tcp: sk_add_backlog() is too agressive for TCP While investigating TCP performance problems on 10Gb+ links, we found a tcp sender was dropping lot of incoming ACKS because of sk_rcvbuf limit in sk_add_backlog(), especially if receiver doesnt use GRO/LRO and sends one ACK every two MSS segments. A sender usually tweaks sk_sndbuf, but sk_rcvbuf stays at its default value (87380), allowing a too small backlog. A TCP ACK, even being small, can consume nearly same truesize space than outgoing packets. Using sk_rcvbuf + sk_sndbuf as a limit makes sense and is fast to compute. Performance results on netperf, single flow, receiver with disabled GRO/LRO : 7500 Mbits instead of 6050 Mbits, no more TCPBacklogDrop increments at sender. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Cc: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c index 917607e..cf97e98 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
@@ -1752,7 +1752,8 @@ if (!tcp_prequeue(sk, skb)) ret = tcp_v4_do_rcv(sk, skb); } - } else if (unlikely(sk_add_backlog(sk, skb, sk->sk_rcvbuf))) { + } else if (unlikely(sk_add_backlog(sk, skb, + sk->sk_rcvbuf + sk->sk_sndbuf))) { bh_unlock_sock(sk); NET_INC_STATS_BH(net, LINUX_MIB_TCPBACKLOGDROP); goto discard_and_relse;