TCP level? skip this */
+ if (!tcp_rtx_and_write_queues_empty(ssk)) {
+ mptcp_pm_subflow_chk_stale(msk, ssk);
+ min_stale_count = min_t(int, min_stale_count, subflow->stale_count);
+ continue;
}
if (subflow->backup) {
@@ -2127,10 +2129,15 @@ static struct sock *mptcp_subflow_get_retrans(const struct mptcp_sock *msk)
continue;
}
- return ssk;
+ if (!pick)
+ pick = ssk;
}
- return backup;
+ if (pick)
+ return pick;
+
+ /* use backup only if there are no progresses anywhere */
+ return min_stale_count > 1 ? backup : NULL;
}
static void mptcp_dispose_initial_subflow(struct mptcp_sock *msk)