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Commit c3916ad9 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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tcp: smoother receiver autotuning



Back in linux-3.13 (commit b0983d3c ("tcp: fix dynamic right sizing"))
I addressed the pressing issues we had with receiver autotuning.

But DRS suffers from extra latencies caused by rcv_rtt_est.rtt_us
drifts. One common problem happens during slow start, since the
apparent RTT measured by the receiver can be inflated by ~50%,
at the end of one packet train.

Also, a single drop can delay read() calls by one RTT, meaning
tcp_rcv_space_adjust() can be called one RTT too late.

By replacing the tri-modal heuristic with a continuous function,
we can offset the effects of not growing 'at the optimal time'.

The curve of the function matches prior behavior if the space
increased by 25% and 50% exactly.

Cost of added multiply/divide is small, considering a TCP flow
typically would run this part of the code few times in its life.

I tested this patch with 100 ms RTT / 1% loss link, 100 runs
of (netperf -l 5), and got an average throughput of 4600 Mbit
instead of 1700 Mbit.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSoheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarWei Wang <weiwan@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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