tcp_tso_should_defer() last step tries to check if the probable next ACK packet is coming in less than half rtt.
Problem is that the head->tstamp might be in the future, so we need to use signed arithmetics to avoid overflows. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soh...@google.com> --- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c index 35feadf480300cd061411d65257f06ee658daa3c..78a56cef7e397c65ad18897d550f3800e8fe8f41 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c @@ -1907,10 +1907,11 @@ static bool tcp_tso_should_defer(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, bool *is_cwnd_limited, u32 max_segs) { const struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk); - u32 age, send_win, cong_win, limit, in_flight; + u32 send_win, cong_win, limit, in_flight; struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk); struct sk_buff *head; int win_divisor; + s64 delta; if (TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tcp_flags & TCPHDR_FIN) goto send_now; @@ -1972,9 +1973,9 @@ static bool tcp_tso_should_defer(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, head = tcp_rtx_queue_head(sk); if (!head) goto send_now; - age = tcp_stamp_us_delta(tp->tcp_mstamp, tcp_skb_timestamp_us(head)); + delta = tp->tcp_clock_cache - head->tstamp; /* If next ACK is likely to come too late (half srtt), do not defer */ - if (age < (tp->srtt_us >> 4)) + if ((s64)(delta - (u64)NSEC_PER_USEC * (tp->srtt_us >> 4)) < 0) goto send_now; /* Ok, it looks like it is advisable to defer. */ -- 2.19.1.930.g4563a0d9d0-goog