Commit cd6b423a authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller

tcp: cubic: fix bug in bictcp_acked()

While investigating about strange increase of retransmit rates
on hosts ~24 days after boot, Van found hystart was disabled
if ca->epoch_start was 0, as following condition is true
when tcp_time_stamp high order bit is set.

(s32)(tcp_time_stamp - ca->epoch_start) < HZ

Quoting Van :

 At initialization & after every loss ca->epoch_start is set to zero so
 I believe that the above line will turn off hystart as soon as the 2^31
 bit is set in tcp_time_stamp & hystart will stay off for 24 days.
 I think we've observed that cubic's restart is too aggressive without
 hystart so this might account for the higher drop rate we observe.
Diagnosed-by: default avatarVan Jacobson <vanj@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 15401946
......@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ static void bictcp_acked(struct sock *sk, u32 cnt, s32 rtt_us)
return;
/* Discard delay samples right after fast recovery */
if ((s32)(tcp_time_stamp - ca->epoch_start) < HZ)
if (ca->epoch_start && (s32)(tcp_time_stamp - ca->epoch_start) < HZ)
return;
delay = (rtt_us << 3) / USEC_PER_MSEC;
......
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