mptcp: Use 32-bit DATA_ACK when possible

RFC8684 allows to send 32-bit DATA_ACKs as long as the peer is not
sending 64-bit data-sequence numbers. The 64-bit DSN is only there for
extreme scenarios when a very high throughput subflow is combined with a
long-RTT subflow such that the high-throughput subflow wraps around the
32-bit sequence number space within an RTT of the high-RTT subflow.

It is thus a rare scenario and we should try to use the 32-bit DATA_ACK
instead as long as possible. It allows to reduce the TCP-option overhead
by 4 bytes, thus makes space for an additional SACK-block. It also makes
tcpdumps much easier to read when the DSN and DATA_ACK are both either
32 or 64-bit.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@apple.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Christoph Paasch
2020-05-14 08:53:03 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 9efd6a3cec
commit a0c1d0eafd
4 changed files with 31 additions and 10 deletions

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@@ -290,6 +290,7 @@ struct mptcp_subflow_context {
data_avail : 1,
rx_eof : 1,
data_fin_tx_enable : 1,
use_64bit_ack : 1, /* Set when we received a 64-bit DSN */
can_ack : 1; /* only after processing the remote a key */
u64 data_fin_tx_seq;
u32 remote_nonce;