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[net-next,v3,0/3] net: tcp: support probing OOM

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Series net: tcp: support probing OOM | expand

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Menglong Dong Aug. 8, 2023, 11:58 a.m. UTC
From: Menglong Dong <imagedong@tencent.com>

In this series, we make some small changes to make the tcp retransmission
become zero-window probes if the receiver drops the skb because of memory
pressure.

In the 1st patch, we reply a zero-window ACK if the skb is dropped
because out of memory, instead of dropping the skb silently.

In the 2nd patch, we allow a zero-window ACK to update the window.

In the 3rd patch, fix unexcepted socket die when snd_wnd is 0 in
tcp_retransmit_timer().

After these changes, the tcp can probe the OOM of the receiver forever.

Changes since v2:
- refactor the code to avoid code duplication in the 1st patch
- use after() instead of max() in tcp_rtx_probe0_timed_out()

Changes since v1:
- send 0 rwin ACK for the receive queue empty case when necessary in the
  1st patch
- send the ACK immediately by using the ICSK_ACK_NOW flag in the 1st
  patch
- consider the case of the connection restart from idle, as Neal comment,
  in the 3rd patch

Menglong Dong (3):
  net: tcp: send zero-window ACK when no memory
  net: tcp: allow zero-window ACK update the window
  net: tcp: fix unexcepted socket die when snd_wnd is 0

 include/net/inet_connection_sock.h |  3 ++-
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c               | 20 +++++++++++++-------
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c              | 14 +++++++++++---
 net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c               | 14 +++++++++++++-
 4 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Comments

Menglong Dong Aug. 8, 2023, 1:07 p.m. UTC | #1
> On Aug 8, 2023, at 20:49, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 1:59 PM <menglong8.dong@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
[……]
>> 
>> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
>> index d45c96c7f5a4..f30d1467771c 100644
>> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
>> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
>> @@ -454,6 +454,18 @@ static void tcp_fastopen_synack_timer(struct sock *sk, struct request_sock *req)
>>                          req->timeout << req->num_timeout, TCP_RTO_MAX);
>> }
>> 
>> +static bool tcp_rtx_probe0_timed_out(struct sock *sk)
> 
> const struct sock *sk
> 
>> +{
>> +       struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
> 
> const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
> 
>> +       u32 timeout_ts, rtx_ts, rcv_ts;
>> +
>> +       rtx_ts = tp->retrans_stamp;
>> +       rcv_ts = tp->rcv_tstamp;
>> +       timeout_ts = after(rtx_ts, rcv_ts) ? rtx_ts : rcv_ts;
>> +       timeout_ts += TCP_RTO_MAX;
> 
> If we are concerned with a socket dying too soon, I would suggest
> adding 2*TCP_RTO_MAX instead of TCP_RTO_MAX
> 
> When a receiver is OOMing, it is possible the ACK RWIN 0 can not be sent all,
> so tp->rcv_tstamp will not be refreshed. Or ACK could be lost in the
> network path.

Yeah, I concern abort this too. I introduce the funtion “tcp_rtx_probe0_timed_out()”
here is to offer a more reliable way to check the timeout in the feature.
And for this time, we can fix the problem first, as you advised, adding
2*TCP_RTO_MAX instead of TCP_RTO_MAX.

> This also suggests the net_dbg_ratelimited("Peer %pI4:%u/%u
> unexpectedly shrunk window %u:%u (repaired)\n"...) messages
> are slightly wrong, because they could be printed even if we did not
> receive a new ACK packet from the remote peer.
> 
> Perhaps we should change them to include delays (how long @skb stayed
> in rtx queue, how old is the last ACK we received)

Sounds great, which is more valuable. I’ll change them
in the next version.

Thanks!
Menglong Dong

>> +
>> +       return after(inet_csk(sk)->icsk_timeout, timeout_ts);
>> +}
>> 
>> /**
>>  *  tcp_retransmit_timer() - The TCP retransmit timeout handler
>> @@ -519,7 +531,7 @@ void tcp_retransmit_timer(struct sock *sk)
>>                                            tp->snd_una, tp->snd_nxt);
>>                }
>> #endif
>> -               if (tcp_jiffies32 - tp->rcv_tstamp > TCP_RTO_MAX) {
>> +               if (tcp_rtx_probe0_timed_out(sk)) {
>>                        tcp_write_err(sk);
>>                        goto out;
>>                }
>> --
>> 2.40.1