tree f4fddf34b3b093d57867395e64dc450969dfc8ac
parent bc9f38c8328e10c22cb2016d6131ea36141c8d11
author Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> 1556577974 -0700
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1556725674 -0400

tcp: undo initial congestion window on false SYN timeout

Linux implements RFC6298 and use an initial congestion window of 1
upon establishing the connection if the SYN packet is retransmitted 2
or more times. In cellular networks SYN timeouts are often spurious
if the wireless radio was dormant or idle. Also some network path
is longer than the default SYN timeout. Having a minimal cwnd on
both cases are detrimental to TCP startup performance.

This patch extends TCP undo feature (RFC3522 aka TCP Eifel) to detect
spurious SYN timeout via TCP timestamps. Since tp->retrans_stamp
records the initial SYN timestamp instead of first retransmission, we
have to implement a different undo code additionally. The detection
also must happen before tcp_ack() as retrans_stamp is reset when
SYN is acknowledged.

Note this patch covers both active regular and fast open.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>