tcp: properly increase rcv_ssthresh for ofo packets

TCP receive window handling is multi staged.

A socket has a memory budget, static or dynamic, in sk_rcvbuf.

Because we do not really know how this memory budget translates to
a TCP window (payload), TCP announces a small initial window
(about 20 MSS).

When a packet is received, we increase TCP rcv_win depending
on the payload/truesize ratio of this packet. Good citizen
packets give a hint that it's reasonable to have rcv_win = sk_rcvbuf/2

This heuristic takes place in tcp_grow_window()

Problem is : We currently call tcp_grow_window() only for in-order
packets.

This means that reorders or packet losses stop proper grow of
rcv_win, and senders are unable to benefit from fast recovery,
or proper reordering level detection.

Really, a packet being stored in OFO queue is not a bad citizen.
It should be part of the game as in-order packets.

In our traces, we very often see sender is limited by linux small
receive windows, even if linux hosts use autotuning (DRS) and should
allow rcv_win to grow to ~3MB.

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

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 894bc174f472..25a89eaa669d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -4139,6 +4139,7 @@ static void tcp_data_queue_ofo(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
                 if (!tcp_try_coalesce(sk, skb1, skb, &fragstolen)) {
                         __skb_queue_after(&tp->out_of_order_queue, skb1, skb);
                 } else {
+                        tcp_grow_window(sk, skb);
                         kfree_skb_partial(skb, fragstolen);
                         skb = NULL;
                 }
@@ -4214,8 +4215,10 @@ add_sack:
         if (tcp_is_sack(tp))
                 tcp_sack_new_ofo_skb(sk, seq, end_seq);
 end:
-        if (skb)
+        if (skb) {
+                tcp_grow_window(sk, skb);
                 skb_set_owner_r(skb, sk);
+        }
 }
 
 static int __must_check tcp_queue_rcv(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int hdrlen,