While testing BIG TCP patch series, I was expecting that TCP_RR workloads
with 80KB requests/answers would send one 80KB TSO packet,
then being received as a single GRO packet.
It turns out this was not happening, and the root cause was that
cubic Hystart ACK train was triggering after a few (2 or 3) rounds of RPC.
Hystart was wrongly setting CWND/SSTHRESH to 30, while my RPC
needed a budget of ~20 segments.
Ideally these TCP_RR flows should not exit slow start.
Cubic Hystart should reset itself at each round, instead of assuming
every TCP flow is a bulk one.
Note that even after this patch, Hystart can still trigger, depending
on scheduling artifacts, but at a higher CWND/SSTHRESH threshold,
keeping optimal TSO packet sizes.
Tested:
ip link set dev eth0 gro_ipv6_max_size 131072 gso_ipv6_max_size 131072
nstat -n; netperf -H ... -t TCP_RR -l 5 -- -r 80000,80000 -K cubic; nstat|egrep "Ip6InReceives|Hystart|Ip6OutRequests"
Before:
8605
Ip6InReceives 87541 0.0
Ip6OutRequests 129496 0.0
TcpExtTCPHystartTrainDetect 1 0.0
TcpExtTCPHystartTrainCwnd 30 0.0
After:
8760
Ip6InReceives 88514 0.0
Ip6OutRequests 87975 0.0
Fixes: ae27e98a51 ("[TCP] CUBIC v2.3")
Co-developed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211123202535.1843771-1-eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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