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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2013-04-18 06:52:51 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-04-18 14:57:25 -0400
commit0e280af026a5662ffd57c4e623b822df1f7f47ff (patch)
treeee3fa2a5523223f8ff079b075dc4e1959ed0c0f5 /net/ipv4
parent5a5967d80423e859036972986b3711458f2cd385 (diff)
tcp: introduce TCPSpuriousRtxHostQueues SNMP counter
Host queues (Qdisc + NIC) can hold packets so long that TCP can eventually retransmit a packet before the first transmit even left the host. Its not clear right now if we could avoid this in the first place : - We could arm RTO timer not at the time we enqueue packets, but at the time we TX complete them (tcp_wfree()) - Cancel the sending of the new copy of the packet if prior one is still in queue. This patch adds instrumentation so that we can at least see how often this problem happens. TCPSpuriousRtxHostQueues SNMP counter is incremented every time we detect the fast clone is not yet freed in tcp_transmit_skb() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/proc.c1
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_output.c7
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/proc.c b/net/ipv4/proc.c
index b6f2ea17489..6da51d55d03 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/proc.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/proc.c
@@ -269,6 +269,7 @@ static const struct snmp_mib snmp4_net_list[] = {
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPFastOpenPassiveFail", LINUX_MIB_TCPFASTOPENPASSIVEFAIL),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPFastOpenListenOverflow", LINUX_MIB_TCPFASTOPENLISTENOVERFLOW),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPFastOpenCookieReqd", LINUX_MIB_TCPFASTOPENCOOKIEREQD),
+ SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPSpuriousRtxHostQueues", LINUX_MIB_TCPSPURIOUS_RTX_HOSTQUEUES),
SNMP_MIB_SENTINEL
};
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index d1269435354..5f28131eb37 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -846,6 +846,13 @@ static int tcp_transmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int clone_it,
__net_timestamp(skb);
if (likely(clone_it)) {
+ const struct sk_buff *fclone = skb + 1;
+
+ if (unlikely(skb->fclone == SKB_FCLONE_ORIG &&
+ fclone->fclone == SKB_FCLONE_CLONE))
+ NET_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk),
+ LINUX_MIB_TCPSPURIOUS_RTX_HOSTQUEUES);
+
if (unlikely(skb_cloned(skb)))
skb = pskb_copy(skb, gfp_mask);
else