tcp: new list for sent but unacked skbs for RACK recovery

This patch adds a new queue (list) that tracks the sent but not yet
acked or SACKed skbs for a TCP connection. The list is chronologically
ordered by skb->skb_mstamp (the head is the oldest sent skb).

This list will be used to optimize TCP Rack recovery, which checks
an skb's timestamp to judge if it has been lost and needs to be
retransmitted. Since TCP write queue is ordered by sequence instead
of sent time, RACK has to scan over the write queue to catch all
eligible packets to detect lost retransmission, and iterates through
SACKed skbs repeatedly.

Special cares for rare events:
1. TCP repair fakes skb transmission so the send queue needs adjusted
2. SACK reneging would require re-inserting SACKed skbs into the
   send queue. For now I believe it's not worth the complexity to
   make RACK work perfectly on SACK reneging, so we do nothing here.
3. Fast Open: currently for non-TFO, send-queue correctly queues
   the pure SYN packet. For TFO which queues a pure SYN and
   then a data packet, send-queue only queues the data packet but
   not the pure SYN due to the structure of TFO code. This is okay
   because the SYN receiver would never respond with a SACK on a
   missing SYN (i.e. SYN is never fast-retransmitted by SACK/RACK).

In order to not grow sk_buff, we use an union for the new list and
_skb_refdst/destructor fields. This is a bit complicated because
we need to make sure _skb_refdst and destructor are properly zeroed
before skb is cloned/copied at transmit, and before being freed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index ada821466e883b443c7ae7c0c698e1a29869d170..01a985937867935dd615d355f4a662a9f8674b83 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -617,6 +617,7 @@ typedef unsigned char *sk_buff_data_t;
  *     @nf_trace: netfilter packet trace flag
  *     @protocol: Packet protocol from driver
  *     @destructor: Destruct function
+ *     @tcp_tsorted_anchor: list structure for TCP (tp->tsorted_sent_queue)
  *     @_nfct: Associated connection, if any (with nfctinfo bits)
  *     @nf_bridge: Saved data about a bridged frame - see br_netfilter.c
  *     @skb_iif: ifindex of device we arrived on
@@ -686,8 +687,14 @@ struct sk_buff {
         */
        char                    cb[48] __aligned(8);
 
-       unsigned long           _skb_refdst;
-       void                    (*destructor)(struct sk_buff *skb);
+       union {
+               struct {
+                       unsigned long   _skb_refdst;
+                       void            (*destructor)(struct sk_buff *skb);
+               };
+               struct list_head        tcp_tsorted_anchor;
+       };
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_XFRM
        struct  sec_path        *sp;
 #endif

diff --git a/include/linux/tcp.h b/include/linux/tcp.h
index 4aa40ef02d32cf2719513ca77c38f45a5e646b82..1d2c44e09e31e5a951a2ef230f4149a959e8a2e9 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/tcp.h
+++ b/include/linux/tcp.h
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ struct tcp_sock {
        u32     tsoffset;       /* timestamp offset */
 
        struct list_head tsq_node; /* anchor in tsq_tasklet.head list */
+       struct list_head tsorted_sent_queue; /* time-sorted sent but un-SACKed skbs */
 
        u32     snd_wl1;        /* Sequence for window update           */
        u32     snd_wnd;        /* The window we expect to receive      */

diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index 426c2e986016abe81563e855579c301a77315741..3b16f353b539a563dae0b37328a52d67e6476f31 100644 (file)
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -1589,14 +1589,34 @@ enum tcp_chrono {
 void tcp_chrono_start(struct sock *sk, const enum tcp_chrono type);
 void tcp_chrono_stop(struct sock *sk, const enum tcp_chrono type);
 
+/* This helper is needed, because skb->tcp_tsorted_anchor uses
+ * the same memory storage than skb->destructor/_skb_refdst
+ */
+static inline void tcp_skb_tsorted_anchor_cleanup(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+       skb->destructor = NULL;
+       skb->_skb_refdst = 0UL;
+}
+
+#define tcp_skb_tsorted_save(skb) {            \
+       unsigned long _save = skb->_skb_refdst; \
+       skb->_skb_refdst = 0UL;
+
+#define tcp_skb_tsorted_restore(skb)           \
+       skb->_skb_refdst = _save;               \
+}
+
 /* write queue abstraction */
 static inline void tcp_write_queue_purge(struct sock *sk)
 {
        struct sk_buff *skb;
 
        tcp_chrono_stop(sk, TCP_CHRONO_BUSY);
-       while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&sk->sk_write_queue)) != NULL)
+       while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&sk->sk_write_queue)) != NULL) {
+               tcp_skb_tsorted_anchor_cleanup(skb);
                sk_wmem_free_skb(sk, skb);
+       }
+       INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tcp_sk(sk)->tsorted_sent_queue);
        sk_mem_reclaim(sk);
        tcp_clear_all_retrans_hints(tcp_sk(sk));
 }
@@ -1711,6 +1731,8 @@ static inline void tcp_insert_write_queue_before(struct sk_buff *new,
 
 static inline void tcp_unlink_write_queue(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sock *sk)
 {
+       list_del(&skb->tcp_tsorted_anchor);
+       tcp_skb_tsorted_anchor_cleanup(skb);
        __skb_unlink(skb, &sk->sk_write_queue);
 }
 

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index c115e37ca6083db3a4db16e77d1059222dff3672..8cf742fd4f99d7eb1bd9632afcfb09c36ba1130e 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -415,6 +415,7 @@ void tcp_init_sock(struct sock *sk)
        tp->out_of_order_queue = RB_ROOT;
        tcp_init_xmit_timers(sk);
        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tp->tsq_node);
+       INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tp->tsorted_sent_queue);
 
        icsk->icsk_rto = TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT;
        tp->mdev_us = jiffies_to_usecs(TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT);
@@ -881,6 +882,7 @@ struct sk_buff *sk_stream_alloc_skb(struct sock *sk, int size, gfp_t gfp,
                         * available to the caller, no more, no less.
                         */
                        skb->reserved_tailroom = skb->end - skb->tail - size;
+                       INIT_LIST_HEAD(&skb->tcp_tsorted_anchor);
                        return skb;
                }
                __kfree_skb(skb);

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index c5b8d61846c2fe762039674d2dc9a9a5a25ebd7a..fb0d7ed84b94110ee95b66befcad143505665ed5 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -1593,6 +1593,8 @@ static struct sk_buff *tcp_sacktag_walk(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sock *sk,
                                                tcp_skb_pcount(skb),
                                                skb->skb_mstamp);
                        tcp_rate_skb_delivered(sk, skb, state->rate);
+                       if (TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->sacked & TCPCB_SACKED_ACKED)
+                               list_del_init(&skb->tcp_tsorted_anchor);
 
                        if (!before(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq,
                                    tcp_highest_sack_seq(tp)))
@@ -3054,8 +3056,11 @@ static void tcp_ack_tstamp(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 
        shinfo = skb_shinfo(skb);
        if (!before(shinfo->tskey, prior_snd_una) &&
-           before(shinfo->tskey, tcp_sk(sk)->snd_una))
-               __skb_tstamp_tx(skb, NULL, sk, SCM_TSTAMP_ACK);
+           before(shinfo->tskey, tcp_sk(sk)->snd_una)) {
+               tcp_skb_tsorted_save(skb) {
+                       __skb_tstamp_tx(skb, NULL, sk, SCM_TSTAMP_ACK);
+               } tcp_skb_tsorted_restore(skb);
+       }
 }
 
 /* Remove acknowledged frames from the retransmission queue. If our packet

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
index 188a6f31356db0d0b7825aa476888467f7c0dfd8..2341b9f857b60bf2dd7d107afcc61a68c79800c0 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
@@ -446,6 +446,7 @@ struct sock *tcp_create_openreq_child(const struct sock *sk,
                newtp->snd_nxt = newtp->snd_up = treq->snt_isn + 1;
 
                INIT_LIST_HEAD(&newtp->tsq_node);
+               INIT_LIST_HEAD(&newtp->tsorted_sent_queue);
 
                tcp_init_wl(newtp, treq->rcv_isn);
 

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 0bc9e46a53696578eb6e911f2f75e6b34c80894f..8162e288017843fca2694c4e22b2e8981572256b 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -971,6 +971,12 @@ static void tcp_internal_pacing(struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb)
                      HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED);
 }
 
+static void tcp_update_skb_after_send(struct tcp_sock *tp, struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+       skb->skb_mstamp = tp->tcp_mstamp;
+       list_move_tail(&skb->tcp_tsorted_anchor, &tp->tsorted_sent_queue);
+}
+
 /* This routine actually transmits TCP packets queued in by
  * tcp_do_sendmsg().  This is used by both the initial
  * transmission and possible later retransmissions.
@@ -1003,10 +1009,14 @@ static int tcp_transmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int clone_it,
                TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tx.in_flight = TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq
                        - tp->snd_una;
                oskb = skb;
-               if (unlikely(skb_cloned(skb)))
-                       skb = pskb_copy(skb, gfp_mask);
-               else
-                       skb = skb_clone(skb, gfp_mask);
+
+               tcp_skb_tsorted_save(oskb) {
+                       if (unlikely(skb_cloned(oskb)))
+                               skb = pskb_copy(oskb, gfp_mask);
+                       else
+                               skb = skb_clone(oskb, gfp_mask);
+               } tcp_skb_tsorted_restore(oskb);
+
                if (unlikely(!skb))
                        return -ENOBUFS;
        }
@@ -1127,7 +1137,7 @@ static int tcp_transmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int clone_it,
                err = net_xmit_eval(err);
        }
        if (!err && oskb) {
-               oskb->skb_mstamp = tp->tcp_mstamp;
+               tcp_update_skb_after_send(tp, oskb);
                tcp_rate_skb_sent(sk, oskb);
        }
        return err;
@@ -1328,6 +1338,7 @@ int tcp_fragment(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, u32 len,
        /* Link BUFF into the send queue. */
        __skb_header_release(buff);
        tcp_insert_write_queue_after(skb, buff, sk);
+       list_add(&buff->tcp_tsorted_anchor, &skb->tcp_tsorted_anchor);
 
        return 0;
 }
@@ -2260,7 +2271,7 @@ static bool tcp_write_xmit(struct sock *sk, unsigned int mss_now, int nonagle,
 
                if (unlikely(tp->repair) && tp->repair_queue == TCP_SEND_QUEUE) {
                        /* "skb_mstamp" is used as a start point for the retransmit timer */
-                       skb->skb_mstamp = tp->tcp_mstamp;
+                       tcp_update_skb_after_send(tp, skb);
                        goto repair; /* Skip network transmission */
                }
 
@@ -2838,11 +2849,14 @@ int __tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int segs)
                     skb_headroom(skb) >= 0xFFFF)) {
                struct sk_buff *nskb;
 
-               nskb = __pskb_copy(skb, MAX_TCP_HEADER, GFP_ATOMIC);
-               err = nskb ? tcp_transmit_skb(sk, nskb, 0, GFP_ATOMIC) :
-                            -ENOBUFS;
+               tcp_skb_tsorted_save(skb) {
+                       nskb = __pskb_copy(skb, MAX_TCP_HEADER, GFP_ATOMIC);
+                       err = nskb ? tcp_transmit_skb(sk, nskb, 0, GFP_ATOMIC) :
+                                    -ENOBUFS;
+               } tcp_skb_tsorted_restore(skb);
+
                if (!err)
-                       skb->skb_mstamp = tp->tcp_mstamp;
+                       tcp_update_skb_after_send(tp, skb);
        } else {
                err = tcp_transmit_skb(sk, skb, 1, GFP_ATOMIC);
        }
@@ -3023,6 +3037,7 @@ coalesce:
                                goto coalesce;
                        return;
                }
+               INIT_LIST_HEAD(&skb->tcp_tsorted_anchor);
                skb_reserve(skb, MAX_TCP_HEADER);
                sk_forced_mem_schedule(sk, skb->truesize);
                /* FIN eats a sequence byte, write_seq advanced by tcp_queue_skb(). */
@@ -3078,9 +3093,14 @@ int tcp_send_synack(struct sock *sk)
        }
        if (!(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tcp_flags & TCPHDR_ACK)) {
                if (skb_cloned(skb)) {
-                       struct sk_buff *nskb = skb_copy(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
+                       struct sk_buff *nskb;
+
+                       tcp_skb_tsorted_save(skb) {
+                               nskb = skb_copy(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
+                       } tcp_skb_tsorted_restore(skb);
                        if (!nskb)
                                return -ENOMEM;
+                       INIT_LIST_HEAD(&nskb->tcp_tsorted_anchor);
                        tcp_unlink_write_queue(skb, sk);
                        __skb_header_release(nskb);
                        __tcp_add_write_queue_head(sk, nskb);