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Yuchung Cheng e33099f96d tcp: implement RFC5682 F-RTO
This patch implements F-RTO (foward RTO recovery):

When the first retransmission after timeout is acknowledged, F-RTO
sends new data instead of old data. If the next ACK acknowledges
some never-retransmitted data, then the timeout was spurious and the
congestion state is reverted.  Otherwise if the next ACK selectively
acknowledges the new data, then the timeout was genuine and the
loss recovery continues. This idea applies to recurring timeouts
as well. While F-RTO sends different data during timeout recovery,
it does not (and should not) change the congestion control.

The implementaion follows the three steps of SACK enhanced algorithm
(section 3) in RFC5682. Step 1 is in tcp_enter_loss(). Step 2 and
3 are in tcp_process_loss().  The basic version is not supported
because SACK enhanced version also works for non-SACK connections.

The new implementation is functionally in parity with the old F-RTO
implementation except the one case where it increases undo events:
In addition to the RFC algorithm, a spurious timeout may be detected
without sending data in step 2, as long as the SACK confirms not
all the original data are dropped. When this happens, the sender
will undo the cwnd and perhaps enter fast recovery instead. This
additional check increases the F-RTO undo events by 5x compared
to the prior implementation on Google Web servers, since the sender
often does not have new data to send for HTTP.

Note F-RTO may detect spurious timeout before Eifel with timestamps
does so.

Signed-off-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>
2013-03-21 11:47:51 -04:00
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accounting doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c 2012-11-26 14:22:21 +01:00
acpi ACPI / Documentation: refer to correct file for acpi_platform_device_ids[] table 2013-02-13 13:43:02 +01:00
aoe aoe: allow user to disable target failure timeout 2012-12-17 17:15:25 -08:00
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arm64 arm64: Add simple earlyprintk support 2013-01-22 17:51:01 +00:00
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blackfin Documentation: Fix typo in multiple files in Documentation 2012-04-16 14:37:13 +02:00
block cfq-iosched: enable full blkcg hierarchy support 2013-01-09 08:05:11 -08:00
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dvb [media] get_dvb_firmware: Fix the location of firmware for Terratec HTC 2013-01-01 11:18:26 -02:00
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