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Authored by kmacy on Nov 27 2015, 12:47 AM.
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hiren
lstewart
gnn
kbowling
rscheff
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transport
Summary
  • eliminate 200ms "slop" when calculating RTO
  • correct the code so that it accurately reflects the comment and set TCPTV_MIN to 3 ticks not whatever hz/33 happens to be
  • per RFC 6298 reduce default RTO TCPTV_RTOBASE 3->1
  • reduce delack time to more common 40ms
  • track delack separately so that it is at most 1/2 RTO

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A couple of comments in-line after a very quick glance. I'll try to take a better look next week.

Thanks for your work.

sys/netinet/tcp_subr.c
404

You may want to remove

#define TCPTV_CPU_VAR   ( hz/5 )                /* cpu variance allowed (200ms) */

from tcp_timer.h probably as this was the only reference?

sys/netinet/tcp_var.h
209

Is tracking this in tcpcb required?

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Is TCPTV_DELACK (hz/25) 40 ms, or is it 40 ms only when HZ is 1000?

kbowling added a subscriber: kbowling.

This LGTM taking @hiren suggestion to drop the unused TCPTV_CPU_VAR define. At LLNW we ran w/o delack to work around most of the issues this addresses in a more elegant way.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Oct 1 2018, 2:56 AM
rscheff requested changes to this revision.Jan 20 2020, 6:42 PM
rscheff added a subscriber: rscheff.
rscheff added inline comments.
sys/netinet/tcp_timer.c
651

In this and similar instances, replace tp->t_rttmin with max(tp->rttmin, TCPTV_MIN), and initialize tcp_rexmit_min = 10 * TCPTV_MIN for example.

653

Setting the delayed ack timeout dynamically to a session-specific value should be discussed as a separate topic and not bundled like this.

sys/netinet/tcp_timer.h
78

fixed by D18941

110

This won't actually change the absolute minimum. Only the default minRTO (which is exposed as sysctl nowadays).

Still valuable to make sure minrto doesn't fall below 2 or 3 ticks (there are no such precautions in the current stack, other than rto_slop)

120

Taking this out into D23281

This revision now requires changes to proceed.Jan 20 2020, 6:42 PM