There's no reason to clear the sacktag skb hint when small part
of the rexmit queue changes. Account changes (if any) instead when
fragmenting/collapsing. RTO/FRTO do not touch SACKED_ACKED bits so
no need to discard SACK tag hint at all.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 include/net/tcp.h     |    6 +++++-
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c  |   14 ++++++++------
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c |   12 ++++++++----
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index 16dfe3c..07b1faa 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -1067,11 +1067,15 @@ static inline void tcp_mib_init(void)
 }
 
 /* from STCP */
-static inline void tcp_clear_all_retrans_hints(struct tcp_sock *tp) {
+static inline void tcp_clear_retrans_hints_partial(struct tcp_sock *tp) {
        tp->lost_skb_hint = NULL;
        tp->scoreboard_skb_hint = NULL;
        tp->retransmit_skb_hint = NULL;
        tp->forward_skb_hint = NULL;
+}
+
+static inline void tcp_clear_all_retrans_hints(struct tcp_sock *tp) {
+       tcp_clear_retrans_hints_partial(tp);
        tp->fastpath_skb_hint = NULL;
 }
 
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 02b549b..1092b5a 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -1674,7 +1674,7 @@ static void tcp_enter_frto_loss(struct sock *sk, int 
allowed_segments, int flag)
        tp->high_seq = tp->frto_highmark;
        TCP_ECN_queue_cwr(tp);
 
-       tcp_clear_all_retrans_hints(tp);
+       tcp_clear_retrans_hints_partial(tp);
 }
 
 void tcp_clear_retrans(struct tcp_sock *tp)
@@ -1714,10 +1714,14 @@ void tcp_enter_loss(struct sock *sk, int how)
        tp->bytes_acked = 0;
        tcp_clear_retrans(tp);
 
-       /* Push undo marker, if it was plain RTO and nothing
-        * was retransmitted. */
-       if (!how)
+       if (!how) {
+               /* Push undo marker, if it was plain RTO and nothing
+                * was retransmitted. */
                tp->undo_marker = tp->snd_una;
+               tcp_clear_retrans_hints_partial(tp);
+       } else {
+               tcp_clear_all_retrans_hints(tp);
+       }
 
        tcp_for_write_queue(skb, sk) {
                if (skb == tcp_send_head(sk))
@@ -1744,8 +1748,6 @@ void tcp_enter_loss(struct sock *sk, int how)
        TCP_ECN_queue_cwr(tp);
        /* Abort FRTO algorithm if one is in progress */
        tp->frto_counter = 0;
-
-       tcp_clear_all_retrans_hints(tp);
 }
 
 static int tcp_check_sack_reneging(struct sock *sk)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index f46d24b..cbb83ac 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -687,7 +687,7 @@ int tcp_fragment(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, u32 
len, unsigned int mss
 
        BUG_ON(len > skb->len);
 
-       tcp_clear_all_retrans_hints(tp);
+       tcp_clear_retrans_hints_partial(tp);
        nsize = skb_headlen(skb) - len;
        if (nsize < 0)
                nsize = 0;
@@ -1718,9 +1718,6 @@ static void tcp_retrans_try_collapse(struct sock *sk, 
struct sk_buff *skb, int m
                BUG_ON(tcp_skb_pcount(skb) != 1 ||
                       tcp_skb_pcount(next_skb) != 1);
 
-               /* changing transmit queue under us so clear hints */
-               tcp_clear_all_retrans_hints(tp);
-
                /* Ok.  We will be able to collapse the packet. */
                tcp_unlink_write_queue(next_skb, sk);
 
@@ -1759,6 +1756,13 @@ static void tcp_retrans_try_collapse(struct sock *sk, 
struct sk_buff *skb, int m
 
                tcp_adjust_fackets_out(tp, skb, tcp_skb_pcount(next_skb));
                tp->packets_out -= tcp_skb_pcount(next_skb);
+
+               /* changed transmit queue under us so clear hints */
+               tcp_clear_retrans_hints_partial(tp);
+               /* manually tune sacktag skb hint */
+               if (tp->fastpath_skb_hint == next_skb)
+                       tp->fastpath_skb_hint = skb;
+
                sk_stream_free_skb(sk, next_skb);
        }
 }
-- 
1.5.0.6

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