Currently the VRF driver uses the rx_handler to switch the skb device
to the VRF device. Switching the dev prior to the ip / ipv6 layer
means the VRF driver has to duplicate IP/IPv6 processing which adds
overhead and makes features such as retaining the ingress device index
more complicated than necessary.

This patch moves the hook to the L3 layer just after the first NF_HOOK
for PRE_ROUTING. This location makes exposing the original ingress device
trivial (next patch) and allows adding other NF_HOOKs to the VRF driver
in the future.

dev_queue_xmit_nit is exported so that the VRF driver can cycle the skb
with the switched device through the packet taps to maintain current
behavior (tcpdump can be used on either the vrf device or the enslaved
devices).
Signed-off-by: NDavid Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Replace 2 arguments (cnt and rtt) in the congestion control modules'
pkts_acked() function with a struct. This will allow adding more
information without having to modify existing congestion control
modules (tcp_nv in particular needs bytes in flight when packet
was sent).

As proposed by Neal Cardwell in his comments to the tcp_nv patch.
Signed-off-by: NLawrence Brakmo <brakmo@fb.com>
Acked-by: NYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Refactor tcp_skb_cb to create two overlaping areas to store
state for incoming or outgoing skbs based on comments by
Neal Cardwell to tcp_nv patch:

   AFAICT this patch would not require an increase in the size of
   sk_buff cb[] if it were to take advantage of the fact that the
   tcp_skb_cb header.h4 and header.h6 fields are only used in the packet
   reception code path, and this in_flight field is only used on the
   transmit side.
Signed-off-by: NLawrence Brakmo <brakmo@fb.com>
Acked-by: NYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch adds an eor bit to the TCP_SKB_CB.  When MSG_EOR
is passed to tcp_sendmsg, the eor bit will be set at the skb
containing the last byte of the userland's msg.  The eor bit
will prevent data from appending to that skb in the future.

The change in do_tcp_sendpages is to honor the eor set
during the previous tcp_sendmsg(MSG_EOR) call.

This patch handles the tcp_sendmsg case.  The followup patches
will handle other skb coalescing and fragment cases.

One potential use case is to use MSG_EOR with
SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_ACK to get a more accurate
TCP ack timestamping on application protocol with
multiple outgoing response messages (e.g. HTTP2).

Packetdrill script for testing:
~~~~~~
+0 `sysctl -q -w net.ipv4.tcp_min_tso_segs=10`
+0 `sysctl -q -w net.ipv4.tcp_no_metrics_save=1`
+0 socket(..., SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP) = 3
+0 setsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0
+0 bind(3, ..., ...) = 0
+0 listen(3, 1) = 0

0.100 < S 0:0(0) win 32792 <mss 1460,sackOK,nop,nop,nop,wscale 7>
0.100 > S. 0:0(0) ack 1 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 7>
0.200 < . 1:1(0) ack 1 win 257
0.200 accept(3, ..., ...) = 4
+0 setsockopt(4, SOL_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, [1], 4) = 0

0.200 write(4, ..., 14600) = 14600
0.200 sendto(4, ..., 730, MSG_EOR, ..., ...) = 730
0.200 sendto(4, ..., 730, MSG_EOR, ..., ...) = 730

0.200 > .  1:7301(7300) ack 1
0.200 > P. 7301:14601(7300) ack 1

0.300 < . 1:1(0) ack 14601 win 257
0.300 > P. 14601:15331(730) ack 1
0.300 > P. 15331:16061(730) ack 1

0.400 < . 1:1(0) ack 16061 win 257
0.400 close(4) = 0
0.400 > F. 16061:16061(0) ack 1
0.400 < F. 1:1(0) ack 16062 win 257
0.400 > . 16062:16062(0) ack 2
Signed-off-by: NMartin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Suggested-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: NSoheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

There is nothing related to BH in SNMP counters anymore,
since linux-3.0.

Rename helpers to use __ prefix instead of _BH prefix,
for contexts where preemption is disabled.

This more closely matches convention used to update
percpu variables.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Rename NET_INC_STATS_BH() to __NET_INC_STATS()
and NET_ADD_STATS_BH() to __NET_ADD_STATS()
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Rename TCP_INC_STATS_BH() to __TCP_INC_STATS()
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

In the old days (before linux-3.0), SNMP counters were duplicated,
one for user context, and one for BH context.

After commit 8f0ea0fe ("snmp: reduce percpu needs by 50%")
we have a single copy, and what really matters is preemption being
enabled or disabled, since we use this_cpu_inc() or __this_cpu_inc()
respectively.

We therefore kill SNMP_INC_STATS_USER(), SNMP_ADD_STATS_USER(),
NET_INC_STATS_USER(), NET_ADD_STATS_USER(), SCTP_INC_STATS_USER(),
SNMP_INC_STATS64_USER(), SNMP_ADD_STATS64_USER(), TCP_ADD_STATS_USER(),
UDP_INC_STATS_USER(), UDP6_INC_STATS_USER(), and XFRM_INC_STATS_USER()

Following patches will rename __BH helpers to make clear their
usage is not tied to BH being disabled.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Linux TCP stack painfully segments all TSO/GSO packets before retransmits.

This was fine back in the days when TSO/GSO were emerging, with their
bugs, but we believe the dark age is over.

Keeping big packets in write queues, but also in stack traversal
has a lot of benefits.
 - Less memory overhead, because write queues have less skbs
 - Less cpu overhead at ACK processing.
 - Better SACK processing, as lot of studies mentioned how
   awful linux was at this ;)
 - Less cpu overhead to send the rtx packets
   (IP stack traversal, netfilter traversal, drivers...)
 - Better latencies in presence of losses.
 - Smaller spikes in fq like packet schedulers, as retransmits
   are not constrained by TCP Small Queues.

1 % packet losses are common today, and at 100Gbit speeds, this
translates to ~80,000 losses per second.
Losses are often correlated, and we see many retransmit events
leading to 1-MSS train of packets, at the time hosts are already
under stress.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: NYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

After receiving sacks, tcp_shifted_skb() will collapse
skbs if possible.  tx_flags and tskey also have to be
merged.

This patch reuses the tcp_skb_collapse_tstamp() to handle
them.

BPF Output Before:
~~~~~
<no-output-due-to-missing-tstamp-event>

BPF Output After:
~~~~~
<...>-2024  [007] d.s.    88.644374: : ee_data:14599

Packetdrill Script:
~~~~~
+0 `sysctl -q -w net.ipv4.tcp_min_tso_segs=10`
+0 `sysctl -q -w net.ipv4.tcp_no_metrics_save=1`
+0 socket(..., SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP) = 3
+0 setsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0
+0 bind(3, ..., ...) = 0
+0 listen(3, 1) = 0

0.100 < S 0:0(0) win 32792 <mss 1460,sackOK,nop,nop,nop,wscale 7>
0.100 > S. 0:0(0) ack 1 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 7>
0.200 < . 1:1(0) ack 1 win 257
0.200 accept(3, ..., ...) = 4
+0 setsockopt(4, SOL_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, [1], 4) = 0

0.200 write(4, ..., 1460) = 1460
+0 setsockopt(4, SOL_SOCKET, 37, [2688], 4) = 0
0.200 write(4, ..., 13140) = 13140

0.200 > P. 1:1461(1460) ack 1
0.200 > . 1461:8761(7300) ack 1
0.200 > P. 8761:14601(5840) ack 1

0.300 < . 1:1(0) ack 1 win 257 <sack 1461:14601,nop,nop>
0.300 > P. 1:1461(1460) ack 1
0.400 < . 1:1(0) ack 14601 win 257

0.400 close(4) = 0
0.400 > F. 14601:14601(0) ack 1
0.500 < F. 1:1(0) ack 14602 win 257
0.500 > . 14602:14602(0) ack 2
Signed-off-by: NMartin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: NSoheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Tested-by: NSoheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When removing sk_refcnt manipulation on synflood, I missed that
using skb_set_owner_w() was racy, if sk->sk_wmem_alloc had already
transitioned to 0.

We should hold sk_refcnt instead, but this is a big deal under attack.
(Doing so increase performance from 3.2 Mpps to 3.8 Mpps only)

In this patch, I chose to not attach a socket to syncookies skb.

Performance is now 5 Mpps instead of 3.2 Mpps.

Following patch will remove last known false sharing in
tcp_rcv_state_process()

Fixes: 3b24d854 ("tcp/dccp: do not touch listener sk_refcnt under synflood")
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Goal: packets dropped by a listener are accounted for.

This adds tcp_listendrop() helper, and clears sk_drops in sk_clone_lock()
so that children do not inherit their parent drop count.

Note that we no longer increment LINUX_MIB_LISTENDROPS counter when
sending a SYNCOOKIE, since the SYN packet generated a SYNACK.
We already have a separate LINUX_MIB_SYNCOOKIESSENT
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Currently, to avoid a cache line miss for accessing skb_shinfo,
tcp_ack_tstamp skips socket that do not have
SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_ACK bit set in sk_tsflags. This is
implemented based on an implicit assumption that the
SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_ACK is set via socket options for the
duration that ACK timestamps are needed.

To implement per-write timestamps, this check should be
removed and replaced with a per-packet alternative that
quickly skips packets missing ACK timestamps marks without
a cache-line miss.

To enable per-packet marking without a cache line miss, use
one bit in TCP_SKB_CB to mark a whether a SKB might need a
ack tx timestamp or not. Further checks in tcp_ack_tstamp are not
modified and work as before.
Signed-off-by: NSoheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Acked-by: NWillem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Acked-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

For non-SACK connections, cwnd is lowered to inflight plus 3 packets
when the recovery ends. This is an optional feature in the NewReno
RFC 2582 to reduce the potential burst when cwnd is "re-opened"
after recovery and inflight is low.

This feature is questionably effective because of PRR: when
the recovery ends (i.e., snd_una == high_seq) NewReno holds the
CA_Recovery state for another round trip to prevent false fast
retransmits. But if the inflight is low, PRR will overwrite the
moderated cwnd in tcp_cwnd_reduction() later regardlessly. So if a
receiver responds bogus ACKs (i.e., acking future data) to speed up
transfer after recovery, it can only induce a burst up to a window
worth of data packets by acking up to SND.NXT. A restart from (short)
idle or receiving streched ACKs can both cause such bursts as well.

On the other hand, if the recovery ends because the sender
detects the losses were spurious (e.g., reordering). This feature
unconditionally lowers a reverted cwnd even though nothing
was lost.

By principle loss recovery module should not update cwnd. Further
pacing is much more effective to reduce burst. Hence this patch
removes the cwnd moderation feature.

v2 changes: revised commit message on bogus ACKs and burst, and
            missing signature
Signed-off-by: NMatt Mathis <mattmathis@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NSoheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Per RFC4898, they count segments sent/received
containing a positive length data segment (that includes
retransmission segments carrying data).  Unlike
tcpi_segs_out/in, tcpi_data_segs_out/in excludes segments
carrying no data (e.g. pure ack).

The patch also updates the segs_in in tcp_fastopen_add_skb()
so that segs_in >= data_segs_in property is kept.

Together with retransmission data, tcpi_data_segs_out
gives a better signal on the rxmit rate.

v6: Rebase on the latest net-next

v5: Eric pointed out that checking skb->len is still needed in
tcp_fastopen_add_skb() because skb can carry a FIN without data.
Hence, instead of open coding segs_in and data_segs_in, tcp_segs_in()
helper is used.  Comment is added to the fastopen case to explain why
segs_in has to be reset and tcp_segs_in() has to be called before
__skb_pull().

v4: Add comment to the changes in tcp_fastopen_add_skb()
and also add remark on this case in the commit message.

v3: Add const modifier to the skb parameter in tcp_segs_in()

v2: Rework based on recent fix by Eric:
commit a9d99ce2 ("tcp: fix tcpi_segs_in after connection establishment")
Signed-off-by: NMartin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Chris Rapier <rapier@psc.edu>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@redhat.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Create a common kernel function to get the number of bytes available
on a TCP socket. This is based on code in INQ getsockopt and we now call
the function for that getsockopt.
Signed-off-by: NTom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Petr Novopashenniy reported that ICMP redirects on SYN_RECV sockets
were leading to RST.

This is of course incorrect.

A specific list of ICMP messages should be able to drop a SYN_RECV.

For instance, a REDIRECT on SYN_RECV shall be ignored, as we do
not hold a dst per SYN_RECV pseudo request.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111751
Fixes: 079096f1 ("tcp/dccp: install syn_recv requests into ehash table")
Reported-by: NPetr Novopashenniy <pety@rusnet.ru>
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NNikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NNikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NNikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NNikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NNikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NNikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NNikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NNikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NNikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When we acknowledge a FIN, it is not enough to ack the sequence number
and queue the skb into receive queue. We also have to call tcp_fin()
to properly update socket state and send proper poll() notifications.

It seems we also had the problem if we received a SYN packet with the
FIN flag set, but it does not seem an urgent issue, as no known
implementation can do that.

Fixes: 61d2bcae ("tcp: fastopen: accept data/FIN present in SYNACK message")
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

RFC 7413 (TCP Fast Open) 4.2.2 states that the SYNACK message
MAY include data and/or FIN

This patch adds support for the client side :

If we receive a SYNACK with payload or FIN, queue the skb instead
of ignoring it.

Since we already support the same for SYN, we refactor the existing
code and reuse it. Note we need to clone the skb, so this operation
might fail under memory pressure.

Sara Dickinson pointed out FreeBSD server Fast Open implementation
was planned to generate such SYNACK in the future.

The server side might be implemented on linux later.
Reported-by: NSara Dickinson <sara@sinodun.com>
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NJörg Thalheim <joerg@higgsboson.tk>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch replaces uses of the long obsolete hash interface with
ahash.
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

There won't be any separate counters for socket memory consumed by
protocols other than TCP in the future.  Remove the indirection and link
sockets directly to their owning memory cgroup.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: NVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

There won't be a tcp control soft limit, so integrating the memcg code
into the global skmem limiting scheme complicates things unnecessarily.
Replace this with simple and clear charge and uncharge calls--hidden
behind a jump label--to account skb memory.

Note that this is not purely aesthetic: as a result of shoehorning the
per-memcg code into the same memory accounting functions that handle the
global level, the old code would compare the per-memcg consumption
against the smaller of the per-memcg limit and the global limit.  This
allowed the total consumption of multiple sockets to exceed the global
limit, as long as the individual sockets stayed within bounds.  After
this change, the code will always compare the per-memcg consumption to
the per-memcg limit, and the global consumption to the global limit, and
thus close this loophole.

Without a soft limit, the per-memcg memory pressure state in sockets is
generally questionable.  However, we did it until now, so we continue to
enter it when the hard limit is hit, and packets are dropped, to let
other sockets in the cgroup know that they shouldn't grow their transmit
windows, either.  However, keep it simple in the new callback model and
leave memory pressure lazily when the next packet is accepted (as
opposed to doing it synchroneously when packets are processed).  When
packets are dropped, network performance will already be in the toilet,
so that should be a reasonable trade-off.

As described above, consumption is now checked on the per-memcg level
and the global level separately.  Likewise, memory pressure states are
maintained on both the per-memcg level and the global level, and a
socket is considered under pressure when either level asserts as much.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: NVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This is the final part required to namespaceify the tcp
keep alive mechanism.
Signed-off-by: NNikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This is required to have full tcp keepalive mechanism namespace
support.
Signed-off-by: NNikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Different net namespaces might have different requirements as to
the keepalive time of tcp sockets. This might be required in cases
where different firewall rules are in place which require tcp
timeout sockets to be increased/decreased independently of the host.
Signed-off-by: NNikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Avoids cluttering tcp_v4_send_reset when followup patch extends
it to deal with timewait sockets.
Suggested-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This implements SOCK_DESTROY for TCP sockets. It causes all
blocking calls on the socket to fail fast with ECONNABORTED and
causes a protocol close of the socket. It informs the other end
of the connection by sending a RST, i.e., initiating a TCP ABORT
as per RFC 793. ECONNABORTED was chosen for consistency with
FreeBSD.
Signed-off-by: NLorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Acked-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Multiple cpus can process duplicates of incoming ACK messages
matching a SYN_RECV request socket. This is a rare event under
normal operations, but definitely can happen.

Only one must win the race, otherwise corruption would occur.

To fix this without adding new atomic ops, we use logic in
inet_ehash_nolisten() to detect the request was present in the same
ehash bucket where we try to insert the new child.

If request socket was not found, we have to undo the child creation.

This actually removes a spin_lock()/spin_unlock() pair in
reqsk_queue_unlink() for the fast path.

Fixes: e994b2f0 ("tcp: do not lock listener to process SYN packets")
Fixes: 079096f1 ("tcp/dccp: install syn_recv requests into ehash table")
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch implements the second half of RACK that uses the the most
recent transmit time among all delivered packets to detect losses.

tcp_rack_mark_lost() is called upon receiving a dubious ACK.
It then checks if an not-yet-sacked packet was sent at least
"reo_wnd" prior to the sent time of the most recently delivered.
If so the packet is deemed lost.

The "reo_wnd" reordering window starts with 1msec for fast loss
detection and changes to min-RTT/4 when reordering is observed.
We found 1msec accommodates well on tiny degree of reordering
(<3 pkts) on faster links. We use min-RTT instead of SRTT because
reordering is more of a path property but SRTT can be inflated by
self-inflicated congestion. The factor of 4 is borrowed from the
delayed early retransmit and seems to work reasonably well.

Since RACK is still experimental, it is now used as a supplemental
loss detection on top of existing algorithms. It is only effective
after the fast recovery starts or after the timeout occurs. The
fast recovery is still triggered by FACK and/or dupack threshold
instead of RACK.

We introduce a new sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_recovery for future
experiments of loss recoveries. For now RACK can be disabled by
setting it to 0.
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>

This patch is the first half of the RACK loss recovery.

RACK loss recovery uses the notion of time instead
of packet sequence (FACK) or counts (dupthresh). It's inspired by the
previous FACK heuristic in tcp_mark_lost_retrans(): when a limited
transmit (new data packet) is sacked, then current retransmitted
sequence below the newly sacked sequence must been lost,
since at least one round trip time has elapsed.

But it has several limitations:
1) can't detect tail drops since it depends on limited transmit
2) is disabled upon reordering (assumes no reordering)
3) only enabled in fast recovery ut not timeout recovery

RACK (Recently ACK) addresses these limitations with the notion
of time instead: a packet P1 is lost if a later packet P2 is s/acked,
as at least one round trip has passed.

Since RACK cares about the time sequence instead of the data sequence
of packets, it can detect tail drops when later retransmission is
s/acked while FACK or dupthresh can't. For reordering RACK uses a
dynamically adjusted reordering window ("reo_wnd") to reduce false
positives on ever (small) degree of reordering.

This patch implements tcp_advanced_rack() which tracks the
most recent transmission time among the packets that have been
delivered (ACKed or SACKed) in tp->rack.mstamp. This timestamp
is the key to determine which packet has been lost.

Consider an example that the sender sends six packets:
T1: P1 (lost)
T2: P2
T3: P3
T4: P4
T100: sack of P2. rack.mstamp = T2
T101: retransmit P1
T102: sack of P2,P3,P4. rack.mstamp = T4
T205: ACK of P4 since the hole is repaired. rack.mstamp = T101

We need to be careful about spurious retransmission because it may
falsely advance tp->rack.mstamp by an RTT or an RTO, causing RACK
to falsely mark all packets lost, just like a spurious timeout.

We identify spurious retransmission by the ACK's TS echo value.
If TS option is not applicable but the retransmission is acknowledged
less than min-RTT ago, it is likely to be spurious. We refrain from
using the transmission time of these spurious retransmissions.

The second half is implemented in the next patch that marks packet
lost using RACK timestamp.
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>