4.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> [ Upstream commit 522040ea5fdd1c33bbf75e1d7c7c0422b96a94ef ] ECN signals currently forces TCP to enter quickack mode for up to 16 (TCP_MAX_QUICKACKS) following incoming packets. We believe this is not needed, and only sending one immediate ack for the current packet should be enough. This should reduce the extra load noticed in DCTCP environments, after congestion events. This is part 2 of our effort to reduce pure ACK packets. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <[email protected]> Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <[email protected]> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ static void __tcp_ecn_check_ce(struct tc * it is probably a retransmit. */ if (tp->ecn_flags & TCP_ECN_SEEN) - tcp_enter_quickack_mode((struct sock *)tp, TCP_MAX_QUICKACKS); + tcp_enter_quickack_mode((struct sock *)tp, 1); break; case INET_ECN_CE: if (tcp_ca_needs_ecn((struct sock *)tp)) @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ static void __tcp_ecn_check_ce(struct tc if (!(tp->ecn_flags & TCP_ECN_DEMAND_CWR)) { /* Better not delay acks, sender can have a very low cwnd */ - tcp_enter_quickack_mode((struct sock *)tp, TCP_MAX_QUICKACKS); + tcp_enter_quickack_mode((struct sock *)tp, 1); tp->ecn_flags |= TCP_ECN_DEMAND_CWR; } tp->ecn_flags |= TCP_ECN_SEEN;
