3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com
[ Upstream commit 15ecbe94a45ef88491ca459b26efdd02f91edb6d ]
Larry Brakmo proposal ( https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/935233/ tcp: force cwnd at least 2 in tcp_cwnd_reduction) made us rethink about our recent patch removing ~16 quick acks after ECN events.
tcp_enter_quickack_mode(sk, 1) makes sure one immediate ack is sent, but in the case the sender cwnd was lowered to 1, we do not want to have a delayed ack for the next packet we will receive.
Fixes: 522040ea5fdd ("tcp: do not aggressively quick ack after ECN events") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com Reported-by: Neal Cardwell ncardwell@google.com Cc: Lawrence Brakmo brakmo@fb.com Acked-by: Neal Cardwell ncardwell@google.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ static void __tcp_ecn_check_ce(struct so * it is probably a retransmit. */ if (tp->ecn_flags & TCP_ECN_SEEN) - tcp_enter_quickack_mode(sk, 1); + tcp_enter_quickack_mode(sk, 2); break; case INET_ECN_CE: if (tcp_ca_needs_ecn(sk)) @@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ static void __tcp_ecn_check_ce(struct so
if (!(tp->ecn_flags & TCP_ECN_DEMAND_CWR)) { /* Better not delay acks, sender can have a very low cwnd */ - tcp_enter_quickack_mode(sk, 1); + tcp_enter_quickack_mode(sk, 2); tp->ecn_flags |= TCP_ECN_DEMAND_CWR; } tp->ecn_flags |= TCP_ECN_SEEN;