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Commit ea4ca586 authored by Paolo Abeni's avatar Paolo Abeni Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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mptcp: refine MPTCP-level ack scheduling



Send timely MPTCP-level ack is somewhat difficult when
the insertion into the msk receive level is performed
by the worker.

It needs TCP-level dup-ack to notify the MPTCP-level
ack_seq increase, as both the TCP-level ack seq and the
rcv window are unchanged.

We can actually avoid processing incoming data with the
worker, and let the subflow or recevmsg() send ack as needed.

When recvmsg() moves the skbs inside the msk receive queue,
the msk space is still unchanged, so tcp_cleanup_rbuf() could
end-up skipping TCP-level ack generation. Anyway, when
__mptcp_move_skbs() is invoked, a known amount of bytes is
going to be consumed soon: we update rcv wnd computation taking
them in account.

Additionally we need to explicitly trigger tcp_cleanup_rbuf()
when recvmsg() consumes a significant amount of the receive buffer.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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