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tcp: accecn: try to fit AccECN option with SACK
authorChia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:24:34 +0000 (10:24 +0200)
committerPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Thu, 18 Sep 2025 06:47:52 +0000 (08:47 +0200)
commite7e9da850a46b0632b18861525602faa08f3e9e1
treecc25cf2e54e47442b4682bbb2f320cc5102b93e6
parentfe2cddc648f0d7cdf7377e1cb5a8c7dc5547e290
tcp: accecn: try to fit AccECN option with SACK

As SACK blocks tend to eat all option space when there are
many holes, it is useful to compromise on sending many SACK
blocks in every ACK and attempt to fit the AccECN option
there by reducing the number of SACK blocks. However, it will
never go below two SACK blocks because of the AccECN option.

As the AccECN option is often not put to every ACK, the space
hijack is usually only temporary. Depending on the reuqired
AccECN fields (can be either 3, 2, 1, or 0, cf. Table 5 in
AccECN spec) and the NOPs used for alignment of other
TCP options, up to two SACK blocks will be reduced. Please
find below tables for more details:

+====================+=========================================+
| Number of | Required | Remaining |  Number of  |    Final    |
|   SACK    |  AccECN  |  option   |  reduced    |  number of  |
|  blocks   |  fields  |  spaces   | SACK blocks | SACK blocks |
+===========+==========+===========+=============+=============+
|  x (<=2)  |  0 to 3  |    any    |      0      |      x      |
+-----------+----------+-----------+-------------+-------------+
|     3     |    0     |    any    |      0      |      3      |
|     3     |    1     |    <4     |      1      |      2      |
|     3     |    1     |    >=4    |      0      |      3      |
|     3     |    2     |    <8     |      1      |      2      |
|     3     |    2     |    >=8    |      0      |      3      |
|     3     |    3     |    <12    |      1      |      2      |
|     3     |    3     |    >=12   |      0      |      3      |
+-----------+----------+-----------+-------------+-------------+
|  y (>=4)  |    0     |    any    |      0      |      y      |
|  y (>=4)  |    1     |    <4     |      1      |     y-1     |
|  y (>=4)  |    1     |    >=4    |      0      |      y      |
|  y (>=4)  |    2     |    <8     |      1      |     y-1     |
|  y (>=4)  |    2     |    >=8    |      0      |      y      |
|  y (>=4)  |    3     |    <4     |      2      |     y-2     |
|  y (>=4)  |    3     |    <12    |      1      |     y-1     |
|  y (>=4)  |    3     |    >=12   |      0      |      y      |
+===========+==========+===========+=============+=============+

Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Co-developed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916082434.100722-11-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c