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authorYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>2012-05-02 13:30:03 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-05-02 20:56:10 -0400
commiteed530b6c67624db3f2cf477bac7c4d005d8f7ba (patch)
treec07096807ead2adb9d85e85d1a9cd1ada85755ac /net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
parent1fbc340514fc3003514bd681b372e1f47ae6183f (diff)
tcp: early retransmit
This patch implements RFC 5827 early retransmit (ER) for TCP. It reduces DUPACK threshold (dupthresh) if outstanding packets are less than 4 to recover losses by fast recovery instead of timeout. While the algorithm is simple, small but frequent network reordering makes this feature dangerous: the connection repeatedly enter false recovery and degrade performance. Therefore we implement a mitigation suggested in the appendix of the RFC that delays entering fast recovery by a small interval, i.e., RTT/4. Currently ER is conservative and is disabled for the rest of the connection after the first reordering event. A large scale web server experiment on the performance impact of ER is summarized in section 6 of the paper "Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP”, IMC 2011. http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2011/docs/p155.pdf Note that Linux has a similar feature called THIN_DUPACK. The differences are THIN_DUPACK do not mitigate reorderings and is only used after slow start. Currently ER is disabled if THIN_DUPACK is enabled. I would be happy to merge THIN_DUPACK feature with ER if people think it's a good idea. ER is enabled by sysctl_tcp_early_retrans: 0: Disables ER 1: Reduce dupthresh to packets_out - 1 when outstanding packets < 4. 2: (Default) reduce dupthresh like mode 1. In addition, delay entering fast recovery by RTT/4. Note: mode 2 is implemented in the third part of this patch series. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
index 33417f84e07f..ef32956ed655 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#include <net/tcp_memcontrol.h>
static int zero;
+static int two = 2;
static int tcp_retr1_max = 255;
static int ip_local_port_range_min[] = { 1, 1 };
static int ip_local_port_range_max[] = { 65535, 65535 };
@@ -677,6 +678,15 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_table[] = {
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec
},
{
+ .procname = "tcp_early_retrans",
+ .data = &sysctl_tcp_early_retrans,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
+ .extra1 = &zero,
+ .extra2 = &two,
+ },
+ {
.procname = "udp_mem",
.data = &sysctl_udp_mem,
.maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_udp_mem),