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This patch adds a new queue (list) that tracks the sent but not yet acked or SACKed skbs for a TCP connection. The list is chronologically ordered by skb->skb_mstamp (the head is the oldest sent skb). This list will be used to optimize TCP Rack recovery, which checks an skb's timestamp to judge if it has been lost and needs to be retransmitted. Since TCP write queue is ordered by sequence instead of sent time, RACK has to scan over the write queue to catch all eligible packets to detect lost retransmission, and iterates through SACKed skbs repeatedly. Special cares for rare events: 1. TCP repair fakes skb transmission so the send queue needs adjusted 2. SACK reneging would require re-inserting SACKed skbs into the send queue. For now I believe it's not worth the complexity to make RACK work perfectly on SACK reneging, so we do nothing here. 3. Fast Open: currently for non-TFO, send-queue correctly queues the pure SYN packet. For TFO which queues a pure SYN and then a data packet, send-queue only queues the data packet but not the pure SYN due to the structure of TFO code. This is okay because the SYN receiver would never respond with a SACK on a missing SYN (i.e. SYN is never fast-retransmitted by SACK/RACK). In order to not grow sk_buff, we use an union for the new list and _skb_refdst/destructor fields. This is a bit complicated because we need to make sure _skb_refdst and destructor are properly zeroed before skb is cloned/copied at transmit, and before being freed. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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