tcp: make tcp_space() aware of socket backlog
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 22:42:02 +0000 (14:42 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 21:26:54 +0000 (13:26 -0800)
commit85bdf7db5b53cdcc7a901db12bcb3d0063e3866d
treee408a0ec64c3b6dcaf94a4a6d1583a33b26ca248
parent19119f298bb1f2af3bb1093f5f2a1fed8da94e37
tcp: make tcp_space() aware of socket backlog

Jean-Louis Dupond reported poor iscsi TCP receive performance
that we tracked to backlog drops.

Apparently we fail to send window updates reflecting the
fact that we are under stress.

Note that we might lack a proper window increase when
backlog is fully processed, since __release_sock() clears
sk->sk_backlog.len _after_ all skbs have been processed.

This should not matter in practice. If we had a significant
load through socket backlog, we are in a dangerous
situation.

Reported-by: Jean-Louis Dupond <jean-louis@dupond.be>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Tested-by: Jean-Louis Dupond<jean-louis@dupond.be>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/net/tcp.h