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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2016-09-22 02:29:31 +0300
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2016-09-22 10:49:20 +0300
commit0d4b103c008ac9f6f438d2618c155f6e868e5a67 (patch)
tree24c1d4a63195cca1ca1398ca5501d61a1df6919c /net/rxrpc
parent50235c4b5a2fb9a9690f02cd1dea6ca047d7f79e (diff)
downloadlinux-0d4b103c008ac9f6f438d2618c155f6e868e5a67.tar.xz
rxrpc: Reduce the number of ACK-Requests sent
Reduce the number of ACK-Requests we set on DATA packets that we're sending to reduce network traffic. We set the flag on odd-numbered DATA packets to start off the RTT cache until we have at least three entries in it and then probe once per second thereafter to keep it topped up. This could be made tunable in future. Note that from this point, the RXRPC_REQUEST_ACK flag is set on DATA packets as we transmit them and not stored statically in the sk_buff. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/rxrpc')
-rw-r--r--net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h1
-rw-r--r--net/rxrpc/output.c13
-rw-r--r--net/rxrpc/peer_object.c1
-rw-r--r--net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c2
4 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h b/net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h
index 1c4597b2c6cd..b13754a6dd7a 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h
+++ b/net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h
@@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ struct rxrpc_peer {
/* calculated RTT cache */
#define RXRPC_RTT_CACHE_SIZE 32
+ ktime_t rtt_last_req; /* Time of last RTT request */
u64 rtt; /* Current RTT estimate (in nS) */
u64 rtt_sum; /* Sum of cache contents */
u64 rtt_cache[RXRPC_RTT_CACHE_SIZE]; /* Determined RTT cache */
diff --git a/net/rxrpc/output.c b/net/rxrpc/output.c
index db01fbb70d23..282cb1e36d06 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/output.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/output.c
@@ -270,6 +270,12 @@ int rxrpc_send_data_packet(struct rxrpc_call *call, struct sk_buff *skb)
msg.msg_controllen = 0;
msg.msg_flags = 0;
+ /* If our RTT cache needs working on, request an ACK. */
+ if ((call->peer->rtt_usage < 3 && sp->hdr.seq & 1) ||
+ ktime_before(ktime_add_ms(call->peer->rtt_last_req, 1000),
+ ktime_get_real()))
+ whdr.flags |= RXRPC_REQUEST_ACK;
+
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_AF_RXRPC_INJECT_LOSS)) {
static int lose;
if ((lose++ & 7) == 7) {
@@ -301,11 +307,14 @@ int rxrpc_send_data_packet(struct rxrpc_call *call, struct sk_buff *skb)
done:
if (ret >= 0) {
- skb->tstamp = ktime_get_real();
+ ktime_t now = ktime_get_real();
+ skb->tstamp = now;
smp_wmb();
sp->hdr.serial = serial;
- if (whdr.flags & RXRPC_REQUEST_ACK)
+ if (whdr.flags & RXRPC_REQUEST_ACK) {
+ call->peer->rtt_last_req = now;
trace_rxrpc_rtt_tx(call, rxrpc_rtt_tx_data, serial);
+ }
}
_leave(" = %d [%u]", ret, call->peer->maxdata);
return ret;
diff --git a/net/rxrpc/peer_object.c b/net/rxrpc/peer_object.c
index f3e5766910fd..941b724d523b 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/peer_object.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/peer_object.c
@@ -244,6 +244,7 @@ static void rxrpc_init_peer(struct rxrpc_peer *peer, unsigned long hash_key)
peer->hash_key = hash_key;
rxrpc_assess_MTU_size(peer);
peer->mtu = peer->if_mtu;
+ peer->rtt_last_req = ktime_get_real();
switch (peer->srx.transport.family) {
case AF_INET:
diff --git a/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c b/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c
index 607223f4f871..ca7c3be60ad2 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c
@@ -299,8 +299,6 @@ static int rxrpc_send_data(struct rxrpc_sock *rx,
else if (call->tx_top - call->tx_hard_ack <
call->tx_winsize)
sp->hdr.flags |= RXRPC_MORE_PACKETS;
- if (seq & 1)
- sp->hdr.flags |= RXRPC_REQUEST_ACK;
ret = conn->security->secure_packet(
call, skb, skb->mark, skb->head);