Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Prevent Idle Timeout while Blocked (#3266)

Jana Iyengar <notifications@github.com> Wed, 20 November 2019 08:28 UTC

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janaiyengar commented on this pull request.



> @@ -785,13 +785,12 @@ flow control limits.
 If a sender runs out of flow control credit, it will be unable to send new data
 and is considered blocked.  A sender SHOULD send a STREAM_DATA_BLOCKED or
 DATA_BLOCKED frame to indicate it has data to write but is blocked by flow
-control limits.  These frames are expected to be sent infrequently in common
-cases, but they are considered useful for debugging and monitoring purposes.
-
-A sender SHOULD NOT send multiple STREAM_DATA_BLOCKED or DATA_BLOCKED frames
-for the same data limit, unless the original frame is determined to be lost.
-Another STREAM_DATA_BLOCKED or DATA_BLOCKED frame can be sent after the data
-limit is increased.
+control limits.  If a sender is blocked for long enough it is possible for the
+connection to idle timeout, even though the data is actively queued to be sent.
+To prevent this idle timeout from occurring, the sender SHOULD continue to
+periodically send the STREAM_DATA_BLOCKED or DATA_BLOCKED frame.  One method is
+to resend a DATA_BLOCKED or STREAM_DATA_BLOCKED frame when there are no
+ack-eliciting packets in flight.

I would add some text to the idle timeout section as well (section 10.2). Something like "An endpoint should be careful to avoid an idle timeout if it is idle because of flow control; see Section XX".

> @@ -785,13 +785,12 @@ flow control limits.
 If a sender runs out of flow control credit, it will be unable to send new data
 and is considered blocked.  A sender SHOULD send a STREAM_DATA_BLOCKED or
 DATA_BLOCKED frame to indicate it has data to write but is blocked by flow
-control limits.  These frames are expected to be sent infrequently in common
-cases, but they are considered useful for debugging and monitoring purposes.
-
-A sender SHOULD NOT send multiple STREAM_DATA_BLOCKED or DATA_BLOCKED frames
-for the same data limit, unless the original frame is determined to be lost.
-Another STREAM_DATA_BLOCKED or DATA_BLOCKED frame can be sent after the data
-limit is increased.
+control limits.  If a sender is blocked for long enough it is possible for the

Suggested rephrase: "If a sender is blocked for a period longer than the idle timeout ({{name-idle-timeout}}), the connection might get closed even when data is available for transmission. To keep the connection from closing, a sender SHOULD periodically send a STREAM_DATA_BLOCKED or DATA_BLOCKED frame when there are no ack-eliciting packets in flight."

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