We are seeing an issue with TCP in handling an ICMP frag needed
message that is received after net.ipv4.tcp_retries1 retransmits.
The default value of retries1 is 3. So if the path mtu changes
and ICMP frag needed is lost for the first 3 retransmits or if
it gets delayed until 3 retransmits are done, TCP doesn't update
MSS correctly and continues to retransmit the orginal message
until it timesout after tcp_retries2 retransmits.

I am seeing this issue even with the latest 2.6.25.4 kernel.

In tcp_retransmit_timer(), when retransmits counter exceeds 
tcp_retries1 value, the dst cache entry of the socket is reset.
At this time, if we receive an ICMP frag needed message, the 
dst entry gets updated with the new MTU, but the TCP sockets
dst_cache entry remains NULL.

So the next time when we try to retransmit after the ICMP frag
needed is received, tcp_retransmit_skb() gets called. Here the
cur_mss value is calculated at the start of the routine with
a NULL sk_dst_cache. Instead we should call tcp_current_mss after
the rebuild_header that caches the dst entry with the updated mtu.
Also the rebuild_header should be called before tcp_fragment
so that skb is fragmented if the mss goes down.
Signed-off-by: NSridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Needed can only be more strict than what was checked by the
earlier common case check for non-tail skbs, thus
cwnd_len <= needed will never match in that case anyway.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Allow the use of SACK and window scaling when syncookies are used
and the client supports tcp timestamps. Options are encoded into
the timestamp sent in the syn-ack and restored from the timestamp
echo when the ack is received.

Based on earlier work by Glenn Griffin.
This patch avoids increasing the size of structs by encoding TCP
options into the least significant bits of the timestamp and
by not using any 'timestamp offset'.

The downside is that the timestamp sent in the packet after the synack
will increase by several seconds.

changes since v1:
 don't duplicate timestamp echo decoding function, put it into ipv4/syncookie.c
 and have ipv6/syncookies.c use it.
 Feedback from Glenn Griffin: fix line indented with spaces, kill redundant if ()
Reviewed-by: NHagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
Signed-off-by: NFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This fixes Bugzilla #10384

tcp_simple_retransmit does L increment without any checking
whatsoever for overflowing S+L when Reno is in use.

The simplest scenario I can currently think of is rather
complex in practice (there might be some more straightforward
cases though). Ie., if mss is reduced during mtu probing, it
may end up marking everything lost and if some duplicate ACKs
arrived prior to that sacked_out will be non-zero as well,
leading to S+L > packets_out, tcp_clean_rtx_queue on the next
cumulative ACK or tcp_fastretrans_alert on the next duplicate
ACK will fix the S counter.

More straightforward (but questionable) solution would be to
just call tcp_reset_reno_sack() in tcp_simple_retransmit but
it would negatively impact the probe's retransmission, ie.,
the retransmissions would not occur if some duplicate ACKs
had arrived.

So I had to add reno sacked_out reseting to CA_Loss state
when the first cumulative ACK arrives (this stale sacked_out
might actually be the explanation for the reports of left_out
overflows in kernel prior to 2.6.23 and S+L overflow reports
of 2.6.24). However, this alone won't be enough to fix kernel
before 2.6.24 because it is building on top of the commit
1b6d427b ([TCP]: Reduce sacked_out with reno when purging
write_queue) to keep the sacked_out from overflowing.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Reported-by: NAlessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Update: My mailer ate one of Jarek's feedback mails...  Fixed the
parameter in netif_set_gso_max_size() to be u32, not u16.  Fixed the
whitespace issue due to a patch import botch.  Changed the types from
u32 to unsigned int to be more consistent with other variables in the
area.  Also brought the patch up to the latest net-2.6.26 tree.

Update: Made gso_max_size container 32 bits, not 16.  Moved the
location of gso_max_size within netdev to be less hotpath.  Made more
consistent names between the sock and netdev layers, and added a
define for the max GSO size.

Update: Respun for net-2.6.26 tree.

Update: changed max_gso_frame_size and sk_gso_max_size from signed to
unsigned - thanks Stephen!

This patch adds the ability for device drivers to control the size of
the TSO frames being sent to them, per TCP connection.  By setting the
netdevice's gso_max_size value, the socket layer will set the GSO
frame size based on that value.  This will propogate into the TCP
layer, and send TSO's of that size to the hardware.

This can be desirable to help tune the bursty nature of TSO on a
per-adapter basis, where one may have 1 GbE and 10 GbE devices
coexisting in a system, one running multiqueue and the other not, etc.

This can also be desirable for devices that cannot support full 64 KB
TSO's, but still want to benefit from some level of segmentation
offloading.
Signed-off-by: NPeter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When selecting a new window, tcp_select_window() tries not to shrink
the offered window by using the maximum of the remaining offered window
size and the newly calculated window size. The newly calculated window
size is always a multiple of the window scaling factor, the remaining
window size however might not be since it depends on rcv_wup/rcv_nxt.
This means we're effectively shrinking the window when scaling it down.


The dump below shows the problem (scaling factor 2^7):

- Window size of 557 (71296) is advertised, up to 3111907257:

IP 172.2.2.3.33000 > 172.2.2.2.33000: . ack 3111835961 win 557 <...>

- New window size of 514 (65792) is advertised, up to 3111907217, 40 bytes
  below the last end:

IP 172.2.2.3.33000 > 172.2.2.2.33000: . 3113575668:3113577116(1448) ack 3111841425 win 514 <...>

The number 40 results from downscaling the remaining window:

3111907257 - 3111841425 = 65832
65832 / 2^7 = 514
65832 % 2^7 = 40

If the sender uses up the entire window before it is shrunk, this can have
chaotic effects on the connection. When sending ACKs, tcp_acceptable_seq()
will notice that the window has been shrunk since tcp_wnd_end() is before
tp->snd_nxt, which makes it choose tcp_wnd_end() as sequence number.
This will fail the receivers checks in tcp_sequence() however since it
is before it's tp->rcv_wup, making it respond with a dupack.

If both sides are in this condition, this leads to a constant flood of
ACKs until the connection times out.

Make sure the window is never shrunk by aligning the remaining window to
the window scaling factor.
Signed-off-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

With TSO it was possible to send past the receiver window when the skb
to be sent was the last in the write queue while the receiver window
is the limiting factor. One can notice that there's a loophole in the
tcp_mss_split_point that lacked a receiver window check for the
tcp_write_queue_tail() if also cwnd was smaller than the full skb.

Noticed by Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> in form of "Treason
uncloaked! Peer ... shrinks window .... Repaired."  messages (the peer
didn't actually shrink its window as the message suggests, we had just
sent something past it without a permission to do so).
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Tested-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Updated to incorporate Eric's suggestion of using a per cpu buffer
rather than allocating on the stack.  Just a two line change, but will
resend in it's entirety.
Signed-off-by: NGlenn Griffin <ggriffin.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NYOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>

This patch removes the no longer used
EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysctl_tcp_tso_win_divisor).
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

In case of segments which are purely for control without any
data (SYN/ACK/FIN/RST), many fields are set to common values
in multiple places.

i386 results:

$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-13)

$ codiff tcp_output.o.old tcp_output.o.new
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:
  tcp_xmit_probe_skb    |  -48
  tcp_send_ack          |  -56
  tcp_retransmit_skb    |  -79
  tcp_connect           |  -43
  tcp_send_active_reset |  -35
  tcp_make_synack       |  -42
  tcp_send_fin          |  -48
 7 functions changed, 351 bytes removed

net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:
  tcp_init_nondata_skb |  +90
 1 function changed, 90 bytes added

tcp_output.o.mid:
 8 functions changed, 90 bytes added, 351 bytes removed, diff: -261
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

These were manually selected from indent's results which as is
are too noisy to be of any use without human reason. In addition,
some extra newlines between function and its comment were removed
too.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The snd_up check should be enough. I suspect this has been
there to provide a minor optimization in clean_rtx_queue which
used to have a small if (!->sacked) block which could skip
snd_up check among the other work.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

There's very little need to have the packets_out incrementing in
a separate function. Also name the combined function
appropriately.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch introduces new memory accounting functions for each network
protocol. Most of them are renamed from memory accounting functions
for stream protocols. At the same time, some stream memory accounting
functions are removed since other functions do same thing.

Renaming:
	sk_stream_free_skb()		->	sk_wmem_free_skb()
	__sk_stream_mem_reclaim()	->	__sk_mem_reclaim()
	sk_stream_mem_reclaim()		->	sk_mem_reclaim()
	sk_stream_mem_schedule 		->    	__sk_mem_schedule()
	sk_stream_pages()      		->	sk_mem_pages()
	sk_stream_rmem_schedule()	->	sk_rmem_schedule()
	sk_stream_wmem_schedule()	->	sk_wmem_schedule()
	sk_charge_skb()			->	sk_mem_charge()

Removeing
	sk_stream_rfree():	consolidates into sock_rfree()
	sk_stream_set_owner_r(): consolidates into skb_set_owner_r()
	sk_stream_mem_schedule()

The following functions are added.
    	sk_has_account(): check if the protocol supports accounting
	sk_mem_uncharge(): do the opposite of sk_mem_charge()

In addition, to achieve consolidation, updating sk_wmem_queued is
removed from sk_mem_charge().

Next, to consolidate memory accounting functions, this patch adds
memory accounting calls to network core functions. Moreover, present
memory accounting call is renamed to new accounting call.

Finally we replace present memory accounting calls with new interface
in TCP and SCTP.
Signed-off-by: NTakahiro Yasui <tyasui@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NHideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

If snd_wnd - snd_nxt wasn't multiple of MSS, skb was split on
odd boundary by the callers of tcp_window_allows.

We try really hard to avoid unnecessary modulos. Therefore the
old caller side check "if (skb->len < limit)" was too wide as
well because limit is not bound in any way to skb->len and can
cause spurious testing for trimming in the middle of the queue
while we only wanted that to happen at the tail of the queue.
A simple additional caller side check for tcp_write_queue_tail
would likely have resulted 2 x modulos because the limit would
have to be first calculated from window, however, doing that
unnecessary modulo is not mandatory. After a minor change to
the algorithm, simply determine first if the modulo is needed
at all and at that point immediately decide also from which
value it should be calculated from.

This approach also kills some duplicated code.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Because 'free_space' variable in __tcp_select_window() is signed,
expression (free_space / 2) forces compiler to emit an integer divide.

This can be changed to a plain right shift, less expensive.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

I'd say that most of what tcp_tso_should_defer had in between
there was dead code because of this.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Pointing to the next skb is necessary to avoid referencing
already SACKed skbs which will soon be on a separate list.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Lines won't be that long and it's compiler's job to optimize
them.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

They better be valid when call to write_queue functions is made
once things that follow are going in.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The 3rd argument is always zero (according to grep :) Eliminate
it and merge the function with sk_stream_alloc_skb.

This saves 44 more bytes, and together with the previous patch
we have:

add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 0/8 up/down: 183/-751 (-568)
function                                     old     new   delta
sk_stream_alloc_skb                            -     183    +183
ip_rt_init                                   529     525      -4
arp_ignore                                   112     107      -5
__inet_lookup_listener                       284     274     -10
tcp_sendmsg                                 2583    2481    -102
tcp_sendpage                                1449    1300    -149
tso_fragment                                 417     258    -159
tcp_fragment                                1149     988    -161
__tcp_push_pending_frames                   1998    1837    -161
Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Better place exists in update_send_head (other non-queue related
adjustments are done there as well) which is the only caller of
tcp_advance_send_head (now that the bogus call from mtu_probe is
gone).
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Key points of this patch are:

  - In case new SACK information is advance only type, no skb
    processing below previously discovered highest point is done
  - Optimize cases below highest point too since there's no need
    to always go up to highest point (which is very likely still
    present in that SACK), this is not entirely true though
    because I'm dropping the fastpath_skb_hint which could
    previously optimize those cases even better. Whether that's
    significant, I'm not too sure.

Currently it will provide skipping by walking. Combined with
RB-tree, all skipping would become fast too regardless of window
size (can be done incrementally later).

Previously a number of cases in TCP SACK processing fails to
take advantage of costly stored information in sack_recv_cache,
most importantly, expected events such as cumulative ACK and new
hole ACKs. Processing on such ACKs result in rather long walks
building up latencies (which easily gets nasty when window is
huge). Those latencies are often completely unnecessary
compared with the amount of _new_ information received, usually
for cumulative ACK there's no new information at all, yet TCP
walks whole queue unnecessary potentially taking a number of
costly cache misses on the way, etc.!

Since the inclusion of highest_sack, there's a lot information
that is very likely redundant (SACK fastpath hint stuff,
fackets_out, highest_sack), though there's no ultimate guarantee
that they'll remain the same whole the time (in all unearthly
scenarios). Take advantage of this knowledge here and drop
fastpath hint and use direct access to highest SACKed skb as
a replacement.

Effectively "special cased" fastpath is dropped. This change
adds some complexity to introduce better coveraged "fastpath",
though the added complexity should make TCP behave more cache
friendly.

The current ACK's SACK blocks are compared against each cached
block individially and only ranges that are new are then scanned
by the high constant walk. For other parts of write queue, even
when in previously known part of the SACK blocks, a faster skip
function is used (if necessary at all). In addition, whenever
possible, TCP fast-forwards to highest_sack skb that was made
available by an earlier patch. In typical case, no other things
but this fast-forward and mandatory markings after that occur
making the access pattern quite similar to the former fastpath
"special case".

DSACKs are special case that must always be walked.

The local to recv_sack_cache copying could be more intelligent
w.r.t DSACKs which are likely to be there only once but that
is left to a separate patch.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

It is going to replace the sack fastpath hint quite soon... :-)
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The comment in tcp_nagle_test suggests that. This bug is very
very old, even 2.4.0 seems to have it.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Jrvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The original code has striking complexity to perform a query
which can be reduced to a very simple compare.

FIN seqno may be included to write_seq but it should not make
any significant difference here compared to skb->len which was
used previously. One won't end up there with SYN still queued.

Use of write_seq check guarantees that there's a valid skb in
send_head so I removed the extra check.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: NJohn Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

It seems that the checked range for receiver window check should
begin from the first rather than from the last skb that is going
to be included to the probe. And that can be achieved without
reference to skbs at all, snd_nxt and write_seq provides the
correct seqno already. Plus, it SHOULD account packets that are
necessary to trigger fast retransmit [RFC4821].

Location of snd_wnd < probe_size/size_needed check is bogus
because it will cause the other if() match as well (due to
snd_nxt >= snd_una invariant).

Removed dead obvious comment.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

When the abstraction functions got added, conversion here was
made incorrectly. As a result, the skb may end up pointing
to skb which got included to the probe skb and then was freed.
For it to trigger, however, skb_transmit must fail sending as
well.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This addition of lost_retrans_low to tcp_sock might be
unnecessary, it's not clear how often lost_retrans worker is
executed when there wasn't work to do.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1) Passing wrong skb to tcp_adjust_fackets_out could corrupt
fastpath_cnt_hint as tcp_skb_pcount(next_skb) is not included
to it if hint points exactly to the next_skb (it's lagging
behind, see sacktag).

2) When fastpath_skb_hint is put backwards to avoid dangling
skb reference, the skb's pcount must also be removed from count
(not included like above).

Reported by Cedric Le Goater <legoater@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This was found due to bug report from Cedric Le Goater though
it turned this turned out to be unrelated bug.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

I previously added checking to position that is rather poor as
state has already been adjusted quite a bit. Re-placing it above
all state changes should be more robust though the return should
never ever get executed regardless of its place :-).
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

There's no reason to clear the sacktag skb hint when small part
of the rexmit queue changes. Account changes (if any) instead when
fragmenting/collapsing. RTO/FRTO do not touch SACKED_ACKED bits so
no need to discard SACK tag hint at all.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

In addition, fix its function comment spacing.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>