[TCP]: Move to new TSO segmenting scheme.

Make TSO segment transmit size decisions at send time not earlier.

The basic scheme is that we try to build as large a TSO frame as
possible when pulling in the user data, but the size of the TSO frame
output to the card is determined at transmit time.

This is guided by tp->xmit_size_goal.  It is always set to a multiple
of MSS and tells sendmsg/sendpage how large an SKB to try and build.

Later, tcp_write_xmit() and tcp_push_one() chop up the packet if
necessary and conditions warrant.  These routines can also decide to
"defer" in order to wait for more ACKs to arrive and thus allow larger
TSO frames to be emitted.

A general observation is that TSO elongates the pipe, thus requiring a
larger congestion window and larger buffering especially at the sender
side.  Therefore, it is important that applications 1) get a large
enough socket send buffer (this is accomplished by our dynamic send
buffer expansion code) 2) do large enough writes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/tcp.h b/include/linux/tcp.h
index dfd93d0..e4fd82e 100644
--- a/include/linux/tcp.h
+++ b/include/linux/tcp.h
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ struct tcp_sock {
 	__u32	max_window;	/* Maximal window ever seen from peer	*/
 	__u32	pmtu_cookie;	/* Last pmtu seen by socket		*/
 	__u32	mss_cache;	/* Cached effective mss, not including SACKS */
-	__u16	mss_cache_std;	/* Like mss_cache, but without TSO */
+	__u16	xmit_size_goal;	/* Goal for segmenting output packets	*/
 	__u16	ext_header_len;	/* Network protocol overhead (IP/IPv6 options) */
 	__u8	ca_state;	/* State of fast-retransmit machine 	*/
 	__u8	retransmits;	/* Number of unrecovered RTO timeouts.	*/
diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index b192380..a166918 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -862,7 +862,7 @@ extern int  tcp_write_wakeup(struct sock *);
 extern void tcp_send_fin(struct sock *sk);
 extern void tcp_send_active_reset(struct sock *sk, int priority);
 extern int  tcp_send_synack(struct sock *);
-extern void tcp_push_one(struct sock *, unsigned mss_now);
+extern void tcp_push_one(struct sock *, unsigned int mss_now);
 extern void tcp_send_ack(struct sock *sk);
 extern void tcp_send_delayed_ack(struct sock *sk);
 
@@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ static inline void tcp_reset_xmit_timer(struct sock *sk, int what, unsigned long
 static inline void tcp_initialize_rcv_mss(struct sock *sk)
 {
 	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
-	unsigned int hint = min(tp->advmss, tp->mss_cache_std);
+	unsigned int hint = min_t(unsigned int, tp->advmss, tp->mss_cache);
 
 	hint = min(hint, tp->rcv_wnd/2);
 	hint = min(hint, TCP_MIN_RCVMSS);