Merge branch 'tcp-exponential-backoff-in-tcp_send_ack'
authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 30 Sep 2020 21:21:30 +0000 (14:21 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 30 Sep 2020 21:21:30 +0000 (14:21 -0700)
commit9b5cbf469d7efb8553635b1f25a6337101dd5f00
treef1ce9d23e66fd51f5efcd7ea38663db68f27d5ca
parent20c168be684a97b084525906eb7ed017b7f9c0b8
parenta37c2134bed6f28c6d6aefa2699331e6e4e9c4f1
Merge branch 'tcp-exponential-backoff-in-tcp_send_ack'

Eric Dumazet says:

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tcp: exponential backoff in tcp_send_ack()

We had outages caused by repeated skb allocation failures in tcp_send_ack()

It is time to add exponential backoff to reduce number of attempts.
Before doing so, first patch removes icsk_ack.blocked to make
room for a new field (icsk_ack.retry)
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>