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2012-12-09net: Add support for hardware-offloaded encapsulationJoseph Gasparakis1-0/+10
This patch adds support in the kernel for offloading in the NIC Tx and Rx checksumming for encapsulated packets (such as VXLAN and IP GRE). For Tx encapsulation offload, the driver will need to set the right bits in netdev->hw_enc_features. The protocol driver will have to set the skb->encapsulation bit and populate the inner headers, so the NIC driver will use those inner headers to calculate the csum in hardware. For Rx encapsulation offload, the driver will need to set again the skb->encapsulation flag and the skb->ip_csum to CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. In that case the protocol driver should push the decapsulated packet up to the stack, again with CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. In ether case, the protocol driver should set the skb->encapsulation flag back to zero. Finally the protocol driver should have NETIF_F_RXCSUM flag set in its features. Signed-off-by: Joseph Gasparakis <joseph.gasparakis@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-22tcp: add SYN/data info to TCP_INFOYuchung Cheng1-1/+2
Add a bit TCPI_OPT_SYN_DATA (32) to the socket option TCP_INFO:tcpi_options. It's set if the data in SYN (sent or received) is acked by SYN-ACK. Server or client application can use this information to check Fast Open success rate. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-13UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linuxDavid Howells1-207/+1
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2012-09-21ipv4: Don't add TCP-code in inet_sock_destructChristoph Paasch1-0/+4
Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be> Acked-by: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-01tcp: TCP Fast Open Server - header & support functionsJerry Chu1-3/+42
This patch adds all the necessary data structure and support functions to implement TFO server side. It also documents a number of flags for the sysctl_tcp_fastopen knob, and adds a few Linux extension MIBs. In addition, it includes the following: 1. a new TCP_FASTOPEN socket option an application must call to supply a max backlog allowed in order to enable TFO on its listener. 2. A number of key data structures: "fastopen_rsk" in tcp_sock - for a big socket to access its request_sock for retransmission and ack processing purpose. It is non-NULL iff 3WHS not completed. "fastopenq" in request_sock_queue - points to a per Fast Open listener data structure "fastopen_queue" to keep track of qlen (# of outstanding Fast Open requests) and max_qlen, among other things. "listener" in tcp_request_sock - to point to the original listener for book-keeping purpose, i.e., to maintain qlen against max_qlen as part of defense against IP spoofing attack. 3. various data structure and functions, many in tcp_fastopen.c, to support server side Fast Open cookie operations, including /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen_key to allow manual rekeying. Signed-off-by: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-23tcp: dont drop MTU reduction indicationsEric Dumazet1-0/+6
ICMP messages generated in output path if frame length is bigger than mtu are actually lost because socket is owned by user (doing the xmit) One example is the ipgre_tunnel_xmit() calling icmp_send(skb, ICMP_DEST_UNREACH, ICMP_FRAG_NEEDED, htonl(mtu)); We had a similar case fixed in commit a34a101e1e6 (ipv6: disable GSO on sockets hitting dst_allfrag). Problem of such fix is that it relied on retransmit timers, so short tcp sessions paid a too big latency increase price. This patch uses the tcp_release_cb() infrastructure so that MTU reduction messages (ICMP messages) are not lost, and no extra delay is added in TCP transmits. Reported-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com> Diagnosed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-20tcp: improve latencies of timer triggered eventsEric Dumazet1-1/+3
Modern TCP stack highly depends on tcp_write_timer() having a small latency, but current implementation doesn't exactly meet the expectations. When a timer fires but finds the socket is owned by the user, it rearms itself for an additional delay hoping next run will be more successful. tcp_write_timer() for example uses a 50ms delay for next try, and it defeats many attempts to get predictable TCP behavior in term of latencies. Use the recently introduced tcp_release_cb(), so that the user owning the socket will call various handlers right before socket release. This will permit us to post a followup patch to address the tcp_tso_should_defer() syndrome (some deferred packets have to wait RTO timer to be transmitted, while cwnd should allow us to send them sooner) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com> Cc: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com> Cc: John Heffner <johnwheffner@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-19net-tcp: Fast Open client - cookie-less modeYuchung Cheng1-0/+1
In trusted networks, e.g., intranet, data-center, the client does not need to use Fast Open cookie to mitigate DoS attacks. In cookie-less mode, sendmsg() with MSG_FASTOPEN flag will send SYN-data regardless of cookie availability. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-19net-tcp: Fast Open client - sending SYN-dataYuchung Cheng1-1/+5
This patch implements sending SYN-data in tcp_connect(). The data is from tcp_sendmsg() with flag MSG_FASTOPEN (implemented in a later patch). The length of the cookie in tcp_fastopen_req, init'd to 0, controls the type of the SYN. If the cookie is not cached (len==0), the host sends data-less SYN with Fast Open cookie request option to solicit a cookie from the remote. If cookie is not available (len > 0), the host sends a SYN-data with Fast Open cookie option. If cookie length is negative, the SYN will not include any Fast Open option (for fall back operations). To deal with middleboxes that may drop SYN with data or experimental TCP option, the SYN-data is only sent once. SYN retransmits do not include data or Fast Open options. The connection will fall back to regular TCP handshake. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-19net-tcp: Fast Open baseYuchung Cheng1-0/+10
This patch impelements the common code for both the client and server. 1. TCP Fast Open option processing. Since Fast Open does not have an option number assigned by IANA yet, it shares the experiment option code 254 by implementing draft-ietf-tcpm-experimental-options with a 16 bits magic number 0xF989. This enables global experiments without clashing the scarce(2) experimental options available for TCP. When the draft status becomes standard (maybe), the client should switch to the new option number assigned while the server supports both numbers for transistion. 2. The new sysctl tcp_fastopen 3. A place holder init function Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-12tcp: TCP Small QueuesEric Dumazet1-0/+9
This introduce TSQ (TCP Small Queues) TSQ goal is to reduce number of TCP packets in xmit queues (qdisc & device queues), to reduce RTT and cwnd bias, part of the bufferbloat problem. sk->sk_wmem_alloc not allowed to grow above a given limit, allowing no more than ~128KB [1] per tcp socket in qdisc/dev layers at a given time. TSO packets are sized/capped to half the limit, so that we have two TSO packets in flight, allowing better bandwidth use. As a side effect, setting the limit to 40000 automatically reduces the standard gso max limit (65536) to 40000/2 : It can help to reduce latencies of high prio packets, having smaller TSO packets. This means we divert sock_wfree() to a tcp_wfree() handler, to queue/send following frames when skb_orphan() [2] is called for the already queued skbs. Results on my dev machines (tg3/ixgbe nics) are really impressive, using standard pfifo_fast, and with or without TSO/GSO. Without reduction of nominal bandwidth, we have reduction of buffering per bulk sender : < 1ms on Gbit (instead of 50ms with TSO) < 8ms on 100Mbit (instead of 132 ms) I no longer have 4 MBytes backlogged in qdisc by a single netperf session, and both side socket autotuning no longer use 4 Mbytes. As skb destructor cannot restart xmit itself ( as qdisc lock might be taken at this point ), we delegate the work to a tasklet. We use one tasklest per cpu for performance reasons. If tasklet finds a socket owned by the user, it sets TSQ_OWNED flag. This flag is tested in a new protocol method called from release_sock(), to eventually send new segments. [1] New /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_limit_output_bytes tunable [2] skb_orphan() is usually called at TX completion time, but some drivers call it in their start_xmit() handler. These drivers should at least use BQL, or else a single TCP session can still fill the whole NIC TX ring, since TSQ will have no effect. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Dave Taht <dave.taht@bufferbloat.net> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: Matt Mathis <mattmathis@google.com> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-11tcp: Remove tw->tw_peerDavid S. Miller1-1/+0
No longer used. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-13Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller1-10/+10
Conflicts: MAINTAINERS drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c The iwlwifi conflict was resolved by keeping the code added in 'net' that turns off the buggy chip feature. The MAINTAINERS conflict was merely overlapping changes, one change updated all the wireless web site URLs and the other changed some GIT trees to be Johannes's instead of John's. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-10net: Make linux/tcp.h C++ friendly (trivial)Paul Pluzhnikov1-10/+10
I originally sent this patch to <trivial@kernel.org>, but Jiri Kosina did not feel that this is fully appropriate for the trivial tree. Using linux/tcp.h from C++ results in: cat t.cc #include <linux/tcp.h> int main() { } g++ -c t.cc In file included from t.cc:1: /usr/include/linux/tcp.h:72: error: '__u32 __fswab32(__u32)' cannot appear in a constant-expression /usr/include/linux/tcp.h:72: error: a function call cannot appear in a constant-expression ... Attached trivial patch fixes this problem. Tested: - the t.cc above compiles with g++ and - the following program generates the same output before/after the patch: #include <linux/tcp.h> #include <stdio.h> int main () { #define P(a) printf("%s: %08x\n", #a, (int)a) P(TCP_FLAG_CWR); P(TCP_FLAG_ECE); P(TCP_FLAG_URG); P(TCP_FLAG_ACK); P(TCP_FLAG_PSH); P(TCP_FLAG_RST); P(TCP_FLAG_SYN); P(TCP_FLAG_FIN); P(TCP_RESERVED_BITS); P(TCP_DATA_OFFSET); #undef P return 0; } Signed-off-by: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-10[PATCH] tcp: Cache inetpeer in timewait socket, and only when necessary.David S. Miller1-1/+2
Since it's guarenteed that we will access the inetpeer if we're trying to do timewait recycling and TCP options were enabled on the connection, just cache the peer in the timewait socket. In the future, inetpeer lookups will be context dependent (per routing realm), and this helps facilitate that as well. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-23Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial updates from Jiri Kosina: "As usual, it's mostly typo fixes, redundant code elimination and some documentation updates." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (57 commits) edac, mips: don't change code that has been removed in edac/mips tree xtensa: Change mail addresses of Hannes Weiner and Oskar Schirmer lib: Change mail address of Oskar Schirmer net: Change mail address of Oskar Schirmer arm/m68k: Change mail address of Sebastian Hess i2c: Change mail address of Oskar Schirmer net: Fix tcp_build_and_update_options comment in struct tcp_sock atomic64_32.h: fix parameter naming mismatch Kconfig: replace "--- help ---" with "---help---" c2port: fix bogus Kconfig "default no" edac: Fix spelling errors. qla1280: Remove redundant NULL check before release_firmware() call remoteproc: remove redundant NULL check before release_firmware() qla2xxx: Remove redundant NULL check before release_firmware() call. aic94xx: Get rid of redundant NULL check before release_firmware() call tehuti: delete redundant NULL check before release_firmware() qlogic: get rid of a redundant test for NULL before call to release_firmware() bna: remove redundant NULL test before release_firmware() tg3: remove redundant NULL test before release_firmware() call typhoon: get rid of redundant conditional before all to release_firmware() ...
2012-05-09net: Fix tcp_build_and_update_options comment in struct tcp_sockKyle McMartin1-1/+1
Noticed this comment didn't get updated when tcp_build_and_update_options was refactored. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-05-03tcp: early retransmit: delayed fast retransmitYuchung Cheng1-1/+2
Implementing the advanced early retransmit (sysctl_tcp_early_retrans==2). Delays the fast retransmit by an interval of RTT/4. We borrow the RTO timer to implement the delay. If we receive another ACK or send a new packet, the timer is cancelled and restored to original RTO value offset by time elapsed. When the delayed-ER timer fires, we enter fast recovery and perform fast retransmit. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-03tcp: early retransmitYuchung Cheng1-0/+1
This patch implements RFC 5827 early retransmit (ER) for TCP. It reduces DUPACK threshold (dupthresh) if outstanding packets are less than 4 to recover losses by fast recovery instead of timeout. While the algorithm is simple, small but frequent network reordering makes this feature dangerous: the connection repeatedly enter false recovery and degrade performance. Therefore we implement a mitigation suggested in the appendix of the RFC that delays entering fast recovery by a small interval, i.e., RTT/4. Currently ER is conservative and is disabled for the rest of the connection after the first reordering event. A large scale web server experiment on the performance impact of ER is summarized in section 6 of the paper "Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP”, IMC 2011. http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2011/docs/p155.pdf Note that Linux has a similar feature called THIN_DUPACK. The differences are THIN_DUPACK do not mitigate reorderings and is only used after slow start. Currently ER is disabled if THIN_DUPACK is enabled. I would be happy to merge THIN_DUPACK feature with ER if people think it's a good idea. ER is enabled by sysctl_tcp_early_retrans: 0: Disables ER 1: Reduce dupthresh to packets_out - 1 when outstanding packets < 4. 2: (Default) reduce dupthresh like mode 1. In addition, delay entering fast recovery by RTT/4. Note: mode 2 is implemented in the third part of this patch series. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-26tcp repair: Fix unaligned access when repairing options (v2)Pavel Emelyanov1-0/+5
Don't pick __u8/__u16 values directly from raw pointers, but instead use an array of structures of code:value pairs. This is OK, since the buffer we take options from is not an skb memory, but a user-to-kernel one. For those options which don't require any value now, require this to be zero (for potential future extension of this API). v2: Changed tcp_repair_opt to use two __u32-s as spotted by David Laight. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-21tcp: Repair connection-time negotiated parametersPavel Emelyanov1-0/+1
There are options, which are set up on a socket while performing TCP handshake. Need to resurrect them on a socket while repairing. A new sockoption accepts a buffer and parses it. The buffer should be CODE:VALUE sequence of bytes, where CODE is standard option code and VALUE is the respective value. Only 4 options should be handled on repaired socket. To read 3 out of 4 of these options the TCP_INFO sockoption can be used. An ability to get the last one (the mss_clamp) was added by the previous patch. Now the restore. Three of these options -- timestamp_ok, mss_clamp and snd_wscale -- are just restored on a coket. The sack_ok flags has 2 issues. First, whether or not to do sacks at all. This flag is just read and set back. No other sack info is saved or restored, since according to the standart and the code dropping all sack-ed segments is OK, the sender will resubmit them again, so after the repair we will probably experience a pause in connection. Next, the fack bit. It's just set back on a socket if the respective sysctl is set. No collected stats about packets flow is preserved. As far as I see (plz, correct me if I'm wrong) the fack-based congestion algorithm survives dropping all of the stats and repairs itself eventually, probably losing the performance for that period. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-21tcp: Initial repair modePavel Emelyanov1-1/+13
This includes (according the the previous description): * TCP_REPAIR sockoption This one just puts the socket in/out of the repair mode. Allowed for CAP_NET_ADMIN and for closed/establised sockets only. When repair mode is turned off and the socket happens to be in the established state the window probe is sent to the peer to 'unlock' the connection. * TCP_REPAIR_QUEUE sockoption This one sets the queue which we're about to repair. The 'no-queue' is set by default. * TCP_QUEUE_SEQ socoption Sets the write_seq/rcv_nxt of a selected repaired queue. Allowed for TCP_CLOSE-d sockets only. When the socket changes its state the other seq-s are changed by the kernel according to the protocol rules (most of the existing code is actually reused). * Ability to forcibly bind a socket to a port The sk->sk_reuse is set to SK_FORCE_REUSE. * Immediate connect modification The connect syscall initializes the connection, then directly jumps to the code which finalizes it. * Silent close modification The close just aborts the connection (similar to SO_LINGER with 0 time) but without sending any FIN/RST-s to peer. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-03-02Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller1-1/+2
Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c Conflicts in the statistics regression bug fix from 'net', but happily Matt Carlson originally posted the fix against 'net-next' so I used that to resolve this. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-02-29tcp: fix comment for tp->highest_sackNeal Cardwell1-1/+2
There was an off-by-one error in the comments describing the highest_sack field in struct tcp_sock. The comments previously claimed that it was the "start sequence of the highest skb with SACKed bit". This commit fixes the comments to note that it is the "start sequence of the skb just *after* the highest skb with SACKed bit". Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-02-01tcp: md5: protects md5sig_info with RCUEric Dumazet1-1/+1
This patch makes sure we use appropriate memory barriers before publishing tp->md5sig_info, allowing tcp_md5_do_lookup() being used from tcp_v4_send_reset() without holding socket lock (upcoming patch from Shawn Lu) Note we also need to respect rcu grace period before its freeing, since we can free socket without this grace period thanks to SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Shawn Lu <shawn.lu@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-31tcp: md5: rcu conversionEric Dumazet1-2/+1
In order to be able to support proper RST messages for TCP MD5 flows, we need to allow access to MD5 keys without locking listener socket. This conversion is a nice cleanup, and shrinks size of timewait sockets by 80 bytes. IPv6 code reuses generic code found in IPv4 instead of duplicating it. Control path uses GFP_KERNEL allocations instead of GFP_ATOMIC. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Shawn Lu <shawn.lu@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-21tcp: Replace constants with #define macrosVijay Subramanian1-0/+5
to record the state of SACK/FACK and DSACK for better readability and maintenance. Signed-off-by: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-03tcp: report ECN_SEEN in tcp_infoEric Dumazet1-1/+2
Allows ss command (iproute2) to display "ecnseen" if at least one packet with ECT(0) or ECT(1) or ECN was received by this socket. "ecn" means ECN was negotiated at session establishment (TCP level) "ecnseen" means we received at least one packet with ECT fields set (IP level) ss -i ... ESTAB 0 0 192.168.20.110:22 192.168.20.144:38016 ino:5950 sk:f178e400 mem:(r0,w0,f0,t0) ts sack ecn ecnseen bic wscale:7,8 rto:210 rtt:12.5/7.5 cwnd:10 send 9.3Mbps rcv_space:14480 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-08-25Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP.Nandita Dukkipati1-0/+4
This patch implements Proportional Rate Reduction (PRR) for TCP. PRR is an algorithm that determines TCP's sending rate in fast recovery. PRR avoids excessive window reductions and aims for the actual congestion window size at the end of recovery to be as close as possible to the window determined by the congestion control algorithm. PRR also improves accuracy of the amount of data sent during loss recovery. The patch implements the recommended flavor of PRR called PRR-SSRB (Proportional rate reduction with slow start reduction bound) and replaces the existing rate halving algorithm. PRR improves upon the existing Linux fast recovery under a number of conditions including: 1) burst losses where the losses implicitly reduce the amount of outstanding data (pipe) below the ssthresh value selected by the congestion control algorithm and, 2) losses near the end of short flows where application runs out of data to send. As an example, with the existing rate halving implementation a single loss event can cause a connection carrying short Web transactions to go into the slow start mode after the recovery. This is because during recovery Linux pulls the congestion window down to packets_in_flight+1 on every ACK. A short Web response often runs out of new data to send and its pipe reduces to zero by the end of recovery when all its packets are drained from the network. Subsequent HTTP responses using the same connection will have to slow start to raise cwnd to ssthresh. PRR on the other hand aims for the cwnd to be as close as possible to ssthresh by the end of recovery. A description of PRR and a discussion of its performance can be found at the following links: - IETF Draft: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mathis-tcpm-proportional-rate-reduction-01 - IETF Slides: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/80/slides/tcpm-6.pdf http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/81/slides/tcpm-2.pdf - Paper to appear in Internet Measurements Conference (IMC) 2011: Improving TCP Loss Recovery Nandita Dukkipati, Matt Mathis, Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-09tcp: RFC2988bis + taking RTT sample from 3WHS for the passive open sideJerry Chu1-0/+1
This patch lowers the default initRTO from 3secs to 1sec per RFC2988bis. It falls back to 3secs if the SYN or SYN-ACK packet has been retransmitted, AND the TCP timestamp option is not on. It also adds support to take RTT sample during 3WHS on the passive open side, just like its active open counterpart, and uses it, if valid, to seed the initRTO for the data transmission phase. The patch also resets ssthresh to its initial default at the beginning of the data transmission phase, and reduces cwnd to 1 if there has been MORE THAN ONE retransmission during 3WHS per RFC5681. Signed-off-by: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-31tcp: Add TCP_USER_TIMEOUT socket option.Jerry Chu1-0/+1
This patch provides a "user timeout" support as described in RFC793. The socket option is also needed for the the local half of RFC5482 "TCP User Timeout Option". TCP_USER_TIMEOUT is a TCP level socket option that takes an unsigned int, when > 0, to specify the maximum amount of time in ms that transmitted data may remain unacknowledged before TCP will forcefully close the corresponding connection and return ETIMEDOUT to the application. If 0 is given, TCP will continue to use the system default. Increasing the user timeouts allows a TCP connection to survive extended periods without end-to-end connectivity. Decreasing the user timeouts allows applications to "fail fast" if so desired. Otherwise it may take upto 20 minutes with the current system defaults in a normal WAN environment. The socket option can be made during any state of a TCP connection, but is only effective during the synchronized states of a connection (ESTABLISHED, FIN-WAIT-1, FIN-WAIT-2, CLOSE-WAIT, CLOSING, or LAST-ACK). Moreover, when used with the TCP keepalive (SO_KEEPALIVE) option, TCP_USER_TIMEOUT will overtake keepalive to determine when to close a connection due to keepalive failure. The option does not change in anyway when TCP retransmits a packet, nor when a keepalive probe will be sent. This option, like many others, will be inherited by an acceptor from its listener. Signed-off-by: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-19net: TCP thin dupackAndreas Petlund1-1/+3
This patch enables fast retransmissions after one dupACK for TCP if the stream is identified as thin. This will reduce latencies for thin streams that are not able to trigger fast retransmissions due to high packet interarrival time. This mechanism is only active if enabled by iocontrol or syscontrol and the stream is identified as thin. Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-19net: TCP thin linear timeoutsAndreas Petlund1-1/+4
This patch will make TCP use only linear timeouts if the stream is thin. This will help to avoid the very high latencies that thin stream suffer because of exponential backoff. This mechanism is only active if enabled by iocontrol or syscontrol and the stream is identified as thin. A maximum of 6 linear timeouts is tried before exponential backoff is resumed. Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-03TCPCT part 1d: define TCP cookie option, extend existing struct'sWilliam Allen Simpson1-6/+23
Data structures are carefully composed to require minimal additions. For example, the struct tcp_options_received cookie_plus variable fits between existing 16-bit and 8-bit variables, requiring no additional space (taking alignment into consideration). There are no additions to tcp_request_sock, and only 1 pointer in tcp_sock. This is a significantly revised implementation of an earlier (year-old) patch that no longer applies cleanly, with permission of the original author (Adam Langley): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/102586 The principle difference is using a TCP option to carry the cookie nonce, instead of a user configured offset in the data. This is more flexible and less subject to user configuration error. Such a cookie option has been suggested for many years, and is also useful without SYN data, allowing several related concepts to use the same extension option. "Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?)", September 9, 1996. http://www.merit.net/mail.archives/nanog/1996-09/msg00235.html "Re: what a new TCP header might look like", May 12, 1998. ftp://ftp.isi.edu/end2end/end2end-interest-1998.mail These functions will also be used in subsequent patches that implement additional features. Requires: TCPCT part 1a: add request_values parameter for sending SYNACK TCPCT part 1b: generate Responder Cookie secret TCPCT part 1c: sysctl_tcp_cookie_size, socket option TCP_COOKIE_TRANSACTIONS Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-03TCPCT part 1c: sysctl_tcp_cookie_size, socket option TCP_COOKIE_TRANSACTIONSWilliam Allen Simpson1-1/+32
Define sysctl (tcp_cookie_size) to turn on and off the cookie option default globally, instead of a compiled configuration option. Define per socket option (TCP_COOKIE_TRANSACTIONS) for setting constant data values, retrieving variable cookie values, and other facilities. Move inline tcp_clear_options() unchanged from net/tcp.h to linux/tcp.h, near its corresponding struct tcp_options_received (prior to changes). This is a straightforward re-implementation of an earlier (year-old) patch that no longer applies cleanly, with permission of the original author (Adam Langley): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/102586 These functions will also be used in subsequent patches that implement additional features. Requires: net: TCP_MSS_DEFAULT, TCP_MSS_DESIRED Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-14net: TCP_MSS_DEFAULT, TCP_MSS_DESIREDWilliam Allen Simpson1-0/+6
Define two symbols needed in both kernel and user space. Remove old (somewhat incorrect) kernel variant that wasn't used in most cases. Default should apply to both RMSS and SMSS (RFC2581). Replace numeric constants with defined symbols. Stand-alone patch, originally developed for TCPCT. Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-04net: cleanup include/linuxEric Dumazet1-4/+2
This cleanup patch puts struct/union/enum opening braces, in first line to ease grep games. struct something { becomes : struct something { Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-02tcp: MD5 operations should be constStephen Hemminger1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-20syncookies: remove last_synq_overflow from struct tcp_sockFlorian Westphal1-3/+1
last_synq_overflow eats 4 or 8 bytes in struct tcp_sock, even though it is only used when a listening sockets syn queue is full. We can (ab)use rx_opt.ts_recent_stamp to store the same information; it is not used otherwise as long as a socket is in listen state. Move linger2 around to avoid splitting struct mtu_probe across cacheline boundary on 32 bit arches. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-16tcp: cache result of earlier divides when mss-aligning thingsIlpo Järvinen1-0/+1
The results is very unlikely change every so often so we hardly need to divide again after doing that once for a connection. Yet, if divide still becomes necessary we detect that and do the right thing and again settle for non-divide state. Takes the u16 space which was previously taken by the plain xmit_size_goal. This should take care part of the tso vs non-tso difference we found earlier. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-16tcp: simplify tcp_current_mssIlpo Järvinen1-1/+0
There's very little need for most of the callsites to get tp->xmit_goal_size updated. That will cost us divide as is, so slice the function in two. Also, the only users of the tp->xmit_goal_size are directly behind tcp_current_mss(), so there's no need to store that variable into tcp_sock at all! The drop of xmit_goal_size currently leaves 16-bit hole and some reorganization would again be necessary to change that (but I'm aiming to fill that hole with u16 xmit_goal_size_segs to cache the results of the remaining divide to get that tso on regression). Bring xmit_goal_size parts into tcp.c Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02tcp: kill eff_sacks "cache", the sole user can calculate itselfIlpo Järvinen1-1/+0
Also fixes insignificant bug that would cause sending of stale SACK block (would occur in some corner cases). Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-15net: replace __constant_{endian} uses in net headersHarvey Harrison1-10/+10
Base versions handle constant folding now. For headers exposed to userspace, we must only expose the __ prefixed versions. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-08tcp: kill pointless urg_modeIlpo Järvinen1-5/+4
It all started from me noticing that this urgent check in tcp_clean_rtx_queue is unnecessarily inside the loop. Then I took a longer look to it and found out that the users of urg_mode can trivially do without, well almost, there was one gotcha. Bonus: those funny people who use urg with >= 2^31 write_seq - snd_una could now rejoice too (that's the only purpose for the between being there, otherwise a simple compare would have done the thing). Not that I assume that the rest of the tcp code happily lives with such mind-boggling numbers :-). Alas, it turned out to be impossible to set wmem to such numbers anyway, yes I really tried a big sendfile after setting some wmem but nothing happened :-). ...Tcp_wmem is int and so is sk_sndbuf... So I hacked a bit variable to long and found out that it seems to work... :-) Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-21tcp: reorganize retransmit code loopsIlpo Järvinen1-1/+0
Both loops are quite similar, so they can be combined with little effort. As a result, forward_skb_hint becomes obsolete as well. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-21tcp: convert retransmit_cnt_hint to seqnoIlpo Järvinen1-1/+1
Main benefit in this is that we can then freely point the retransmit_skb_hint to anywhere we want to because there's no longer need to know what would be the count changes involve, and since this is really used only as a terminator, unnecessary work is one time walk at most, and if some retransmissions are necessary after that point later on, the walk is not full waste of time anyway. Since retransmit_high must be kept valid, all lost markers must ensure that. Now I also have learned how those "holes" in the rexmittable skbs can appear, mtu probe does them. So I removed the misleading comment as well. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-19tcp: Remove redundant checks when setting eff_sacksAdam Langley1-0/+6
Remove redundant checks when setting eff_sacks and make the number of SACKs a compile time constant. Now that the options code knows how many SACK blocks can fit in the header, we don't need to have the SACK code guessing at it. Signed-off-by: Adam Langley <agl@imperialviolet.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-14Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller1-7/+0
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/smc911x.c
2008-06-13tcp: Revert 'process defer accept as established' changes.David S. Miller1-7/+0
This reverts two changesets, ec3c0982a2dd1e671bad8e9d26c28dcba0039d87 ("[TCP]: TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT updates - process as established") and the follow-on bug fix 9ae27e0adbf471c7a6b80102e38e1d5a346b3b38 ("tcp: Fix slab corruption with ipv6 and tcp6fuzz"). This change causes several problems, first reported by Ingo Molnar as a distcc-over-loopback regression where connections were getting stuck. Ilpo Järvinen first spotted the locking problems. The new function added by this code, tcp_defer_accept_check(), only has the child socket locked, yet it is modifying state of the parent listening socket. Fixing that is non-trivial at best, because we can't simply just grab the parent listening socket lock at this point, because it would create an ABBA deadlock. The normal ordering is parent listening socket --> child socket, but this code path would require the reverse lock ordering. Next is a problem noticed by Vitaliy Gusev, he noted: ---------------------------------------- >--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c >+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c >@@ -481,6 +481,11 @@ static void tcp_keepalive_timer (unsigned long data) > goto death; > } > >+ if (tp->defer_tcp_accept.request && sk->sk_state == TCP_ESTABLISHED) { >+ tcp_send_active_reset(sk, GFP_ATOMIC); >+ goto death; Here socket sk is not attached to listening socket's request queue. tcp_done() will not call inet_csk_destroy_sock() (and tcp_v4_destroy_sock() which should release this sk) as socket is not DEAD. Therefore socket sk will be lost for freeing. ---------------------------------------- Finally, Alexey Kuznetsov argues that there might not even be any real value or advantage to these new semantics even if we fix all of the bugs: ---------------------------------------- Hiding from accept() sockets with only out-of-order data only is the only thing which is impossible with old approach. Is this really so valuable? My opinion: no, this is nothing but a new loophole to consume memory without control. ---------------------------------------- So revert this thing for now. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-29tcp: Reorganize tcp_sock to fill 64-bit holes & improve localityIlpo Järvinen1-25/+25
I tried to group recovery related fields nearby (non-CA_Open related variables, to be more accurate) so that one to three cachelines would not be necessary in CA_Open. These are now contiguously deployed: struct sk_buff_head out_of_order_queue; /* 1968 80 */ /* --- cacheline 32 boundary (2048 bytes) --- */ struct tcp_sack_block duplicate_sack[1]; /* 2048 8 */ struct tcp_sack_block selective_acks[4]; /* 2056 32 */ struct tcp_sack_block recv_sack_cache[4]; /* 2088 32 */ /* --- cacheline 33 boundary (2112 bytes) was 8 bytes ago --- */ struct sk_buff * highest_sack; /* 2120 8 */ int lost_cnt_hint; /* 2128 4 */ int retransmit_cnt_hint; /* 2132 4 */ u32 lost_retrans_low; /* 2136 4 */ u8 reordering; /* 2140 1 */ u8 keepalive_probes; /* 2141 1 */ /* XXX 2 bytes hole, try to pack */ u32 prior_ssthresh; /* 2144 4 */ u32 high_seq; /* 2148 4 */ u32 retrans_stamp; /* 2152 4 */ u32 undo_marker; /* 2156 4 */ int undo_retrans; /* 2160 4 */ u32 total_retrans; /* 2164 4 */ ...and they're then followed by URG slowpath & keepalive related variables. Head of the out_of_order_queue always needed for empty checks, if that's empty (and TCP is in CA_Open), following ~200 bytes (in 64-bit) shouldn't be necessary for anything. If only OFO queue exists but TCP is in CA_Open, selective_acks (and possibly duplicate_sack) are necessary besides the out_of_order_queue but the rest of the block again shouldn't be (ie., the other direction had losses). As the cacheline boundaries depend on many factors in the preceeding stuff, trying to align considering them doesn't make too much sense. Commented one ordering hazard. There are number of low utilized u8/16s that could be combined get 2 bytes less in total so that the hole could be made to vanish (includes at least ecn_flags, urg_data, urg_mode, frto_counter, nonagle). Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>