tcp: higher throughput under reordering with adaptive RACK reordering wnd

Currently TCP RACK loss detection does not work well if packets are
being reordered beyond its static reordering window (min_rtt/4).Under
such reordering it may falsely trigger loss recoveries and reduce TCP
throughput significantly.

This patch improves that by increasing and reducing the reordering
window based on DSACK, which is now supported in major TCP implementations.
It makes RACK's reo_wnd adaptive based on DSACK and no. of recoveries.

- If DSACK is received, increment reo_wnd by min_rtt/4 (upper bounded
  by srtt), since there is possibility that spurious retransmission was
  due to reordering delay longer than reo_wnd.

- Persist the current reo_wnd value for TCP_RACK_RECOVERY_THRESH (16)
  no. of successful recoveries (accounts for full DSACK-based loss
  recovery undo). After that, reset it to default (min_rtt/4).

- At max, reo_wnd is incremented only once per rtt. So that the new
  DSACK on which we are reacting, is due to the spurious retx (approx)
  after the reo_wnd has been updated last time.

- reo_wnd is tracked in terms of steps (of min_rtt/4), rather than
  absolute value to account for change in rtt.

In our internal testing, we observed significant increase in throughput,
in scenarios where reordering exceeds min_rtt/4 (previous static value).

Signed-off-by: Priyaranjan Jha <priyarjha@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

include/net/tcp.h

@@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ extern int sysctl_tcp_wmem[3];
 extern int sysctl_tcp_rmem[3];
 
 #define TCP_RACK_LOSS_DETECTION  0x1 /* Use RACK to detect losses */
+#define TCP_RACK_STATIC_REO_WND  0x2 /* Use static RACK reo wnd */
 
 extern atomic_long_t tcp_memory_allocated;
 extern struct percpu_counter tcp_sockets_allocated;
@@ -1901,6 +1902,7 @@ extern void tcp_rack_mark_lost(struct sock *sk);
 extern void tcp_rack_advance(struct tcp_sock *tp, u8 sacked, u32 end_seq,
 			     u64 xmit_time);
 extern void tcp_rack_reo_timeout(struct sock *sk);
+extern void tcp_rack_update_reo_wnd(struct sock *sk, struct rate_sample *rs);
 
 /* At how many usecs into the future should the RTO fire? */
 static inline s64 tcp_rto_delta_us(const struct sock *sk)