linux.git/net/ipv4/tcp_yeah.c, branch v4.3

tcp: stretch ACK fixes prep

2015-01-29T06:18:37+00:00

LRO, GRO, delayed ACKs, and middleboxes can cause "stretch ACKs" that
cover more than the RFC-specified maximum of 2 packets. These stretch
ACKs can cause serious performance shortfalls in common congestion
control algorithms that were designed and tuned years ago with
receiver hosts that were not using LRO or GRO, and were instead
politely ACKing every other packet.

This patch series fixes Reno and CUBIC to handle stretch ACKs.

This patch prepares for the upcoming stretch ACK bug fix patches. It
adds an "acked" parameter to tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to allow for future
fixes to tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to correctly handle stretch ACKs, and
changes all congestion control algorithms to pass in 1 for the ACKed
count. It also changes tcp_slow_start() to return the number of packet
ACK "credits" that were not processed in slow start mode, and can be
processed by the congestion control module in additive increase mode.

In future patches we will fix tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to handle stretch
ACKs, and fix Reno and CUBIC handling of stretch ACKs in slow start
and additive increase mode.

Reported-by: Eyal Perry 
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell 
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: whitespace fixes

2014-09-02T01:12:45+00:00

Fix places where there is space before tab, long lines, and
awkward if(){, double spacing etc. Add blank line after declaration/initialization.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: remove in_flight parameter from cong_avoid() methods

2014-05-03T23:23:07+00:00

Commit e114a710aa505 ("tcp: fix cwnd limited checking to improve
congestion control") obsoleted in_flight parameter from
tcp_is_cwnd_limited() and its callers.

This patch does the removal as promised.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: switch rtt estimations to usec resolution

2014-02-26T22:08:40+00:00

Upcoming congestion controls for TCP require usec resolution for RTT
estimations. Millisecond resolution is simply not enough these days.

FQ/pacing in DC environments also require this change for finer control
and removal of bimodal behavior due to the current hack in
tcp_update_pacing_rate() for 'small rtt'

TCP_CONG_RTT_STAMP is no longer needed.

As Julian Anastasov pointed out, we need to keep user compatibility :
tcp_metrics used to export RTT and RTTVAR in msec resolution,
so we added RTT_US and RTTVAR_US. An iproute2 patch is needed
to use the new attributes if provided by the kernel.

In this example ss command displays a srtt of 32 usecs (10Gbit link)

lpk51:~# ./ss -i dst lpk52
Netid  State      Recv-Q Send-Q   Local Address:Port       Peer
Address:Port
tcp    ESTAB      0      1         10.246.11.51:42959
10.246.11.52:64614
         cubic wscale:6,6 rto:201 rtt:0.032/0.001 ato:40 mss:1448
cwnd:10 send
3620.0Mbps pacing_rate 7240.0Mbps unacked:1 rcv_rtt:993 rcv_space:29559

Updated iproute2 ip command displays :

lpk51:~# ./ip tcp_metrics | grep 10.246.11.52
10.246.11.52 age 561.914sec cwnd 10 rtt 274us rttvar 213us source
10.246.11.51

Old binary displays :

lpk51:~# ip tcp_metrics | grep 10.246.11.52
10.246.11.52 age 561.914sec cwnd 10 rtt 250us rttvar 125us source
10.246.11.51

With help from Julian Anastasov, Stephen Hemminger and Yuchung Cheng

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell 
Cc: Stephen Hemminger 
Cc: Yuchung Cheng 
Cc: Larry Brakmo 
Cc: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: remove unused min_cwnd member of tcp_congestion_ops

2014-02-13T23:22:34+00:00

Commit 684bad110757 "tcp: use PRR to reduce cwin in CWR state" removed all
calls to min_cwnd, so we can safely remove it.
Also, remove tcp_reno_min_cwnd because it was only used for min_cwnd.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev 
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: ipv4: Cleanup the comments in tcp_yeah.c

2013-12-26T18:43:55+00:00

This cleanup the comments in tcp_yeah.c.
1.The old link is dead,use a new one to instead.
2.'lin' add nothing useful,remove it.
3.do not use C99 // comments.

Signed-off-by: Weilong Chen 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: fix checkpatch error "space prohibited"

2013-12-26T18:43:21+00:00

Signed-off-by: Weilong Chen 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: properly handle stretch acks in slow start

2013-11-05T00:57:59+00:00

Slow start now increases cwnd by 1 if an ACK acknowledges some packets,
regardless the number of packets. Consequently slow start performance
is highly dependent on the degree of the stretch ACKs caused by
receiver or network ACK compression mechanisms (e.g., delayed-ACK,
GRO, etc).  But slow start algorithm is to send twice the amount of
packets of packets left so it should process a stretch ACK of degree
N as if N ACKs of degree 1, then exits when cwnd exceeds ssthresh. A
follow up patch will use the remainder of the N (if greater than 1)
to adjust cwnd in the congestion avoidance phase.

In addition this patch retires the experimental limited slow start
(LSS) feature. LSS has multiple drawbacks but questionable benefit. The
fractional cwnd increase in LSS requires a loop in slow start even
though it's rarely used. Configuring such an increase step via a global
sysctl on different BDPS seems hard. Finally and most importantly the
slow start overshoot concern is now better covered by the Hybrid slow
start (hystart) enabled by default.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng 
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi

tcp: mark tcp_congestion_ops read_mostly

2011-03-10T08:40:17+00:00

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller