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After commitdfa2f04833("tcp: get rid of sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale"), we noticed an application-level timeout due to reduced throughput. Before the commit, for a client that sets SO_RCVBUF to 65k, it takes around 22 seconds to transfer 10M data. After the commit, it takes 40 seconds. Because our application has a 30-second timeout, this regression broke the application. The reason that it takes longer to transfer data is that tp->scaling_ratio is initialized to a value that results in ~0.25 of rcvbuf. In our case, SO_RCVBUF is set to 65536 by the application, which translates to 2 * 65536 = 131,072 bytes in rcvbuf and hence a ~28k initial receive window. Later, even though the scaling_ratio is updated to a more accurate skb->len/skb->truesize, which is ~0.66 in our environment, the window stays at ~0.25 * rcvbuf. This is because tp->window_clamp does not change together with the tp->scaling_ratio update when autotuning is disabled due to SO_RCVBUF. As a result, the window size is capped at the initial window_clamp, which is also ~0.25 * rcvbuf, and never grows bigger. Most modern applications let the kernel do autotuning, and benefit from the increased scaling_ratio. But there are applications such as kafka that has a default setting of SO_RCVBUF=64k. This patch increases the initial scaling_ratio from ~25% to 50% in order to make it backward compatible with the original default sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale for applications setting SO_RCVBUF. Fixes:dfa2f04833("tcp: get rid of sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale") Signed-off-by: Hechao Li <hli@netflix.com> Reviewed-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.pizza> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240402215405.432863-1-hli@netflix.com/ Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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