1. 18 10月, 2014 2 次提交
  2. 01 10月, 2014 1 次提交
  3. 30 9月, 2014 1 次提交
  4. 29 9月, 2014 6 次提交
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      net: tcp: more detailed ACK events and events for CE marked packets · 9890092e
      Florian Westphal 提交于
      DataCenter TCP (DCTCP) determines cwnd growth based on ECN information
      and ACK properties, e.g. ACK that updates window is treated differently
      than DUPACK.
      
      Also DCTCP needs information whether ACK was delayed ACK. Furthermore,
      DCTCP also implements a CE state machine that keeps track of CE markings
      of incoming packets.
      
      Therefore, extend the congestion control framework to provide these
      event types, so that DCTCP can be properly implemented as a normal
      congestion algorithm module outside of the core stack.
      
      Joint work with Daniel Borkmann and Glenn Judd.
      Signed-off-by: NFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
      Signed-off-by: NDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NGlenn Judd <glenn.judd@morganstanley.com>
      Acked-by: NStephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      9890092e
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      net: tcp: split ack slow/fast events from cwnd_event · 7354c8c3
      Florian Westphal 提交于
      The congestion control ops "cwnd_event" currently supports
      CA_EVENT_FAST_ACK and CA_EVENT_SLOW_ACK events (among others).
      Both FAST and SLOW_ACK are only used by Westwood congestion
      control algorithm.
      
      This removes both flags from cwnd_event and adds a new
      in_ack_event callback for this. The goal is to be able to
      provide more detailed information about ACKs, such as whether
      ECE flag was set, or whether the ACK resulted in a window
      update.
      
      It is required for DataCenter TCP (DCTCP) congestion control
      algorithm as it makes a different choice depending on ECE being
      set or not.
      
      Joint work with Daniel Borkmann and Glenn Judd.
      Signed-off-by: NFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
      Signed-off-by: NDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NGlenn Judd <glenn.judd@morganstanley.com>
      Acked-by: NStephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      7354c8c3
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      net: tcp: add flag for ca to indicate that ECN is required · 30e502a3
      Daniel Borkmann 提交于
      This patch adds a flag to TCP congestion algorithms that allows
      for requesting to mark IPv4/IPv6 sockets with transport as ECN
      capable, that is, ECT(0), when required by a congestion algorithm.
      
      It is currently used and needed in DataCenter TCP (DCTCP), as it
      requires both peers to assert ECT on all IP packets sent - it
      uses ECN feedback (i.e. CE, Congestion Encountered information)
      from switches inside the data center to derive feedback to the
      end hosts.
      
      Therefore, simply add a new flag to icsk_ca_ops. Note that DCTCP's
      algorithm/behaviour slightly diverges from RFC3168, therefore this
      is only (!) enabled iff the assigned congestion control ops module
      has requested this. By that, we can tightly couple this logic really
      only to the provided congestion control ops.
      
      Joint work with Florian Westphal and Glenn Judd.
      Signed-off-by: NDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
      Signed-off-by: NGlenn Judd <glenn.judd@morganstanley.com>
      Acked-by: NStephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      30e502a3
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      net: tcp: assign tcp cong_ops when tcp sk is created · 55d8694f
      Florian Westphal 提交于
      Split assignment and initialization from one into two functions.
      
      This is required by followup patches that add Datacenter TCP
      (DCTCP) congestion control algorithm - we need to be able to
      determine if the connection is moderated by DCTCP before the
      3WHS has finished.
      
      As we walk the available congestion control list during the
      assignment, we are always guaranteed to have Reno present as
      it's fixed compiled-in. Therefore, since we're doing the
      early assignment, we don't have a real use for the Reno alias
      tcp_init_congestion_ops anymore and can thus remove it.
      
      Actual usage of the congestion control operations are being
      made after the 3WHS has finished, in some cases however we
      can access get_info() via diag if implemented, therefore we
      need to zero out the private area for those modules.
      
      Joint work with Daniel Borkmann and Glenn Judd.
      Signed-off-by: NFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
      Signed-off-by: NDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NGlenn Judd <glenn.judd@morganstanley.com>
      Acked-by: NStephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      55d8694f
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      tcp: change tcp_skb_pcount() location · cd7d8498
      Eric Dumazet 提交于
      Our goal is to access no more than one cache line access per skb in
      a write or receive queue when doing the various walks.
      
      After recent TCP_SKB_CB() reorganizations, it is almost done.
      
      Last part is tcp_skb_pcount() which currently uses
      skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_segs, which is a terrible choice, because it needs
      3 cache lines in current kernel (skb->head, skb->end, and
      shinfo->gso_segs are all in 3 different cache lines, far from skb->cb)
      
      This very simple patch reuses space currently taken by tcp_tw_isn
      only in input path, as tcp_skb_pcount is only needed for skb stored in
      write queue.
      
      This considerably speeds up tcp_ack(), granted we avoid shinfo->tx_flags
      to get SKBTX_ACK_TSTAMP, which seems possible.
      
      This also speeds up all sack processing in general.
      
      This speeds up tcp_sendmsg() because it no longer has to access/dirty
      shinfo.
      Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      cd7d8498
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      tcp: better TCP_SKB_CB layout to reduce cache line misses · 971f10ec
      Eric Dumazet 提交于
      TCP maintains lists of skb in write queue, and in receive queues
      (in order and out of order queues)
      
      Scanning these lists both in input and output path usually requires
      access to skb->next, TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq, and TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq
      
      These fields are currently in two different cache lines, meaning we
      waste lot of memory bandwidth when these queues are big and flows
      have either packet drops or packet reorders.
      
      We can move TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->header at the end of TCP_SKB_CB, because
      this header is not used in fast path. This allows TCP to search much faster
      in the skb lists.
      
      Even with regular flows, we save one cache line miss in fast path.
      
      Thanks to Christoph Paasch for noticing we need to cleanup
      skb->cb[] (IPCB/IP6CB) before entering IP stack in tx path,
      and that I forgot IPCB use in tcp_v4_hnd_req() and tcp_v4_save_options().
      Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      971f10ec
  5. 28 9月, 2014 2 次提交
  6. 06 9月, 2014 2 次提交
  7. 15 8月, 2014 3 次提交
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      tcp: don't allow syn packets without timestamps to pass tcp_tw_recycle logic · a26552af
      Hannes Frederic Sowa 提交于
      tcp_tw_recycle heavily relies on tcp timestamps to build a per-host
      ordering of incoming connections and teardowns without the need to
      hold state on a specific quadruple for TCP_TIMEWAIT_LEN, but only for
      the last measured RTO. To do so, we keep the last seen timestamp in a
      per-host indexed data structure and verify if the incoming timestamp
      in a connection request is strictly greater than the saved one during
      last connection teardown. Thus we can verify later on that no old data
      packets will be accepted by the new connection.
      
      During moving a socket to time-wait state we already verify if timestamps
      where seen on a connection. Only if that was the case we let the
      time-wait socket expire after the RTO, otherwise normal TCP_TIMEWAIT_LEN
      will be used. But we don't verify this on incoming SYN packets. If a
      connection teardown was less than TCP_PAWS_MSL seconds in the past we
      cannot guarantee to not accept data packets from an old connection if
      no timestamps are present. We should drop this SYN packet. This patch
      closes this loophole.
      
      Please note, this patch does not make tcp_tw_recycle in any way more
      usable but only adds another safety check:
      Sporadic drops of SYN packets because of reordering in the network or
      in the socket backlog queues can happen. Users behing NAT trying to
      connect to a tcp_tw_recycle enabled server can get caught in blackholes
      and their connection requests may regullary get dropped because hosts
      behind an address translator don't have synchronized tcp timestamp clocks.
      tcp_tw_recycle cannot work if peers don't have tcp timestamps enabled.
      
      In general, use of tcp_tw_recycle is disadvised.
      
      Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
      Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
      Signed-off-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      a26552af
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      tcp: fix tcp_release_cb() to dispatch via address family for mtu_reduced() · 4fab9071
      Neal Cardwell 提交于
      Make sure we use the correct address-family-specific function for
      handling MTU reductions from within tcp_release_cb().
      
      Previously AF_INET6 sockets were incorrectly always using the IPv6
      code path when sometimes they were handling IPv4 traffic and thus had
      an IPv4 dst.
      Signed-off-by: NNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
      Diagnosed-by: NWillem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
      Fixes: 563d34d0 ("tcp: dont drop MTU reduction indications")
      Reviewed-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      4fab9071
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      tcp: don't use timestamp from repaired skb-s to calculate RTT (v2) · 9d186cac
      Andrey Vagin 提交于
      We don't know right timestamp for repaired skb-s. Wrong RTT estimations
      isn't good, because some congestion modules heavily depends on it.
      
      This patch adds the TCPCB_REPAIRED flag, which is included in
      TCPCB_RETRANS.
      
      Thanks to Eric for the advice how to fix this issue.
      
      This patch fixes the warning:
      [  879.562947] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2825 at net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:3078 tcp_ack+0x11f5/0x1380()
      [  879.567253] CPU: 0 PID: 2825 Comm: socket-tcpbuf-l Not tainted 3.16.0-next-20140811 #1
      [  879.567829] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
      [  879.568177]  0000000000000000 00000000c532680c ffff880039643d00 ffffffff817aa2d2
      [  879.568776]  0000000000000000 ffff880039643d38 ffffffff8109afbd ffff880039d6ba80
      [  879.569386]  ffff88003a449800 000000002983d6bd 0000000000000000 000000002983d6bc
      [  879.569982] Call Trace:
      [  879.570264]  [<ffffffff817aa2d2>] dump_stack+0x4d/0x66
      [  879.570599]  [<ffffffff8109afbd>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7d/0xa0
      [  879.570935]  [<ffffffff8109b0ea>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
      [  879.571292]  [<ffffffff816d0a05>] tcp_ack+0x11f5/0x1380
      [  879.571614]  [<ffffffff816d10bd>] tcp_rcv_established+0x1ed/0x710
      [  879.571958]  [<ffffffff816dc9da>] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x10a/0x370
      [  879.572315]  [<ffffffff81657459>] release_sock+0x89/0x1d0
      [  879.572642]  [<ffffffff816c81a0>] do_tcp_setsockopt.isra.36+0x120/0x860
      [  879.573000]  [<ffffffff8110a52e>] ? rcu_read_lock_held+0x6e/0x80
      [  879.573352]  [<ffffffff816c8912>] tcp_setsockopt+0x32/0x40
      [  879.573678]  [<ffffffff81654ac4>] sock_common_setsockopt+0x14/0x20
      [  879.574031]  [<ffffffff816537b0>] SyS_setsockopt+0x80/0xf0
      [  879.574393]  [<ffffffff817b40a9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
      [  879.574730] ---[ end trace a17cbc38eb8c5c00 ]---
      
      v2: moving setting of skb->when for repaired skb-s in tcp_write_xmit,
          where it's set for other skb-s.
      
      Fixes: 431a9124 ("tcp: timestamp SYN+DATA messages")
      Fixes: 740b0f18 ("tcp: switch rtt estimations to usec resolution")
      Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
      Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      9d186cac
  8. 06 8月, 2014 1 次提交
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      tcp: reduce spurious retransmits due to transient SACK reneging · 5ae344c9
      Neal Cardwell 提交于
      This commit reduces spurious retransmits due to apparent SACK reneging
      by only reacting to SACK reneging that persists for a short delay.
      
      When a sequence space hole at snd_una is filled, some TCP receivers
      send a series of ACKs as they apparently scan their out-of-order queue
      and cumulatively ACK all the packets that have now been consecutiveyly
      received. This is essentially misbehavior B in "Misbehaviors in TCP
      SACK generation" ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, April
      2011, so we suspect that this is from several common OSes (Windows
      2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP). However, this issue has also
      been seen in other cases, e.g. the netdev thread "TCP being hoodwinked
      into spurious retransmissions by lack of timestamps?" from March 2014,
      where the receiver was thought to be a BSD box.
      
      Since snd_una would temporarily be adjacent to a previously SACKed
      range in these scenarios, this receiver behavior triggered the Linux
      SACK reneging code path in the sender. This led the sender to clear
      the SACK scoreboard, enter CA_Loss, and spuriously retransmit
      (potentially) every packet from the entire write queue at line rate
      just a few milliseconds before the ACK for each packet arrives at the
      sender.
      
      To avoid such situations, now when a sender sees apparent reneging it
      does not yet retransmit, but rather adjusts the RTO timer to give the
      receiver a little time (max(RTT/2, 10ms)) to send us some more ACKs
      that will restore sanity to the SACK scoreboard. If the reneging
      persists until this RTO then, as before, we clear the SACK scoreboard
      and enter CA_Loss.
      
      A 10ms delay tolerates a receiver sending such a stream of ACKs at
      56Kbit/sec. And to allow for receivers with slower or more congested
      paths, we wait for at least RTT/2.
      
      We validated the resulting max(RTT/2, 10ms) delay formula with a mix
      of North American and South American Google web server traffic, and
      found that for ACKs displaying transient reneging:
      
       (1) 90% of inter-ACK delays were less than 10ms
       (2) 99% of inter-ACK delays were less than RTT/2
      
      In tests on Google web servers this commit reduced reneging events by
      75%-90% (as measured by the TcpExtTCPSACKReneging counter), without
      any measurable impact on latency for user HTTP and SPDY requests.
      Signed-off-by: NNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      5ae344c9
  9. 16 7月, 2014 1 次提交
  10. 08 7月, 2014 1 次提交
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      tcp: switch snt_synack back to measuring transmit time of first SYNACK · 86c6a2c7
      Neal Cardwell 提交于
      Always store in snt_synack the time at which the server received the
      first client SYN and attempted to send the first SYNACK.
      
      Recent commit aa27fc50 ("tcp: tcp_v[46]_conn_request: fix snt_synack
      initialization") resolved an inconsistency between IPv4 and IPv6 in
      the initialization of snt_synack. This commit brings back the idea
      from 843f4a55 (tcp: use tcp_v4_send_synack on first SYN-ACK), which
      was going for the original behavior of snt_synack from the commit
      where it was added in 9ad7c049 ("tcp: RFC2988bis + taking RTT
      sample from 3WHS for the passive open side") in v3.1.
      
      In addition to being simpler (and probably a tiny bit faster),
      unconditionally storing the time of the first SYNACK attempt has been
      useful because it allows calculating a performance metric quantifying
      how long it took to establish a passive TCP connection.
      Signed-off-by: NNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
      Cc: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
      Cc: Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
      Acked-by: NOctavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      86c6a2c7
  11. 28 6月, 2014 10 次提交
  12. 18 6月, 2014 1 次提交
  13. 11 6月, 2014 1 次提交
  14. 23 5月, 2014 1 次提交
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      tcp: make cwnd-limited checks measurement-based, and gentler · ca8a2263
      Neal Cardwell 提交于
      Experience with the recent e114a710 ("tcp: fix cwnd limited
      checking to improve congestion control") has shown that there are
      common cases where that commit can cause cwnd to be much larger than
      necessary. This leads to TSO autosizing cooking skbs that are too
      large, among other things.
      
      The main problems seemed to be:
      
      (1) That commit attempted to predict the future behavior of the
      connection by looking at the write queue (if TSO or TSQ limit
      sending). That prediction sometimes overestimated future outstanding
      packets.
      
      (2) That commit always allowed cwnd to grow to twice the number of
      outstanding packets (even in congestion avoidance, where this is not
      needed).
      
      This commit improves both of these, by:
      
      (1) Switching to a measurement-based approach where we explicitly
      track the largest number of packets in flight during the past window
      ("max_packets_out"), and remember whether we were cwnd-limited at the
      moment we finished sending that flight.
      
      (2) Only allowing cwnd to grow to twice the number of outstanding
      packets ("max_packets_out") in slow start. In congestion avoidance
      mode we now only allow cwnd to grow if it was fully utilized.
      Signed-off-by: NNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      ca8a2263
  15. 14 5月, 2014 3 次提交
  16. 04 5月, 2014 1 次提交
  17. 03 5月, 2014 1 次提交
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      tcp: fix cwnd limited checking to improve congestion control · e114a710
      Eric Dumazet 提交于
      Yuchung discovered tcp_is_cwnd_limited() was returning false in
      slow start phase even if the application filled the socket write queue.
      
      All congestion modules take into account tcp_is_cwnd_limited()
      before increasing cwnd, so this behavior limits slow start from
      probing the bandwidth at full speed.
      
      The problem is that even if write queue is full (aka we are _not_
      application limited), cwnd can be under utilized if TSO should auto
      defer or TCP Small queues decided to hold packets.
      
      So the in_flight can be kept to smaller value, and we can get to the
      point tcp_is_cwnd_limited() returns false.
      
      With TCP Small Queues and FQ/pacing, this issue is more visible.
      
      We fix this by having tcp_cwnd_validate(), which is supposed to track
      such things, take into account unsent_segs, the number of segs that we
      are not sending at the moment due to TSO or TSQ, but intend to send
      real soon. Then when we are cwnd-limited, remember this fact while we
      are processing the window of ACKs that comes back.
      
      For example, suppose we have a brand new connection with cwnd=10; we
      are in slow start, and we send a flight of 9 packets. By the time we
      have received ACKs for all 9 packets we want our cwnd to be 18.
      We implement this by setting tp->lsnd_pending to 9, and
      considering ourselves to be cwnd-limited while cwnd is less than
      twice tp->lsnd_pending (2*9 -> 18).
      
      This makes tcp_is_cwnd_limited() more understandable, by removing
      the GSO/TSO kludge, that tried to work around the issue.
      
      Note the in_flight parameter can be removed in a followup cleanup
      patch.
      Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      e114a710
  18. 21 4月, 2014 1 次提交
  19. 21 3月, 2014 1 次提交