tcp: do not change tcp_wstamp_ns in tcp_mstamp_refresh

In EDT design, I made the mistake of using tcp_wstamp_ns
to store the last tcp_clock_ns() sample and to store the
pacing virtual timer.

This causes major regressions at high speed flows.

Introduce tcp_clock_cache to store last tcp_clock_ns().
This is needed because some arches have slow high-resolution
kernel time service.

tcp_wstamp_ns is only updated when a packet is sent.

Note that we can remove tcp_mstamp in the future since
tcp_mstamp is essentially tcp_clock_cache/1000, so the
apparent socket size increase is temporary.

Fixes: 9799ccb0e9 ("tcp: add tcp_wstamp_ns socket field")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Eric Dumazet
2018-10-15 09:37:52 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 1a3aea2534
commit 5f6188a800
3 changed files with 8 additions and 4 deletions

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@@ -249,6 +249,7 @@ struct tcp_sock {
u32 tlp_high_seq; /* snd_nxt at the time of TLP retransmit. */
u64 tcp_wstamp_ns; /* departure time for next sent data packet */
u64 tcp_clock_cache; /* cache last tcp_clock_ns() (see tcp_mstamp_refresh()) */
/* RTT measurement */
u64 tcp_mstamp; /* most recent packet received/sent */