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Date:      Sun, 12 Jun 2011 01:56:05 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Mikolaj Golub <trociny@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Bjoern Zeeb <bz@freebsd.org>, Mike Silbersack <silby@freebsd.org>, Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r221346 - head/sys/netinet
Message-ID:  <alpine.OSX.2.00.1106120155190.4670@telemachus.local>
In-Reply-To: <201106030944.36200.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <201105022105.p42L5q3j054498@svn.freebsd.org> <4DCE93BF.7000803@FreeBSD.org> <86boz5fby1.fsf@kopusha.home.net> <201106030944.36200.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, John Baldwin wrote:

> On Saturday, May 14, 2011 1:07:18 pm Mikolaj Golub wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 14 May 2011 10:37:51 -0400 John Baldwin wrote:
>>
>>  JB> Can you capture a tcpdump (probably easiest to do from the other host)?
>>
>> I replaced the asserts with log statements to make the host not panic and the
>> captured dump survive.
>
> Please try this change.  What is happening is that you have a remaining
> window that is smaller than the window scale.  You are receiving zero
> window updates that are received ok (becuase the socket buffer isn't
> completely empty), and that advance rcv_nxt.  However, tcp_output() is
> not advancing rcv_adv because 'recwin' is calculated as zero.  My
> invariants had assumed that the ACK that gets forced out for a reply
> to a zero window probe would move rcv_adv, but that isn't happening.
> This patch will allow rcv_adv to advance when a zero window probe is
> ACK'd.  I'm not sure if this is the best way to fix this, but I think
> it will fix it:
>
> Index: tcp_output.c
> ===================================================================
> --- tcp_output.c	(revision 222565)
> +++ tcp_output.c	(working copy)
> @@ -1331,7 +1331,7 @@ out:
> 	 * then remember the size of the advertised window.
> 	 * Any pending ACK has now been sent.
> 	 */
> -	if (recwin > 0 && SEQ_GT(tp->rcv_nxt + recwin, tp->rcv_adv))
> +	if (recwin >= 0 && SEQ_GT(tp->rcv_nxt + recwin, tp->rcv_adv))
> 		tp->rcv_adv = tp->rcv_nxt + recwin;
> 	tp->last_ack_sent = tp->rcv_nxt;
> 	tp->t_flags &= ~(TF_ACKNOW | TF_DELACK);
>
>
> -- 
> John Baldwin

This change looks ok to me.  I can't think of a better way to solve the 
problem, and I don't see it causing any major change in behavior.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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