tcp: make tcp_space() aware of socket backlog
Jean-Louis Dupond reported poor iscsi TCP receive performance that we tracked to backlog drops. Apparently we fail to send window updates reflecting the fact that we are under stress. Note that we might lack a proper window increase when backlog is fully processed, since __release_sock() clears sk->sk_backlog.len _after_ all skbs have been processed. This should not matter in practice. If we had a significant load through socket backlog, we are in a dangerous situation. Reported-by: Jean-Louis Dupond <jean-louis@dupond.be> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Tested-by: Jean-Louis <Dupond<jean-louis@dupond.be> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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