Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: Change txhash on every SYN and RTO retransmit

From: Lawrence Brakmo <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 23:07:53 +0000

Eric, thank you for comments. V2 should be out shortly.

Thanks!

On 9/27/16, 9:29 AM, "[email-masked] on behalf of Eric
Dumazet" <[email-masked] on behalf of
[email-masked]> wrote:

>On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 09:06 -0700, Lawrence Brakmo wrote:
>> The current code changes txhash (flowlables) on every retransmitted
>> SYN/ACK, but only after the 2nd retransmitted SYN and only after
>> tcp_retries1 RTO retransmits.
>> 
>> With this patch:
>> 1) txhash is changed with every SYN retransmist
>> 2) adds the option for the txhash to be changed before tcp_retries1
>>    RTO retransmits. A new sysctl tcp_rto_txhash_prob represents the
>>    probability that txhash will be changed. The default value is 0
>>    which maintains previous behavior and a value of 100 will always
>>    change it.
>
>...
>
>> @@ -213,6 +215,11 @@ static int tcp_write_timeout(struct sock *sk)
>>  			tcp_mtu_probing(icsk, sk);
>>  
>>  			dst_negative_advice(sk);
>> +		} else if (sk->sk_txhash && sysctl_tcp_rto_txhash_prob > 0) {
>> +			u32 v = prandom_u32() % 100;
>> +
>> +			if (v < sysctl_tcp_rto_txhash_prob)
>> +				sk_set_txhash(sk);
>>  
>
>Write timeouts are rare events and sk_txhash should already be set.
>
>Also prandom_u32_max() is a bit faster (no divide, and even no multiply
>for 100 which is 5*5*4, compiler can emit 2 lea instructions )
>
>I would suggest not using all these tests and instead be very simple :
>
> 	} else if (prandom_u32_max(100) < sysctl_tcp_rto_txhash_prob) {
>		sk_set_txhash(sk);
>	}
>
>Finally, adding a new sysctl requires a Documentation update
>( Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt )
>
>Thanks.
>
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