tcp: allow drivers to tweak TSQ logic

I had many reports that TSQ logic breaks wifi aggregation.

Current logic is to allow up to 1 ms of bytes to be queued into qdisc
and drivers queues.

But Wifi aggregation needs a bigger budget to allow bigger rates to
be discovered by various TCP Congestion Controls algorithms.

This patch adds an extra socket field, allowing wifi drivers to select
another log scale to derive TCP Small Queue credit from current pacing
rate.

Initial value is 10, meaning that this patch does not change current
behavior.

We expect wifi drivers to set this field to smaller values (tests have
been done with values from 6 to 9)

They would have to use following template :

if (skb->sk && skb->sk->sk_pacing_shift != MY_PACING_SHIFT)
     skb->sk->sk_pacing_shift = MY_PACING_SHIFT;

Ref: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1670041
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Cc: Kir Kolyshkin <kir@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Eric Dumazet
2017-11-11 15:54:12 -08:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 166c881896
commit 3a9b76fd0d
3 changed files with 5 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -2746,6 +2746,7 @@ void sock_init_data(struct socket *sock, struct sock *sk)
sk->sk_max_pacing_rate = ~0U;
sk->sk_pacing_rate = ~0U;
sk->sk_pacing_shift = 10;
sk->sk_incoming_cpu = -1;
/*
* Before updating sk_refcnt, we must commit prior changes to memory