tcp: refine TSO autosizing

Commit 95bd09eb2750 ("tcp: TSO packets automatic sizing") tried to
control TSO size, but did this at the wrong place (sendmsg() time)

At sendmsg() time, we might have a pessimistic view of flow rate,
and we end up building very small skbs (with 2 MSS per skb).

This is bad because :

 - It sends small TSO packets even in Slow Start where rate quickly
   increases.
 - It tends to make socket write queue very big, increasing tcp_ack()
   processing time, but also increasing memory needs, not necessarily
   accounted for, as fast clones overhead is currently ignored.
 - Lower GRO efficiency and more ACK packets.

Servers with a lot of small lived connections suffer from this.

Lets instead fill skbs as much as possible (64KB of payload), but split
them at xmit time, when we have a precise idea of the flow rate.
skb split is actually quite efficient.

Patch looks bigger than necessary, because TCP Small Queue decision now
has to take place after the eventual split.

As Neal suggested, introduce a new tcp_tso_autosize() helper, so that
tcp_tso_should_defer() can be synchronized on same goal.

Rename tp->xmit_size_goal_segs to tp->gso_segs, as this variable
contains number of mss that we can put in GSO packet, and is not
related to the autosizing goal anymore.

Tested:

40 ms rtt link

nstat >/dev/null
netperf -H remote -l -2000000 -- -s 1000000
nstat | egrep "IpInReceives|IpOutRequests|TcpOutSegs|IpExtOutOctets"

Before patch :

Recv   Send    Send
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/s

 87380 2000000 2000000    0.36         44.22
IpInReceives                    600                0.0
IpOutRequests                   599                0.0
TcpOutSegs                      1397               0.0
IpExtOutOctets                  2033249            0.0

After patch :

Recv   Send    Send
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/sec

 87380 2000000 2000000    0.36       44.27
IpInReceives                    221                0.0
IpOutRequests                   232                0.0
TcpOutSegs                      1397               0.0
IpExtOutOctets                  2013953            0.0

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 39 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index dc13a3657e8e..427aee33ffc0 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -835,47 +835,29 @@ static unsigned int tcp_xmit_size_goal(struct sock *sk, u32 mss_now,
                                        int large_allowed)
 {
         struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
-        u32 xmit_size_goal, old_size_goal;
-
-        xmit_size_goal = mss_now;
-
-        if (large_allowed && sk_can_gso(sk)) {
-                u32 gso_size, hlen;
-
-                /* Maybe we should/could use sk->sk_prot->max_header here ? */
-                hlen = inet_csk(sk)->icsk_af_ops->net_header_len +
-                       inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ext_hdr_len +
-                       tp->tcp_header_len;
-
-                /* Goal is to send at least one packet per ms,
-                 * not one big TSO packet every 100 ms.
-                 * This preserves ACK clocking and is consistent
-                 * with tcp_tso_should_defer() heuristic.
-                 */
-                gso_size = sk->sk_pacing_rate / (2 * MSEC_PER_SEC);
-                gso_size = max_t(u32, gso_size,
-                                 sysctl_tcp_min_tso_segs * mss_now);
-
-                xmit_size_goal = min_t(u32, gso_size,
-                                       sk->sk_gso_max_size - 1 - hlen);
-
-                xmit_size_goal = tcp_bound_to_half_wnd(tp, xmit_size_goal);
-
-                /* We try hard to avoid divides here */
-                old_size_goal = tp->xmit_size_goal_segs * mss_now;
-
-                if (likely(old_size_goal <= xmit_size_goal &&
-                           old_size_goal + mss_now > xmit_size_goal)) {
-                        xmit_size_goal = old_size_goal;
-                } else {
-                        tp->xmit_size_goal_segs =
-                                min_t(u16, xmit_size_goal / mss_now,
-                                      sk->sk_gso_max_segs);
-                        xmit_size_goal = tp->xmit_size_goal_segs * mss_now;
-                }
+        u32 new_size_goal, size_goal, hlen;
+
+        if (!large_allowed || !sk_can_gso(sk))
+                return mss_now;
+
+        /* Maybe we should/could use sk->sk_prot->max_header here ? */
+        hlen = inet_csk(sk)->icsk_af_ops->net_header_len +
+               inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ext_hdr_len +
+               tp->tcp_header_len;
+
+        new_size_goal = sk->sk_gso_max_size - 1 - hlen;
+        new_size_goal = tcp_bound_to_half_wnd(tp, new_size_goal);
+
+        /* We try hard to avoid divides here */
+        size_goal = tp->gso_segs * mss_now;
+        if (unlikely(new_size_goal < size_goal ||
+                     new_size_goal >= size_goal + mss_now)) {
+                tp->gso_segs = min_t(u16, new_size_goal / mss_now,
+                                     sk->sk_gso_max_segs);
+                size_goal = tp->gso_segs * mss_now;
         }
 
-        return max(xmit_size_goal, mss_now);
+        return max(size_goal, mss_now);
 }
 
 static int tcp_send_mss(struct sock *sk, int *size_goal, int flags)