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net: fix the RTO timer retransmitting skb every 1ms if linear option is enabled

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commit e4dd0d3a2f64b8bd8029ec70f52bdbebd0644408 upstream.

In the real workload, I encountered an issue which could cause the RTO
timer to retransmit the skb per 1ms with linear option enabled. The amount
of lost-retransmitted skbs can go up to 1000+ instantly.

The root cause is that if the icsk_rto happens to be zero in the 6th round
(which is the TCP_THIN_LINEAR_RETRIES value), then it will always be zero
due to the changed calculation method in tcp_retransmit_timer() as follows:

icsk->icsk_rto = min(icsk->icsk_rto << 1, TCP_RTO_MAX);

Above line could be converted to
icsk->icsk_rto = min(0 << 1, TCP_RTO_MAX) = 0

Therefore, the timer expires so quickly without any doubt.

I read through the RFC 6298 and found that the RTO value can be rounded
up to a certain value, in Linux, say TCP_RTO_MIN as default, which is
regarded as the lower bound in this patch as suggested by Eric.

Fixes: 36e31b0af587 ("net: TCP thin linear timeouts")
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Jason Xing 2023-08-11 10:37:47 +08:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 431db3f48c
commit e8c5081da2
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@ -582,7 +582,9 @@ out_reset_timer:
tcp_stream_is_thin(tp) &&
icsk->icsk_retransmits <= TCP_THIN_LINEAR_RETRIES) {
icsk->icsk_backoff = 0;
icsk->icsk_rto = min(__tcp_set_rto(tp), TCP_RTO_MAX);
icsk->icsk_rto = clamp(__tcp_set_rto(tp),
tcp_rto_min(sk),
TCP_RTO_MAX);
} else {
/* Use normal (exponential) backoff */
icsk->icsk_rto = min(icsk->icsk_rto << 1, TCP_RTO_MAX);