rxrpc: Save last ACK's SACK table rather than marking txbufs

Improve the tracking of which packets need to be transmitted by saving the
last ACK packet that we receive that has a populated soft-ACK table rather
than marking packets.  Then we can step through the soft-ACK table and look
at the packets we've transmitted beyond that to determine which packets we
might want to retransmit.

We also look at the highest serial number that has been acked to try and
guess which packets we've transmitted the peer is likely to have seen.  If
necessary, we send a ping to retrieve that number.

One downside that might be a problem is that we can't then compare the
previous acked/unacked state so easily in rxrpc_input_soft_acks() - which
is a potential problem for the slow-start algorithm.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
This commit is contained in:
David Howells
2022-05-07 10:06:13 +01:00
parent 4e76bd406d
commit d57a3a1516
7 changed files with 186 additions and 120 deletions

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@@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ struct rxrpc_call *rxrpc_alloc_call(struct rxrpc_sock *rx, gfp_t gfp,
spin_lock_init(&call->notify_lock);
spin_lock_init(&call->tx_lock);
spin_lock_init(&call->input_lock);
spin_lock_init(&call->acks_ack_lock);
rwlock_init(&call->state_lock);
refcount_set(&call->ref, 1);
call->debug_id = debug_id;
@@ -701,6 +702,7 @@ void rxrpc_cleanup_call(struct rxrpc_call *call)
rxrpc_put_txbuf(txb, rxrpc_txbuf_put_cleaned);
}
rxrpc_put_txbuf(call->tx_pending, rxrpc_txbuf_put_cleaned);
rxrpc_free_skb(call->acks_soft_tbl, rxrpc_skb_cleaned);
call_rcu(&call->rcu, rxrpc_rcu_destroy_call);
}