From ae8064ac32d07f609114d73928cdef803be87134 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Heffner Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:36:48 -0700 Subject: [TCP]: Bound TSO defer time This patch limits the amount of time you will defer sending a TSO segment to less than two clock ticks, or the time between two acks, whichever is longer. On slow links, deferring causes significant bursts. See attached plots, which show RTT through a 1 Mbps link with a 100 ms RTT and ~100 ms queue for (a) non-TSO, (b) currnet TSO, and (c) patched TSO. This burstiness causes significant jitter, tends to overflow queues early (bad for short queues), and makes delay-based congestion control more difficult. Deferring by a couple clock ticks I believe will have a relatively small impact on performance. Signed-off-by: John Heffner Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 20 +++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'net') diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c index f22536e32cb..ca406157724 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c @@ -1096,10 +1096,14 @@ static int tcp_tso_should_defer(struct sock *sk, struct tcp_sock *tp, struct sk_ u32 send_win, cong_win, limit, in_flight; if (TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->flags & TCPCB_FLAG_FIN) - return 0; + goto send_now; if (icsk->icsk_ca_state != TCP_CA_Open) - return 0; + goto send_now; + + /* Defer for less than two clock ticks. */ + if (!tp->tso_deferred && ((jiffies<<1)>>1) - (tp->tso_deferred>>1) > 1) + goto send_now; in_flight = tcp_packets_in_flight(tp); @@ -1115,7 +1119,7 @@ static int tcp_tso_should_defer(struct sock *sk, struct tcp_sock *tp, struct sk_ /* If a full-sized TSO skb can be sent, do it. */ if (limit >= 65536) - return 0; + goto send_now; if (sysctl_tcp_tso_win_divisor) { u32 chunk = min(tp->snd_wnd, tp->snd_cwnd * tp->mss_cache); @@ -1125,7 +1129,7 @@ static int tcp_tso_should_defer(struct sock *sk, struct tcp_sock *tp, struct sk_ */ chunk /= sysctl_tcp_tso_win_divisor; if (limit >= chunk) - return 0; + goto send_now; } else { /* Different approach, try not to defer past a single * ACK. Receiver should ACK every other full sized @@ -1133,11 +1137,17 @@ static int tcp_tso_should_defer(struct sock *sk, struct tcp_sock *tp, struct sk_ * then send now. */ if (limit > tcp_max_burst(tp) * tp->mss_cache) - return 0; + goto send_now; } /* Ok, it looks like it is advisable to defer. */ + tp->tso_deferred = 1 | (jiffies<<1); + return 1; + +send_now: + tp->tso_deferred = 0; + return 0; } /* Create a new MTU probe if we are ready. -- cgit v1.2.3