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<title>tcp: use an RB tree for ooo receive queue</title>
<updated>2018-10-13T07:11:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yaogong Wang</name>
<email>wygivan@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-14T08:24:06+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9f5afeae51526b3ad7b7cb21ee8b145ce6ea7a7a ]

Over the years, TCP BDP has increased by several orders of magnitude,
and some people are considering to reach the 2 Gbytes limit.

Even with current window scale limit of 14, ~1 Gbytes maps to ~740,000
MSS.

In presence of packet losses (or reorders), TCP stores incoming packets
into an out of order queue, and number of skbs sitting there waiting for
the missing packets to be received can be in the 10^5 range.

Most packets are appended to the tail of this queue, and when
packets can finally be transferred to receive queue, we scan the queue
from its head.

However, in presence of heavy losses, we might have to find an arbitrary
point in this queue, involving a linear scan for every incoming packet,
throwing away cpu caches.

This patch converts it to a RB tree, to get bounded latencies.

Yaogong wrote a preliminary patch about 2 years ago.
Eric did the rebase, added ofo_last_skb cache, polishing and tests.

Tested with network dropping between 1 and 10 % packets, with good
success (about 30 % increase of throughput in stress tests)

Next step would be to also use an RB tree for the write queue at sender
side ;)

Signed-off-by: Yaogong Wang &lt;wygivan@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Cc: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi&gt;
Acked-By: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mao Wenan &lt;maowenan@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 9f5afeae51526b3ad7b7cb21ee8b145ce6ea7a7a ]

Over the years, TCP BDP has increased by several orders of magnitude,
and some people are considering to reach the 2 Gbytes limit.

Even with current window scale limit of 14, ~1 Gbytes maps to ~740,000
MSS.

In presence of packet losses (or reorders), TCP stores incoming packets
into an out of order queue, and number of skbs sitting there waiting for
the missing packets to be received can be in the 10^5 range.

Most packets are appended to the tail of this queue, and when
packets can finally be transferred to receive queue, we scan the queue
from its head.

However, in presence of heavy losses, we might have to find an arbitrary
point in this queue, involving a linear scan for every incoming packet,
throwing away cpu caches.

This patch converts it to a RB tree, to get bounded latencies.

Yaogong wrote a preliminary patch about 2 years ago.
Eric did the rebase, added ofo_last_skb cache, polishing and tests.

Tested with network dropping between 1 and 10 % packets, with good
success (about 30 % increase of throughput in stress tests)

Next step would be to also use an RB tree for the write queue at sender
side ;)

Signed-off-by: Yaogong Wang &lt;wygivan@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Cc: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi&gt;
Acked-By: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mao Wenan &lt;maowenan@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tcp: avoid integer overflows in tcp_rcv_space_adjust()</title>
<updated>2018-06-06T14:46:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-11T01:55:03+00:00</published>
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commit 607065bad9931e72207b0cac365d7d4abc06bd99 upstream.

When using large tcp_rmem[2] values (I did tests with 500 MB),
I noticed overflows while computing rcvwin.

Lets fix this before the following patch.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh &lt;soheil@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Wei Wang &lt;weiwan@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[Backport: sysctl_tcp_rmem is not Namespace-ify'd in older kernels]
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 607065bad9931e72207b0cac365d7d4abc06bd99 upstream.

When using large tcp_rmem[2] values (I did tests with 500 MB),
I noticed overflows while computing rcvwin.

Lets fix this before the following patch.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh &lt;soheil@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Wei Wang &lt;weiwan@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[Backport: sysctl_tcp_rmem is not Namespace-ify'd in older kernels]
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>tcp: __tcp_hdrlen() helper</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T11:06:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Craig Gallek</name>
<email>kraig@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-10T16:50:37+00:00</published>
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commit d9b3fca27385eafe61c3ca6feab6cb1e7dc77482 upstream.

tcp_hdrlen is wasteful if you already have a pointer to struct tcphdr.
This splits the size calculation into a helper function that can be
used if a struct tcphdr is already available.

Signed-off-by: Craig Gallek &lt;kraig@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d9b3fca27385eafe61c3ca6feab6cb1e7dc77482 upstream.

tcp_hdrlen is wasteful if you already have a pointer to struct tcphdr.
This splits the size calculation into a helper function that can be
used if a struct tcphdr is already available.

Signed-off-by: Craig Gallek &lt;kraig@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>tcp: fix tcp_fastopen unaligned access complaints on sparc</title>
<updated>2017-02-04T08:45:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shannon Nelson</name>
<email>shannon.nelson@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-12T22:24:58+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 003c941057eaa868ca6fedd29a274c863167230d ]

Fix up a data alignment issue on sparc by swapping the order
of the cookie byte array field with the length field in
struct tcp_fastopen_cookie, and making it a proper union
to clean up the typecasting.

This addresses log complaints like these:
    log_unaligned: 113 callbacks suppressed
    Kernel unaligned access at TPC[976490] tcp_try_fastopen+0x2d0/0x360
    Kernel unaligned access at TPC[9764ac] tcp_try_fastopen+0x2ec/0x360
    Kernel unaligned access at TPC[9764c8] tcp_try_fastopen+0x308/0x360
    Kernel unaligned access at TPC[9764e4] tcp_try_fastopen+0x324/0x360
    Kernel unaligned access at TPC[976490] tcp_try_fastopen+0x2d0/0x360

Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson &lt;shannon.nelson@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 003c941057eaa868ca6fedd29a274c863167230d ]

Fix up a data alignment issue on sparc by swapping the order
of the cookie byte array field with the length field in
struct tcp_fastopen_cookie, and making it a proper union
to clean up the typecasting.

This addresses log complaints like these:
    log_unaligned: 113 callbacks suppressed
    Kernel unaligned access at TPC[976490] tcp_try_fastopen+0x2d0/0x360
    Kernel unaligned access at TPC[9764ac] tcp_try_fastopen+0x2ec/0x360
    Kernel unaligned access at TPC[9764c8] tcp_try_fastopen+0x308/0x360
    Kernel unaligned access at TPC[9764e4] tcp_try_fastopen+0x324/0x360
    Kernel unaligned access at TPC[976490] tcp_try_fastopen+0x2d0/0x360

Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson &lt;shannon.nelson@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tcp: fix req-&gt;saved_syn race</title>
<updated>2015-11-05T19:36:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-05T19:07:13+00:00</published>
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For the reasons explained in commit ce1050089c96 ("tcp/dccp: fix
ireq-&gt;pktopts race"), we need to make sure we do not access
req-&gt;saved_syn unless we own the request sock.

This fixes races for listeners using TCP_SAVE_SYN option.

Fixes: e994b2f0fb92 ("tcp: do not lock listener to process SYN packets")
Fixes: 079096f103fa ("tcp/dccp: install syn_recv requests into ehash table")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Ying Cai &lt;ycai@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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For the reasons explained in commit ce1050089c96 ("tcp/dccp: fix
ireq-&gt;pktopts race"), we need to make sure we do not access
req-&gt;saved_syn unless we own the request sock.

This fixes races for listeners using TCP_SAVE_SYN option.

Fixes: e994b2f0fb92 ("tcp: do not lock listener to process SYN packets")
Fixes: 079096f103fa ("tcp/dccp: install syn_recv requests into ehash table")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Ying Cai &lt;ycai@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: fastopen: limit max_qlen</title>
<updated>2015-10-22T13:22:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-20T20:17:40+00:00</published>
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Allowing an application to set whatever limit for
the list of recently RST fastopen sessions [1] is not wise,
as it open ways to deplete kernel memory.

Cap the user provided limit by somaxconn sysctl,
like listen() backlog.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7413#section-5.1

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Allowing an application to set whatever limit for
the list of recently RST fastopen sessions [1] is not wise,
as it open ways to deplete kernel memory.

Cap the user provided limit by somaxconn sysctl,
like listen() backlog.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7413#section-5.1

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tcp: track the packet timings in RACK</title>
<updated>2015-10-21T14:00:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuchung Cheng</name>
<email>ycheng@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-17T04:57:46+00:00</published>
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This patch is the first half of the RACK loss recovery.

RACK loss recovery uses the notion of time instead
of packet sequence (FACK) or counts (dupthresh). It's inspired by the
previous FACK heuristic in tcp_mark_lost_retrans(): when a limited
transmit (new data packet) is sacked, then current retransmitted
sequence below the newly sacked sequence must been lost,
since at least one round trip time has elapsed.

But it has several limitations:
1) can't detect tail drops since it depends on limited transmit
2) is disabled upon reordering (assumes no reordering)
3) only enabled in fast recovery ut not timeout recovery

RACK (Recently ACK) addresses these limitations with the notion
of time instead: a packet P1 is lost if a later packet P2 is s/acked,
as at least one round trip has passed.

Since RACK cares about the time sequence instead of the data sequence
of packets, it can detect tail drops when later retransmission is
s/acked while FACK or dupthresh can't. For reordering RACK uses a
dynamically adjusted reordering window ("reo_wnd") to reduce false
positives on ever (small) degree of reordering.

This patch implements tcp_advanced_rack() which tracks the
most recent transmission time among the packets that have been
delivered (ACKed or SACKed) in tp-&gt;rack.mstamp. This timestamp
is the key to determine which packet has been lost.

Consider an example that the sender sends six packets:
T1: P1 (lost)
T2: P2
T3: P3
T4: P4
T100: sack of P2. rack.mstamp = T2
T101: retransmit P1
T102: sack of P2,P3,P4. rack.mstamp = T4
T205: ACK of P4 since the hole is repaired. rack.mstamp = T101

We need to be careful about spurious retransmission because it may
falsely advance tp-&gt;rack.mstamp by an RTT or an RTO, causing RACK
to falsely mark all packets lost, just like a spurious timeout.

We identify spurious retransmission by the ACK's TS echo value.
If TS option is not applicable but the retransmission is acknowledged
less than min-RTT ago, it is likely to be spurious. We refrain from
using the transmission time of these spurious retransmissions.

The second half is implemented in the next patch that marks packet
lost using RACK timestamp.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch is the first half of the RACK loss recovery.

RACK loss recovery uses the notion of time instead
of packet sequence (FACK) or counts (dupthresh). It's inspired by the
previous FACK heuristic in tcp_mark_lost_retrans(): when a limited
transmit (new data packet) is sacked, then current retransmitted
sequence below the newly sacked sequence must been lost,
since at least one round trip time has elapsed.

But it has several limitations:
1) can't detect tail drops since it depends on limited transmit
2) is disabled upon reordering (assumes no reordering)
3) only enabled in fast recovery ut not timeout recovery

RACK (Recently ACK) addresses these limitations with the notion
of time instead: a packet P1 is lost if a later packet P2 is s/acked,
as at least one round trip has passed.

Since RACK cares about the time sequence instead of the data sequence
of packets, it can detect tail drops when later retransmission is
s/acked while FACK or dupthresh can't. For reordering RACK uses a
dynamically adjusted reordering window ("reo_wnd") to reduce false
positives on ever (small) degree of reordering.

This patch implements tcp_advanced_rack() which tracks the
most recent transmission time among the packets that have been
delivered (ACKed or SACKed) in tp-&gt;rack.mstamp. This timestamp
is the key to determine which packet has been lost.

Consider an example that the sender sends six packets:
T1: P1 (lost)
T2: P2
T3: P3
T4: P4
T100: sack of P2. rack.mstamp = T2
T101: retransmit P1
T102: sack of P2,P3,P4. rack.mstamp = T4
T205: ACK of P4 since the hole is repaired. rack.mstamp = T101

We need to be careful about spurious retransmission because it may
falsely advance tp-&gt;rack.mstamp by an RTT or an RTO, causing RACK
to falsely mark all packets lost, just like a spurious timeout.

We identify spurious retransmission by the ACK's TS echo value.
If TS option is not applicable but the retransmission is acknowledged
less than min-RTT ago, it is likely to be spurious. We refrain from
using the transmission time of these spurious retransmissions.

The second half is implemented in the next patch that marks packet
lost using RACK timestamp.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tcp: remove tcp_mark_lost_retrans()</title>
<updated>2015-10-21T14:00:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuchung Cheng</name>
<email>ycheng@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-17T04:57:43+00:00</published>
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Remove the existing lost retransmit detection because RACK subsumes
it completely. This also stops the overloading the ack_seq field of
the skb control block.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Remove the existing lost retransmit detection because RACK subsumes
it completely. This also stops the overloading the ack_seq field of
the skb control block.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tcp: track min RTT using windowed min-filter</title>
<updated>2015-10-21T14:00:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuchung Cheng</name>
<email>ycheng@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-17T04:57:42+00:00</published>
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Kathleen Nichols' algorithm for tracking the minimum RTT of a
data stream over some measurement window. It uses constant space
and constant time per update. Yet it almost always delivers
the same minimum as an implementation that has to keep all
the data in the window. The measurement window is tunable via
sysctl.net.ipv4.tcp_min_rtt_wlen with a default value of 5 minutes.

The algorithm keeps track of the best, 2nd best &amp; 3rd best min
values, maintaining an invariant that the measurement time of
the n'th best &gt;= n-1'th best. It also makes sure that the three
values are widely separated in the time window since that bounds
the worse case error when that data is monotonically increasing
over the window.

Upon getting a new min, we can forget everything earlier because
it has no value - the new min is less than everything else in the
window by definition and it's the most recent. So we restart fresh
on every new min and overwrites the 2nd &amp; 3rd choices. The same
property holds for the 2nd &amp; 3rd best.

Therefore we have to maintain two invariants to maximize the
information in the samples, one on values (1st.v &lt;= 2nd.v &lt;=
3rd.v) and the other on times (now-win &lt;=1st.t &lt;= 2nd.t &lt;= 3rd.t &lt;=
now). These invariants determine the structure of the code

The RTT input to the windowed filter is the minimum RTT measured
from ACK or SACK, or as the last resort from TCP timestamps.

The accessor tcp_min_rtt() returns the minimum RTT seen in the
window. ~0U indicates it is not available. The minimum is 1usec
even if the true RTT is below that.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Kathleen Nichols' algorithm for tracking the minimum RTT of a
data stream over some measurement window. It uses constant space
and constant time per update. Yet it almost always delivers
the same minimum as an implementation that has to keep all
the data in the window. The measurement window is tunable via
sysctl.net.ipv4.tcp_min_rtt_wlen with a default value of 5 minutes.

The algorithm keeps track of the best, 2nd best &amp; 3rd best min
values, maintaining an invariant that the measurement time of
the n'th best &gt;= n-1'th best. It also makes sure that the three
values are widely separated in the time window since that bounds
the worse case error when that data is monotonically increasing
over the window.

Upon getting a new min, we can forget everything earlier because
it has no value - the new min is less than everything else in the
window by definition and it's the most recent. So we restart fresh
on every new min and overwrites the 2nd &amp; 3rd choices. The same
property holds for the 2nd &amp; 3rd best.

Therefore we have to maintain two invariants to maximize the
information in the samples, one on values (1st.v &lt;= 2nd.v &lt;=
3rd.v) and the other on times (now-win &lt;=1st.t &lt;= 2nd.t &lt;= 3rd.t &lt;=
now). These invariants determine the structure of the code

The RTT input to the windowed filter is the minimum RTT measured
from ACK or SACK, or as the last resort from TCP timestamps.

The accessor tcp_min_rtt() returns the minimum RTT seen in the
window. ~0U indicates it is not available. The minimum is 1usec
even if the true RTT is below that.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>tcp: shrink tcp_timewait_sock by 8 bytes</title>
<updated>2015-10-13T02:28:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-09T02:33:24+00:00</published>
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Reducing tcp_timewait_sock from 280 bytes to 272 bytes
allows SLAB to pack 15 objects per page instead of 14 (on x86)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Reducing tcp_timewait_sock from 280 bytes to 272 bytes
allows SLAB to pack 15 objects per page instead of 14 (on x86)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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