tcp: lack of available data can also cause TSO defer
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Thu, 6 Dec 2018 17:58:24 +0000 (09:58 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 08:24:42 +0000 (09:24 +0100)
commitd265655ae46b3543aef8d5ad2ddd86db22a6f7e4
tree6c80c455ce1161d223934a23b6538f9858816c32
parentbddeb44981c1f5dd699ff45cce6ce31e59c0300c
tcp: lack of available data can also cause TSO defer

commit f9bfe4e6a9d08d405fe7b081ee9a13e649c97ecf upstream.

tcp_tso_should_defer() can return true in three different cases :

 1) We are cwnd-limited
 2) We are rwnd-limited
 3) We are application limited.

Neal pointed out that my recent fix went too far, since
it assumed that if we were not in 1) case, we must be rwnd-limited

Fix this by properly populating the is_cwnd_limited and
is_rwnd_limited booleans.

After this change, we can finally move the silly check for FIN
flag only for the application-limited case.

The same move for EOR bit will be handled in net-next,
since commit 1c09f7d073b1 ("tcp: do not try to defer skbs
with eor mark (MSG_EOR)") is scheduled for linux-4.21

Tested by running 200 concurrent netperf -t TCP_RR -- -r 60000,100
and checking none of them was rwnd_limited in the chrono_stat
output from "ss -ti" command.

Fixes: 41727549de3e ("tcp: Do not underestimate rwnd_limited")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Suggested-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c