When receiver does not accept TCP Fast Open it will only ack the SYN, and not the data. We detect this and immediately queue the data for (re)transmission in tcp_rcv_fastopen_synack().
In DC networks with very low RTT and without RFS the SYN-ACK may arrive before NIC driver reported Tx completion on the original SYN. In which case skb_still_in_host_queue() returns true and sender will need to wait for the retransmission timer to fire milliseconds later. Work around this issue by passing negative segment count to __tcp_retransmit_skb() as suggested by Eric. The condition triggers more often when Tx coalescing is configured higher than Rx coalescing on the underlying NIC, but it does happen even with relatively moderate and even settings (e.g. 33us). Note that DC machines usually run configured to always accept TCP FastOpen data so the problem may not be very common. Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neil Spring <ntspr...@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <k...@kernel.org> --- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 3 ++- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 8 ++++++-- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c index 69a545db80d2..fb453a4799be 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -5994,8 +5994,9 @@ static bool tcp_rcv_fastopen_synack(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *synack, tp->fastopen_client_fail = TFO_SYN_RETRANSMITTED; else tp->fastopen_client_fail = TFO_DATA_NOT_ACKED; + /* segs = -1 to bypass skb_still_in_host_queue() check */ skb_rbtree_walk_from(data) { - if (__tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, data, 1)) + if (__tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, data, -1)) break; } tcp_rearm_rto(sk); diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c index fbf140a770d8..1d1489e59697 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c @@ -3155,8 +3155,12 @@ int __tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int segs) sk->sk_sndbuf)) return -EAGAIN; - if (skb_still_in_host_queue(sk, skb)) - return -EBUSY; + if (segs > 0) { + if (skb_still_in_host_queue(sk, skb)) + return -EBUSY; + } else { + segs = -segs; + } if (before(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq, tp->snd_una)) { if (unlikely(before(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq, tp->snd_una))) { -- 2.26.2