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authorRichard Scheffenegger <rscheff@FreeBSD.org>2023-11-30 04:33:50 +0000
committerRichard Scheffenegger <rscheff@FreeBSD.org>2023-11-30 04:38:16 +0000
commit34c45bc6a3940ccfddb60207cb103f73bf87c4a6 (patch)
tree53f58e22399ef2bd4bebc56ef16b886c8b9d0a7a
parent839999e7efdc980d5ada92ea93719c7e29765809 (diff)
tcp: enable LRD by default
Lost Retransmission Detection was added as a feature in May 2021, but disabled by default. Enabling the feature by default to reduce the flow completion time by avoiding RTOs when retransmissions get lost too. Reviewed By: tuexen, #transport, zlei MFC after: 10 weeks Sponsored by: NetApp, Inc. Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D42845
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/tcp.44
-rw-r--r--sys/netinet/tcp_input.c2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/tcp.4 b/share/man/man4/tcp.4
index 3f54d904abc8..317ee818f3a4 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/tcp.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/tcp.4
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd November 17, 2023
+.Dd November 30, 2023
.Dt TCP 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ Maximum amount of time, in milliseconds, before a delayed ACK is sent.
.It Va delayed_ack
Delay ACK to try and piggyback it onto a data packet or another ACK.
.It Va do_lrd
-Enable Lost Retransmission Detection for SACK-enabled sessions, disabled by
+Enable Lost Retransmission Detection for SACK-enabled sessions, enabled by
default.
Under severe congestion, a retransmission can be lost which then leads to a
mandatory Retransmission Timeout (RTO), followed by slow-start.
diff --git a/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c b/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c
index e20c09f981cd..a75dbd1547b0 100644
--- a/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c
+++ b/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ SYSCTL_INT(_net_inet_tcp, OID_AUTO, do_prr, CTLFLAG_VNET | CTLFLAG_RW,
&VNET_NAME(tcp_do_prr), 1,
"Enable Proportional Rate Reduction per RFC 6937");
-VNET_DEFINE(int, tcp_do_lrd) = 0;
+VNET_DEFINE(int, tcp_do_lrd) = 1;
SYSCTL_INT(_net_inet_tcp, OID_AUTO, do_lrd, CTLFLAG_VNET | CTLFLAG_RW,
&VNET_NAME(tcp_do_lrd), 1,
"Perform Lost Retransmission Detection");