rxrpc: Send an immediate ACK if we fill in a hole

Send an immediate ACK if we fill in a hole in the buffer left by an
out-of-sequence packet.  This may allow the congestion management in the peer
to avoid a retransmission if packets got reordered on the wire.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

diff --git a/net/rxrpc/input.c b/net/rxrpc/input.c
index 349698d..757c16f 100644 (file)
--- a/net/rxrpc/input.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/input.c
@@ -331,8 +331,16 @@ next_subpacket:
        call->rxtx_annotations[ix] = annotation;
        smp_wmb();
        call->rxtx_buffer[ix] = skb;
-       if (after(seq, call->rx_top))
+       if (after(seq, call->rx_top)) {
                smp_store_release(&call->rx_top, seq);
+       } else if (before(seq, call->rx_top)) {
+               /* Send an immediate ACK if we fill in a hole */
+               if (!ack) {
+                       ack = RXRPC_ACK_DELAY;
+                       ack_serial = serial;
+               }
+               immediate_ack = true;
+       }
        if (flags & RXRPC_LAST_PACKET) {
                set_bit(RXRPC_CALL_RX_LAST, &call->flags);
                trace_rxrpc_receive(call, rxrpc_receive_queue_last, serial, seq);