Re: [PATCH] tcp: bound RTO to minimum

Le jeudi 25 août 2011 à 09:28 +0200, Alexander Zimmermann a écrit :

Hi Eric,

Am 25.08.2011 um 07:28 schrieb Eric Dumazet:

quoted

Real question is : do we really want to process ~1000 timer interrupts
per tcp session, ~2000 skb alloc/free/build/handling, possibly ~1000 ARP
requests, only to make tcp revover in ~1sec when connectivity returns
back. This just doesnt scale.

maybe a stupid question, but 1000?. With an minRTO of 200ms and a maximum
probing time of 120s, we 600 retransmits in a worst-case-senario
(assumed that we get for every rot retransmission an icmp). No?

Where is asserted the "max probing time of 120s" ? 

It is not the case on my machine :
I have way more retransmits than that, even if spaced by 1600 ms

07:16:13.389331 write(3, "\350F\235JC\357\376\363&\3\374\270R\21L\26\324{\37p\342\244i\304\356\241I:\301\332\222\26"..., 48) = 48
07:16:13.389417 select(7, [3 4], [], NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [3])
07:31:39.901311 read(3, 0xff8c4c90, 8192) = -1 EHOSTUNREACH (No route to host)

Old kernels where performing up to 15 retries, doing exponential backoff.

Now its kind of unlimited, according to experimental results.