Revert Backoff [v3]: Revert RTO on ICMP destination unreachable
Here, an ICMP host/network unreachable message, whose payload fits to
TCP's SND.UNA, is taken as an indication that the RTO retransmission has
not been lost due to congestion, but because of a route failure
somewhere along the path.
With true congestion, a router won't trigger such a message and the
patched TCP will operate as standard TCP.
This patch reverts one RTO backoff, if an ICMP host/network unreachable
message, whose payload fits to TCP's SND.UNA, arrives.
Based on the new RTO, the retransmission timer is reset to reflect the
remaining time, or - if the revert clocked out the timer - a retransmission
is sent out immediately.
Backoffs are only reverted, if TCP is in RTO loss recovery, i.e. if
there have been retransmissions and reversible backoffs, already.
Changes from v2:
1) Renaming of skb in tcp_v4_err() moved to another patch.
2) Reintroduced tcp_bound_rto() and __tcp_set_rto().
3) Fixed code comments.
Signed-off-by: Damian Lukowski <damian@tvk.rwth-aachen.de>
Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 2bdb0da..af6d6fa 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -685,7 +685,7 @@
* is invisible. Actually, Linux-2.4 also generates erratic
* ACKs in some circumstances.
*/
- inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto = (tp->srtt >> 3) + tp->rttvar;
+ inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto = __tcp_set_rto(tp);
/* 2. Fixups made earlier cannot be right.
* If we do not estimate RTO correctly without them,
@@ -696,8 +696,7 @@
/* NOTE: clamping at TCP_RTO_MIN is not required, current algo
* guarantees that rto is higher.
*/
- if (inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto > TCP_RTO_MAX)
- inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto = TCP_RTO_MAX;
+ tcp_bound_rto(sk);
}
/* Save metrics learned by this TCP session.
