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tcp: improve PRR loss recovery

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This patch improves TCP PRR loss recovery behavior for a corner
case. Previously during PRR conservation-bound mode, it strictly
sends the amount equals to the amount newly acked or s/acked.

The patch changes s.t. PRR may send additional amount that was banked
previously (e.g. application-limited) in the conservation-bound
mode, similar to the slow-start mode. This unifies and simplifies the
algorithm further and may improve the recovery latency. This change
still follow the general packet conservation design principle and
always keep inflight/cwnd below the slow start threshold set
by the congestion control module.

PRR is described in RFC 6937. We'll include this change in the
latest revision rfc6937-bis as well.

Reported-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/20220519003410.2531936-1-ycheng@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Yuchung Cheng 2022-05-18 17:34:10 -07:00 committed by Jakub Kicinski
parent 7ebe52f555
commit 9ad084d666
1 changed files with 5 additions and 5 deletions
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net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
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@ -2620,12 +2620,12 @@ void tcp_cwnd_reduction(struct sock *sk, int newly_acked_sacked, int newly_lost,
u64 dividend = (u64)tp->snd_ssthresh * tp->prr_delivered +
tp->prior_cwnd - 1;
sndcnt = div_u64(dividend, tp->prior_cwnd) - tp->prr_out;
} else if (flag & FLAG_SND_UNA_ADVANCED && !newly_lost) {
sndcnt = min_t(int, delta,
max_t(int, tp->prr_delivered - tp->prr_out,
newly_acked_sacked) + 1);
} else {
sndcnt = min(delta, newly_acked_sacked);
sndcnt = max_t(int, tp->prr_delivered - tp->prr_out,
newly_acked_sacked);
if (flag & FLAG_SND_UNA_ADVANCED && !newly_lost)
sndcnt++;
sndcnt = min(delta, sndcnt);
}
/* Force a fast retransmit upon entering fast recovery */
sndcnt = max(sndcnt, (tp->prr_out ? 0 : 1));