From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 17:58:30 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: tcp: autocork should not hold first packet in write queue
X-Git-Tag: v3.14-rc1~94^2~412
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a181ceb501b31b4bf8812a5c84c716cc31d82c2d;p=pandora-kernel.git

tcp: autocork should not hold first packet in write queue

Willem noticed a TCP_RR regression caused by TCP autocorking
on a Mellanox test bed. MLX4_EN_TX_COAL_TIME is 16 us, which can be
right above RTT between hosts.

We can receive a ACK for a packet still in NIC TX ring buffer or in a
softnet completion queue.

Fix this by always pushing the skb if it is at the head of write queue.

Also, as TX completion is lockless, it's safer to perform sk_wmem_alloc
test after setting TSQ_THROTTLED.

erd:~# MIB="MIN_LATENCY,MEAN_LATENCY,MAX_LATENCY,P99_LATENCY,STDDEV_LATENCY"
erd:~#  ./netperf -H remote -t TCP_RR -- -o $MIB | tail -n 1
(repeat 3 times)

Before patch :

18,1049.87,41004,39631,6295.47
17,239.52,40804,48,2912.79
18,348.40,40877,54,3573.39

After patch :

18,22.84,4606,38,16.39
17,21.56,2871,36,13.51
17,22.46,2705,37,11.83

Reported-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Fixes: f54b311142a9 ("tcp: auto corking")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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