tcp: ECN blackhole should not force quickack mode
While playing with a new ADSL box at home, I discovered that ECN
blackhole can trigger suboptimal quickack mode on linux : We send one
ACK for each incoming data frame, without any delay and eventual
piggyback.
This is because TCP_ECN_check_ce() considers that if no ECT is seen on a
segment, this is because this segment was a retransmit.
Refine this heuristic and apply it only if we seen ECT in a previous
segment, to detect ECN blackhole at IP level.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
CC: Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
CC: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
CC: Jim Gettys <jg@freedesktop.org>
CC: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index a5d01b1..5a4408c 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -217,16 +217,25 @@
tp->ecn_flags &= ~TCP_ECN_DEMAND_CWR;
}
-static inline void TCP_ECN_check_ce(struct tcp_sock *tp, struct sk_buff *skb)
+static inline void TCP_ECN_check_ce(struct tcp_sock *tp, const struct sk_buff *skb)
{
- if (tp->ecn_flags & TCP_ECN_OK) {
- if (INET_ECN_is_ce(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->flags))
- tp->ecn_flags |= TCP_ECN_DEMAND_CWR;
+ if (!(tp->ecn_flags & TCP_ECN_OK))
+ return;
+
+ switch (TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->flags & INET_ECN_MASK) {
+ case INET_ECN_NOT_ECT:
/* Funny extension: if ECT is not set on a segment,
- * it is surely retransmit. It is not in ECN RFC,
- * but Linux follows this rule. */
- else if (INET_ECN_is_not_ect((TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->flags)))
+ * and we already seen ECT on a previous segment,
+ * it is probably a retransmit.
+ */
+ if (tp->ecn_flags & TCP_ECN_SEEN)
tcp_enter_quickack_mode((struct sock *)tp);
+ break;
+ case INET_ECN_CE:
+ tp->ecn_flags |= TCP_ECN_DEMAND_CWR;
+ /* fallinto */
+ default:
+ tp->ecn_flags |= TCP_ECN_SEEN;
}
}