Commit 9fdc7793 authored by Paolo Abeni's avatar Paolo Abeni Committed by Jakub Kicinski

mptcp: ignore notsent_lowat setting at the subflow level

Any latency related tuning taking action at the subflow level does
not really affect the user-space, as only the main MPTCP socket is
relevant.

Anyway any limiting setting may foul the MPTCP scheduler, not being
able to fully use the subflow-level cwin, leading to very poor b/w
usage.

Enforce notsent_lowat to be a no-op on every subflow.

Note that TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT is currently not supported, and properly
dealing with that will require more invasive changes.
Reviewed-by: default avatarMat Martineau <martineau@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMat Martineau <martineau@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231023-send-net-next-20231023-2-v1-8-9dc60939d371@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent a1ab24e5
......@@ -1452,6 +1452,12 @@ void mptcp_sockopt_sync_locked(struct mptcp_sock *msk, struct sock *ssk)
ssk->sk_rcvlowat = 0;
/* subflows must ignore any latency-related settings: will not affect
* the user-space - only the msk is relevant - but will foul the
* mptcp scheduler
*/
tcp_sk(ssk)->notsent_lowat = UINT_MAX;
if (READ_ONCE(subflow->setsockopt_seq) != msk->setsockopt_seq) {
sync_socket_options(msk, ssk);
......
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