tcp: usec resolution SYN/ACK RTT

Currently SYN/ACK RTT is measured in jiffies. For LAN the SYN/ACK
RTT is often measured as 0ms or sometimes 1ms, which would affect
RTT estimation and min RTT samping used by some congestion control.

This patch improves SYN/ACK RTT to be usec resolution if platform
supports it. While the timestamping of SYN/ACK is done in request
sock, the RTT measurement is carefully arranged to avoid storing
another u64 timestamp in tcp_sock.

For regular handshake w/o SYNACK retransmission, the RTT is sampled
right after the child socket is created and right before the request
sock is released (tcp_check_req() in tcp_minisocks.c)

For Fast Open the child socket is already created when SYN/ACK was
sent, the RTT is sampled in tcp_rcv_state_process() after processing
the final ACK an right before the request socket is released.

If the SYN/ACK was retransmistted or SYN-cookie was used, we rely
on TCP timestamps to measure the RTT. The sample is taken at the
same place in tcp_rcv_state_process() after the timestamp values
are validated in tcp_validate_incoming(). Note that we do not store
TS echo value in request_sock for SYN-cookies, because the value
is already stored in tp->rx_opt used by tcp_ack_update_rtt().

One side benefit is that the RTT measurement now happens before
initializing congestion control (of the passive side). Therefore
the congestion control can use the SYN/ACK RTT.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/tcp.h b/include/linux/tcp.h
index 937b97893d5f..fcb573be75d9 100644
--- a/include/linux/tcp.h
+++ b/include/linux/tcp.h
@@ -112,11 +112,11 @@ struct tcp_request_sock_ops;
 struct tcp_request_sock {
 	struct inet_request_sock 	req;
 	const struct tcp_request_sock_ops *af_specific;
+	struct skb_mstamp		snt_synack; /* first SYNACK sent time */
 	bool				tfo_listener;
 	u32				txhash;
 	u32				rcv_isn;
 	u32				snt_isn;
-	u32				snt_synack; /* synack sent time */
 	u32				last_oow_ack_time; /* last SYNACK */
 	u32				rcv_nxt; /* the ack # by SYNACK. For
 						  * FastOpen it's the seq#