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tcp_cubic: fix incorrect HyStart round start detection
I noticed that HyStart incorrectly marks the start of rounds, leading to inaccurate measurements of ACK train lengths and resetting the `ca->sample_cnt` variable. This inaccuracy can impact HyStart's functionality in terminating exponential cwnd growth during Slow-Start, potentially degrading TCP performance. The issue arises because the changes introduced in commit 4e1fddc ("tcp_cubic: fix spurious Hystart ACK train detections for not-cwnd-limited flows") moved the caller of the `bictcp_hystart_reset` function inside the `hystart_update` function. This modification added an additional condition for triggering the caller, requiring that (tcp_snd_cwnd(tp) >= hystart_low_window) must also be satisfied before invoking `bictcp_hystart_reset`. This fix ensures that `bictcp_hystart_reset` is correctly called at the start of a new round, regardless of the congestion window size. This is achieved by moving the condition (tcp_snd_cwnd(tp) >= hystart_low_window) from before calling `bictcp_hystart_reset` to after it. I tested with a client and a server connected through two Linux software routers. In this setup, the minimum RTT was 150 ms, the bottleneck bandwidth was 50 Mbps, and the bottleneck buffer size was 1 BDP, calculated as (50M / 1514 / 8) * 0.150 = 619 packets. I conducted the test twice, transferring data from the server to the client for 1.5 seconds. Before the patch was applied, HYSTART-DELAY stopped the exponential growth of cwnd when cwnd = 516, and the bottleneck link was not yet saturated (516 < 619). After the patch was applied, HYSTART-ACK-TRAIN stopped the exponential growth of cwnd when cwnd = 632, and the bottleneck link was saturated (632 > 619). In this test, applying the patch resulted in 300 KB more data delivered. Fixes: 4e1fddc ("tcp_cubic: fix spurious Hystart ACK train detections for not-cwnd-limited flows") Signed-off-by: Mahdi Arghavani <ma.arghavani@yahoo.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Haibo Zhang <haibo.zhang@otago.ac.nz> Cc: David Eyers <david.eyers@otago.ac.nz> Cc: Abbas Arghavani <abbas.arghavani@mdu.se> Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Tested-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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