tcp: autocork should not hold first packet in write queue
Willem noticed a TCP_RR regression caused by TCP autocorking
on a Mellanox test bed. MLX4_EN_TX_COAL_TIME is 16 us, which can be
right above RTT between hosts.
We can receive a ACK for a packet still in NIC TX ring buffer or in a
softnet completion queue.
Fix this by always pushing the skb if it is at the head of write queue.
Also, as TX completion is lockless, it's safer to perform sk_wmem_alloc
test after setting TSQ_THROTTLED.
erd:~# MIB="MIN_LATENCY,MEAN_LATENCY,MAX_LATENCY,P99_LATENCY,STDDEV_LATENCY"
erd:~# ./netperf -H remote -t TCP_RR -- -o $MIB | tail -n 1
(repeat 3 times)
Before patch :
18,1049.87,41004,39631,6295.47
17,239.52,40804,48,2912.79
18,348.40,40877,54,3573.39
After patch :
18,22.84,4606,38,16.39
17,21.56,2871,36,13.51
17,22.46,2705,37,11.83
Reported-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Fixes: f54b311142a9 ("tcp: auto corking")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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