In some situations tcp_send_loss_probe() can realize that it's unable to send a loss probe (TLP), and falls back to calling tcp_rearm_rto() to schedule an RTO timer. In such cases, sometimes tcp_rearm_rto() realizes that the RTO was eligible to fire immediately or at some point in the past (delta_us <= 0). Previously in such cases tcp_rearm_rto() was scheduling such "overdue" RTOs to happen at now + icsk_rto, which caused needless delays of hundreds of milliseconds (and non-linear behavior that made reproducible testing difficult). This commit changes the logic to schedule "overdue" RTOs ASAP, rather than at now + icsk_rto.
Suggested-by: Yuchung Cheng <ych...@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardw...@google.com> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ych...@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> --- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c index 53de1424c13c..bab7f0493098 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -3009,8 +3009,7 @@ void tcp_rearm_rto(struct sock *sk) /* delta_us may not be positive if the socket is locked * when the retrans timer fires and is rescheduled. */ - if (delta_us > 0) - rto = usecs_to_jiffies(delta_us); + rto = usecs_to_jiffies(max_t(int, delta_us, 1)); } inet_csk_reset_xmit_timer(sk, ICSK_TIME_RETRANS, rto, TCP_RTO_MAX); -- 2.14.1.480.gb18f417b89-goog