tcp: add tp->dup_ack_counter

In commit 86de5921a3d5 ("tcp: defer SACK compression after DupThresh")
I added a TCP_FASTRETRANS_THRESH bias to tp->compressed_ack in order
to enable sack compression only after 3 dupacks.

Since we plan to relax this rule for flows that involve
stacks not requiring this old rule, this patch adds
a distinct tp->dup_ack_counter.

This means the TCP_FASTRETRANS_THRESH value is now used
in a single location that a future patch can adjust:

	if (tp->dup_ack_counter < TCP_FASTRETRANS_THRESH) {
		tp->dup_ack_counter++;
		goto send_now;
	}

This patch also introduces tcp_sack_compress_send_ack()
helper to ease following patch comprehension.

This patch refines LINUX_MIB_TCPACKCOMPRESSED to not
count the acks that we had to send if the timer expires
or tcp_sack_compress_send_ack() is sending an ack.

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

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index ba4482130f08..c414aeb1efa9 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -184,10 +184,10 @@ static inline void tcp_event_ack_sent(struct sock *sk, unsigned int pkts,
 {
 	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 
-	if (unlikely(tp->compressed_ack > TCP_FASTRETRANS_THRESH)) {
+	if (unlikely(tp->compressed_ack)) {
 		NET_ADD_STATS(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPACKCOMPRESSED,
-			      tp->compressed_ack - TCP_FASTRETRANS_THRESH);
-		tp->compressed_ack = TCP_FASTRETRANS_THRESH;
+			      tp->compressed_ack);
+		tp->compressed_ack = 0;
 		if (hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&tp->compressed_ack_timer) == 1)
 			__sock_put(sk);
 	}