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Jakub and Neil reported an increase of RTO timers whenever
TX completions are delayed a bit more (by increasing
NIC TX coalescing parameters)
Main issue is that TCP stack has a logic preventing a packet
being retransmit if the prior clone has not yet been
orphaned or freed.
This logic came with commit 1f3279ae0c ("tcp: avoid
retransmits of TCP packets hanging in host queues")
Thankfully, in the case skb_still_in_host_queue() detects
the initial clone is still in flight, it can use TSQ logic
that will eventually retry later, at the moment the clone
is freed or orphaned.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Neil Spring <ntspring@fb.com>
Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.