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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 15:08:57 -0700
Subject: tcp: do not aggressively quick ack after ECN events
Git-commit: 522040ea5fdd1c33bbf75e1d7c7c0422b96a94ef
Patch-mainline: v4.18-rc1
References: netfilter-stable-18_08_01

ECN signals currently forces TCP to enter quickack mode for
up to 16 (TCP_MAX_QUICKACKS) following incoming packets.

We believe this is not needed, and only sending one immediate ack
for the current packet should be enough.

This should reduce the extra load noticed in DCTCP environments,
after congestion events.

This is part 2 of our effort to reduce pure ACK packets.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ static void __tcp_ecn_check_ce(struct tc
 		 * it is probably a retransmit.
 		 */
 		if (tp->ecn_flags & TCP_ECN_SEEN)
-			tcp_enter_quickack_mode((struct sock *)tp, TCP_MAX_QUICKACKS);
+			tcp_enter_quickack_mode((struct sock *)tp, 1);
 		break;
 	case INET_ECN_CE:
 		if (tcp_ca_needs_ecn((struct sock *)tp))
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ static void __tcp_ecn_check_ce(struct tc
 
 		if (!(tp->ecn_flags & TCP_ECN_DEMAND_CWR)) {
 			/* Better not delay acks, sender can have a very low cwnd */
-			tcp_enter_quickack_mode((struct sock *)tp, TCP_MAX_QUICKACKS);
+			tcp_enter_quickack_mode((struct sock *)tp, 1);
 			tp->ecn_flags |= TCP_ECN_DEMAND_CWR;
 		}
 		tp->ecn_flags |= TCP_ECN_SEEN;