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[net-next,02/17] tcp: don't backtrack to sacked skbs

Message ID 1235832282317-git-send-email-ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Ilpo Järvinen Feb. 28, 2009, 2:44 p.m. UTC 
From: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>

Backtracking to sacked skbs is a horrible performance killer
since the hint cannot be advanced successfully past them...
...And it's totally unnecessary too.

In theory this is 2.6.27..28 regression but I doubt anybody
can make .28 to have worse performance because of other TCP
improvements.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Comments

David Miller March 2, 2009, 11:01 a.m. UTC | #1 
From: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:44:27 +0200

> From: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
> 
> Backtracking to sacked skbs is a horrible performance killer
> since the hint cannot be advanced successfully past them...
> ...And it's totally unnecessary too.
> 
> In theory this is 2.6.27..28 regression but I doubt anybody
> can make .28 to have worse performance because of other TCP
> improvements.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>

Applied.
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diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index f6f61b3..2471cd4 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2065,7 +2065,7 @@  begin_fwd:
 			goto begin_fwd;
 
 		} else if (!(sacked & TCPCB_LOST)) {
-			if (hole == NULL && !(sacked & TCPCB_SACKED_RETRANS))
+			if (hole == NULL && !(sacked & (TCPCB_SACKED_RETRANS|TCPCB_SACKED_ACKED)))
 				hole = skb;
 			continue;