tcp: invalidate rate samples during SACK reneging
Mark tcp_sock during a SACK reneging event and invalidate rate samples
while marked. Such rate samples may overestimate bw by including packets
that were SACKed before reneging.
< ack 6001 win 10000 sack 7001:38001
< ack 7001 win 0 sack 8001:38001 // Reneg detected
> seq 7001:8001 // RTO, SACK cleared.
< ack 38001 win 10000
In above example the rate sample taken after the last ack will count
7001-38001 as delivered while the actual delivery rate likely could
be much lower i.e. 7001-8001.
This patch adds a new field tcp_sock.sack_reneg and marks it when we
declare SACK reneging and entering TCP_CA_Loss, and unmarks it after
the last rate sample was taken before moving back to TCP_CA_Open. This
patch also invalidates rate samples taken while tcp_sock.is_sack_reneg
is set.
Fixes: b9f64820fb22 ("tcp: track data delivery rate for a TCP connection")
Signed-off-by: Yousuk Seung <ysseung@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Priyaranjan Jha <priyarjha@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_rate.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_rate.c
index 3330a37..c61240e 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_rate.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_rate.c
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ void tcp_rate_skb_delivered(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
/* Update the connection delivery information and generate a rate sample. */
void tcp_rate_gen(struct sock *sk, u32 delivered, u32 lost,
- struct rate_sample *rs)
+ bool is_sack_reneg, struct rate_sample *rs)
{
struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
u32 snd_us, ack_us;
@@ -124,8 +124,12 @@ void tcp_rate_gen(struct sock *sk, u32 delivered, u32 lost,
rs->acked_sacked = delivered; /* freshly ACKed or SACKed */
rs->losses = lost; /* freshly marked lost */
- /* Return an invalid sample if no timing information is available. */
- if (!rs->prior_mstamp) {
+ /* Return an invalid sample if no timing information is available or
+ * in recovery from loss with SACK reneging. Rate samples taken during
+ * a SACK reneging event may overestimate bw by including packets that
+ * were SACKed before the reneg.
+ */
+ if (!rs->prior_mstamp || is_sack_reneg) {
rs->delivered = -1;
rs->interval_us = -1;
return;