[TCP]: Send ACKs each 2nd received segment.

It does not affect either mss-sized connections (obviously) or
connections controlled by Nagle (because there is only one small
segment in flight).

The idea is to record the fact that a small segment arrives on a
connection, where one small segment has already been received and
still not-ACKed. In this case ACK is forced after tcp_recvmsg() drains
receive buffer.

In other words, it is a "soft" each-2nd-segment ACK, which is enough
to preserve ACK clock even when ABC is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h b/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h
index 9bf73fe..de4e83b 100644 (file)
--- a/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h
+++ b/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h
@@ -147,7 +147,8 @@ extern struct sock *inet_csk_clone(struct sock *sk,
 enum inet_csk_ack_state_t {
        ICSK_ACK_SCHED  = 1,
        ICSK_ACK_TIMER  = 2,
-       ICSK_ACK_PUSHED = 4
+       ICSK_ACK_PUSHED = 4,
+       ICSK_ACK_PUSHED2 = 8
 };
 
 extern void inet_csk_init_xmit_timers(struct sock *sk,

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 29e3d60..66e9a72 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -955,8 +955,11 @@ void tcp_cleanup_rbuf(struct sock *sk, int copied)
                     * receive buffer and there was a small segment
                     * in queue.
                     */
-                   (copied > 0 && (icsk->icsk_ack.pending & ICSK_ACK_PUSHED) &&
-                    !icsk->icsk_ack.pingpong && !atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc)))
+                   (copied > 0 &&
+                    ((icsk->icsk_ack.pending & ICSK_ACK_PUSHED2) ||
+                     ((icsk->icsk_ack.pending & ICSK_ACK_PUSHED) &&
+                      !icsk->icsk_ack.pingpong)) &&
+                     !atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc)))
                        time_to_ack = 1;
        }
 

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 511b738..b3def0d 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -156,6 +156,8 @@ static void tcp_measure_rcv_mss(struct sock *sk,
                                return;
                        }
                }
+               if (icsk->icsk_ack.pending & ICSK_ACK_PUSHED)
+                       icsk->icsk_ack.pending |= ICSK_ACK_PUSHED2;
                icsk->icsk_ack.pending |= ICSK_ACK_PUSHED;
        }
 }