From: Marcelo Leitner Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 19:15:08 +0000 (-0200) Subject: tcp: zero retrans_stamp if all retrans were acked X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v3.19/fixes-for-merge-window~119^2~33 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1f37bf87aa7523d28e7e4c4f7bb5dba98faa3e00;p=pandora-kernel.git tcp: zero retrans_stamp if all retrans were acked Ueki Kohei reported that when we are using NewReno with connections that have a very low traffic, we may timeout the connection too early if a second loss occurs after the first one was successfully acked but no data was transfered later. Below is his description of it: When SACK is disabled, and a socket suffers multiple separate TCP retransmissions, that socket's ETIMEDOUT value is calculated from the time of the *first* retransmission instead of the *latest* retransmission. This happens because the tcp_sock's retrans_stamp is set once then never cleared. Take the following connection: Linux remote-machine | | send#1---->(*1)|--------> data#1 --------->| | | | RTO : : | | | ---(*2)|----> data#1(retrans) ---->| | (*3)|<---------- ACK <----------| | | | | : : | : : | : : 16 minutes (or more) : | : : | : : | : : | | | send#2---->(*4)|--------> data#2 --------->| | | | RTO : : | | | ---(*5)|----> data#2(retrans) ---->| | | | | | | RTO*2 : : | | | | | | ETIMEDOUT<----(*6)| | (*1) One data packet sent. (*2) Because no ACK packet is received, the packet is retransmitted. (*3) The ACK packet is received. The transmitted packet is acknowledged. At this point the first "retransmission event" has passed and been recovered from. Any future retransmission is a completely new "event". (*4) After 16 minutes (to correspond with retries2=15), a new data packet is sent. Note: No data is transmitted between (*3) and (*4). The socket's timeout SHOULD be calculated from this point in time, but instead it's calculated from the prior "event" 16 minutes ago. (*5) Because no ACK packet is received, the packet is retransmitted. (*6) At the time of the 2nd retransmission, the socket returns ETIMEDOUT. Therefore, now we clear retrans_stamp as soon as all data during the loss window is fully acked. Reported-by: Ueki Kohei Cc: Neal Cardwell Cc: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Tested-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-diff-tree failed