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net: call cond_resched() less often in __release_sock()

While stress testing TCP I had unexpected retransmits and sack packets
when a single cpu receives data from multiple high-throughput flows.

super_netperf 4 -H srv -T,10 -l 3000 &

Tcpdump extract:

00:00:00.000007 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [.], seq 26062848:26124288, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651460834 ecr 3100749131], length 61440
00:00:00.000006 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [.], seq 26124288:26185728, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651460834 ecr 3100749131], length 61440
00:00:00.000005 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [P.], seq 26185728:26243072, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651460834 ecr 3100749131], length 57344
00:00:00.000006 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [.], seq 26243072:26304512, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651460844 ecr 3100749141], length 61440
00:00:00.000005 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [.], seq 26304512:26365952, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651460844 ecr 3100749141], length 61440
00:00:00.000007 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [P.], seq 26365952:26423296, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651460844 ecr 3100749141], length 57344
00:00:00.000006 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [.], seq 26423296:26484736, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651460853 ecr 3100749150], length 61440
00:00:00.000005 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [.], seq 26484736:26546176, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651460853 ecr 3100749150], length 61440
00:00:00.000005 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [P.], seq 26546176:26603520, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651460853 ecr 3100749150], length 57344
00:00:00.003932 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [P.], seq 26603520:26619904, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651464844 ecr 3100753141], length 16384
00:00:00.006602 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [.], seq 24862720:24866816, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651471419 ecr 3100759716], length 4096
00:00:00.013000 IP6 clnt > srv: Flags [.], seq 24862720:24866816, ack 1, win 66, options [nop,nop,TS val 651484421 ecr 3100772718], length 4096
00:00:00.000416 IP6 srv > clnt: Flags [.], ack 26619904, win 1393, options [nop,nop,TS val 3100773185 ecr 651484421,nop,nop,sack 1 {24862720:24866816}], length 0

After analysis, it appears this is because of the cond_resched()
call from __release_sock().

When current thread is yielding, while still holding the TCP socket lock,
it might regain the cpu after a very long time.

Other peer TLP/RTO is firing (multiple times) and packets are retransmit,
while the initial copy is waiting in the socket backlog or receive queue.

In this patch, I call cond_resched() only once every 16 packets.

Modern TCP stack now spends less time per packet in the backlog,
especially because ACK are no longer sent (commit 133c4c0d3717
"tcp: defer regular ACK while processing socket backlog")

Before:

clnt:/# nstat -n;sleep 10;nstat|egrep "TcpOutSegs|TcpRetransSegs|TCPFastRetrans|TCPTimeouts|Probes|TCPSpuriousRTOs|DSACK"
TcpOutSegs 19046186 0.0
TcpRetransSegs 1471 0.0
TcpExtTCPTimeouts 1397 0.0
TcpExtTCPLossProbes 1356 0.0
TcpExtTCPDSACKRecv 1352 0.0
TcpExtTCPSpuriousRTOs 114 0.0
TcpExtTCPDSACKRecvSegs 1352 0.0

After:

clnt:/# nstat -n;sleep 10;nstat|egrep "TcpOutSegs|TcpRetransSegs|TCPFastRetrans|TCPTimeouts|Probes|TCPSpuriousRTOs|DSACK"
TcpOutSegs 19218936 0.0

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250903174811.1930820-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

authored by

Eric Dumazet and committed by
Jakub Kicinski
16c61016 abfa70b3

+8 -4
+8 -4
net/core/sock.c
··· 3165 3165 __acquires(&sk->sk_lock.slock) 3166 3166 { 3167 3167 struct sk_buff *skb, *next; 3168 + int nb = 0; 3168 3169 3169 3170 while ((skb = sk->sk_backlog.head) != NULL) { 3170 3171 sk->sk_backlog.head = sk->sk_backlog.tail = NULL; 3171 3172 3172 3173 spin_unlock_bh(&sk->sk_lock.slock); 3173 3174 3174 - do { 3175 + while (1) { 3175 3176 next = skb->next; 3176 3177 prefetch(next); 3177 3178 DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE(skb_dst_is_noref(skb)); 3178 3179 skb_mark_not_on_list(skb); 3179 3180 sk_backlog_rcv(sk, skb); 3180 3181 3181 - cond_resched(); 3182 - 3183 3182 skb = next; 3184 - } while (skb != NULL); 3183 + if (!skb) 3184 + break; 3185 + 3186 + if (!(++nb & 15)) 3187 + cond_resched(); 3188 + } 3185 3189 3186 3190 spin_lock_bh(&sk->sk_lock.slock); 3187 3191 }