MEDIUM: quic: merge contiguous/overlapping buffered ack stream range
Transfer throughput was deteriorated since recent rework of QUIC MUX
txbuf allocator. This was partially restorated with the commit to
decount individual in-order ACK from the MUX buffer window.
To fully retrieve the old performance level, all ACKs must be decounted
when handled by QUIC streamdesc layer, event out-of-order ranges.
However, this is not easily implemented as several ranges may exist in
parallel with overlap on the underlying data. It would cause
miscalculation for QUIC MUX buffer window if such ranges were blindly
reported.
The proper solution is to first implement merge of contiguous or
overlapping ACK data ranges to reduce the number of stored ranges to the
minimal. This is the purpose of this patch. This is implemented in a new
static function named qc_stream_buf_store_ack() into streamdesc layer.
The merge algorithm is simple enough. First, it ensures the newly added
range is not already fully covered by a preexisting entry. Then, it
checks if there is contiguity/overlap with one or several ranges
starting at the same of a greater offset. If true, the newly added entry
is extended to cover them all, and all contiguous/overlapped ranges are
removed. Finally, if there is contiguity or overlap with an entry
starting at a smaller offset, no new range is instantiated and instead
the smaller offset is extended.
Now that contiguous or overlapped ranges cannot exits anymore, ACK data
ranges tree instiatiation can used EB_ROOT_UNIQUE.
Outside of the longer term objective which is to decount out-of-order
ACKs from MUX txbuf window, this commit could also improve some
performance and/or memory usage for connections where stream data
fragmentation and packet reording is high.