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Commit d578e18c authored by Neal Cardwell's avatar Neal Cardwell Committed by David S. Miller
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tcp: restore 1.5x per RTT limit to CUBIC cwnd growth in congestion avoidance

Commit 814d488c ("tcp: fix the timid additive increase on stretch
ACKs") fixed a bug where tcp_cong_avoid_ai() would either credit a
connection with an increase of snd_cwnd_cnt, or increase snd_cwnd, but
not both, resulting in cwnd increasing by 1 packet on at most every
alternate invocation of tcp_cong_avoid_ai().

Although the commit correctly implemented the CUBIC algorithm, which
can increase cwnd by as much as 1 packet per 1 packet ACKed (2x per
RTT), in practice that could be too aggressive: in tests on network
paths with small buffers, YouTube server retransmission rates nearly
doubled.

This commit restores CUBIC to a maximum cwnd growth rate of 1 packet
per 2 packets ACKed (1.5x per RTT). In YouTube tests this restored
retransmit rates to low levels.

Testing: This patch has been tested in datacenter netperf transfers
and live youtube.com and google.com servers.

Fixes: 9cd981dc ("tcp: fix stretch ACK bugs in CUB...
parent 9949afa4
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