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| H A D | recvmsg.c | 5a2c5a5b Tue Jan 31 15:40:18 CST 2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> rxrpc: Reduce unnecessary ack transmission
rxrpc_recvmsg_data() schedules an ACK to be transmitted every time at least
two packets have been consumed and any time it runs out of data and would
return -EAGAIN to the caller. Both events may occur within a single loop,
however, and if the I/O thread is quick enough it may send duplicate ACKs.
The ACKs are sent to inform the peer that more space has been made in the
local Rx window, but the I/O thread is going to send an ACK every couple of
DATA packets anyway, so we end up sending a lot more ACKs than we really
need to.
So reduce the rate at which recvmsg() schedules ACKs, such that if the I/O
thread sends ACKs at its normal faster rate, recvmsg() won't actually
schedule ACKs until the Rx flow stops (call->rx_consumed is cleared any
time we transmit an ACK for that call, resetting the counter used by
recvmsg).
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
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