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tcp: cubic: fix bug in bictcp_acked()

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While investigating about strange increase of retransmit rates
on hosts ~24 days after boot, Van found hystart was disabled
if ca->epoch_start was 0, as following condition is true
when tcp_time_stamp high order bit is set.

(s32)(tcp_time_stamp - ca->epoch_start) < HZ

Quoting Van :

 At initialization & after every loss ca->epoch_start is set to zero so
 I believe that the above line will turn off hystart as soon as the 2^31
 bit is set in tcp_time_stamp & hystart will stay off for 24 days.
 I think we've observed that cubic's restart is too aggressive without
 hystart so this might account for the higher drop rate we observe.

Diagnosed-by: Van Jacobson <vanj@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet 2013-08-05 20:05:12 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 15401946f9
commit cd6b423afd
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net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c
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@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ static void bictcp_acked(struct sock *sk, u32 cnt, s32 rtt_us)
return;
/* Discard delay samples right after fast recovery */
if ((s32)(tcp_time_stamp - ca->epoch_start) < HZ)
if (ca->epoch_start && (s32)(tcp_time_stamp - ca->epoch_start) < HZ)
return;
delay = (rtt_us << 3) / USEC_PER_MSEC;