People often get tripped up by this function and think that
it does not implemented the prescribed algorithms from
RFC2414 and RFC3390, even though it does.

So add a comment to head off such misunderstandings in the
future.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

In case a DSACK is received, it's better to lower cwnd as it's
a sign of data receival.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

tcp_cwnd_down must check for it too as it should be conservative
in case of collapse stuff and also when receiver is trying to
lie (though that wouldn't be very successful/useful anyway).

Note:
- Separated also is_dupack and do_lost in fast_retransalert
	* Much cleaner look-and-feel now
	* This time it really fixes cumulative ACK with many new
	  SACK blocks recovery entry (I claimed this fixes with
	  last patch but it wasn't). TCP will now call
	  tcp_update_scoreboard regardless of is_dupack when
	  in recovery as long as there is enough fackets_out.
- Introduce FLAG_SND_UNA_ADVANCED
	* Some prior_snd_una arguments are unnecessary after it
- Added helper FLAG_ANY_PROGRESS to avoid long FLAG...|FLAG...
  constructs
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

It's possible that new SACK blocks that should trigger new LOST
markings arrive with new data (which previously made is_dupack
false). In addition, I think this fixes a case where we get
a cumulative ACK with enough SACK blocks to trigger the fast
recovery (is_dupack would be false there too).

I'm not completely pleased with this solution because readability
of the code is somewhat questionable as 'is_dupack' in SACK case
is no longer about dupacks only but would mean something like
'lost_marker_work_todo' too... But because of Eifel stuff done
in CA_Recovery, the FLAG_DATA_SACKED check cannot be placed to
the if statement which seems attractive solution. Nevertheless,
I didn't like adding another variable just for that either... :-)
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Actually, the ratehalving seems to work too well, as cwnd is
reduced on every second ACK even though the packets in flight
remains unchanged. Recoveries in a bidirectional flows suffer
quite badly because of this, both NewReno and SACK are affected.

After this patch, rate halving is performed for ACK only if
packets in flight was supposedly changed too.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch changes the API for the callback that is done after an ACK is
received. It solves a couple of issues:

  * Some congestion controls want higher resolution value of RTT
    (controlled by TCP_CONG_RTT_SAMPLE flag). These don't really want a ktime, but
    all compute a RTT in microseconds.

  * Other congestion control could use RTT at jiffies resolution.

To keep API consistent the units should be the same for both cases, just the
resolution should change.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

None of the existing TCP congestion controls use the rtt value pased
in the ca_ops->cong_avoid interface.  Which is lucky because seq_rtt
could have been -1 when handling a duplicate ack.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

For yet unknown reason, something cleared SACKED_RETRANS bit
underneath FRTO.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Commit 6f74651a is found guilty
of breaking DSACK counting, which should be done only for the
SACK block reported by the DSACK instead of every SACK block
that is received along with DSACK information.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Commit 164891aa broke RTT
sampling of congestion control modules. Inaccurate timestamps
could be fed to them without providing any way for them to
identify such cases. Previously RTT sampler was called only if
FLAG_RETRANS_DATA_ACKED was not set filtering inaccurate
timestamps nicely. In addition, the new behavior could give an
invalid timestamp (zero) to RTT sampler if only skbs with
TCPCB_RETRANS were ACKed. This solves both problems.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This flaw does not affect any behavior (currently).
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Without FRTO, the tcp_try_to_open is never called with
lost_out > 0 (see tcp_time_to_recover). However, when FRTO is
enabled, the !tp->lost condition is not used until end of FRTO
because that way TCP avoids premature entry to fast recovery
during FRTO.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The code used to ignore GSO completely, passing either way too
small or zero pkts_acked when GSO skb or part of it got ACKed.
In addition, there is no need to calculate the value in the loop
but simple arithmetics after the loop is sufficient. There is
no need to handle SYN case specially because congestion control
modules are not yet initialized when FLAG_SYN_ACKED is set.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

State could become inconsistent in two cases:

1) Userspace disabled FRTO by tuning sysctl when one of the TCP
   flows was in the middle of FRTO algorithm (and then RTO is
   again triggered)

2) SACK reneging occurs during FRTO algorithm

A simple solution is just to abort the previous FRTO when such
obscure condition occurs...
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The conservative spurious RTO response did not queue CWR even
though the sending rate was lowered. Whenever reduction happens
regardless of reason, CWR should be sent (forgetting to send it
is not very fatal though).

A better approach would be to queue CWR when one of the sending
rate reducing responses (rate-halving one or this conservative
response) is used already at RTO. Doing that would allow CWR to
be sent along with the two new data segments that are sent
during FRTO. However, it's a bit "racy" because userland could
tune the response sysctl to a more aggressive one in between.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This is a corner case where less than MSS sized new data thingie
is awaiting in the send queue. For F-RTO to work correctly, a
new data segment must be sent at certain point or F-RTO cannot
be used at all. RFC4138 allows overriding of Nagle at that
point.

Implementation uses frto_counter states 2 and 3 to distinguish
when Nagle override is needed.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

No new data is needed until the first ACK comes, so no need to check
for application limitedness until then.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Do some simple changes to make congestion control API faster/cleaner.
* use ktime_t rather than timeval
* merge rtt sampling into existing ack callback
  this means one indirect call versus two per ack.
* use flags bits to store options/settings
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This is (mostly) automated change using magic:

sed -e '/struct sock \*sk/ N' -e '/struct sock \*sk/ N'
    -e '/struct sock \*sk/ N' -e '/struct sock \*sk/ N'
    -e 's|struct sock \*sk,[\n\t ]*struct tcp_sock \*tp\([^{]*\n{\n\)|
	  struct sock \*sk\1\tstruct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);\n|g'
    -e 's|struct sock \*sk, struct tcp_sock \*tp|
	  struct sock \*sk|g' -e 's|sk, tp\([^-]\)|sk\1|g'

Fixed four unused variable (tp) warnings that were introduced.

In addition, manually added newlines after local variables and
tweaked function arguments positioning.

$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1)
...
$ codiff -fV built-in.o.old built-in.o.new
net/ipv4/route.c:
  rt_cache_flush |  +14
 1 function changed, 14 bytes added

net/ipv4/tcp.c:
  tcp_setsockopt |   -5
  tcp_sendpage   |  -25
  tcp_sendmsg    |  -16
 3 functions changed, 46 bytes removed

net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:
  tcp_try_undo_recovery |   +3
  tcp_try_undo_dsack    |   +2
  tcp_mark_head_lost    |  -12
  tcp_ack               |  -15
  tcp_event_data_recv   |  -32
  tcp_rcv_state_process |  -10
  tcp_rcv_established   |   +1
 7 functions changed, 6 bytes added, 69 bytes removed, diff: -63

net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:
  update_send_head          |   -9
  tcp_transmit_skb          |  +19
  tcp_cwnd_validate         |   +1
  tcp_write_wakeup          |  -17
  __tcp_push_pending_frames |  -25
  tcp_push_one              |   -8
  tcp_send_fin              |   -4
 7 functions changed, 20 bytes added, 63 bytes removed, diff: -43

built-in.o.new:
 18 functions changed, 40 bytes added, 178 bytes removed, diff: -138
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Spring cleaning time...

There seems to be a lot of places in the network code that have
extra bogus semicolons after conditionals.  Most commonly is a
bogus semicolon after: switch() { }
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When a transmitted packet is looped back directly, CHECKSUM_PARTIAL
maps to the semantics of CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY.  Therefore we should
treat it as such in the stack.
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

For the places where we need a pointer to the transport header, it is
still legal to touch skb->h.raw directly if just adding to,
subtracting from or setting it to another layer header.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

For the cases where the transport header is being set to a offset from
skb->data.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

For the cases where the network header is being set to a offset from skb->data.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

For the places where we need a pointer to the network header, it is still legal
to touch skb->nh.raw directly if just adding to, subtracting from or setting it
to another layer header.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

For the places where we need a pointer to the mac header, it is still legal to
touch skb->mac.raw directly if just adding to, subtracting from or setting it
to another layer header.

This one also converts some more cases to skb_reset_mac_header() that my
regex missed as it had no spaces before nor after '=', ugh.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

That is equal to skb->head before skb_reserve, to help in the layer header
changes.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add whitespace around keywords.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This allows the write queue implementation to be changed,
for example, to one which allows fast interval searching.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Where appropriate, convert references to xtime.tv_sec to the
get_seconds() helper function.
Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Undoing ssthresh is disabled in fastretrans_alert whenever
FLAG_ECE is set by clearing prior_ssthresh. The clearing does
not protect FRTO because FRTO operates before fastretrans_alert.
Moving the clearing of prior_ssthresh earlier seems to be a
suboptimal solution to the FRTO case because then FLAG_ECE will
cause a second ssthresh reduction in try_to_open (the first
occurred when FRTO was entered). So instead, FRTO falls back
immediately to the rate halving response, which switches TCP to
CA_CWR state preventing the latter reduction of ssthresh.

If the first ECE arrived before the ACK after which FRTO is able
to decide RTO as spurious, prior_ssthresh is already cleared.
Thus no undoing for ssthresh occurs. Besides, FLAG_ECE should be
set also in the following ACKs resulting in rate halving response
that sees TCP is already in CA_CWR, which again prevents an extra
ssthresh reduction on that round-trip.

If the first ECE arrived before RTO, ssthresh has already been
adapted and prior_ssthresh remains cleared on entry because TCP
is in CA_CWR (the same applies also to a case where FRTO is
entered more than once and ECE comes in the middle).

High_seq must not be touched after tcp_enter_cwr because CWR
round-trip calculation depends on it.

I believe that after this patch, FRTO should be ECN-safe and
even able to take advantage of synergy benefits.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

A local variable for icsk was created but this change was
missing. Spotted by Jarek Poplawski.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

New sysctl tcp_frto_response is added to select amongst these
responses:
	- Rate halving based; reuses CA_CWR state (default)
	- Very conservative; used to be the only one available (=1)
	- Undo cwr; undoes ssthresh and cwnd reductions (=2)

The response with rate halving requires a new parameter to
tcp_enter_cwr because FRTO has already reduced ssthresh and
doing a second reduction there has to be prevented. In addition,
to keep things nice on 80 cols screen, a local variable was
added.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The reordering detection must work also when FRTO has not been
used at all which was the original intention of mine, just the
expression of the idea was flawed.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Implements the SACK-enhanced FRTO given in RFC4138 using the
variant given in Appendix B.

RFC4138, Appendix B:
  "This means that in order to declare timeout spurious, the TCP
   sender must receive an acknowledgment for non-retransmitted
   segment between SND.UNA and RecoveryPoint in algorithm step 3.
   RecoveryPoint is defined in conservative SACK-recovery
   algorithm [RFC3517]"

The basic version of the FRTO algorithm can still be used also
when SACK is enabled. To enabled SACK-enhanced version, tcp_frto
sysctl is set to 2.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

To be honest, I'm not too sure how the reord stuff works in the
first place but this seems necessary.

When FRTO has been active, the one and only retransmission could
be unnecessary but the state and sending order might not be what
the sacktag code expects it to be (to work correctly).
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

TCP without FRTO would be in Loss state with small cwnd. FRTO,
however, leaves cwnd (typically) to a larger value which causes
ssthresh to become too large in case RTO is triggered again
compared to what conventional recovery would do. Because
consecutive RTOs result in only a single ssthresh reduction,
RTO+cumulative ACK+RTO pattern is required to trigger this
event.

A large comment is included for congestion control module writers
trying to figure out what CA_EVENT_FRTO handler should do because
there exists a remote possibility of incompatibility between
FRTO and module defined ssthresh functions.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Previously RETRANS bits were cleared on the entry to FRTO. We
postpone that into tcp_enter_frto_loss, which is really the
place were the clearing should be done anyway. This allows
simplification of the logic from a clearing loop to the head skb
clearing only.

Besides, the other changes made in the previous patches to
tcp_use_frto made it impossible for the non-SACKed FRTO to be
entered if other than the head has been rexmitted.

With SACK-enhanced FRTO (and Appendix B), however, there can be
a number retransmissions in flight when RTO expires (same thing
could happen before this patchset also with non-SACK FRTO). To
not introduce any jumpiness into the packet counting during FRTO,
instead of clearing RETRANS bits from skbs during entry, do it
later on.
Signed-off-by: NIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>