This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tcp: increase the default TCP scaling ratio
to the 6.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
tcp-increase-the-default-tcp-scaling-ratio.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 8024941b574f20c908380c13481b56aee8107499
Author: Hechao Li <hli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Apr 9 09:43:55 2024 -0700
tcp: increase the default TCP scaling ratio
[ Upstream commit 697a6c8cec03c2299f850fa50322641a8bf6b915 ]
After commit dfa2f0483360 ("tcp: get rid of sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale"),
we noticed an application-level timeout due to reduced throughput.
Before the commit, for a client that sets SO_RCVBUF to 65k, it takes
around 22 seconds to transfer 10M data. After the commit, it takes 40
seconds. Because our application has a 30-second timeout, this
regression broke the application.
The reason that it takes longer to transfer data is that
tp->scaling_ratio is initialized to a value that results in ~0.25 of
rcvbuf. In our case, SO_RCVBUF is set to 65536 by the application, which
translates to 2 * 65536 = 131,072 bytes in rcvbuf and hence a ~28k
initial receive window.
Later, even though the scaling_ratio is updated to a more accurate
skb->len/skb->truesize, which is ~0.66 in our environment, the window
stays at ~0.25 * rcvbuf. This is because tp->window_clamp does not
change together with the tp->scaling_ratio update when autotuning is
disabled due to SO_RCVBUF. As a result, the window size is capped at the
initial window_clamp, which is also ~0.25 * rcvbuf, and never grows
bigger.
Most modern applications let the kernel do autotuning, and benefit from
the increased scaling_ratio. But there are applications such as kafka
that has a default setting of SO_RCVBUF=64k.
This patch increases the initial scaling_ratio from ~25% to 50% in order
to make it backward compatible with the original default
sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale for applications setting SO_RCVBUF.
Fixes: dfa2f0483360 ("tcp: get rid of sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale")
Signed-off-by: Hechao Li <hli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.pizza>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240402215405.432863-1-hli@xxxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index f6eba9652d010..ab62e53f187c5 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -1494,11 +1494,10 @@ static inline int tcp_space_from_win(const struct sock *sk, int win)
return __tcp_space_from_win(tcp_sk(sk)->scaling_ratio, win);
}
-/* Assume a conservative default of 1200 bytes of payload per 4K page.
+/* Assume a 50% default for skb->len/skb->truesize ratio.
* This may be adjusted later in tcp_measure_rcv_mss().
*/
-#define TCP_DEFAULT_SCALING_RATIO ((1200 << TCP_RMEM_TO_WIN_SCALE) / \
- SKB_TRUESIZE(4096))
+#define TCP_DEFAULT_SCALING_RATIO (1 << (TCP_RMEM_TO_WIN_SCALE - 1))
static inline void tcp_scaling_ratio_init(struct sock *sk)
{
