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SubjectRe: [net-next,v3] tcp: Improve setsockopt() TCP_USER_TIMEOUT accuracy
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On 07/10/2018 05:33 PM, Jonathan Maxwell wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:48 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 07/10/2018 05:38 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>
>>> Note that if we always do jiffies_to_msecs(icsk->icsk_user_timeout) in TCP,
>>> we also could change the convention and store msecs in this field instead of jiffies.
>>>
>>> That would eliminate the msecs_to_jiffies() and jiffies_to_msecs() dance.
>>>
>>> (That would be done in a patch of its own, of course)
>>
>> tcp_keepalive_timer() does use icsk->icsk_user_timeout directly in jiffies unit,
>> but considering keeapalive timers are rarely used, this point would have to
>> do the msecs_to_jiffies() conversion.
>
> and also if icsk->icsk_user_timeout = 0, then timeout in retransmits_timed_out()
> is in jiffies and that would need to addressed.

Absolutely, this is what I was suggesting.

Pseudo code for this part, before your changes.

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
index 3b3611729928f77934e0298bb248e55c7a7c5def..cae7bbc956ed51e9d381650957f54550cc0967d9 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -183,8 +183,9 @@ static bool retransmits_timed_out(struct sock *sk,
else
timeout = ((2 << linear_backoff_thresh) - 1) * rto_base +
(boundary - linear_backoff_thresh) * TCP_RTO_MAX;
+ timeout = jiffies_to_msecs(timeout)'
}
- return (tcp_time_stamp(tcp_sk(sk)) - start_ts) >= jiffies_to_msecs(timeout);
+ return (tcp_time_stamp(tcp_sk(sk)) - start_ts) >= timeout;
}

/* A write timeout has occurred. Process the after effects. */

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