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rxrpc: Delay the resend timer to allow for nsec->jiffies conv error

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When determining the resend timer value, we have a value in nsec but the
timer is in jiffies which may be a million or more times more coarse.
nsecs_to_jiffies() rounds down - which means that the resend timeout
expressed as jiffies is very likely earlier than the one expressed as
nanoseconds from which it was derived.

The problem is that rxrpc_resend() gets triggered by the timer, but can't
then find anything to resend yet.  It sets the timer again - but gets
kicked off immediately again and again until the nanosecond-based expiry
time is reached and we actually retransmit.

Fix this by adding 1 to the jiffies-based resend_at value to counteract the
rounding and make sure that the timer happens after the nanosecond-based
expiry is passed.

Alternatives would be to adjust the timestamp on the packets to align
with the jiffie scale or to switch back to using jiffie-timestamps.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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David Howells 2016-09-24 23:00:54 +01:00
parent dd7c1ee59a
commit df0562a72d
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@ -200,8 +200,14 @@ static void rxrpc_resend(struct rxrpc_call *call)
ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(skb->tstamp, max_age)));
}
resend_at = ktime_sub(ktime_add_ms(oldest, rxrpc_resend_timeout), now);
call->resend_at = jiffies + nsecs_to_jiffies(ktime_to_ns(resend_at));
resend_at = ktime_add_ms(oldest, rxrpc_resend_timeout);
call->resend_at = jiffies +
nsecs_to_jiffies(ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(resend_at, now))) +
1; /* We have to make sure that the calculated jiffies value
* falls at or after the nsec value, or we shall loop
* ceaselessly because the timer times out, but we haven't
* reached the nsec timeout yet.
*/
/* Now go through the Tx window and perform the retransmissions. We
* have to drop the lock for each send. If an ACK comes in whilst the