1. 03 5月, 2012 2 次提交
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      tcp: early retransmit · eed530b6
      Yuchung Cheng 提交于
      This patch implements RFC 5827 early retransmit (ER) for TCP.
      It reduces DUPACK threshold (dupthresh) if outstanding packets are
      less than 4 to recover losses by fast recovery instead of timeout.
      
      While the algorithm is simple, small but frequent network reordering
      makes this feature dangerous: the connection repeatedly enter
      false recovery and degrade performance. Therefore we implement
      a mitigation suggested in the appendix of the RFC that delays
      entering fast recovery by a small interval, i.e., RTT/4. Currently
      ER is conservative and is disabled for the rest of the connection
      after the first reordering event. A large scale web server
      experiment on the performance impact of ER is summarized in
      section 6 of the paper "Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP”,
      IMC 2011. http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2011/docs/p155.pdf
      
      Note that Linux has a similar feature called THIN_DUPACK. The
      differences are THIN_DUPACK do not mitigate reorderings and is only
      used after slow start. Currently ER is disabled if THIN_DUPACK is
      enabled. I would be happy to merge THIN_DUPACK feature with ER if
      people think it's a good idea.
      
      ER is enabled by sysctl_tcp_early_retrans:
        0: Disables ER
      
        1: Reduce dupthresh to packets_out - 1 when outstanding packets < 4.
      
        2: (Default) reduce dupthresh like mode 1. In addition, delay
           entering fast recovery by RTT/4.
      
      Note: mode 2 is implemented in the third part of this patch series.
      Signed-off-by: NYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
      Acked-by: NNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      eed530b6
    • Y
      tcp: early retransmit: tcp_enter_recovery() · 1fbc3405
      Yuchung Cheng 提交于
      This a prepartion patch that refactors the code to enter recovery
      into a new function tcp_enter_recovery(). It's needed to implement
      the delayed fast retransmit in ER.
      Signed-off-by: NYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
      Acked-by: NNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      1fbc3405
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