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-rw-r--r--pkg/tcpip/transport/tcp/snd.go19
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/transport/tcp/snd.go b/pkg/tcpip/transport/tcp/snd.go
index 06dc9b7d7..3a19c4468 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/transport/tcp/snd.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/transport/tcp/snd.go
@@ -816,6 +816,25 @@ func (s *sender) maybeSendSegment(seg *segment, limit int, end seqnum.Value) (se
panic("Netstack queues FIN segments without data.")
}
+ segEnd = seg.sequenceNumber.Add(seqnum.Size(seg.data.Size()))
+ // If the entire segment cannot be accomodated in the receiver
+ // advertized window, skip splitting and sending of the segment.
+ // ref: net/ipv4/tcp_output.c::tcp_snd_wnd_test()
+ //
+ // Linux checks this for all segment transmits not triggered
+ // by a probe timer. On this condition, it defers the segment
+ // split and transmit to a short probe timer.
+ // ref: include/net/tcp.h::tcp_check_probe_timer()
+ // ref: net/ipv4/tcp_output.c::tcp_write_wakeup()
+ //
+ // Instead of defining a new transmit timer, we attempt to split the
+ // segment right here if there are no pending segments.
+ // If there are pending segments, segment transmits are deferred
+ // to the retransmit timer handler.
+ if s.sndUna != s.sndNxt && !segEnd.LessThan(end) {
+ return false
+ }
+
if !seg.sequenceNumber.LessThan(end) {
return false
}