This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tcp: make challenge acks faster
to the 3.14-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_acks_speedup.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed Aug 17 10:00:14 CEST 2016
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 10:00:14 +0200
To: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: tcp: make challenge acks faster
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
When backporting upstream commit 75ff39ccc1bd ("tcp: make challenge acks
less predictable") I negelected to use the correct ACCESS* type macros.
This fixes that up to hopefully speed things up a bit more.
Thanks to Chas Wiliams for the 3.10 backport which reminded me of this.
Cc: Yue Cao <ycao009@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chas Williams <ciwillia@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -3299,12 +3299,12 @@ static void tcp_send_challenge_ack(struc
u32 half = (sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit + 1) >> 1;
challenge_timestamp = now;
- challenge_count = half +
+ ACCESS_ONCE(challenge_count) = half +
prandom_u32_max(sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit);
}
- count = challenge_count;
+ count = ACCESS_ONCE(challenge_count);
if (count > 0) {
- challenge_count = count - 1;
+ ACCESS_ONCE(challenge_count) = count - 1;
NET_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPCHALLENGEACK);
tcp_send_ack(sk);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/tcp_acks_speedup.patch
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