tcp_cubic: refine Hystart delay threshold
In commit 2b4636a5 ("tcp_cubic: make the delay threshold of HyStart less sensitive"), HYSTART_DELAY_MIN was changed to 4 ms. The remaining problem is that using delay_min + (delay_min/16) as the threshold is too sensitive. 6.25 % of variation is too small for rtt above 60 ms, which are not uncommon. Lets use 12.5 % instead (delay_min + (delay_min/8)) Tested: 80 ms RTT between peers, FQ/pacing packet scheduler on sender. 10 bulk transfers of 10 seconds : nstat >/dev/null for i in `seq 1 10` do netperf -H remote -- -k THROUGHPUT | grep THROUGHPUT done nstat | grep Hystart With the 6.25 % threshold : THROUGHPUT=20.66 THROUGHPUT=249.38 THROUGHPUT=254.10 THROUGHPUT=14.94 THROUGHPUT=251.92 THROUGHPUT=237.73 THROUGHPUT=19.18 THROUGHPUT=252.89 THROUGHPUT=21.32 THROUGHPUT=15.58 TcpExtTCPHystartTrainDetect 2 0.0 TcpExtTCPHystartTrainCwnd 4756 0.0 TcpExtTCPHystartDelayDetect 5 0.0 TcpExtTCPHystartDelayCwnd 180 0.0 With the 12.5 % threshold THROUGHPUT=251.09 THROUGHPUT=247.46 THROUGHPUT=250.92 THROUGHPUT=248.91 THROUGHPUT=250.88 THROUGHPUT=249.84 THROUGHPUT=250.51 THROUGHPUT=254.15 THROUGHPUT=250.62 THROUGHPUT=250.89 TcpExtTCPHystartTrainDetect 1 0.0 TcpExtTCPHystartTrainCwnd 3175 0.0 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Tested-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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