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We observed high 99 and 99.9% latencies when doing RPCs with DCTCP. The problem is triggered when the last packet of a request arrives CE marked. The reply will carry the ECE mark causing TCP to shrink its cwnd to 1 (because there are no packets in flight). When the 1st packet of the next request arrives, the ACK was sometimes delayed even though it is CWR marked, adding up to 40ms to the RPC latency. This patch insures that CWR marked data packets arriving will be acked immediately. Packetdrill script to reproduce the problem: 0.000 socket(..., SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP) = 3 0.000 setsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0 0.000 setsockopt(3, SOL_TCP, TCP_CONGESTION, "dctcp", 5) = 0 0.000 bind(3, ..., ...) = 0 0.000 listen(3, 1) = 0 0.100 < [ect0] SEW 0:0(0) win 32792 <mss 1000,sackOK,nop,nop,nop,wscale 7> 0.100 > SE. 0:0(0) ack 1 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 8> 0.110 < [ect0] . 1:1(0) ack 1 win 257 0.200 accept(3, ..., ...) = 4 0.200 < [ect0] . 1:1001(1000) ack 1 win 257 0.200 > [ect01] . 1:1(0) ack 1001 0.200 write(4, ..., 1) = 1 0.200 > [ect01] P. 1:2(1) ack 1001 0.200 < [ect0] . 1001:2001(1000) ack 2 win 257 0.200 write(4, ..., 1) = 1 0.200 > [ect01] P. 2:3(1) ack 2001 0.200 < [ect0] . 2001:3001(1000) ack 3 win 257 0.200 < [ect0] . 3001:4001(1000) ack 3 win 257 0.200 > [ect01] . 3:3(0) ack 4001 0.210 < [ce] P. 4001:4501(500) ack 3 win 257 +0.001 read(4, ..., 4500) = 4500 +0 write(4, ..., 1) = 1 +0 > [ect01] PE. 3:4(1) ack 4501 +0.010 < [ect0] W. 4501:5501(1000) ack 4 win 257 // Previously the ACK sequence below would be 4501, causing a long RTO +0.040~+0.045 > [ect01] . 4:4(0) ack 5501 // delayed ack +0.311 < [ect0] . 5501:6501(1000) ack 4 win 257 // More data +0 > [ect01] . 4:4(0) ack 6501 // now acks everything +0.500 < F. 9501:9501(0) ack 4 win 257 Modified based on comments by Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Lawrence Brakmo <brakmo@fb.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@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.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
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.