Re: [PATCH net] tcp: fix TLP timer not set when CA_STATE changes from DISORDER to OPEN

On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 9:27 AM "Jakub Kicinski" [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:53:46 +0100 Eric Dumazet wrote:

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On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 11:28 AM Pengcheng Yang [off-list ref] wrote:

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When CA_STATE is in DISORDER, the TLP timer is not set when receiving
an ACK (a cumulative ACK covered out-of-order data) causes CA_STATE to
change from DISORDER to OPEN. If the sender is app-limited, it can only
wait for the RTO timer to expire and retransmit.

The reason for this is that the TLP timer is set before CA_STATE changes
in tcp_ack(), so we delay the time point of calling tcp_set_xmit_timer()
until after tcp_fastretrans_alert() returns and remove the
FLAG_SET_XMIT_TIMER from ack_flag when the RACK reorder timer is set.

This commit has two additional benefits:
1) Make sure to reset RTO according to RFC6298 when receiving ACK, to
avoid spurious RTO caused by RTO timer early expires.
2) Reduce the xmit timer reschedule once per ACK when the RACK reorder
timer is set.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/1611139794-11254-1-git-send-email-yangpc@wangsu.com (local)
Signed-off-by: Pengcheng Yang <redacted>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>

This looks like a very nice patch, let me run packetdrill tests on it.

By any chance, have you cooked a packetdrill test showing the issue
(failing on unpatched kernel) ?

Any guidance on backporting / fixes tag? (once the packetdrill
questions are satisfied)

By reading the commits, we can add:
Fixes: df92c8394e6e ("tcp: fix xmit timer to only be reset if data ACKed/SACKed")