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[net] sctp: fix recovering from 0 win with small data chunks

Message ID d9025eef1b2be8e7097fd4a5db73b4f5c0f5418b.1482510289.git.marcelo.leitner@gmail.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Dec. 23, 2016, 4:29 p.m. UTC
Currently if SCTP closes the receive window with window pressure, mostly
caused by excessive skb overhead on payload/overheads ratio, SCTP will
close the window abruptly while saving the delta on rwnd_press. It will
start recovering rwnd as the chunks are consumed by the application and
the rwnd_press will be only recovered after rwnd reach the same value as
of rwnd_press, mostly to prevent silly window syndrome.

Thing is, this is very inefficient with small data chunks, as with those
it will never reach back that value, and thus it will never recover from
such pressure. This means that we will not issue window updates when
recovering from 0 window and will rely on a sender retransmit to notice
it.

The fix here is to remove such threshold, as no value is good enough: it
depends on the (avg) chunk sizes being used.

Test with netperf -t SCTP_STREAM -- -m 1, and trigger 0 window by
sending SIGSTOP to netserver, sleep 1.2, and SIGCONT.
Rate limited to 845kbps, for visibility. Capture done at netserver side.

Previously:
01.500751 IP B.48277 > A.36925: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 632372996] [a_rwnd 99153] [
01.500752 IP A.36925 > B.48277: sctp (1) [DATA] (B)(E) [TSN: 632372997] [SID: 0] [SS
01.517471 IP A.36925 > B.48277: sctp (1) [DATA] (B)(E) [TSN: 632373010] [SID: 0] [SS
01.517483 IP B.48277 > A.36925: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 632373009] [a_rwnd 0] [#gap
01.517485 IP A.36925 > B.48277: sctp (1) [DATA] (B)(E) [TSN: 632373083] [SID: 0] [SS
01.517488 IP B.48277 > A.36925: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 632373009] [a_rwnd 0] [#gap
01.534168 IP A.36925 > B.48277: sctp (1) [DATA] (B)(E) [TSN: 632373096] [SID: 0] [SS
01.534180 IP B.48277 > A.36925: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 632373009] [a_rwnd 0] [#gap
01.534181 IP A.36925 > B.48277: sctp (1) [DATA] (B)(E) [TSN: 632373169] [SID: 0] [SS
01.534185 IP B.48277 > A.36925: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 632373009] [a_rwnd 0] [#gap
02.525978 IP A.36925 > B.48277: sctp (1) [DATA] (B)(E) [TSN: 632373010] [SID: 0] [SS
02.526021 IP B.48277 > A.36925: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 632373009] [a_rwnd 0] [#gap
  (window update missed)
04.573807 IP A.36925 > B.48277: sctp (1) [DATA] (B)(E) [TSN: 632373010] [SID: 0] [SS
04.779370 IP B.48277 > A.36925: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 632373082] [a_rwnd 859] [#g
04.789162 IP A.36925 > B.48277: sctp (1) [DATA] (B)(E) [TSN: 632373083] [SID: 0] [SS
04.789323 IP A.36925 > B.48277: sctp (1) [DATA] (B)(E) [TSN: 632373156] [SID: 0] [SS
04.789372 IP B.48277 > A.36925: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 632373228] [a_rwnd 786] [#g

After:
02.568957 IP B.50536 > A.55173: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 2490098728] [a_rwnd 99153]
02.568961 IP A.55173 > B.50536: sctp (1) [DATA] (B)(E) [TSN: 2490098729] [SID: 0] [S
02.585631 IP A.55173 > B.50536: sctp (1) [DATA] (B)(E) [TSN: 2490098742] [SID: 0] [S
02.585666 IP B.50536 > A.55173: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 2490098741] [a_rwnd 0] [#ga
02.585671 IP A.55173 > B.50536: sctp (1) [DATA] (B)(E) [TSN: 2490098815] [SID: 0] [S
02.585683 IP B.50536 > A.55173: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 2490098741] [a_rwnd 0] [#ga
02.602330 IP A.55173 > B.50536: sctp (1) [DATA] (B)(E) [TSN: 2490098828] [SID: 0] [S
02.602359 IP B.50536 > A.55173: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 2490098741] [a_rwnd 0] [#ga
02.602363 IP A.55173 > B.50536: sctp (1) [DATA] (B)(E) [TSN: 2490098901] [SID: 0] [S
02.602372 IP B.50536 > A.55173: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 2490098741] [a_rwnd 0] [#ga
03.600788 IP A.55173 > B.50536: sctp (1) [DATA] (B)(E) [TSN: 2490098742] [SID: 0] [S
03.600830 IP B.50536 > A.55173: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 2490098741] [a_rwnd 0] [#ga
03.619455 IP B.50536 > A.55173: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 2490098741] [a_rwnd 13508]
03.619479 IP B.50536 > A.55173: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 2490098741] [a_rwnd 27017]
03.619497 IP B.50536 > A.55173: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 2490098741] [a_rwnd 40526]
03.619516 IP B.50536 > A.55173: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 2490098741] [a_rwnd 54035]
03.619533 IP B.50536 > A.55173: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 2490098741] [a_rwnd 67544]
03.619552 IP B.50536 > A.55173: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 2490098741] [a_rwnd 81053]
03.619570 IP B.50536 > A.55173: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 2490098741] [a_rwnd 94562]
  (following data transmission triggered by window updates above)
03.633504 IP A.55173 > B.50536: sctp (1) [DATA] (B)(E) [TSN: 2490098742] [SID: 0] [S
03.836445 IP B.50536 > A.55173: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 2490098814] [a_rwnd 100000]
03.843125 IP A.55173 > B.50536: sctp (1) [DATA] (B)(E) [TSN: 2490098815] [SID: 0] [S
03.843285 IP A.55173 > B.50536: sctp (1) [DATA] (B)(E) [TSN: 2490098888] [SID: 0] [S
03.843345 IP B.50536 > A.55173: sctp (1) [SACK] [cum ack 2490098960] [a_rwnd 99894]
03.856546 IP A.55173 > B.50536: sctp (1) [DATA] (B)(E) [TSN: 2490098961] [SID: 0] [S
03.866450 IP A.55173 > B.50536: sctp (1) [DATA] (B)(E) [TSN: 2490099011] [SID: 0] [S

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
---
 net/sctp/associola.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

David Miller Dec. 23, 2016, 7:02 p.m. UTC | #1
From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 14:29:37 -0200

> Currently if SCTP closes the receive window with window pressure, mostly
> caused by excessive skb overhead on payload/overheads ratio, SCTP will
> close the window abruptly while saving the delta on rwnd_press. It will
> start recovering rwnd as the chunks are consumed by the application and
> the rwnd_press will be only recovered after rwnd reach the same value as
> of rwnd_press, mostly to prevent silly window syndrome.
> 
> Thing is, this is very inefficient with small data chunks, as with those
> it will never reach back that value, and thus it will never recover from
> such pressure. This means that we will not issue window updates when
> recovering from 0 window and will rely on a sender retransmit to notice
> it.
> 
> The fix here is to remove such threshold, as no value is good enough: it
> depends on the (avg) chunk sizes being used.
> 
> Test with netperf -t SCTP_STREAM -- -m 1, and trigger 0 window by
> sending SIGSTOP to netserver, sleep 1.2, and SIGCONT.
> Rate limited to 845kbps, for visibility. Capture done at netserver side.
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>

Applied.
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Patch

diff --git a/net/sctp/associola.c b/net/sctp/associola.c
index 56ddcfaeb4f64235b54b0daa915fabf0cc0170a9..d3cc30c25c41091c2bf18022506dff4145d29944 100644
--- a/net/sctp/associola.c
+++ b/net/sctp/associola.c
@@ -1471,7 +1471,7 @@  void sctp_assoc_rwnd_increase(struct sctp_association *asoc, unsigned int len)
 	 * threshold.  The idea is to recover slowly, but up
 	 * to the initial advertised window.
 	 */
-	if (asoc->rwnd_press && asoc->rwnd >= asoc->rwnd_press) {
+	if (asoc->rwnd_press) {
 		int change = min(asoc->pathmtu, asoc->rwnd_press);
 		asoc->rwnd += change;
 		asoc->rwnd_press -= change;