tcp: improve latencies of timer triggered events

Modern TCP stack highly depends on tcp_write_timer() having a small
latency, but current implementation doesn't exactly meet the
expectations.

When a timer fires but finds the socket is owned by the user, it rearms
itself for an additional delay hoping next run will be more
successful.

tcp_write_timer() for example uses a 50ms delay for next try, and it
defeats many attempts to get predictable TCP behavior in term of
latencies.

Use the recently introduced tcp_release_cb(), so that the user owning
the socket will call various handlers right before socket release.

This will permit us to post a followup patch to address the
tcp_tso_should_defer() syndrome (some deferred packets have to wait
RTO timer to be transmitted, while cwnd should allow us to send them
sooner)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Cc: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Cc: John Heffner <johnwheffner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet 2012-07-20 05:45:50 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 9dc274151a
commit 6f458dfb40
4 changed files with 71 additions and 51 deletions

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@ -515,7 +515,9 @@ struct tcp_sock {
enum tsq_flags {
TSQ_THROTTLED,
TSQ_QUEUED,
TSQ_OWNED, /* tcp_tasklet_func() found socket was locked */
TCP_TSQ_DEFERRED, /* tcp_tasklet_func() found socket was owned */
TCP_WRITE_TIMER_DEFERRED, /* tcp_write_timer() found socket was owned */
TCP_DELACK_TIMER_DEFERRED, /* tcp_delack_timer() found socket was owned */
};
static inline struct tcp_sock *tcp_sk(const struct sock *sk)