tcp: add tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns sysctl

This per netns sysctl allows for TCP SACK compression fine-tuning.

Its default value is 1,000,000, or 1 ms to meet TSO autosizing period.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt

@@ -525,6 +525,13 @@ tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
 tcp_sack - BOOLEAN
 	Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS).
 
+tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns - LONG INTEGER
+	TCP tries to reduce number of SACK sent, using a timer
+	based on 5% of SRTT, capped by this sysctl, in nano seconds.
+	The default is 1ms, based on TSO autosizing period.
+
+	Default : 1,000,000 ns (1 ms)
+
 tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN
 	If set, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion
 	window after an idle period.  An idle period is defined at

include/net/netns/ipv4.h

@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ struct netns_ipv4 {
 	int sysctl_tcp_pacing_ca_ratio;
 	int sysctl_tcp_wmem[3];
 	int sysctl_tcp_rmem[3];
+	unsigned long sysctl_tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns;
 	struct inet_timewait_death_row tcp_death_row;
 	int sysctl_max_syn_backlog;
 	int sysctl_tcp_fastopen;

net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c

@@ -1151,6 +1151,13 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_net_table[] = {
 		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
 		.extra1		= &one,
 	},
+	{
+		.procname	= "tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns",
+		.data		= &init_net.ipv4.sysctl_tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(unsigned long),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_doulongvec_minmax,
+	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "udp_rmem_min",
 		.data		= &init_net.ipv4.sysctl_udp_rmem_min,

net/ipv4/tcp_input.c

@@ -5113,13 +5113,13 @@ send_now:
 	if (hrtimer_is_queued(&tp->compressed_ack_timer))
 		return;
 
-	/* compress ack timer : 5 % of rtt, but no more than 1 ms */
+	/* compress ack timer : 5 % of rtt, but no more than tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns */
 
 	rtt = tp->rcv_rtt_est.rtt_us;
 	if (tp->srtt_us && tp->srtt_us < rtt)
 		rtt = tp->srtt_us;
 
-	delay = min_t(unsigned long, NSEC_PER_MSEC,
+	delay = min_t(unsigned long, sock_net(sk)->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns,
 		      rtt * (NSEC_PER_USEC >> 3)/20);
 	sock_hold(sk);
 	hrtimer_start(&tp->compressed_ack_timer, ns_to_ktime(delay),

net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c

@@ -2572,6 +2572,7 @@ static int __net_init tcp_sk_init(struct net *net)
 		       init_net.ipv4.sysctl_tcp_wmem,
 		       sizeof(init_net.ipv4.sysctl_tcp_wmem));
 	}
+	net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns = NSEC_PER_MSEC;
 	net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_fastopen = TFO_CLIENT_ENABLE;
 	spin_lock_init(&net->ipv4.tcp_fastopen_ctx_lock);
 	net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_fastopen_blackhole_timeout = 60 * 60;