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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst17
-rw-r--r--include/net/netns/ipv4.h1
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c10
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c1
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c17
5 files changed, 39 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
index 6ec06a33688a..3f6d3d5f5626 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
@@ -881,9 +881,10 @@ tcp_fastopen_key - list of comma separated 32-digit hexadecimal INTEGERs
tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 127. Default value
- is 6, which corresponds to 63seconds till the last retransmission
- with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
- for an active TCP connection attempt will happen after 127seconds.
+ is 6, which corresponds to 67seconds (with tcp_syn_linear_timeouts = 4)
+ till the last retransmission with the current initial RTO of 1second.
+ With this the final timeout for an active TCP connection attempt
+ will happen after 131seconds.
tcp_timestamps - INTEGER
Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323.
@@ -946,6 +947,16 @@ tcp_pacing_ca_ratio - INTEGER
Default: 120
+tcp_syn_linear_timeouts - INTEGER
+ The number of times for an active TCP connection to retransmit SYNs with
+ a linear backoff timeout before defaulting to an exponential backoff
+ timeout. This has no effect on SYNACK at the passive TCP side.
+
+ With an initial RTO of 1 and tcp_syn_linear_timeouts = 4 we would
+ expect SYN RTOs to be: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 4, ... (4 linear timeouts,
+ and the first exponential backoff using 2^0 * initial_RTO).
+ Default: 4
+
tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER
This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window
can be consumed by a single TSO frame.
diff --git a/include/net/netns/ipv4.h b/include/net/netns/ipv4.h
index db762e35aca9..a4efb7a2796c 100644
--- a/include/net/netns/ipv4.h
+++ b/include/net/netns/ipv4.h
@@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ struct netns_ipv4 {
int sysctl_udp_rmem_min;
u8 sysctl_fib_notify_on_flag_change;
+ u8 sysctl_tcp_syn_linear_timeouts;
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV
u8 sysctl_udp_l3mdev_accept;
diff --git a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
index 40fe70fc2015..6ae3345a3bdf 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ static int ip_ttl_min = 1;
static int ip_ttl_max = 255;
static int tcp_syn_retries_min = 1;
static int tcp_syn_retries_max = MAX_TCP_SYNCNT;
+static int tcp_syn_linear_timeouts_max = MAX_TCP_SYNCNT;
static int ip_ping_group_range_min[] = { 0, 0 };
static int ip_ping_group_range_max[] = { GID_T_MAX, GID_T_MAX };
static u32 u32_max_div_HZ = UINT_MAX / HZ;
@@ -1470,6 +1471,15 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_net_table[] = {
.extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO,
.extra2 = &tcp_plb_max_cong_thresh,
},
+ {
+ .procname = "tcp_syn_linear_timeouts",
+ .data = &init_net.ipv4.sysctl_tcp_syn_linear_timeouts,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(u8),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = proc_dou8vec_minmax,
+ .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO,
+ .extra2 = &tcp_syn_linear_timeouts_max,
+ },
{ }
};
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
index 39bda2b1066e..db24ed8f8509 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
@@ -3275,6 +3275,7 @@ static int __net_init tcp_sk_init(struct net *net)
else
net->ipv4.tcp_congestion_control = &tcp_reno;
+ net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_syn_linear_timeouts = 4;
return 0;
}
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
index b839c2f91292..0d93a2573807 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -234,14 +234,19 @@ static int tcp_write_timeout(struct sock *sk)
struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
struct net *net = sock_net(sk);
bool expired = false, do_reset;
- int retry_until;
+ int retry_until, max_retransmits;
if ((1 << sk->sk_state) & (TCPF_SYN_SENT | TCPF_SYN_RECV)) {
if (icsk->icsk_retransmits)
__dst_negative_advice(sk);
retry_until = icsk->icsk_syn_retries ? :
READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_syn_retries);
- expired = icsk->icsk_retransmits >= retry_until;
+
+ max_retransmits = retry_until;
+ if (sk->sk_state == TCP_SYN_SENT)
+ max_retransmits += READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_syn_linear_timeouts);
+
+ expired = icsk->icsk_retransmits >= max_retransmits;
} else {
if (retransmits_timed_out(sk, READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_retries1), 0)) {
/* Black hole detection */
@@ -577,8 +582,12 @@ out_reset_timer:
icsk->icsk_retransmits <= TCP_THIN_LINEAR_RETRIES) {
icsk->icsk_backoff = 0;
icsk->icsk_rto = min(__tcp_set_rto(tp), TCP_RTO_MAX);
- } else {
- /* Use normal (exponential) backoff */
+ } else if (sk->sk_state != TCP_SYN_SENT ||
+ icsk->icsk_backoff >
+ READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_syn_linear_timeouts)) {
+ /* Use normal (exponential) backoff unless linear timeouts are
+ * activated.
+ */
icsk->icsk_rto = min(icsk->icsk_rto << 1, TCP_RTO_MAX);
}
inet_csk_reset_xmit_timer(sk, ICSK_TIME_RETRANS,