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For retransmitted packets, TCP needs to resort to using TCP timestamps for computing RTT samples. In the common case where the data and ACK fall in the same 1-millisecond interval, TCP senders with millisecond- granularity TCP timestamps compute a ca_rtt_us of 0. This ca_rtt_us of 0 propagates to rs->rtt_us. This value of 0 can cause performance problems for congestion control modules. For example, in BBR, the zero min_rtt sample can bring the min_rtt and BDP estimate down to 0, reduce snd_cwnd and result in a low throughput. It would be hard to mitigate this with filtering in the congestion control module, because the proper floor to apply would depend on the method of RTT sampling (using timestamp options or internally-saved transmission timestamps). This fix applies a floor of 1 for the RTT sample delta from TCP timestamps, so that seq_rtt_us, ca_rtt_us, and rs->rtt_us will be at least 1 * (USEC_PER_SEC / TCP_TS_HZ). Note that the receiver RTT computation in tcp_rcv_rtt_measure() and min_rtt computation in tcp_update_rtt_min() both already apply a floor of 1 timestamp tick, so this commit makes the code more consistent in avoiding this edge case of a value of 0. Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Wang <jfwang@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Kevin Yang <yyd@google.com> Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.