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Lawrence Brakmo
3acf3ec3f4 tcp: Change txhash on every SYN and RTO retransmit
The current code changes txhash (flowlables) on every retransmitted
SYN/ACK, but only after the 2nd retransmitted SYN and only after
tcp_retries1 RTO retransmits.

With this patch:
1) txhash is changed with every SYN retransmits
2) txhash is changed with every RTO.

The result is that we can start re-routing around failed (or very
congested paths) as soon as possible. Otherwise application health
checks may fail and the connection may be terminated before we start
to change txhash.

v4: Removed sysctl, txhash is changed for all RTOs
v3: Removed text saying default value of sysctl is 0 (it is 100)
v2: Added sysctl documentation and cleaned code

Tested with packetdrill tests

Signed-off-by: Lawrence Brakmo <brakmo@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-09-28 07:52:34 -04:00
Yuchung Cheng
7e32b44361 tcp: properly account Fast Open SYN-ACK retrans
Since the TFO socket is accepted right off SYN-data, the socket
owner can call getsockopt(TCP_INFO) to collect ongoing SYN-ACK
retransmission or timeout stats (i.e., tcpi_total_retrans,
tcpi_retransmits). Currently those stats are only updated
upon handshake completes. This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-09-22 03:33:01 -04:00
Richard Sailer
c380d37e97 tcp_timer.c: Add kernel-doc function descriptions
This adds kernel-doc style descriptions for 6 functions and
fixes 1 typo.

Signed-off-by: Richard Sailer <richard@weltraumpflege.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-15 23:18:14 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
c10d9310ed tcp: do not assume TCP code is non preemptible
We want to to make TCP stack preemptible, as draining prequeue
and backlog queues can take lot of time.

Many SNMP updates were assuming that BH (and preemption) was disabled.

Need to convert some __NET_INC_STATS() calls to NET_INC_STATS()
and some __TCP_INC_STATS() to TCP_INC_STATS()

Before using this_cpu_ptr(net->ipv4.tcp_sk) in tcp_v4_send_reset()
and tcp_v4_send_ack(), we add an explicit preempt disabled section.

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>
2016-05-02 17:02:25 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
02a1d6e7a6 net: rename NET_{ADD|INC}_STATS_BH()
Rename NET_INC_STATS_BH() to __NET_INC_STATS()
and NET_ADD_STATS_BH() to __NET_ADD_STATS()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-27 22:48:24 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
10d3be5692 tcp-tso: do not split TSO packets at retransmit time
Linux TCP stack painfully segments all TSO/GSO packets before retransmits.

This was fine back in the days when TSO/GSO were emerging, with their
bugs, but we believe the dark age is over.

Keeping big packets in write queues, but also in stack traversal
has a lot of benefits.
 - Less memory overhead, because write queues have less skbs
 - Less cpu overhead at ACK processing.
 - Better SACK processing, as lot of studies mentioned how
   awful linux was at this ;)
 - Less cpu overhead to send the rtx packets
   (IP stack traversal, netfilter traversal, drivers...)
 - Better latencies in presence of losses.
 - Smaller spikes in fq like packet schedulers, as retransmits
   are not constrained by TCP Small Queues.

1 % packet losses are common today, and at 100Gbit speeds, this
translates to ~80,000 losses per second.
Losses are often correlated, and we see many retransmit events
leading to 1-MSS train of packets, at the time hosts are already
under stress.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-24 14:43:59 -04:00
Nikolay Borisov
c402d9beff ipv4: Namespaceify tcp_orphan_retries sysctl knob
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-07 14:35:11 -05:00
Nikolay Borisov
c6214a97c8 ipv4: Namespaceify tcp_retries2 sysctl knob
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-07 14:35:11 -05:00
Nikolay Borisov
ae5c3f406c ipv4: Namespaceify tcp_retries1 sysctl knob
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-07 14:35:10 -05:00
Nikolay Borisov
7c083ecb3b ipv4: Namespaceify tcp synack retries sysctl knob
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-07 14:35:10 -05:00
Nikolay Borisov
6fa2516630 ipv4: Namespaceify tcp syn retries sysctl knob
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-07 14:35:10 -05:00
Nikolay Borisov
b840d15d39 ipv4: Namespecify the tcp_keepalive_intvl sysctl knob
This is the final part required to namespaceify the tcp
keep alive mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-10 17:32:09 -05:00
Nikolay Borisov
9bd6861bd4 ipv4: Namespecify tcp_keepalive_probes sysctl knob
This is required to have full tcp keepalive mechanism namespace
support.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-10 17:32:09 -05:00
Nikolay Borisov
13b287e8d1 ipv4: Namespaceify tcp_keepalive_time sysctl knob
Different net namespaces might have different requirements as to
the keepalive time of tcp sockets. This might be required in cases
where different firewall rules are in place which require tcp
timeout sockets to be increased/decreased independently of the host.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-10 17:32:09 -05:00
Yuchung Cheng
dd52bc2b4e tcp: fix Fast Open snmp over-counting bug
Fix incrementing TCPFastOpenActiveFailed snmp stats multiple times
when the handshake experiences multiple SYN timeouts.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-11-20 10:51:12 -05:00
Yuchung Cheng
0e45f4da59 tcp: disable Fast Open on timeouts after handshake
Some middle-boxes black-hole the data after the Fast Open handshake
(https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/94/slides/slides-94-tcpm-13.pdf).
The exact reason is unknown. The work-around is to disable Fast Open
temporarily after multiple recurring timeouts with few or no data
delivered in the established state.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@apple.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-11-20 10:51:12 -05:00
Richard Sailer
7533ce3055 tcp: change type of alive from int to bool
The alive parameter of tcp_orphan_retries, indicates
whether the connection is assumed alive or not.
In the function and all places calling it is used as a boolean value.

Therefore this changes the type of alive to bool in the function
definition and all calling locations.

Since tcp_orphan_tries is a tcp_timer.c local function no change in
any other file or header is necessary.

Signed-off-by: Richard Sailer <richard@weltraumpflege.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-12 05:15:03 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
a4e2405cc5 tcp: do not export tcp_init_xmit_timers()
After commit 900f65d361 ("tcp: move duplicate code from
tcp_v4_init_sock()/tcp_v6_init_sock()"), we no longer
need to export tcp_init_xmit_timers()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-09 21:44:38 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
b8da51ebb1 tcp: introduce tcp_under_memory_pressure()
Introduce an optimized version of sk_under_memory_pressure()
for TCP. Our intent is to use it in fast paths.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-17 22:45:48 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
e520af48c7 tcp: add TCPWinProbe and TCPKeepAlive SNMP counters
Diagnosing problems related to Window Probes has been hard because
we lack a counter.

TCPWinProbe counts the number of ACK packets a sender has to send
at regular intervals to make sure a reverse ACK packet opening back
a window had not been lost.

TCPKeepAlive counts the number of ACK packets sent to keep TCP
flows alive (SO_KEEPALIVE)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-09 16:42:32 -04:00
Daniel Lee
2646c831c0 tcp: RFC7413 option support for Fast Open client
Fast Open has been using an experimental option with a magic number
(RFC6994). This patch makes the client by default use the RFC7413
option (34) to get and send Fast Open cookies.  This patch makes
the client solicit cookies from a given server first with the
RFC7413 option. If that fails to elicit a cookie, then it tries
the RFC6994 experimental option. If that also fails, it uses the
RFC7413 option on all subsequent connect attempts.  If the server
returns a Fast Open cookie then the client caches the form of the
option that successfully elicited a cookie, and uses that form on
later connects when it presents that cookie.

The idea is to gradually obsolete the use of experimental options as
the servers and clients upgrade, while keeping the interoperability
meanwhile.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lee <Longinus00@gmail.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>
2015-04-07 18:36:39 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
42cb80a235 inet: remove sk_listener parameter from syn_ack_timeout()
It is not needed, and req->sk_listener points to the listener anyway.
request_sock argument can be const.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-23 16:52:25 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
fa76ce7328 inet: get rid of central tcp/dccp listener timer
One of the major issue for TCP is the SYNACK rtx handling,
done by inet_csk_reqsk_queue_prune(), fired by the keepalive
timer of a TCP_LISTEN socket.

This function runs for awful long times, with socket lock held,
meaning that other cpus needing this lock have to spin for hundred of ms.

SYNACK are sent in huge bursts, likely to cause severe drops anyway.

This model was OK 15 years ago when memory was very tight.

We now can afford to have a timer per request sock.

Timer invocations no longer need to lock the listener,
and can be run from all cpus in parallel.

With following patch increasing somaxconn width to 32 bits,
I tested a listener with more than 4 million active request sockets,
and a steady SYNFLOOD of ~200,000 SYN per second.
Host was sending ~830,000 SYNACK per second.

This is ~100 times more what we could achieve before this patch.

Later, we will get rid of the listener hash and use ehash instead.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-20 12:40:25 -04:00
Fan Du
05cbc0db03 ipv4: Create probe timer for tcp PMTU as per RFC4821
As per RFC4821 7.3.  Selecting Probe Size, a probe timer should
be armed once probing has converged. Once this timer expired,
probing again to take advantage of any path PMTU change. The
recommended probing interval is 10 minutes per RFC1981. Probing
interval could be sysctled by sysctl_tcp_probe_interval.

Eric Dumazet suggested to implement pseudo timer based on 32bits
jiffies tcp_time_stamp instead of using classic timer for such
rare event.

Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-06 14:57:42 -05:00
Fan Du
b0f9ca53cb ipv4: Namespecify TCP PMTU mechanism
Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery works separately beside
Path MTU Discovery at IP level, different net namespace has
various requirements on which one to chose, e.g., a virutalized
container instance would require TCP PMTU to probe an usable
effective mtu for underlying tunnel, while the host would
employ classical ICMP based PMTU to function.

Hence making TCP PMTU mechanism per net namespace to decouple
two functionality. Furthermore the probe base MSS should also
be configured separately for each namespace.

Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-02-09 18:45:00 -08:00
Joe Perches
ba7a46f16d net: Convert LIMIT_NETDEBUG to net_dbg_ratelimited
Use the more common dynamic_debug capable net_dbg_ratelimited
and remove the LIMIT_NETDEBUG macro.

All messages are still ratelimited.

Some KERN_<LEVEL> uses are changed to KERN_DEBUG.

This may have some negative impact on messages that were
emitted at KERN_INFO that are not not enabled at all unless
DEBUG is defined or dynamic_debug is enabled.  Even so,
these messages are now _not_ emitted by default.

This also eliminates the use of the net_msg_warn sysctl
"/proc/sys/net/core/warnings".  For backward compatibility,
the sysctl is not removed, but it has no function.  The extern
declaration of net_msg_warn is removed from sock.h and made
static in net/core/sysctl_net_core.c

Miscellanea:

o Update the sysctl documentation
o Remove the embedded uses of pr_fmt
o Coalesce format fragments
o Realign arguments

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-11 14:10:31 -05:00
Yuchung Cheng
b248230c34 tcp: abort orphan sockets stalling on zero window probes
Currently we have two different policies for orphan sockets
that repeatedly stall on zero window ACKs. If a socket gets
a zero window ACK when it is transmitting data, the RTO is
used to probe the window. The socket is aborted after roughly
tcp_orphan_retries() retries (as in tcp_write_timeout()).

But if the socket was idle when it received the zero window ACK,
and later wants to send more data, we use the probe timer to
probe the window. If the receiver always returns zero window ACKs,
icsk_probes keeps getting reset in tcp_ack() and the orphan socket
can stall forever until the system reaches the orphan limit (as
commented in tcp_probe_timer()). This opens up a simple attack
to create lots of hanging orphan sockets to burn the memory
and the CPU, as demonstrated in the recent netdev post "TCP
connection will hang in FIN_WAIT1 after closing if zero window is
advertised." http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg296539.html

This patch follows the design in RTO-based probe: we abort an orphan
socket stalling on zero window when the probe timer reaches both
the maximum backoff and the maximum RTO. For example, an 100ms RTT
connection will timeout after roughly 153 seconds (0.3 + 0.6 +
.... + 76.8) if the receiver keeps the window shut. If the orphan
socket passes this check, but the system already has too many orphans
(as in tcp_out_of_resources()), we still abort it but we'll also
send an RST packet as the connection may still be active.

In addition, we change TCP_USER_TIMEOUT to cover (life or dead)
sockets stalled on zero-window probes. This changes the semantics
of TCP_USER_TIMEOUT slightly because it previously only applies
when the socket has pending transmission.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Reported-by: Andrey Dmitrov <andrey.dmitrov@oktetlabs.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-01 16:27:52 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
fcdd1cf4dd tcp: avoid possible arithmetic overflows
icsk_rto is a 32bit field, and icsk_backoff can reach 15 by default,
or more if some sysctl (eg tcp_retries2) are changed.

Better use 64bit to perform icsk_rto << icsk_backoff operations

As Joe Perches suggested, add a helper for this.

Yuchung spotted the tcp_v4_err() case.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-22 16:27:10 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
7faee5c0d5 tcp: remove TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->when
After commit 740b0f1841 ("tcp: switch rtt estimations to usec resolution"),
we no longer need to maintain timestamps in two different fields.

TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->when can be removed, as same information sits in skb_mstamp.stamp_jiffies

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-05 17:49:33 -07:00
Neal Cardwell
5ae344c949 tcp: reduce spurious retransmits due to transient SACK reneging
This commit reduces spurious retransmits due to apparent SACK reneging
by only reacting to SACK reneging that persists for a short delay.

When a sequence space hole at snd_una is filled, some TCP receivers
send a series of ACKs as they apparently scan their out-of-order queue
and cumulatively ACK all the packets that have now been consecutiveyly
received. This is essentially misbehavior B in "Misbehaviors in TCP
SACK generation" ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, April
2011, so we suspect that this is from several common OSes (Windows
2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP). However, this issue has also
been seen in other cases, e.g. the netdev thread "TCP being hoodwinked
into spurious retransmissions by lack of timestamps?" from March 2014,
where the receiver was thought to be a BSD box.

Since snd_una would temporarily be adjacent to a previously SACKed
range in these scenarios, this receiver behavior triggered the Linux
SACK reneging code path in the sender. This led the sender to clear
the SACK scoreboard, enter CA_Loss, and spuriously retransmit
(potentially) every packet from the entire write queue at line rate
just a few milliseconds before the ACK for each packet arrives at the
sender.

To avoid such situations, now when a sender sees apparent reneging it
does not yet retransmit, but rather adjusts the RTO timer to give the
receiver a little time (max(RTT/2, 10ms)) to send us some more ACKs
that will restore sanity to the SACK scoreboard. If the reneging
persists until this RTO then, as before, we clear the SACK scoreboard
and enter CA_Loss.

A 10ms delay tolerates a receiver sending such a stream of ACKs at
56Kbit/sec. And to allow for receivers with slower or more congested
paths, we wait for at least RTT/2.

We validated the resulting max(RTT/2, 10ms) delay formula with a mix
of North American and South American Google web server traffic, and
found that for ACKs displaying transient reneging:

 (1) 90% of inter-ACK delays were less than 10ms
 (2) 99% of inter-ACK delays were less than RTT/2

In tests on Google web servers this commit reduced reneging events by
75%-90% (as measured by the TcpExtTCPSACKReneging counter), without
any measurable impact on latency for user HTTP and SPDY requests.

Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-08-05 16:29:33 -07:00
Yuchung Cheng
f19c29e3e3 tcp: snmp stats for Fast Open, SYN rtx, and data pkts
Add the following snmp stats:

TCPFastOpenActiveFail: Fast Open attempts (SYN/data) failed beacuse
the remote does not accept it or the attempts timed out.

TCPSynRetrans: number of SYN and SYN/ACK retransmits to break down
retransmissions into SYN, fast-retransmits, timeout retransmits, etc.

TCPOrigDataSent: number of outgoing packets with original data (excluding
retransmission but including data-in-SYN). This counter is different from
TcpOutSegs because TcpOutSegs also tracks pure ACKs. TCPOrigDataSent is
more useful to track the TCP retransmission rate.

Change TCPFastOpenActive to track only successful Fast Opens to be symmetric to
TCPFastOpenPassive.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Lawrence Brakmo <brakmo@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-03-03 15:58:03 -05:00
Yuchung Cheng
c968601d17 tcp: temporarily disable Fast Open on SYN timeout
Fast Open currently has a fall back feature to address SYN-data being
dropped but it requires the middle-box to pass on regular SYN retry
after SYN-data. This is implemented in commit aab487435 ("net-tcp:
Fast Open client - detecting SYN-data drops")

However some NAT boxes will drop all subsequent packets after first
SYN-data and blackholes the entire connections.  An example is in
commit 356d7d8 "netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix tcp_in_window for Fast
Open".

The sender should note such incidents and fall back to use the regular
TCP handshake on subsequent attempts temporarily as well: after the
second SYN timeouts the original Fast Open SYN is most likely lost.
When such an event recurs Fast Open is disabled based on the number of
recurrences exponentially.

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>
2013-10-29 22:50:41 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
efe4208f47 ipv6: make lookups simpler and faster
TCP listener refactoring, part 4 :

To speed up inet lookups, we moved IPv4 addresses from inet to struct
sock_common

Now is time to do the same for IPv6, because it permits us to have fast
lookups for all kind of sockets, including upcoming SYN_RECV.

Getting IPv6 addresses in TCP lookups currently requires two extra cache
lines, plus a dereference (and memory stall).

inet6_sk(sk) does the dereference of inet_sk(__sk)->pinet6

This patch is way bigger than its IPv4 counter part, because for IPv4,
we could add aliases (inet_daddr, inet_rcv_saddr), while on IPv6,
it's not doable easily.

inet6_sk(sk)->daddr becomes sk->sk_v6_daddr
inet6_sk(sk)->rcv_saddr becomes sk->sk_v6_rcv_saddr

And timewait socket also have tw->tw_v6_daddr & tw->tw_v6_rcv_saddr
at the same offset.

We get rid of INET6_TW_MATCH() as INET6_MATCH() is now the generic
macro.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-09 00:01:25 -04:00
Yuchung Cheng
9b44190dc1 tcp: refactor F-RTO
The patch series refactor the F-RTO feature (RFC4138/5682).

This is to simplify the loss recovery processing. Existing F-RTO
was developed during the experimental stage (RFC4138) and has
many experimental features.  It takes a separate code path from
the traditional timeout processing by overloading CA_Disorder
instead of using CA_Loss state. This complicates CA_Disorder state
handling because it's also used for handling dubious ACKs and undos.
While the algorithm in the RFC does not change the congestion control,
the implementation intercepts congestion control in various places
(e.g., frto_cwnd in tcp_ack()).

The new code implements newer F-RTO RFC5682 using CA_Loss processing
path.  F-RTO becomes a small extension in the timeout processing
and interfaces with congestion control and Eifel undo modules.
It lets congestion control (module) determines how many to send
independently.  F-RTO only chooses what to send in order to detect
spurious retranmission. If timeout is found spurious it invokes
existing Eifel undo algorithms like DSACK or TCP timestamp based
detection.

The first patch removes all F-RTO code except the sysctl_tcp_frto is
left for the new implementation.  Since CA_EVENT_FRTO is removed, TCP
westwood now computes ssthresh on regular timeout CA_EVENT_LOSS event.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-21 11:47:50 -04:00
Nandita Dukkipati
9b717a8d24 tcp: TLP loss detection.
This is the second of the TLP patch series; it augments the basic TLP
algorithm with a loss detection scheme.

This patch implements a mechanism for loss detection when a Tail
loss probe retransmission plugs a hole thereby masking packet loss
from the sender. The loss detection algorithm relies on counting
TLP dupacks as outlined in Sec. 3 of:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dukkipati-tcpm-tcp-loss-probe-01

The basic idea is: Sender keeps track of TLP "episode" upon
retransmission of a TLP packet. An episode ends when the sender receives
an ACK above the SND.NXT (tracked by tlp_high_seq) at the time of the
episode. We want to make sure that before the episode ends the sender
receives a "TLP dupack", indicating that the TLP retransmission was
unnecessary, so there was no loss/hole that needed plugging. If the
sender gets no TLP dupack before the end of the episode, then it reduces
ssthresh and the congestion window, because the TLP packet arriving at
the receiver probably plugged a hole.

Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-12 08:30:34 -04:00
Nandita Dukkipati
6ba8a3b19e tcp: Tail loss probe (TLP)
This patch series implement the Tail loss probe (TLP) algorithm described
in http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dukkipati-tcpm-tcp-loss-probe-01. The
first patch implements the basic algorithm.

TLP's goal is to reduce tail latency of short transactions. It achieves
this by converting retransmission timeouts (RTOs) occuring due
to tail losses (losses at end of transactions) into fast recovery.
TLP transmits one packet in two round-trips when a connection is in
Open state and isn't receiving any ACKs. The transmitted packet, aka
loss probe, can be either new or a retransmission. When there is tail
loss, the ACK from a loss probe triggers FACK/early-retransmit based
fast recovery, thus avoiding a costly RTO. In the absence of loss,
there is no change in the connection state.

PTO stands for probe timeout. It is a timer event indicating
that an ACK is overdue and triggers a loss probe packet. The PTO value
is set to max(2*SRTT, 10ms) and is adjusted to account for delayed
ACK timer when there is only one oustanding packet.

TLP Algorithm

On transmission of new data in Open state:
  -> packets_out > 1: schedule PTO in max(2*SRTT, 10ms).
  -> packets_out == 1: schedule PTO in max(2*RTT, 1.5*RTT + 200ms)
  -> PTO = min(PTO, RTO)

Conditions for scheduling PTO:
  -> Connection is in Open state.
  -> Connection is either cwnd limited or no new data to send.
  -> Number of probes per tail loss episode is limited to one.
  -> Connection is SACK enabled.

When PTO fires:
  new_segment_exists:
    -> transmit new segment.
    -> packets_out++. cwnd remains same.

  no_new_packet:
    -> retransmit the last segment.
       Its ACK triggers FACK or early retransmit based recovery.

ACK path:
  -> rearm RTO at start of ACK processing.
  -> reschedule PTO if need be.

In addition, the patch includes a small variation to the Early Retransmit
(ER) algorithm, such that ER and TLP together can in principle recover any
N-degree of tail loss through fast recovery. TLP is controlled by the same
sysctl as ER, tcp_early_retrans sysctl.
tcp_early_retrans==0; disables TLP and ER.
		 ==1; enables RFC5827 ER.
		 ==2; delayed ER.
		 ==3; TLP and delayed ER. [DEFAULT]
		 ==4; TLP only.

The TLP patch series have been extensively tested on Google Web servers.
It is most effective for short Web trasactions, where it reduced RTOs by 15%
and improved HTTP response time (average by 6%, 99th percentile by 10%).
The transmitted probes account for <0.5% of the overall transmissions.

Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-12 08:30:34 -04:00
David S. Miller
d4185bbf62 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c

Minor conflict between the BCM_CNIC define removal in net-next
and a bug fix added to net.  Based upon a conflict resolution
patch posted by Stephen Rothwell.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-10 18:32:51 -05:00
Eric Dumazet
e6c022a4fa tcp: better retrans tracking for defer-accept
For passive TCP connections using TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT facility,
we incorrectly increment req->retrans each time timeout triggers
while no SYNACK is sent.

SYNACK are not sent for TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT that were established (for
which we received the ACK from client). Only the last SYNACK is sent
so that we can receive again an ACK from client, to move the req into
accept queue. We plan to change this later to avoid the useless
retransmit (and potential problem as this SYNACK could be lost)

TCP_INFO later gives wrong information to user, claiming imaginary
retransmits.

Decouple req->retrans field into two independent fields :

num_retrans : number of retransmit
num_timeout : number of timeouts

num_timeout is the counter that is incremented at each timeout,
regardless of actual SYNACK being sent or not, and used to
compute the exponential timeout.

Introduce inet_rtx_syn_ack() helper to increment num_retrans
only if ->rtx_syn_ack() succeeded.

Use inet_rtx_syn_ack() from tcp_check_req() to increment num_retrans
when we re-send a SYNACK in answer to a (retransmitted) SYN.
Prior to this patch, we were not counting these retransmits.

Change tcp_v[46]_rtx_synack() to increment TCP_MIB_RETRANSSEGS
only if a synack packet was successfully queued.

Reported-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Cc: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com>
Cc: Elliott Hughes <enh@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-03 14:45:00 -04:00
Jerry Chu
37561f68bd tcp: Reject invalid ack_seq to Fast Open sockets
A packet with an invalid ack_seq may cause a TCP Fast Open socket to switch
to the unexpected TCP_CLOSING state, triggering a BUG_ON kernel panic.

When a FIN packet with an invalid ack_seq# arrives at a socket in
the TCP_FIN_WAIT1 state, rather than discarding the packet, the current
code will accept the FIN, causing state transition to TCP_CLOSING.

This may be a small deviation from RFC793, which seems to say that the
packet should be dropped. Unfortunately I did not expect this case for
Fast Open hence it will trigger a BUG_ON panic.

It turns out there is really nothing bad about a TFO socket going into
TCP_CLOSING state so I could just remove the BUG_ON statements. But after
some thought I think it's better to treat this case like TCP_SYN_RECV
and return a RST to the confused peer who caused the unacceptable ack_seq
to be generated in the first place.

Signed-off-by: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-23 02:42:56 -04:00
Jerry Chu
8336886f78 tcp: TCP Fast Open Server - support TFO listeners
This patch builds on top of the previous patch to add the support
for TFO listeners. This includes -

1. allocating, properly initializing, and managing the per listener
fastopen_queue structure when TFO is enabled

2. changes to the inet_csk_accept code to support TFO. E.g., the
request_sock can no longer be freed upon accept(), not until 3WHS
finishes

3. allowing a TCP_SYN_RECV socket to properly poll() and sendmsg()
if it's a TFO socket

4. properly closing a TFO listener, and a TFO socket before 3WHS
finishes

5. supporting TCP_FASTOPEN socket option

6. modifying tcp_check_req() to use to check a TFO socket as well
as request_sock

7. supporting TCP's TFO cookie option

8. adding a new SYN-ACK retransmit handler to use the timer directly
off the TFO socket rather than the listener socket. Note that TFO
server side will not retransmit anything other than SYN-ACK until
the 3WHS is completed.

The patch also contains an important function
"reqsk_fastopen_remove()" to manage the somewhat complex relation
between a listener, its request_sock, and the corresponding child
socket. See the comment above the function for the detail.

Signed-off-by: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-31 20:02:19 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
144d56e910 tcp: fix possible socket refcount problem
Commit 6f458dfb40 (tcp: improve latencies of timer triggered events)
added bug leading to following trace :

[ 2866.131281] IPv4: Attempt to release TCP socket in state 1 ffff880019ec0000
[ 2866.131726]
[ 2866.132188] =========================
[ 2866.132281] [ BUG: held lock freed! ]
[ 2866.132281] 3.6.0-rc1+ #622 Not tainted
[ 2866.132281] -------------------------
[ 2866.132281] kworker/0:1/652 is freeing memory ffff880019ec0000-ffff880019ec0a1f, with a lock still held there!
[ 2866.132281]  (sk_lock-AF_INET-RPC){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff81903619>] tcp_sendmsg+0x29/0xcc6
[ 2866.132281] 4 locks held by kworker/0:1/652:
[ 2866.132281]  #0:  (rpciod){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff81083567>] process_one_work+0x1de/0x47f
[ 2866.132281]  #1:  ((&task->u.tk_work)){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81083567>] process_one_work+0x1de/0x47f
[ 2866.132281]  #2:  (sk_lock-AF_INET-RPC){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff81903619>] tcp_sendmsg+0x29/0xcc6
[ 2866.132281]  #3:  (&icsk->icsk_retransmit_timer){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff81078017>] run_timer_softirq+0x1ad/0x35f
[ 2866.132281]
[ 2866.132281] stack backtrace:
[ 2866.132281] Pid: 652, comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 3.6.0-rc1+ #622
[ 2866.132281] Call Trace:
[ 2866.132281]  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff810bc527>] debug_check_no_locks_freed+0x112/0x159
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff818a0839>] ? __sk_free+0xfd/0x114
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff811549fa>] kmem_cache_free+0x6b/0x13a
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff818a0839>] __sk_free+0xfd/0x114
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff818a08c0>] sk_free+0x1c/0x1e
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81911e1c>] tcp_write_timer+0x51/0x56
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81078082>] run_timer_softirq+0x218/0x35f
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81078017>] ? run_timer_softirq+0x1ad/0x35f
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff810f5831>] ? rb_commit+0x58/0x85
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81911dcb>] ? tcp_write_timer_handler+0x148/0x148
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81070bd6>] __do_softirq+0xcb/0x1f9
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81a0a00c>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x29/0x2e
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81a1227c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81039f38>] do_softirq+0x4a/0xa6
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81070f2b>] irq_exit+0x51/0xad
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81a129cd>] do_IRQ+0x9d/0xb4
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81a0a3ef>] common_interrupt+0x6f/0x6f
[ 2866.132281]  <EOI>  [<ffffffff8109d006>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x58/0xd1
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81a0a172>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4c/0x56
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81078692>] mod_timer+0x178/0x1a9
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff818a00aa>] sk_reset_timer+0x19/0x26
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8190b2cc>] tcp_rearm_rto+0x99/0xa4
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8190dfba>] tcp_event_new_data_sent+0x6e/0x70
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8190f7ea>] tcp_write_xmit+0x7de/0x8e4
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff818a565d>] ? __alloc_skb+0xa0/0x1a1
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8190f952>] __tcp_push_pending_frames+0x2e/0x8a
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81904122>] tcp_sendmsg+0xb32/0xcc6
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff819229c2>] inet_sendmsg+0xaa/0xd5
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81922918>] ? inet_autobind+0x5f/0x5f
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff810ee7f1>] ? trace_clock_local+0x9/0xb
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8189adab>] sock_sendmsg+0xa3/0xc4
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff810f5de6>] ? rb_reserve_next_event+0x26f/0x2d5
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8103e6a9>] ? native_sched_clock+0x29/0x6f
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8103e6f8>] ? sched_clock+0x9/0xd
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff810ee7f1>] ? trace_clock_local+0x9/0xb
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8189ae03>] kernel_sendmsg+0x37/0x43
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8199ce49>] xs_send_kvec+0x77/0x80
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8199cec1>] xs_sendpages+0x6f/0x1a0
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8107826d>] ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0x55/0x61
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8199d0d2>] xs_tcp_send_request+0x55/0xf1
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8199bb90>] xprt_transmit+0x89/0x1db
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81999bcd>] ? call_connect+0x3c/0x3c
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81999d92>] call_transmit+0x1c5/0x20e
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff819a0d55>] __rpc_execute+0x6f/0x225
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81999bcd>] ? call_connect+0x3c/0x3c
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff819a0f33>] rpc_async_schedule+0x28/0x34
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff810835d6>] process_one_work+0x24d/0x47f
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81083567>] ? process_one_work+0x1de/0x47f
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff819a0f0b>] ? __rpc_execute+0x225/0x225
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81083a6d>] worker_thread+0x236/0x317
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81083837>] ? process_scheduled_works+0x2f/0x2f
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8108b7b8>] kthread+0x9a/0xa2
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81a12184>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81a0a4b0>] ? retint_restore_args+0x13/0x13
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8108b71e>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x5a/0x5a
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81a12180>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13
[ 2866.308506] IPv4: Attempt to release TCP socket in state 1 ffff880019ec0000
[ 2866.309689] =============================================================================
[ 2866.310254] BUG TCP (Not tainted): Object already free
[ 2866.310254] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ 2866.310254]

The bug comes from the fact that timer set in sk_reset_timer() can run
before we actually do the sock_hold(). socket refcount reaches zero and
we free the socket too soon.

timer handler is not allowed to reduce socket refcnt if socket is owned
by the user, or we need to change sk_reset_timer() implementation.

We should take a reference on the socket in case TCP_DELACK_TIMER_DEFERRED
or TCP_DELACK_TIMER_DEFERRED bit are set in tsq_flags

Also fix a typo in tcp_delack_timer(), where TCP_WRITE_TIMER_DEFERRED
was used instead of TCP_DELACK_TIMER_DEFERRED.

For consistency, use same socket refcount change for TCP_MTU_REDUCED_DEFERRED,
even if not fired from a timer.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-21 14:42:23 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
6f458dfb40 tcp: improve latencies of timer triggered events
Modern TCP stack highly depends on tcp_write_timer() having a small
latency, but current implementation doesn't exactly meet the
expectations.

When a timer fires but finds the socket is owned by the user, it rearms
itself for an additional delay hoping next run will be more
successful.

tcp_write_timer() for example uses a 50ms delay for next try, and it
defeats many attempts to get predictable TCP behavior in term of
latencies.

Use the recently introduced tcp_release_cb(), so that the user owning
the socket will call various handlers right before socket release.

This will permit us to post a followup patch to address the
tcp_tso_should_defer() syndrome (some deferred packets have to wait
RTO timer to be transmitted, while cwnd should allow us to send them
sooner)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Cc: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Cc: John Heffner <johnwheffner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-20 10:59:41 -07:00
Yuchung Cheng
750ea2bafa tcp: early retransmit: delayed fast retransmit
Implementing the advanced early retransmit (sysctl_tcp_early_retrans==2).
Delays the fast retransmit by an interval of RTT/4. We borrow the
RTO timer to implement the delay. If we receive another ACK or send
a new packet, the timer is cancelled and restored to original RTO
value offset by time elapsed.  When the delayed-ER timer fires,
we enter fast recovery and perform fast retransmit.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-02 20:56:10 -04:00
Joe Perches
afd465030a net: ipv4: Standardize prefixes for message logging
Add #define pr_fmt(fmt) as appropriate.

Add "IPv4: ", "TCP: ", and "IPsec: " to appropriate files.
Standardize on "UDPLite: " for appropriate uses.
Some prefixes were previously "UDPLITE: " and "UDP-Lite: ".

Add KBUILD_MODNAME ": " to icmp and gre.
Remove embedded prefixes as appropriate.

Add missing "\n" to pr_info in gre.c.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-03-12 17:05:21 -07:00
Arun Sharma
efcdbf24fd net: Disambiguate kernel message
Some of our machines were reporting:

TCP: too many of orphaned sockets

even when the number of orphaned sockets was well below the
limit.

We print a different message depending on whether we're out
of TCP memory or there are too many orphaned sockets.

Also move the check out of line and cleanup the messages
that were printed.

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Suggested-by: Mohan Srinivasan <mohan@fb.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-02-01 14:41:50 -05:00
Rusty Russell
3db1cd5c05 net: fix assignment of 0/1 to bool variables.
DaveM said:
   Please, this kind of stuff rots forever and not using bool properly
   drives me crazy.

Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> gave me the spatch script:

	@@
	bool b;
	@@
	-b = 0
	+b = false
	@@
	bool b;
	@@
	-b = 1
	+b = true

I merely installed coccinelle, read the documentation and took credit.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-19 22:27:29 -05:00
Glauber Costa
180d8cd942 foundations of per-cgroup memory pressure controlling.
This patch replaces all uses of struct sock fields' memory_pressure,
memory_allocated, sockets_allocated, and sysctl_mem to acessor
macros. Those macros can either receive a socket argument, or a mem_cgroup
argument, depending on the context they live in.

Since we're only doing a macro wrapping here, no performance impact at all is
expected in the case where we don't have cgroups disabled.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Hiroyouki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-12 19:04:10 -05:00
Eric Dumazet
dfd56b8b38 net: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
Instead of testing defined(CONFIG_IPV6) || defined(CONFIG_IPV6_MODULE)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-11 18:25:16 -05:00
Flavio Leitner
78d81d15b7 TCP: remove TCP_DEBUG
It was enabled by default and the messages guarded
by the define are useful.

Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-24 17:36:08 -04:00
Shan Wei
089c34827e tcp: Remove debug macro of TCP_CHECK_TIMER
Now, TCP_CHECK_TIMER is not used for debuging, it does nothing.
And, it has been there for several years, maybe 6 years.

Remove it to keep code clearer.

Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-02-20 11:10:14 -08:00