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>

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>

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>

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>

After commit 740b0f18 ("tcp: switch rtt estimations to usec resolution"),
we no longer need to maintain timestamps in two different fields.

TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->when can be removed, as same information sits in skb_mstamp.stamp_jiffies
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: NYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->when has different meaning in output and input paths.

In output path, it contains a timestamp.
In input path, it contains an ISN, chosen by tcp_timewait_state_process()

Lets add a different name to ease code comprehension.

Note that 'when' field will disappear in following patch,
as skb_mstamp already contains timestamp, the anonymous
union will promptly disappear as well.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: NYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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>

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>

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>

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>

Since Yuchung's 9b44190d (tcp: refactor F-RTO), tcp_enter_cwr is always
called with set_ssthresh = 1. Thus, we can remove this argument from
tcp_enter_cwr. Further, as we remove this one, tcp_init_cwnd_reduction
is then always called with set_ssthresh = true, and so we can get rid of
this argument as well.

Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>
Acked-by: NYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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>

Create tcp_conn_request and remove most of the code from
tcp_v4_conn_request and tcp_v6_conn_request.
Signed-off-by: NOctavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add queue_add_hash member to tcp_request_sock_ops so that we can later
unify tcp_v4_conn_request and tcp_v6_conn_request.
Signed-off-by: NOctavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add mss_clamp member to tcp_request_sock_ops so that we can later
unify tcp_v4_conn_request and tcp_v6_conn_request.
Signed-off-by: NOctavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NOctavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Create a new tcp_request_sock_ops method to unify the IPv4/IPv6
signature for tcp_v[46]_send_synack. This allows us to later unify
tcp_v4_rtx_synack with tcp_v6_rtx_synack and tcp_v4_conn_request with
tcp_v4_conn_request.
Signed-off-by: NOctavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

More work in preparation of unifying tcp_v4_conn_request and
tcp_v6_conn_request: indirect the init sequence calls via the
tcp_request_sock_ops.
Signed-off-by: NOctavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Create wrappers with same signature for the IPv4/IPv6 request routing
calls and use these wrappers (via route_req method from
tcp_request_sock_ops) in tcp_v4_conn_request and tcp_v6_conn_request
with the purpose of unifying the two functions in a later patch.

We can later drop the wrapper functions and modify inet_csk_route_req
and inet6_cks_route_req to use the same signature.
Signed-off-by: NOctavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Move the specific IPv4/IPv6 cookie sequence initialization to a new
method in tcp_request_sock_ops in preparation for unifying
tcp_v4_conn_request and tcp_v6_conn_request.
Signed-off-by: NOctavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Move the specific IPv4/IPv6 intializations to a new method in
tcp_request_sock_ops in preparation for unifying tcp_v4_conn_request
and tcp_v6_conn_request.
Signed-off-by: NOctavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NOctavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

ir_mark initialization is done for both TCP v4 and v6, move it in the
common tcp_openreq_init function.
Signed-off-by: NOctavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

tcp_fragment can be called from process context (from tso_fragment).
Add a new gfp parameter to allow it to preserve atomic memory if
possible.
Signed-off-by: NOctavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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>

To avoid large code duplication in IPv6, we need to first simplify
the complicate SYN-ACK sending code in tcp_v4_conn_request().

To use tcp_v4(6)_send_synack() to send all SYN-ACKs, we need to
initialize the mini socket's receive window before trying to
create the child socket and/or building the SYN-ACK packet. So we move
that initialization from tcp_make_synack() to tcp_v4_conn_request()
as a new function tcp_openreq_init_req_rwin().

After this refactoring the SYN-ACK sending code is simpler and easier
to implement Fast Open for IPv6.
Signed-off-by: NYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Lee <longinus00@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Acked-by: NNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Consolidate various cookie checking and generation code to simplify
the fast open processing. The main goal is to reduce code duplication
in tcp_v4_conn_request() for IPv6 support.

Removes two experimental sysctl flags TFO_SERVER_ALWAYS and
TFO_SERVER_COOKIE_NOT_CHKD used primarily for developmental debugging
purposes.
Signed-off-by: NYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Lee <longinus00@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: NNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Move common TFO functions that will be used by both v4 and v6
to tcp_fastopen.c. Create a helper tcp_fastopen_queue_check().
Signed-off-by: NYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Lee <longinus00@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: NNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Commit e114a710 ("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: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: NNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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>

Make tcp_cwnd_application_limited() static and move it from tcp_input.c to
tcp_output.c
Signed-off-by: NWeiping Pan <wpan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

While it is true that getnstimeofday() uses about 40 cycles if TSC
is available, it can use 1600 cycles if hpet is the clocksource.

Switch to get_jiffies_64(), as this is more than enough, and
go back to 60 seconds periods.

Fixes: 8c27bd75 ("tcp: syncookies: reduce cookie lifetime to 128 seconds")
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: NFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: NNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Larry Brakmo <brakmo@google.com>
Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch fixes two bugs in fastopen :

1) The tcp_sendmsg(...,  @size) argument was ignored.

   Code was relying on user not fooling the kernel with iovec mismatches

2) When MTU is about 64KB, tcp_send_syn_data() attempts order-5
allocations, which are likely to fail when memory gets fragmented.

Fixes: 783237e8 ("net-tcp: Fast Open client - sending SYN-data")
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: NYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Tested-by: NYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Commit 684bad11 "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: NStanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: NYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The following are only used in one file:
  tcp_connect_init
  tcp_set_rto
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

While investigating performance problems on small RPC workloads,
I noticed linux TCP stack was always splitting the last TSO skb
into two parts (skbs). One being a multiple of MSS, and a small one
with the Push flag. This split is done even if TCP_NODELAY is set,
or if no small packet is in flight.

Example with request/response of 4K/4K

IP A > B: . ack 68432 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001>
IP A > B: . 65537:68433(2896) ack 69632 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001>
IP A > B: P 68433:69633(1200) ack 69632 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001>
IP B > A: . ack 68433 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6525001 6524593>
IP B > A: . 69632:72528(2896) ack 69633 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6525001 6524593>
IP B > A: P 72528:73728(1200) ack 69633 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6525001 6524593>
IP A > B: . ack 72528 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001>
IP A > B: . 69633:72529(2896) ack 73728 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001>
IP A > B: P 72529:73729(1200) ack 73728 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001>

We can avoid this split by including the Nagle tests at the right place.

Note : If some NIC had trouble sending TSO packets with a partial
last segment, we would have hit the problem in GRO/forwarding workload already.

tcp_minshall_update() is moved to tcp_output.c and is updated as we might
feed a TSO packet with a partial last segment.

This patch tremendously improves performance, as the traffic now looks
like :

IP A > B: . ack 98304 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834277 6834685>
IP A > B: P 94209:98305(4096) ack 98304 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834277 6834685>
IP B > A: . ack 98305 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834686 6834277>
IP B > A: P 98304:102400(4096) ack 98305 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834686 6834277>
IP A > B: . ack 102400 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834279 6834686>
IP A > B: P 98305:102401(4096) ack 102400 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834279 6834686>
IP B > A: . ack 102401 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834687 6834279>
IP B > A: P 102400:106496(4096) ack 102401 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834687 6834279>
IP A > B: . ack 106496 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834280 6834687>
IP A > B: P 102401:106497(4096) ack 106496 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834280 6834687>
IP B > A: . ack 106497 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834688 6834280>
IP B > A: P 106496:110592(4096) ack 106497 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834688 6834280>

Before :

lpq83:~# nstat >/dev/null;perf stat ./super_netperf 200 -t TCP_RR -H lpq84 -l 20 -- -r 4K,4K
280774

 Performance counter stats for './super_netperf 200 -t TCP_RR -H lpq84 -l 20 -- -r 4K,4K':

     205719.049006 task-clock                #    9.278 CPUs utilized
         8,449,968 context-switches          #    0.041 M/sec
         1,935,997 CPU-migrations            #    0.009 M/sec
           160,541 page-faults               #    0.780 K/sec
   548,478,722,290 cycles                    #    2.666 GHz                     [83.20%]
   455,240,670,857 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   83.00% frontend cycles idle    [83.48%]
   272,881,454,275 stalled-cycles-backend    #   49.75% backend  cycles idle    [66.73%]
   166,091,460,030 instructions              #    0.30  insns per cycle
                                             #    2.74  stalled cycles per insn [83.39%]
    29,150,229,399 branches                  #  141.699 M/sec                   [83.30%]
     1,943,814,026 branch-misses             #    6.67% of all branches         [83.32%]

      22.173517844 seconds time elapsed

lpq83:~# nstat | egrep "IpOutRequests|IpExtOutOctets"
IpOutRequests                   16851063           0.0
IpExtOutOctets                  23878580777        0.0

After patch :

lpq83:~# nstat >/dev/null;perf stat ./super_netperf 200 -t TCP_RR -H lpq84 -l 20 -- -r 4K,4K
280877

 Performance counter stats for './super_netperf 200 -t TCP_RR -H lpq84 -l 20 -- -r 4K,4K':

     107496.071918 task-clock                #    4.847 CPUs utilized
         5,635,458 context-switches          #    0.052 M/sec
         1,374,707 CPU-migrations            #    0.013 M/sec
           160,920 page-faults               #    0.001 M/sec
   281,500,010,924 cycles                    #    2.619 GHz                     [83.28%]
   228,865,069,307 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   81.30% frontend cycles idle    [83.38%]
   142,462,742,658 stalled-cycles-backend    #   50.61% backend  cycles idle    [66.81%]
    95,227,712,566 instructions              #    0.34  insns per cycle
                                             #    2.40  stalled cycles per insn [83.43%]
    16,209,868,171 branches                  #  150.795 M/sec                   [83.20%]
       874,252,952 branch-misses             #    5.39% of all branches         [83.37%]

      22.175821286 seconds time elapsed

lpq83:~# nstat | egrep "IpOutRequests|IpExtOutOctets"
IpOutRequests                   11239428           0.0
IpExtOutOctets                  23595191035        0.0

Indeed, the occupancy of tx skbs (IpExtOutOctets/IpOutRequests) is higher :
2099 instead of 1417, thus helping GRO to be more efficient when using FQ packet
scheduler.

Many thanks to Neal for review and ideas.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Cc: Van Jacobson <vanj@google.com>
Acked-by: NNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Tested-by: NNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

With the introduction of TCP Small Queues, TSO auto sizing, and TCP
pacing, we can implement Automatic Corking in the kernel, to help
applications doing small write()/sendmsg() to TCP sockets.

Idea is to change tcp_push() to check if the current skb payload is
under skb optimal size (a multiple of MSS bytes)

If under 'size_goal', and at least one packet is still in Qdisc or
NIC TX queues, set the TCP Small Queue Throttled bit, so that the push
will be delayed up to TX completion time.

This delay might allow the application to coalesce more bytes
in the skb in following write()/sendmsg()/sendfile() system calls.

The exact duration of the delay is depending on the dynamics
of the system, and might be zero if no packet for this flow
is actually held in Qdisc or NIC TX ring.

Using FQ/pacing is a way to increase the probability of
autocorking being triggered.

Add a new sysctl (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_autocorking) to control
this feature and default it to 1 (enabled)

Add a new SNMP counter : nstat -a | grep TcpExtTCPAutoCorking
This counter is incremented every time we detected skb was under used
and its flush was deferred.

Tested:

Interesting effects when using line buffered commands under ssh.

Excellent performance results in term of cpu usage and total throughput.

lpq83:~# echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_autocorking
lpq83:~# perf stat ./super_netperf 4 -t TCP_STREAM -H lpq84 -- -m 128
9410.39

 Performance counter stats for './super_netperf 4 -t TCP_STREAM -H lpq84 -- -m 128':

      35209.439626 task-clock                #    2.901 CPUs utilized
             2,294 context-switches          #    0.065 K/sec
               101 CPU-migrations            #    0.003 K/sec
             4,079 page-faults               #    0.116 K/sec
    97,923,241,298 cycles                    #    2.781 GHz                     [83.31%]
    51,832,908,236 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   52.93% frontend cycles idle    [83.30%]
    25,697,986,603 stalled-cycles-backend    #   26.24% backend  cycles idle    [66.70%]
   102,225,978,536 instructions              #    1.04  insns per cycle
                                             #    0.51  stalled cycles per insn [83.38%]
    18,657,696,819 branches                  #  529.906 M/sec                   [83.29%]
        91,679,646 branch-misses             #    0.49% of all branches         [83.40%]

      12.136204899 seconds time elapsed

lpq83:~# echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_autocorking
lpq83:~# perf stat ./super_netperf 4 -t TCP_STREAM -H lpq84 -- -m 128
6624.89

 Performance counter stats for './super_netperf 4 -t TCP_STREAM -H lpq84 -- -m 128':
      40045.864494 task-clock                #    3.301 CPUs utilized
               171 context-switches          #    0.004 K/sec
                53 CPU-migrations            #    0.001 K/sec
             4,080 page-faults               #    0.102 K/sec
   111,340,458,645 cycles                    #    2.780 GHz                     [83.34%]
    61,778,039,277 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   55.49% frontend cycles idle    [83.31%]
    29,295,522,759 stalled-cycles-backend    #   26.31% backend  cycles idle    [66.67%]
   108,654,349,355 instructions              #    0.98  insns per cycle
                                             #    0.57  stalled cycles per insn [83.34%]
    19,552,170,748 branches                  #  488.244 M/sec                   [83.34%]
       157,875,417 branch-misses             #    0.81% of all branches         [83.34%]

      12.130267788 seconds time elapsed
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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: NYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
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>

The code that is implemented is per memory cgroup not per netns, and
having per netns bits is just confusing.  Remove the per netns bits to
make it easier to see what is really going on.
Signed-off-by: N"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>