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[PATCHv2,net-next,15/15] tcp: back retransmit_high when it over-estimated

Message ID 1221947278-16715-16-git-send-email-ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Ilpo Järvinen Sept. 20, 2008, 9:47 p.m. UTC
If lost skb is sacked, we might have nothing to retransmit
as high as the retransmit_high is pointing to, so place
it lower to avoid unnecessary walking.

This is mainly for the case where high L'ed skbs gets sacked.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c |   12 ++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 63b9ce1..b28eeb0 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2033,16 +2033,22 @@  void tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue(struct sock *sk)
 	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 	struct sk_buff *hole = NULL;
+	u32 last_lost;
 	int mib_idx;
 	int fwd_rexmitting = 0;
 
 	if (!tp->lost_out)
 		tp->retransmit_high = tp->snd_una;
 
-	if (tp->retransmit_skb_hint)
+	if (tp->retransmit_skb_hint) {
 		skb = tp->retransmit_skb_hint;
-	else
+		last_lost = TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq;
+		if (after(last_lost, tp->retransmit_high))
+			last_lost = tp->retransmit_high;
+	} else {
 		skb = tcp_write_queue_head(sk);
+		last_lost = tp->snd_una;
+	}
 
 	/* First pass: retransmit lost packets. */
 	tcp_for_write_queue_from(skb, sk) {
@@ -2071,6 +2077,7 @@  begin_fwd:
 			mib_idx = LINUX_MIB_TCPFORWARDRETRANS;
 
 		} else if (!before(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq, tp->retransmit_high)) {
+			tp->retransmit_high = last_lost;
 			if (!tcp_can_forward_retransmit(sk))
 				break;
 			/* Backtrack if necessary to non-L'ed skb */
@@ -2087,6 +2094,7 @@  begin_fwd:
 			continue;
 
 		} else {
+			last_lost = TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq;
 			if (icsk->icsk_ca_state != TCP_CA_Loss)
 				mib_idx = LINUX_MIB_TCPFASTRETRANS;
 			else