This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tcp: remove 64 KByte limit for initial tp->rcv_wnd value
to the 4.19-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-remove-64-kbyte-limit-for-initial-tp-rcv_wnd-val.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 6f88dd423e7d6ca686dc446c3cc0eab6d9768e27
Author: Jason Xing <kernelxing@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue May 21 21:42:20 2024 +0800
tcp: remove 64 KByte limit for initial tp->rcv_wnd value
[ Upstream commit 378979e94e953c2070acb4f0e0c98d29260bd09d ]
Recently, we had some servers upgraded to the latest kernel and noticed
the indicator from the user side showed worse results than before. It is
caused by the limitation of tp->rcv_wnd.
In 2018 commit a337531b942b ("tcp: up initial rmem to 128KB and SYN rwin
to around 64KB") limited the initial value of tp->rcv_wnd to 65535, most
CDN teams would not benefit from this change because they cannot have a
large window to receive a big packet, which will be slowed down especially
in long RTT. Small rcv_wnd means slow transfer speed, to some extent. It's
the side effect for the latency/time-sensitive users.
To avoid future confusion, current change doesn't affect the initial
receive window on the wire in a SYN or SYN+ACK packet which are set within
65535 bytes according to RFC 7323 also due to the limit in
__tcp_transmit_skb():
th->window = htons(min(tp->rcv_wnd, 65535U));
In one word, __tcp_transmit_skb() already ensures that constraint is
respected, no matter how large tp->rcv_wnd is. The change doesn't violate
RFC.
Let me provide one example if with or without the patch:
Before:
client --- SYN: rwindow=65535 ---> server
client <--- SYN+ACK: rwindow=65535 ---- server
client --- ACK: rwindow=65536 ---> server
Note: for the last ACK, the calculation is 512 << 7.
After:
client --- SYN: rwindow=65535 ---> server
client <--- SYN+ACK: rwindow=65535 ---- server
client --- ACK: rwindow=175232 ---> server
Note: I use the following command to make it work:
ip route change default via [ip] dev eth0 metric 100 initrwnd 120
For the last ACK, the calculation is 1369 << 7.
When we apply such a patch, having a large rcv_wnd if the user tweak this
knob can help transfer data more rapidly and save some rtts.
Fixes: a337531b942b ("tcp: up initial rmem to 128KB and SYN rwin to around 64KB")
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240521134220.12510-1-kerneljasonxing@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index fbeb40a481fcb..105301b8d0fcb 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ void tcp_select_initial_window(const struct sock *sk, int __space, __u32 mss,
if (sock_net(sk)->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_workaround_signed_windows)
(*rcv_wnd) = min(space, MAX_TCP_WINDOW);
else
- (*rcv_wnd) = min_t(u32, space, U16_MAX);
+ (*rcv_wnd) = space;
if (init_rcv_wnd)
*rcv_wnd = min(*rcv_wnd, init_rcv_wnd * mss);
