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Commit d41a69f1 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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tcp: make tcp_sendmsg() aware of socket backlog



Large sendmsg()/write() hold socket lock for the duration of the call,
unless sk->sk_sndbuf limit is hit. This is bad because incoming packets
are parked into socket backlog for a long time.
Critical decisions like fast retransmit might be delayed.
Receivers have to maintain a big out of order queue with additional cpu
overhead, and also possible stalls in TX once windows are full.

Bidirectional flows are particularly hurt since the backlog can become
quite big if the copy from user space triggers IO (page faults)

Some applications learnt to use sendmsg() (or sendmmsg()) with small
chunks to avoid this issue.

Kernel should know better, right ?

Add a generic sk_flush_backlog() helper and use it right
before a new skb is allocated. Typically we put 64KB of payload
per skb (unless MSG_EOR is requested) and checking socket backlog
every 64KB gives good results.

As a matter of fact, tests with TSO/GSO disabled give very nice
results, as we manage to keep a small write queue and smaller
perceived rtt.

Note that sk_flush_backlog() maintains socket ownership,
so is not equivalent to a {release_sock(sk); lock_sock(sk);},
to ensure implicit atomicity rules that sendmsg() was
giving to (possibly buggy) applications.

In this simple implementation, I chose to not call tcp_release_cb(),
but we might consider this later.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Cc: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSoheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 5413d1ba
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