tcp: allow congestion control module to request TSO skb segment count

Add the tso_segs_goal() function in tcp_congestion_ops to allow the
congestion control module to specify the number of segments that
should be in a TSO skb sent by tcp_write_xmit() and
tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue(). The congestion control module can either
request a particular number of segments in TSO skb that we transmit,
or return 0 if it doesn't care.

This allows the upcoming BBR congestion control module to select small
TSO skb sizes if the module detects that the bottleneck bandwidth is
very low, or that the connection is policed to a low rate.

Signed-off-by: Van Jacobson <vanj@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index a69ed7f0030c..f8f581fd05f5 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -913,6 +913,8 @@ struct tcp_congestion_ops {
         u32  (*undo_cwnd)(struct sock *sk);
         /* hook for packet ack accounting (optional) */
         void (*pkts_acked)(struct sock *sk, const struct ack_sample *sample);
+        /* suggest number of segments for each skb to transmit (optional) */
+        u32 (*tso_segs_goal)(struct sock *sk);
         /* get info for inet_diag (optional) */
         size_t (*get_info)(struct sock *sk, u32 ext, int *attr,
                            union tcp_cc_info *info);