From 21c8fe9915276d923f8c1e43434fd6d37a3b9aef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 14:26:24 -0700 Subject: tcp: adjust window probe timers to safer values With the advent of small rto timers in datacenter TCP, (ip route ... rto_min x), the following can happen : 1) Qdisc is full, transmit fails. TCP sets a timer based on icsk_rto to retry the transmit, without exponential backoff. With low icsk_rto, and lot of sockets, all cpus are servicing timer interrupts like crazy. Intent of the code was to retry with a timer between 200 (TCP_RTO_MIN) and 500ms (TCP_RESOURCE_PROBE_INTERVAL) 2) Receivers can send zero windows if they don't drain their receive queue. TCP sends zero window probes, based on icsk_rto current value, with exponential backoff. With /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_retries2 being 15 (or even smaller in some cases), sender can abort in less than one or two minutes ! If receiver stops the sender, it obviously doesn't care of very tight rto. Probability of dropping the ACK reopening the window is not worth the risk. Lets change the base timer to be at least 200ms (TCP_RTO_MIN) for these events (but not normal RTO based retransmits) A followup patch adds a new SNMP counter, as it would have helped a lot diagnosing this issue. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp_output.c') diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c index a369e8a70b2c..b76c719e1979 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c @@ -3490,7 +3490,7 @@ void tcp_send_probe0(struct sock *sk) probe_max = TCP_RESOURCE_PROBE_INTERVAL; } inet_csk_reset_xmit_timer(sk, ICSK_TIME_PROBE0, - inet_csk_rto_backoff(icsk, probe_max), + tcp_probe0_when(sk, probe_max), TCP_RTO_MAX); } -- cgit v1.2.3