tipc: reduce duplicate packets for unicast traffic
For unicast transmission, the current NACK sending althorithm is over- active that forces the sending side to retransmit a packet that is not really lost but just arrived at the receiving side with some delay, or even retransmit same packets that have already been retransmitted before. As a result, many duplicates are observed also under normal condition, ie. without packet loss. One example case is: node1 transmits 1 2 3 4 10 5 6 7 8 9, when node2 receives packet #10, it puts into the deferdq. When the packet #5 comes it sends NACK with gap [6 - 9]. However, shortly after that, when packet #6 arrives, it pulls out packet #10 from the deferfq, but it is still out of order, so it makes another NACK with gap [7 - 9] and so on ... Finally, node1 has to retransmit the packets 5 6 7 8 9 a number of times, but in fact all the packets are not lost at all, so duplicates! This commit reduces duplicates by changing the condition to send NACK, also restricting the retransmissions on individual packets via a timer of about 1ms. However, it also needs to say that too tricky condition for NACKs or too long timeout value for retransmissions will result in performance reducing! The criterias in this commit are found to be effective for both the requirements to reduce duplicates but not affect performance. The tipc_link_rcv() is also improved to only dequeue skb from the link deferdq if it is expected (ie. its seqno <= rcv_nxt). Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien <tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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