This adds list initial fields and list management functions for the
new feature negotiation implementation.
Thanks to Arnaldo for suggestions and improvements.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
A lookup table for feature-negotiation information, extracted from RFC
4340/42, is provided by this patch. All currently known features can
be found in this table, along with their feature location, their
default value, and type.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch prepares for the new and extended feature-negotiation
routines.
The following feature-negotiation data structures are provided:
* a container for the various (SP or NN) values,
* symbolic state names to track feature states,
* an entry struct which holds all current information together,
* elementary functions to fill in and process these structures.
Entry structs are arranged as FIFO for the following reason: RFC 4340
specifies that if multiple options of the same type are present, they
are processed in the order of their appearance in the packet; which
means that this order needs to be preserved in the local data
structure (the later insertion code also respects this order).
The struct list_head has been chosen for the following reasons: the most
frequent operations are
* add new entry at tail (when receiving Change or setting socket
options);
* delete entry (when Confirm has been received);
* deep copy of entire list (cloning from listening socket onto
request socket).
The NN value has been set to 64 bit, which is a currently sufficient
upper limit (Sequence Window feature has 48 bit).
Thanks to Arnaldo, who contributed the streamlined layout of the entry
struct.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Using NIPQUAD() with NIPQUAD_FMT, %d.%d.%d.%d or %u.%u.%u.%u
can be replaced with %pI4
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit a3116ac5c2 from 1st October ("tcp: Port
redirection support for TCP") broke DCCP skb lookup by changing inet_csk_clone,
which is used by DCCP to generate the child socket after the handshake.
This patch updates DCCP to use 'loc_port' instead of 'sport', which fixes the
problem, and thus inheriting port redirection support via the new interface.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@sch.bme.hu>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Some code here depends on CONFIG_KMOD to not try to load
protocol modules or similar, replace by CONFIG_MODULES
where more than just request_module depends on CONFIG_KMOD
and and also use try_then_request_module in ebtables.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To be able to use the cached socket reference in the skb during input
processing we add a new set of lookup functions that receive the skb on
their argument list.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@sch.bme.hu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This implements [RFC 3448, 4.5], which performs congestion avoidance behaviour
by reducing the transmit rate as the queueing delay (measured in terms of
long-term RTT) increases.
Oscillation can be turned on/off via a module option (do_osc_prev) and via sysfs
(using mode 0644), the default is off.
Overflow analysis:
------------------
* oscillation prevention is done after update_x(), so that t_ipi <= 64000;
* hence the multiplication "t_ipi * sqrt(R_sample)" needs 64 bits;
* done using u64 for sqrt_sample and explicit typecast of t_ipi;
* the divisor, R_sqmean, is non-zero because oscillation prevention is first
called when receiving the second feedback packet, and tfrc_scaled_rtt() > 0.
A detailed discussion of the algorithm (with plots) is on
http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/dccp/notes/ccid3/sender_notes/oscillation_prevention/
The algorithm has negative side effects:
* when allowing to decrease t_ipi (leads to a large RTT) and
* when using it during slow-start;
both uses are therefore disabled.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This patch simplifies the computation of t_ipi, avoiding expensive computations
to enforce the minimum sending rate.
Both RFC 3448 and rfc3448bis (revision #06), as well as RFC 4342 sec 5., require
at various stages that at least one packet must be sent per t_mbi = 64 seconds.
This requires frequent divisions of the type X_min = s/t_mbi, which are later
converted back into an inter-packet-interval t_ipi_max = s/X_min = t_mbi.
The patch removes the expensive indirection; in the unlikely case of having
a sending rate less than one packet per 64 seconds, it also re-adjusts X.
The following cases document conformance with RFC 3448 / rfc3448bis-06:
1) Time until receiving the first feedback packet:
* if the sender has no initial RTT sample then X = s/1 Bps > s/t_mbi;
* if the sender has an initial RTT sample or when the first feedback
packet is received, X = W_init/R > s/t_mbi.
2) Slow-start (p == 0 and feedback packets come in):
* RFC 3448 (current code) enforces a minimum of s/R > s/t_mbi;
* rfc3448bis (future code) enforces an even higher minimum of W_init/R.
3) Congestion avoidance with no absence of feedback (p > 0):
* when X_calc or X_recv/2 are too low, the minimum of X_min = s/t_mbi
is enforced in update_x() when calling update_send_interval();
* update_send_interval() is, as before, only called when X changes
(i.e. either when increasing or decreasing, not when in equilibrium).
4) Reduction of X without prior feedback or during slow-start (p==0):
* both RFC 3448 and rfc3448bis here halve X directly;
* the associated constraint X >= s/t_mbi is nforced here by send_interval().
5) Reduction of X when p > 0:
* X is modified indirectly via X_recv (RFC 3448) or X_recv_set (rfc3448bis);
* in both cases, control goes back to section 4.3 (in both documents);
* since p > 0, both documents use X = max(min(...), s/t_mbi), which is
enforced in this patch by calling send_interval() from update_x().
I think that this analysis is exhaustive. Should I have forgotten a case,
the worst-case consideration arises when X sinks below s/t_mbi, and is then
increased back up to this minimum value. Even under this assumption, the
behaviour is correct, since all lower limits of X in RFC 3448 / rfc3448bis
are either equal to or greater than s/t_mbi.
Note on the condition X >= s/t_mbi <==> t_ipi = s/X <= t_mbi: since X is
scaled by 64, and all time units are in microseconds, the coded condition is:
t_ipi = s * 64 * 10^6 usec / X <= 64 * 10^6 usec
This simplifies to s / X <= 1 second <==> X * 1 second >= s > 0.
(A zero `s' is not allowed by the CCID-3 code).
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
rfc3448bis allows three different ways of tracking the packet size `s':
1. using the MSS/MPS (at initialisation, 4.2, and in 4.1 (1));
2. using the average of `s' (in 4.1);
3. using the maximum of `s' (in 4.2).
Instead of hard-coding a single interpretation of rfc3448bis, this implements
a choice of all three alternatives and suggests the first as default, since it
is the option which is most consistent with other parts of the specification.
The patch further deprecates the update of t_ipi whenever `s' changes. The
gains of doing this are only small since a change of s takes effect at the
next instant X is updated:
* when the next feedback comes in (within one RTT or less);
* when the nofeedback timer expires (within at most 4 RTTs).
Further, there are complications caused by updating t_ipi whenever s changes:
* if t_ipi had previously been updated to effect oscillation prevention (4.5),
then it is impossible to make the same adjustment to t_ipi again, thus
counter-acting the algorithm;
* s may be updated any time and a modification of t_ipi depends on the current
state (e.g. no oscillation prevention is done in the absence of feedback);
* in rev-06 of rfc3448bis, there are more possible cases, depending on whether
the sender is in slow-start (t_ipi <= R/W_init), or in congestion-avoidance,
limited by X_recv or the throughput equation (t_ipi <= t_mbi).
Thus there are side effects of always updating t_ipi as s changes. These may not
be desirable. The only case I can think of where such an update makes sense is
to recompute X_calc when p > 0 and when s changes (not done by this patch).
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
The per-CCID menu has several dependencies on EXPERIMENTAL. These are redundant,
since net/dccp/ccids/Kconfig is sourced by net/dccp/Kconfig and since the
latter menu in turn asserts a dependency on EXPERIMENTAL.
The patch removes the redundant dependencies as well as the repeated reference
within the sub-menu.
Further changes:
----------------
Two single dependencies on CCID-3 are replaced with a single enclosing `if'.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
The patch updates CCID-3 with regard to the latest rfc3448bis-06:
* in the first revisions of the draft, MSS was used for the RFC 3390 window;
* then (from revision #1 to revision #2), it used the packet size `s';
* now, in this revision (and apparently final), the value is back to MSS.
This change has an implication for the case when no RTT sample is available,
at the time of sending the first packet:
* with RTT sample, 2*MSS/RTT <= initial_rate <= 4*MSS/RTT;
* without RTT sample, the initial rate is one packet (s bytes) per second
(sec. 4.2), but using s instead of MSS here creates an imbalance, since
this would further reduce the initial sending rate.
Hence the patch uses MSS (called MPS in RFC 4340) in all places.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This patch is a requirement for enabling ECN support later on. With that change
in mind, the following preparations are done:
* renamed handle_loss() into congestion_event() since it returns true when a
congestion event happens (it will eventually also take care of ECN packets);
* lets tfrc_rx_congestion_event() always update the RX history records, since
this routine needs to be called for each non-duplicate packet anyway;
* made all involved boolean-type functions to have return type `bool';
Updating the RX history records is now only necessary for the packets received
up to sending the first feedback. The receiver code becomes again simpler.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This updates the computation of X_recv with regard to Errata 610/611 for
RFC 4342 and draft rfc3448bis-06, ensuring that at least an interval of 1
RTT is used to compute X_recv. The change is wrapped into a new function
ccid3_hc_rx_x_recv().
Further changes:
----------------
* feedback is not sent when no data packets arrived (bytes_recv == 0), as per
rfc3448bis-06, 6.2;
* take the timestamp for the feedback /after/ dccp_send_ack() returns, to avoid
taking the transmission time into account (in case layer-2 is busy);
* clearer handling of failure in ccid3_first_li().
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This improves the receiver RTT sampling algorithm so that it tries harder to get
as many RTT samples as possible.
The algorithm is based the concepts presented in RFC 4340, 8.1, using timestamps
and the CCVal window counter. There exist 4 cases for the CCVal difference:
* == 0: less than RTT/4 passed since last packet -- unusable;
* > 4: (much) more than 1 RTT has passed since last packet -- also unusable;
* == 4: perfect sample (exactly one RTT has passed since last packet);
* 1..3: sub-optimal sample (between RTT/4 and 3*RTT/4 has passed).
In the last case the algorithm tried to optimise by storing away the candidate
and then re-trying next time. The problem is that
* a large number of samples is needed to smooth out the inaccuracies of the
algorithm;
* the sender may not be sending enough packets to warrant a "next time";
* hence it is better to use suboptimal samples whenever possible.
The algorithm now stores away the current sample only if the difference is 0.
Applicability and background
----------------------------
A realistic example is MP3 streaming where packets are sent at a rate of less
than one packet per RTT, which means that suitable samples are absent for a
very long time.
The effectiveness of using suboptimal samples (with a delta between 1 and 4) was
confirmed by instrumenting the algorithm with counters. The results of two 20
second test runs were:
* With the old algorithm and a total of 38442 function calls, only 394 of these
calls resulted in usable RTT samples (about 1%), and 378 out of these were
"perfect" samples and 28013 (unused) samples had a delta of 1..3.
* With the new algorithm and a total of 37057 function calls, 1702 usable RTT
samples were retrieved (about 4.6%), 5 out of these were "perfect" samples.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This extracts the clamping part of dccp_sample_rtt() and makes it available
to other parts of the code (as e.g. used in the next patch).
Note: The function dccp_sample_rtt() now reduces to subtracting the elapsed
time. This could be eliminated but would require shorter prefixes and thus
is not done by this patch - maybe an idea for later.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This updates the CCID-3 receiver in part with regard to errata 610 and 611
(http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_list.php), which change RFC 4342 to use the
Receive Rate as specified in rfc3448bis, requiring to constantly sample the
RTT (or use a sender RTT).
Doing this requires reusing the RX history structure after dealing with a loss.
The patch does not resolve how to compute X_recv if the interval is less
than 1 RTT. A FIXME has been added (and is resolved in subsequent patch).
Furthermore, since this is all TFRC-based functionality, the RTT estimation
is now also performed by the dccp_tfrc_lib module. This further simplifies
the CCID-3 code.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
The only state information that the CCID-3 receiver keeps is whether initial
feedback has been sent or not. Further, this overlaps with use of feedback:
* state == TFRC_RSTATE_NO_DATA as long as no feedback has been sent;
* state == TFRC_RSTATE_DATA as soon as the first feedback has been sent.
This patch reduces the duplication, by memorising the type of the last feedback.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This migrates more TFRC-related code into the dccp_tfrc_lib:
* sampling of the packet size `s' (which is only needed until the first
loss interval is computed (ccid3_first_li));
* updating the byte-counter `bytes_recvd' in between sending feedbacks.
The result is a better separation of CCID-3 specific and TFRC specific
code, which aids future integration with ECN and e.g. CCID-4.
Further changes:
----------------
* replaced magic number of 536 with equivalent constant TCP_MIN_RCVMSS;
(this constant is also used when no estimate for `s' is available).
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This changes the return type of tfrc_lh_update_i_mean() to void, since that
function returns always `false'. This is due to
len = dccp_delta_seqno(cur->li_seqno, DCCP_SKB_CB(skb)->dccpd_seq) + 1;
if (len - (s64)cur->li_length <= 0) /* duplicate or reordered */
return 0;
which means that update_i_mean can only increase the length of the open loss
interval I_0, and hence the value of I_tot0 (RFC 3448, 5.4). Consequently the
test `i_mean < old_i_mean' at the end of the function always evaluates to false.
There is no known way by which a loss interval can suddenly become shorter,
therefore the return type of the function is changed to void. (That is, under
the given circumstances step (3) in RFC 3448, 6.1 will not occur.)
Further changes:
----------------
* the function is now called from tfrc_rx_handle_loss, which is equivalent
to the previous way of calling from rx_packet_recv (it was called whenever
there was no new or pending loss, now it is also updated when there is
a pending loss - this increases the accuracy a bit);
* added a FIXME to possibly consider NDP counting as per RFC 4342 (this is
not implemented yet).
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This enables the TFRC code to begin loss detection (as soon as the module
is loaded), using the latest updates from rfc3448bis-06, 6.3.1:
* when the first data packet(s) are lost or marked, set
* X_target = s/(2*R) => f(p) = s/(R * X_target) = 2,
* corresponding to a loss rate of ~ 20.64%.
The handle_loss() function is now called right at the begin of rx_packet_recv()
and thus no longer protected against duplicates: hence a call to rx_duplicate()
has been added. Such a call makes sense now, as the previous patch initialises
the first entry with a sequence number of GSR.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This patch
1) separates history allocation and initialisation, to facilitate early
loss detection (implemented by a subsequent patch);
2) removes duplication by using the existing tfrc_rx_hist_purge() if the
allocation fails. This is now possible, since the initialisation routine
3) zeroes out the entire history before using it.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
In the congestion-avoidance phase a decay of p towards 0 is natural once fewer
losses are encountered. Hence the warning message "p is below resolution" is
not necessary, and thus turned into a debug message by this patch.
The TFRC_SMALLEST_P is needed since in theory p never actually reaches 0. When
no further losses are encountered, the loss interval I_0 grows in length,
causing p to decrease towards 0, causing X_calc = s/(RTT * f(p)) to increase.
With the given minimum-resolution this congestion avoidance phase stops at some
fixed value, an approximation formula has been added to the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Since CCIDs are only used during the established phase of a connection,
they have very little internal state; this specifically reduces to:
* "no packet sent" if and only if s == 0, for the TX packet size s;
* when the first packet has been sent (i.e. `s' > 0), the question is whether
or not feedback has been received:
- if a feedback packet is received, "feedback = yes" is set,
- if the nofeedback timer expires, "feedback = no" is set.
Thus the CCID only needs to remember state about whether or not feedback
has been received. This is now implemented using a boolean flag, which is
toggled when a feedback packet arrives or the nofeedback timer expires.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
The DCCP base time resolution is 10 microseconds (RFC 4340, 13.1 ... 13.3).
Using a timer with a lower resolution was found to trigger the following
bug warnings/problems on high-speed networks (e.g. local loopback):
* RTT samples are rounded down to 0 if below resolution;
* in some cases, negative RTT samples were observed;
* the CCID-3 feedback timer complains that the feedback interval is 0,
since the feedback interval is in the order of 1 RTT or less and RTT
measurement rounded this down to 0;
On an Intel computer this will for instance happen when using a
boot-time parameter of "clocksource=jiffies".
The following system log messages were observed:
11:24:00 kernel: BUG: delta (0) <= 0 at ccid3_hc_rx_send_feedback()
11:26:12 kernel: BUG: delta (0) <= 0 at ccid3_hc_rx_send_feedback()
11:26:30 kernel: dccp_sample_rtt: unusable RTT sample 0, using min
11:26:30 last message repeated 5 times
This patch defines a global constant for the time resolution, adds this in
timer.c, and checks the available clock resolution at CCID-3 module load time.
When the resolution is worse than 10 microseconds, module loading exits with
a message "socket type not supported".
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Ensure that cmsg->cmsg_type value is valid for qpolicy
that is currently in use.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Grobelny <tomasz@grobelny.oswiecenia.net>
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This patch adds a generic infrastructure for policy-based dequeueing of
TX packets and provides two policies:
* a simple FIFO policy (which is the default) and
* a priority based policy (set via socket options).
Both policies honour the tx_qlen sysctl for the maximum size of the write
queue (can be overridden via socket options).
The priority policy uses skb->priority internally to assign an u32 priority
identifier, using the same ranking as SO_PRIORITY. The skb->priority field
is set to 0 when the packet leaves DCCP. The priority is supplied as ancillary
data using cmsg(3), the patch also provides the requisite parsing routines.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Grobelny <tomasz@grobelny.oswiecenia.net>
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This patch rearranges the order of statements of the slow-path input processing
(i.e. any other state than OPEN), to resolve the following issues.
1. Dependencies: the order of statements now better matches RFC 4340, 8.5, i.e.
step 7 is before step 9 (previously 9 was before 7), and parsing options in
step 8 (which can consume resources) now comes after step 7.
2. Bug-fix: in state CLOSED, there should not be any sequence number checking
or option processing. This is why the test for CLOSED has been moved after
the test for LISTEN.
3. As before sequence number checks are omitted if in state LISTEN/REQUEST, due
to the note underneath the table in RFC 4340, 7.5.3.
4. Packets are now passed on to Ack Vector / CCID processing only after
- step 7 (receive unexpected packets),
- step 9 (receive Reset),
- step 13 (receive CloseReq),
- step 14 (receive Close)
and only if the state is PARTOPEN. This simplifies CCID processing:
- in LISTEN/CLOSED the CCIDs are non-existent;
- in RESPOND/REQUEST the CCIDs have not yet been negotiated;
- in CLOSEREQ and active-CLOSING the node has already closed this socket;
- in passive-CLOSING the client is waiting for its Reset.
In the last case, RFC 4340, 8.3 leaves it open to ignore further incoming
data, which is the approach taken here.
As a result of (3), CCID processing is now indeed confined to OPEN/PARTOPEN
states, i.e. congestion control is performed only on the flow of data packets.
This avoids pathological cases of doing congestion control on those messages
which set up and terminate the connection.
I have done a few checks to see if this creates a problem in other parts of
the code. This seems not to be the case; even if there were one, it would be
better to fix it than to perform congestion control on Close/Request/Response
messages. Similarly for Ack Vectors (as they depend on the negotiated CCID).
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This patch consolidates the code common to TCP and CCID-2:
* TCP uses RFC 3390 in a packet-oriented manner (tcp_input.c) and
* CCID-2 uses RFC 3390 in packet-oriented manner (RFC 4341).
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Realising the following call pattern,
* first dccp_entail() is called to enqueue a new skb and
* then skb_clone() is called to transmit a clone of that skb,
this patch integrates both interrelated steps into dccp_entail().
Note: the return value of skb_clone is not checked. It may be an idea to add a
warning if this occurs. In both instances, however, a timer is set for
retransmission, so that cloning is re-tried via dccp_retransmit_skb().
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This removes the wrappers around the sk timer functions as it makes the code
clearer and not much is gained from using wrappers: the BUG_ON in
start_rto_timer will never trigger since that function was called only when
* the RTO timer expired (rto_expire, and then timer_pending() is false);
* in tx_packet_sent only if !timer_pending() (BUG_ON is redundant here);
* previously in new_ack, after stopping the timer (timer_pending() false).
One further motive behind this patch is to replace the RTO timer with the
icsk retransmission timer, as it is already part of the DCCP socket.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
The current CCID-2 RTT estimator code is in parts broken and lags behind the
suggestions in RFC2988 of using scaled variants for SRTT/RTTVAR.
That code is replaced by the present patch, which reuses the Linux TCP RTT
estimator code - reasons for this code duplication are given below.
Further details:
----------------
1. The minimum RTO of previously one second has been replaced with TCP's, since
RFC4341, sec. 5 says that the minimum of 1 sec. (suggested in RFC2988, 2.4)
is not necessary. Instead, the TCP_RTO_MIN is used, which agrees with DCCP's
concept of a default RTT (RFC 4340, 3.4).
2. The maximum RTO has been set to DCCP_RTO_MAX (64 sec), which agrees with
RFC2988, (2.5).
3. De-inlined the function ccid2_new_ack().
4. Added a FIXME: the RTT is sampled several times per Ack Vector, which will
give the wrong estimate. It should be replaced with one sample per Ack.
However, at the moment this can not be resolved easily, since
- it depends on TX history code (which also needs some work),
- the cleanest solution is not to use the `sent' time at all (saves 4 bytes
per entry) and use DCCP timestamps / elapsed time to estimated the RTT,
which however is non-trivial to get right (but needs to be done).
Reasons for reusing the Linux TCP estimator algorithm:
------------------------------------------------------
Some time was spent to find a better alternative, using basic RFC2988 as a first
step. Further analysis and experimentation showed that the Linux TCP RTO
estimator is superior to a basic RFC2988 implementation. A summary is on
http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/dccp/notes/ccid2/rto_estimator/
In addition, this estimator fared well in a recent empirical evaluation:
Rewaskar, Sushant, Jasleen Kaur and F. Donelson Smith.
A Performance Study of Loss Detection/Recovery in Real-world TCP
Implementations. Proceedings of 15th IEEE International
Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP-07). 2007.
Thus there is significant benefit in reusing the existing TCP code.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This removes the dec_pipe function and improves the way the RTO timer is rearmed
when a new acknowledgment comes in.
Details and justification for removal:
--------------------------------------
1) The BUG_ON in dec_pipe is never triggered: pipe is only decremented for TX
history entries between tail and head, for which it had previously been
incremented in tx_packet_sent; and it is not decremented twice for the same
entry, since it is
- either decremented when a corresponding Ack Vector cell in state 0 or 1
was received (and then ccid2s_acked==1),
- or it is decremented when ccid2s_acked==0, as part of the loss detection
in tx_packet_recv (and hence it can not have been decremented earlier).
2) Restarting the RTO timer happens for every single entry in each Ack Vector
parsed by tx_packet_recv (according to RFC 4340, 11.4 this can happen up to
16192 times per Ack Vector).
3) The RTO timer should not be restarted when all outstanding data has been
acknowledged. This is currently done similar to (2), in dec_pipe, when
pipe has reached 0.
The patch onsolidates the code which rearms the RTO timer, combining the
segments from new_ack and dec_pipe. As a result, the code becomes clearer
(compare with tcp_rearm_rto()).
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This removes the ccid2_hc_tx_check_sanity function: it is redundant.
Details:
========
The tx_check_sanity function performs three tests:
1) it checks that the circular TX list is sorted
- in ascending order of sequence number (ccid2s_seq)
- and time (ccid2s_sent),
- in the direction from `tail' (hctx_seqt) to `head' (hctx_seqh);
2) it ensures that the entire list has the length seqbufc * CCID2_SEQBUF_LEN;
3) it ensures that pipe equals the number of packets that were not
marked `acked' (ccid2s_acked) between `tail' and `head'.
The following argues that each of these tests is redundant, this can be verified
by going through the code.
(1) is not necessary, since both time and GSS increase from one packet to the
next, so that subsequent insertions in tx_packet_sent (which advance the `head'
pointer) will be in ascending order of time and sequence number.
In (2), the length of the list is always equal to seqbufc times CCID2_SEQBUF_LEN
(set to 1024) unless allocation caused an earlier failure, because:
* at initialisation (tx_init), there is one chunk of size 1024 and seqbufc=1;
* subsequent calls to tx_alloc_seq take place whenever head->next == tail in
tx_packet_sent; then a new chunk of size 1024 is inserted between head and
tail, and seqbufc is incremented by one.
To show that (3) is redundant requires looking at two cases.
The `pipe' variable of the TX socket is incremented only in tx_packet_sent, and
decremented in tx_packet_recv. When head == tail (TX history empty) then pipe
should be 0, which is the case directly after initialisation and after a
retransmission timeout has occurred (ccid2_hc_tx_rto_expire).
The first case involves parsing Ack Vectors for packets recorded in the live
portion of the buffer, between tail and head. For each packet marked by the
receiver as received (state 0) or ECN-marked (state 1), pipe is decremented by
one, so for all such packets the BUG_ON in tx_check_sanity will not trigger.
The second case is the loss detection in the second half of tx_packet_recv,
below the comment "Check for NUMDUPACK".
The first while-loop here ensures that the sequence number of `seqp' is either
above or equal to `high_ack', or otherwise equal to the highest sequence number
sent so far (of the entry head->prev, as head points to the next unsent entry).
The next while-loop ("while (1)") counts the number of acked packets starting
from that position of seqp, going backwards in the direction from head->prev to
tail. If NUMDUPACK=3 such packets were counted within this loop, `seqp' points
to the last acknowledged packet of these, and the "if (done == NUMDUPACK)" block
is entered next.
The while-loop contained within that block in turn traverses the list backwards,
from head to tail; the position of `seqp' is saved in the variable `last_acked'.
For each packet not marked as `acked', a congestion event is triggered within
the loop, and pipe is decremented. The loop terminates when `seqp' has reached
`tail', whereupon tail is set to the position previously stored in `last_acked'.
Thus, between `last_acked' and the previous position of `tail',
- pipe has been decremented earlier if the packet was marked as state 0 or 1;
- pipe was decremented if the packet was not marked as acked.
That is, pipe has been decremented by the number of packets between `last_acked'
and the previous position of `tail'. As a consequence, pipe now again reflects
the number of packets which have not (yet) been acked between the new position
of tail (at `last_acked') and head->prev, or 0 if head==tail. The result is that
the BUG_ON condition in check_sanity will also not be triggered, hence the test
(3) is also redundant.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This updates CCID2 to use the CCID dequeuing mechanism, converting from
previous constant-polling to a now event-driven mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This extends the existing wait-for-ccid routine so that it may be used with
different types of CCID. It further addresses the problems listed below.
The code looks if the write queue is non-empty and grants the TX CCID up to
`timeout' jiffies to drain the queue. It will instead purge that queue if
* the delay suggested by the CCID exceeds the time budget;
* a socket error occurred while waiting for the CCID;
* there is a signal pending (eg. annoyed user pressed Control-C);
* the CCID does not support delays (we don't know how long it will take).
D e t a i l s [can be removed]
-------------------------------
DCCP's sending mechanism functions a bit like non-blocking I/O: dccp_sendmsg()
will enqueue up to net.dccp.default.tx_qlen packets (default=5), without waiting
for them to be released to the network.
Rate-based CCIDs, such as CCID3/4, can impose sending delays of up to maximally
64 seconds (t_mbi in RFC 3448). Hence the write queue may still contain packets
when the application closes. Since the write queue is congestion-controlled by
the CCID, draining the queue is also under control of the CCID.
There are several problems that needed to be addressed:
1) The queue-drain mechanism only works with rate-based CCIDs. If CCID2 for
example has a full TX queue and becomes network-limited just as the
application wants to close, then waiting for CCID2 to become unblocked could
lead to an indefinite delay (i.e., application "hangs").
2) Since each TX CCID in turn uses a feedback mechanism, there may be changes
in its sending policy while the queue is being drained. This can lead to
further delays during which the application will not be able to terminate.
3) The minimum wait time for CCID3/4 can be expected to be the queue length
times the current inter-packet delay. For example if tx_qlen=100 and a delay
of 15 ms is used for each packet, then the application would have to wait
for a minimum of 1.5 seconds before being allowed to exit.
4) There is no way for the user/application to control this behaviour. It would
be good to use the timeout argument of dccp_close() as an upper bound. Then
the maximum time that an application is willing to wait for its CCIDs to can
be set via the SO_LINGER option.
These problems are addressed by giving the CCID a grace period of up to the
`timeout' value.
The wait-for-ccid function is, as before, used when the application
(a) has read all the data in its receive buffer and
(b) if SO_LINGER was set with a non-zero linger time, or
(c) the socket is either in the OPEN (active close) or in the PASSIVE_CLOSEREQ
state (client application closes after receiving CloseReq).
In addition, there is a catch-all case by calling __skb_queue_purge() after
waiting for the CCID. This is necessary since the write queue may still have
data when
(a) the host has been passively-closed,
(b) abnormal termination (unread data, zero linger time),
(c) wait-for-ccid could not finish within the given time limit.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This extends the packet dequeuing interface of dccp_write_xmit() to allow
1. CCIDs to take care of timing when the next packet may be sent;
2. delayed sending (as before, with an inter-packet gap up to 65.535 seconds).
The main purpose is to take CCID2 out of its polling mode (when it is network-
limited, it tries every millisecond to send, without interruption).
The interface can also be used to support other CCIDs.
The mode of operation for (2) is as follows:
* new packet is enqueued via dccp_sendmsg() => dccp_write_xmit(),
* ccid_hc_tx_send_packet() detects that it may not send (e.g. window full),
* it signals this condition via `CCID_PACKET_WILL_DEQUEUE_LATER',
* dccp_write_xmit() returns without further action;
* after some time the wait-condition for CCID becomes true,
* that CCID schedules the tasklet,
* tasklet function calls ccid_hc_tx_send_packet() via dccp_write_xmit(),
* since the wait-condition is now true, ccid_hc_tx_packet() returns "send now",
* packet is sent, and possibly more (since dccp_write_xmit() loops).
Code reuse: the taskled function calls dccp_write_xmit(), the timer function
reduces to a wrapper around the same code.
If the tasklet finds that the socket is locked, it re-schedules the tasklet
function (not the tasklet) after one jiffy.
Changed DCCP_BUG to dccp_pr_debug when transmit_skb returns an error (e.g. when a
local qdisc is used, NET_XMIT_DROP=1 can be returned for many packets).
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This patch reorganises the return value convention of the CCID TX sending
function, to permit more flexible schemes, as required by subsequent patches.
Currently the convention is
* values < 0 mean error,
* a value == 0 means "send now", and
* a value x > 0 means "send in x milliseconds".
The patch provides symbolic constants and a function to interpret return values.
In addition, it caps the maximum positive return value to 0xFFFF milliseconds,
corresponding to 65.535 seconds.
This is possible since in CCID-3 the maximum inter-packet gap is t_mbi = 64 sec.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This patch replaces an almost identical replication of code: large parts
of dccp_parse_options() re-appeared as ccid2_ackvector() in ccid2.c.
Apart from the duplication, this caused two more problems:
1. CCIDs should not need to be concerned with parsing header options;
2. one can not assume that Ack Vectors appear as a contiguous area within an
skb, it is legal to insert other options and/or padding in between. The
current code would throw an error and stop reading in such a case.
The patch provides a new data structure and associated list housekeeping.
Only small changes were necessary to integrate with CCID-2: data structure
initialisation, adapt list traversal routine, and add call to the provided
cleanup routine.
The latter also lead to fixing the following BUG: CCID-2 so far ignored
Ack Vectors on all packets other than Ack/DataAck, which is incorrect,
since Ack Vectors can be present on any packet that has an Ack field.
Details:
--------
* received Ack Vectors are parsed by dccp_parse_options() alone, which passes
the result on to the CCID-specific routine ccid_hc_tx_parse_options();
* CCIDs interested in using/decoding Ack Vector information will add code
to fetch parsed Ack Vectors via this interface;
* a data structure, `struct dccp_ackvec_parsed' is provided as interface;
* this structure arranges Ack Vectors of the same skb into a FIFO order;
* a doubly-linked list is used to keep the required FIFO code small.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This removes
* functions for which updates have been provided in the preceding patches and
* the @av_vec_len field - it is no longer necessary since the buffer length is
now always computed dynamically;
* conditional debugging code (CONFIG_IP_DCCP_ACKVEC).
The reason for removing the conditional debugging code is that Ack Vectors are
an almost inevitable necessity - RFC 4341 says that for CCID-2, Ack Vectors must
be used. Furthermore, the code would be only interesting for coding - after some
extensive testing with this patch set, having the debug code around is no longer
of real help.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
The problem with Ack Vectors is that
i) their length is variable and can in principle grow quite large,
ii) it is hard to predict exactly how large they will be.
Due to the second point it seems not a good idea to reduce the MPS; in
particular when on average there is enough room for the Ack Vector and an
increase in length is momentarily due to some burst loss, after which the
Ack Vector returns to its normal/average length.
The solution taken by this patch is to subtract a minimum-expected Ack Vector
length from the MPS (previous patch), and to defer any larger Ack Vectors onto
a separate Sync - but only if indeed there is no space left on the skb.
This patch provides the infrastructure to schedule Sync-packets for transporting
(urgent) out-of-band data. Its signalling is quicker than scheduling an Ack, since
it does not need to wait for new application data.
It can thus serve other parts of the DCCP code as well.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This aggregates Ack Vector processing (handling input and clearing old state)
into one function, for the following reasons and benefits:
* all Ack Vector-specific processing is now in one place;
* duplicated code is removed;
* ensuring sanity: from an Ack Vector point of view, it is better to clear the
old state first before entering new state;
* Ack Event handling happens mostly within the CCIDs, not the main DCCP module.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This patch uupdates the code which registers new packets as received, using the
new circular buffer interface. It contributes a new algorithm which
* supports both tail/head pointers and buffer wrap-around and
* deals with overflow (head/tail move in lock-step).
The updated code is also partioned differently, into
1. dealing with the empty buffer,
2. adding new packets into non-empty buffer,
3. reserving space when encountering a `hole' in the sequence space,
4. updating old state and deciding when old state is irrelevant.
Protection against large burst losses: With regard to (3), it is too costly to
reserve space when there are large bursts of losses. When bursts get too large,
the code does no longer reserve space and just fills in cells normally. This
measure reduces space consumption by a factor of 63.
The code reuses in part the previous implementation by Arnaldo de Melo.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This provides a routine to consistently update the buffer state when the
peer acknowledges receipt of Ack Vectors; updating state in the list of Ack
Vectors as well as in the circular buffer.
While based on RFC 4340, several additional (and necessary) precautions were
added to protect the consistency of the buffer state. These additions are
essential, since analysis and experience showed that the basic algorithm was
insufficient for this task (which lead to problems that were hard to debug).
The algorithm now
* deals with HC-sender acknowledging to HC-receiver and vice versa,
* keeps track of the last unacknowledged but received seqno in tail_ackno,
* has special cases to reset the overflow condition when appropriate,
* is protected against receiving older information (would mess up buffer state).
Note: The older code performed an unnecessary step, where the sender cleared
Ack Vector state by parsing the Ack Vector received by the HC-receiver. Doing
this was entirely redundant, since
* the receiver always puts the full acknowledgment window (groups 2,3 in 11.4.2)
into the Ack Vectors it sends; hence the HC-receiver is only interested in the
highest state that the HC-sender received;
* this means that the acknowledgment number on the (Data)Ack from the HC-sender
is sufficient; and work done in parsing earlier state is not necessary, since
the later state subsumes the earlier one (see also RFC 4340, A.4).
This older interface (dccp_ackvec_parse()) is therefore removed.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This completes the implementation of a circular buffer for Ack Vectors, by
extending the current (linear array-based) implementation. The changes are:
(a) An `overflow' flag to deal with the case of overflow. As before, dynamic
growth of the buffer will not be supported; but code will be added to deal
robustly with overflowing Ack Vector buffers.
(b) A `tail_seqno' field. When naively implementing the algorithm of Appendix A
in RFC 4340, problems arise whenever subsequent Ack Vector records overlap,
which can bring the entire run length calculation completely out of synch.
(This is documented on http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/dccp/notes/\
ack_vectors/tracking_tail_ackno/ .)
(c) The buffer lengthi is now computed dynamically (i.e. current fill level),
as the span between head to tail.
As a result, dccp_ackvec_pending() is now simpler - the #ifdef is no longer
necessary since buf_empty is always true when IP_DCCP_ACKVEC is not configured.
Note on overflow handling:
-------------------------
The Ack Vector code previously simply started to drop packets when the
Ack Vector buffer overflowed. This means that the userspace application
will not be able to receive, only because of an Ack Vector storage problem.
Furthermore, overflow may be transient, so that applications may later
recover from the overflow. Recovering from dropped packets is more difficult
(e.g. video key frames).
Hence the patch uses a different policy: when the buffer overflows, the oldest
entries are subsequently overwritten. This has a higher chance of recovery.
Details are on http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/dccp/notes/ack_vectors/
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This patch
* separates Ack Vector housekeeping code from option-insertion code;
* shifts option-specific code from ackvec.c into options.c;
* introduces a dedicated routine to take care of the Ack Vector records;
* simplifies the dccp_ackvec_insert_avr() routine: the BUG_ON was redundant,
since the list is automatically arranged in descending order of ack_seqno.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This patch brings the Ack Vector interface up to date. Its main purpose is
to lay the basis for the subsequent patches of this set, which will use the
new data structure fields and routines.
There are no real algorithmic changes, rather an adaptation:
(1) Replaced the static Ack Vector size (2) with a #define so that it can
be adapted (with low loss / Ack Ratio, a value of 1 works, so 2 seems
to be sufficient for the moment) and added a solution so that computing
the ECN nonce will continue to work - even with larger Ack Vectors.
(2) Replaced the #defines for Ack Vector states with a complete enum.
(3) Replaced #defines to compute Ack Vector length and state with general
purpose routines (inlines), and updated code to use these.
(4) Added a `tail' field (conversion to circular buffer in subsequent patch).
(5) Updated the (outdated) documentation for Ack Vector struct.
(6) All sequence number containers now trimmed to 48 bits.
(7) Removal of unused bits:
* removed dccpav_ack_nonce from struct dccp_ackvec, since this is already
redundantly stored in the `dccpavr_ack_nonce' (of Ack Vector record);
* removed Elapsed Time for Ack Vectors (it was nowhere used);
* replaced semantics of dccpavr_sent_len with dccpavr_ack_runlen, since
the code needs to be able to remember the old run length;
* reduced the de-/allocation routines (redundant / duplicate tests).
Justification for removing Elapsed Time information [can be removed]:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
1. The Elapsed Time information for Ack Vectors was nowhere used in the code.
2. DCCP does not implement rate-based pacing of acknowledgments. The only
recommendation for always including Elapsed Time is in section 11.3 of
RFC 4340: "Receivers that rate-pace acknowledgements SHOULD [...]
include Elapsed Time options". But such is not the case here.
3. It does not really improve estimation accuracy. The Elapsed Time field only
records the time between the arrival of the last acknowledgeable packet and
the time the Ack Vector is sent out. Since Linux does not (yet) implement
delayed Acks, the time difference will typically be small, since often the
arrival of a data packet triggers sending feedback at the HC-receiver.
Justification for changes in de-/allocation routines [can be removed]:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
* INIT_LIST_HEAD in dccp_ackvec_record_new was redundant, since the list
pointers were later overwritten when the node was added via list_add();
* dccp_ackvec_record_new() was called in a single place only;
* calls to list_del_init() before calling dccp_ackvec_record_delete() were
redundant, since subsequently the entire element was k-freed;
* since all calls to dccp_ackvec_record_delete() were preceded to a call to
list_del_init(), the WARN_ON test would never evaluate to true;
* since all calls to dccp_ackvec_record_delete() were made from within
list_for_each_entry_safe(), the test for avr == NULL was redundant;
* list_empty() in ackvec_free was redundant, since the same condition is
embedded in the loop condition of the subsequent list_for_each_entry_safe().
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This fixes the problem that dccp_probe output can grow quite large without
apparent benefit (many identical data points), creating huge files (up to
over one Gigabyte for a few minutes' test run) which are very hard to
post-process (in one instance it got so bad that gnuplot ate up all memory
plus swap).
The cause for the problem is that the kprobe is inserted into dccp_sendmsg(),
which can be called in a polling-mode (whenever the TX queue is full due to
congestion-control issues, EAGAIN is returned). This creates many very
similar data points, i.e. the increase of processing time does not increase
the quality/information of the probe output.
The fix is to attach the probe to a different function -- write_xmit was
chosen since it gets called continually (both via userspace and timer);
an input-path function would stop sampling as soon as the other end stops
sending feedback.
For comparison the output file sizes for the same 20 second test
run over a lossy link:
* before / without patch: 118 Megabytes
* after / with patch: 1.2 Megabytes
and there was much less noise in the output.
To allow backward compatibility with scripts that people use, the now-unused
`size' field in the output has been replaced with the CCID identifier. This
also serves for future compatibility - support for CCID2 is work in progress
(depends on the still unfinished SRTT/RTTVAR updates).
While at it, the update to ktime_t was also performed.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
After moving the assignment of GAR/ISS from dccp_connect_init() to
dccp_transmit_skb(), the former function becomes very small, so that
a merger with dccp_connect() suggests itself.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This fixes a problem and a potential loophole with regard to seqno/ackno
validity: the problem is that the initial adjustments to AWL/SWL were
only performed at the begin of the connection, during the handshake.
Since the Sequence Window feature is always greater than Wmin=32 (7.5.2),
it is however necessary to perform these adjustments at least for the first
W/W' (variables as per 7.5.1) packets in the lifetime of a connection.
This requirement is complicated by the fact that W/W' can change at any time
during the lifetime of a connection.
Therefore the consequence is to perform this safety check each time SWL/AWL
are updated.
A second problem solved by this patch is that the remote/local Sequence Window
feature values (which set the bounds for AWL/SWL/SWH) are undefined until the
feature negotiation has completed.
During the initial handshake we have more stringent sequence number protection,
the changes added by this patch effect that {A,S}W{L,H} are within the correct
bounds at the instant that feature negotiation completes (since the SeqWin
feature activation handlers call dccp_update_gsr/gss()).
A detailed rationale is below -- can be removed from the commit message.
1. Server sequence number checks during initial handshake
---------------------------------------------------------
The server can not use the fields of the listening socket for seqno/ackno checks
and thus needs to store all relevant information on a per-connection basis on
the dccp_request socket. This is a size-constrained structure and has currently
only ISS (dreq_iss) and ISR (dreq_isr) defined.
Adding further fields (SW{L,H}, AW{L,H}) would increase the size of the struct
and it is questionable whether this will have any practical gain. The currently
implemented solution is as follows.
* receiving first Request: dccp_v{4,6}_conn_request sets
ISR := P.seqno, ISS := dccp_v{4,6}_init_sequence()
* sending first Response: dccp_v{4,6}_send_response via dccp_make_response()
sets P.seqno := ISS, sets P.ackno := ISR
* receiving retransmitted Request: dccp_check_req() overrides ISR := P.seqno
* answering retransmitted Request: dccp_make_response() sets ISS += 1,
otherwise as per first Response
* completing the handshake: succeeds in dccp_check_req() for the first Ack
where P.ackno == ISS (P.seqno is not tested)
* creating child socket: ISS, ISR are copied from the request_sock
This solution will succeed whenever the server can receive the Request and the
subsequent Ack in succession, without retransmissions. If there is packet loss,
the client needs to retransmit until this condition succeeds; it will otherwise
eventually give up. Adding further fields to the request_sock could increase
the robustness a bit, in that it would make possible to let a reordered Ack
(from a retransmitted Response) pass. The argument against such a solution is
that if the packet loss is not persistent and an Ack gets through, why not
wait for the one answering the original response: if the loss is persistent, it
is probably better to not start the connection in the first place.
Long story short: the present design (by Arnaldo) is simple and will likely work
just as well as a more complicated solution. As a consequence, {A,S}W{L,H} are
not needed until the moment the request_sock is cloned into the accept queue.
At that stage feature negotiation has completed, so that the values for the local
and remote Sequence Window feature (7.5.2) are known, i.e. we are now in a better
position to compute {A,S}W{L,H}.
2. Client sequence number checks during initial handshake
---------------------------------------------------------
Until entering PARTOPEN the client does not need the adjustments, since it
constrains the Ack window to the packet it sent.
* sending first Request: dccp_v{4,6}_connect() choose ISS,
dccp_connect() then sets GAR := ISS (as per 8.5),
dccp_transmit_skb() (with the previous bug fix) sets
GSS := ISS, AWL := ISS, AWH := GSS
* n-th retransmitted Request (with previous patch):
dccp_retransmit_skb() via timer calls
dccp_transmit_skb(), which sets GSS := ISS+n
and then AWL := ISS, AWH := ISS+n
* receiving any Response: dccp_rcv_request_sent_state_process()
-- accepts packet if AWL <= P.ackno <= AWH;
-- sets GSR = ISR = P.seqno
* sending the Ack completing the handshake: dccp_send_ack() calls
dccp_transmit_skb(), which sets GSS += 1
and AWL := ISS, AWH := GSS
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This schedules an Ack when receiving a timestamp, exploiting the
existing inet_csk_schedule_ack() function, saving one case in the
`dccp_ack_pending()' function.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This patch is thanks to an investigation by Leandro Sales de Melo and his
colleagues. They worked out two state diagrams which highlight the fact that
the xxx_TERM states in CCID-3/4 are in fact not necessary.
And this can be confirmed by in turn looking at the code: the xxx_TERM states
are only ever set in ccid3_hc_{rx,tx}_exit(). These two functions are part
of the following call chain:
* ccid_hc_{tx,rx}_exit() are called from ccid_delete() only;
* ccid_delete() invokes ccid_hc_{tx,rx}_exit() in the way of a destructor:
after calling ccid_hc_{tx,rx}_exit(), the CCID is released from memory;
* ccid_delete() is in turn called only by ccid_hc_{tx,rx}_delete();
* ccid_hc_{tx,rx}_delete() is called only if
- feature negotiation failed (dccp_feat_activate_values()),
- when changing the RX/TX CCID (to eject the current CCID),
- when destroying the socket (in dccp_destroy_sock()).
In other words, when CCID-3 sets the state to xxx_TERM, it is at a time where
no more processing should be going on, hence it is not necessary to introduce
a dedicated exit state - this is implicit when unloading the CCID.
The patch removes this state, one switch-statement collapses as a result.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This removes the argument `more' from ccid_hc_tx_packet_sent, since it was
nowhere used in the entire code.
(Anecdotally, this argument was not even used in the original KAME code where
the function originally came from; compare the variable moreToSend in the
freebsd61-dccp-kame-28.08.2006.patch now maintained by Emmanuel Lochin.)
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
The constants DCCPO_{MIN,MAX}_CCID_SPECIFIC are nowhere used in the code, but
instead for the CCID-specific options numbers are used.
This patch unifies the use of CCID-specific option numbers, by adding symbolic
names reflecting the definitions in RFC 4340, 10.3.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
The `options_received' struct is redundant, since it re-duplicates the existing
`p' and `x_recv' fields. This patch removes the sub-struct and migrates the
format conversion operations (cf. below) to ccid3_hc_tx_parse_options().
Why the fields are redundant
----------------------------
The Loss Event Rate p and the Receive Rate x_recv are initially 0 when first
loading CCID-3, as ccid_new() zeroes out the entire ccid3_hc_tx_sock.
When Loss Event Rate or Receive Rate options are received, they are stored by
ccid3_hc_tx_parse_options() into the fields `ccid3or_loss_event_rate' and
`ccid3or_receive_rate' of the sub-struct `options_received' in ccid3_hc_tx_sock.
After parsing (considering only the established state - dccp_rcv_established()),
the packet is passed on to ccid_hc_tx_packet_recv(). This calls the CCID-3
specific routine ccid3_hc_tx_packet_recv(), which performs the following copy
operations between fields of ccid3_hc_tx_sock:
* hctx->options_received.ccid3or_receive_rate is copied into hctx->x_recv,
after scaling it for fixpoint arithmetic, by 2^64;
* hctx->options_received.ccid3or_loss_event_rate is copied into hctx->p,
considering the above special cases; in addition, a value of 0 here needs to
be mapped into p=0 (when no Loss Event Rate option has been received yet).
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This adds a function to take care of the following cases occurring in the
computation of the Loss Rate p:
* 1/(2^32-1) is mapped into 0% as per RFC 4342, 8.5;
* 1/0 is mapped into the maximum of 100%;
* we want to avoid that p = 1/x is rounded down to 0 when x is very large,
since this means accidentally re-entering slow-start (indicated by p==0).
In the last case, the minimum-resolution value of p is returned.
Furthermore, a bug in ccid3_hc_rx_getsockopt is fixed (1/0 was mapped into ~0U),
which now allows to consistently print the scaled p-values as
printf("Loss Event Rate = %u.%04u %%\n", rx_info.tfrcrx_p / 10000,
rx_info.tfrcrx_p % 10000);
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This patch ...
1. adds packet type information to ccid_hc_{rx,tx}_parse_options(). This is
necessary, since table 3 in RFC 4340, 5.8 leaves it to the CCIDs to state
which options may (not) appear on what packet type.
2. adds such a check for CCID-3's {Loss Event, Receive} Rate as specified in
RFC 4340 8.3 ("Receive Rate options MUST NOT be sent on DCCP-Data packets")
and 8.5 ("Loss Event Rate options MUST NOT be sent on DCCP-Data packets").
3. removes an unused argument `idx' from ccid_hc_{rx,tx}_parse_options(). This
is also no longer necessary, since the CCID-specific option-parsing routines
are passed every single parameter of the type-length-value option encoding.
Also added documentation and made argument naming scheme consistent.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This simplifies and consolidates the TX option-parsing code:
1. The Loss Intervals option is not currently used, so dead code related to
this option is removed. I am aware of no plans to support the option, but
if someone wants to implement it (e.g. for inter-op tests), it is better
to start afresh than having to also update currently unused code.
2. The Loss Event and Receive Rate options have a lot of code in common (both
are 32 bit, both have same length etc.), so this is consolidated.
3. The test against GSR is not necessary, because
- on first loading CCID3, ccid_new() zeroes out all fields in the socket;
- ccid3_hc_tx_packet_recv() treats 0 and ~0U equivalently, due to
pinv = opt_recv->ccid3or_loss_event_rate;
if (pinv == ~0U || pinv == 0)
hctx->p = 0;
- as a result, the sequence number field is removed from opt_recv.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This removes the RTT-sampling function tfrc_tx_hist_rtt(), since
1. it suffered from complex passing of return values (the return value both
indicated successful lookup while the value doubled as RTT sample);
2. when for some odd reason the sample value equalled 0, this triggered a bug
warning about "bogus Ack", due to the ambiguity of the return value;
3. on a passive host which has not sent anything the TX history is empty and
thus will lead to unwanted "bogus Ack" warnings such as
ccid3_hc_tx_packet_recv: server(e7b7d518): DATAACK with bogus ACK-28197148
ccid3_hc_tx_packet_recv: server(e7b7d518): DATAACK with bogus ACK-26641606.
The fix is to replace the implicit encoding by performing the steps manually.
Furthermore, the "bogus Ack" warning has been removed, since it can actually be
triggered due to several reasons (network reordering, old packet, (3) above),
hence it is not very useful.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This fixes a subtle bug in the calculation of the inter-packet gap and shows
that t_delta, as it is currently used, is not needed. And hence replaced.
The algorithm from RFC 3448, 4.6 below continually computes a send time t_nom,
which is initialised with the current time t_now; t_gran = 1E6 / HZ specifies
the scheduling granularity, s the packet size, and X the sending rate:
t_distance = t_nom - t_now; // in microseconds
t_delta = min(t_ipi, t_gran) / 2; // `delta' parameter in microseconds
if (t_distance >= t_delta) {
reschedule after (t_distance / 1000) milliseconds;
} else {
t_ipi = s / X; // inter-packet interval in usec
t_nom += t_ipi; // compute the next send time
send packet now;
}
1) Description of the bug
-------------------------
Rescheduling requires a conversion into milliseconds, due to this call chain:
* ccid3_hc_tx_send_packet() returns a timeout in milliseconds,
* this value is converted by msecs_to_jiffies() in dccp_write_xmit(),
* and finally used as jiffy-expires-value for sk_reset_timer().
The highest jiffy resolution with HZ=1000 is 1 millisecond, so using a higher
granularity does not make much sense here.
As a consequence, values of t_distance < 1000 are truncated to 0. This issue
has so far been resolved by using instead
if (t_distance >= t_delta + 1000)
reschedule after (t_distance / 1000) milliseconds;
The bug is in artificially inflating t_delta to t_delta' = t_delta + 1000. This
is unnecessarily large, a more adequate value is t_delta' = max(t_delta, 1000).
2) Consequences of using the corrected t_delta'
-----------------------------------------------
Since t_delta <= t_gran/2 = 10^6/(2*HZ), we have t_delta <= 1000 as long as
HZ >= 500. This means that t_delta' = max(1000, t_delta) is constant at 1000.
On the other hand, when using a coarse HZ value of HZ < 500, we have three
sub-cases that can all be reduced to using another constant of t_gran/2.
(a) The first case arises when t_ipi > t_gran. Here t_delta' is the constant
t_delta' = max(1000, t_gran/2) = t_gran/2.
(b) If t_ipi <= 2000 < t_gran = 10^6/HZ usec, then t_delta = t_ipi/2 <= 1000,
so that t_delta' = max(1000, t_delta) = 1000 < t_gran/2.
(c) If 2000 < t_ipi <= t_gran, we have t_delta' = max(t_delta, 1000) = t_ipi/2.
In the second and third cases we have delay values less than t_gran/2, which is
in the order of less than or equal to half a jiffy.
How these are treated depends on how fractions of a jiffy are handled: they
are either always rounded down to 0, or always rounded up to 1 jiffy (assuming
non-zero values). In both cases the error is on average in the order of 50%.
Thus we are not increasing the error when in the second/third case we replace
a value less than t_gran/2 with 0, by setting t_delta' to the constant t_gran/2.
3) Summary
----------
Fixing (1) and considering (2), the patch replaces t_delta with a constant,
whose value depends on CONFIG_HZ, changing the above algorithm to:
if (t_distance >= t_delta')
reschedule after (t_distance / 1000) milliseconds;
where t_delta' = 10^6/(2*HZ) if HZ < 500, and t_delta' = 1000 otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
The CCIDs are activated as last of the features, at the end of the handshake,
were the LISTEN state of the master socket is inherited into the server
state of the child socket. Thus, the only states visible to CCIDs now are
OPEN/PARTOPEN, and the closing states.
This allows to remove tests which were previously necessary to protect
against referencing a socket in the listening state (in CCID3), but which
now have become redundant.
As a further byproduct of enabling the CCIDs only after the connection has been
fully established, several typecast-initialisations of ccid3_hc_{rx,tx}_sock
can now be eliminated:
* the CCID is loaded, so it is not necessary to test if it is NULL,
* if it is possible to load a CCID and leave the private area NULL, then this
is a bug, which should crash loudly - and earlier,
* the test for state==OPEN || state==PARTOPEN now reduces only to the closing
phase (e.g. when the node has received an unexpected Reset).
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
This patch does the same for CCID-3 as the previous patch for CCID-2:
s#ccid3hctx_##g;
s#ccid3hcrx_##g;
plus manual editing to retain consistency.
Please note: expanded the fields of the `struct tfrc_tx_info' in the hc_tx_sock,
since using short #define identifiers is not a good idea. The only place where
this embedded struct was used is ccid3_hc_tx_getsockopt().
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This patch fixes two problems caused by the ubiquitous long "hctx->ccid2htx_"
and "hcrx->ccid2hcrx_" prefixes:
* code becomes hard to read;
* multiple-line statements are almost inevitable even for simple expressions;
The prefixes are not really necessary (compare with "struct tcp_sock").
There had been previous discussion of this on dccp@vger, but so far this was
not followed up (most people agreed that the prefixes are too long).
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Leandro Melo de Sales <leandroal@gmail.com>
To increase robustness, it is necessary to resend Confirm feature-negotiation
options, even though the RFC does not mandate it. But feature negotiation
options can take (much) more room than the options on common DataAck packets.
Instead of reducing the MPS always for a case which only applies to the three
messages send during initial handshake, this patch devises a special case:
if the payload length of the DataAck in PARTOPEN is too large, an Ack is sent
to carry the options, and the feature-negotiation list is then flushed.
This means that the server gets two Acks for one Response. If both Acks get
lost, it is probably better to restart the connection anyway and devising yet
another special-case does not seem worth the extra complexity.
The patch (over-)estimates the expected overhead to be 32*4 bytes -- commonly
seen values were 20-90 bytes for initial feature-negotiation options.
It uses sizeof(u32) to mean "aligned units of 4 bytes". For consistency,
another use of sizeof is modified.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
The Maximum Packet Size (MPS) is of interest for applications which want
to transfer data, so it is only relevant to the data transfer phase of a
connection (unless one wants to send data on the DCCP-Request, but that is
not considered here).
The strategy chosen to deal with this requirement is to leave room for only
such options that may appear on data packets.
A special consideration applies to Ack Vectors: this is purely guesswork,
since these can have any length between 3 and 1020 bytes. The strategy
chosen here is to subtract a configurable minimum, the value of 16 bytes
(2 bytes for type/length plus 14 Ack Vector cells) has been found by
experimentatation. If people experience this as too much or too little,
this could later be turned into a Kconfig option.
There are currently no CCID-specific header options which may appear on data
packets, hence it is not necessary to define a corresponding CCID field.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
This uses the new feature-negotiation framework to signal Ack Ratio changes,
as required by RFC 4341, sec. 6.1.2.
This raises some problems for CCID-2 since it can at the moment not cope
gracefully with Ack Ratio of e.g. 2. A FIXME has thus been added which
reverts to the existing policy of bypassing the Ack Ratio sysctl.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
This patch provides support for the reception of NN options in (PART)OPEN state.
It is a combination of change_recv() and confirm_recv(), specifically geared
towards receiving the `fast-path' NN options.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
In contrast to static feature negotiation at the begin of a connection, which
establishes the capabilities of both endpoints, this patch introduces support
for dynamic exchange of feature negotiation options.
Such a dynamic exchange is necessary in at least two cases:
* CCID-2's Ack Ratio (RFC 4341, 6.1.2) which changes during the connection;
* Sequence Window values that, as per RFC 4340, 7.5.2, should be sent "as
as the connection progresses".
Both are NN (non-negotiable) features. Hence dynamic feature "negotiation" is
distinguished from static/pre-connection negotiation by the following:
* no new capabilities are negotiated (those that matter for the connection
are negotiated prior to setting up the connection, comparable to SIP);
* features must be understood by each endpoint: as per RFC 4340, 6.4,
Sequence Window is "Req'd" and Ack Ratio must be understood when CCID-2
is used as per the note underneath Table 4.
These characteristics are reflected in the implementation:
* only NN options can be exchanged after connection setup;
* NN options are activated directly after validating them. The rationale is
that a peer must accept every valid NN value (RFC 4340, 6.3.2), hence it
will either accept the value and send a "Confirm R", or it will send an
empty Confirm (which will reset the connection according to FN rules).
* An Ack is scheduled directly after activation to accelerate communicating
the update to the peer.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Since all feature-negotiation processing now takes place in feat.c, functions
for producing verbose debugging output are concentrated there.
New functions to print out values, entry records, and options are provided,
and also a macro is defined to not always have the function name in the
output line.
Thanks a lot to Wei Yongjun and Giuseppe Galeota for help with errors in an
earlier revision of this patch.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
This patch takes care of initialising and type-checking sysctls related to
feature negotiation. Type checking is important since some of the sysctls
now directly act on the feature-negotiation process.
The sysctls are initialised with the known default values for each feature.
For the type-checking the value constraints from RFC 4340 are used:
* Sequence Window uses the specified Wmin=32, the maximum is ulong (4 bytes),
tested and confirmed that it works up to 4294967295 - for Gbps speed;
* Ack Ratio is between 0 .. 0xffff (2-byte unsigned integer);
* CCIDs are between 0 .. 255;
* request_retries, retries1, retries2 also between 0..255 for good measure;
* tx_qlen is checked to be non-negative;
* sync_ratelimit remains as before.
Further changes:
----------------
Performed s@sysctl_dccp_feat@sysctl_dccp@g since the sysctls are now in feat.c.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
This adds full support for local/remote Sequence Window feature, from which the
* sequence-number-validity (W) and
* acknowledgment-number-validity (W') windows
derive as specified in RFC 4340, 7.5.3.
Specifically, the following changes are introduced:
* integrated new socket fields into dccp_sk;
* updated the update_gsr/gss routines with regard to these fields;
* updated handler code: the Sequence Window feature is located at the TX side,
so the local feature is meant if the handler-rx flag is false;
* the initialisation of `rcv_wnd' in reqsk is removed, since
- rcv_wnd is not used by the code anywhere;
- sequence number checks are not done in the LISTEN state (cf. 7.5.3);
- dccp_check_req checks the Ack number validity more rigorously;
* the `struct dccp_minisock' became empty and is now removed.
Until the handshake completes with activating negotiated values, the local/remote
Sequence-Window values are undefined and thus can not reliably be estimated.
This issue is addressed in a separate patch.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
This adds auto-loading of CCIDs (when module loading is enabled)
for the purpose of feature negotiation.
The problem with loading the CCIDs at the end of feature negotiation is
that this would happen in software interrupt context. Besides, if the host
advertises CCIDs during negotiation, it should have them ready to use, in
case an agreeing peer wants to use it for the connection.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
This initialises feature negotiation from two tables, which are initialised
from sysctls.
As a novel feature, specifics of the implementation (e.g. currently short
seqnos and ECN are not supported) are advertised for robustness.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
This removes the use of the sysctl and the minisock variable for the Send Ack
Vector feature, which is now handled fully dynamically via feature negotiation;
i.e. when CCID2 is enabled, Ack Vectors are automatically enabled (as per
RFC 4341, 4.).
Using a sysctl in parallel to this implementation would open the door to
crashes, since much of the code relies on tests of the boolean minisock /
sysctl variable. Thus, this patch replaces all tests of type
if (dccp_msk(sk)->dccpms_send_ack_vector)
/* ... */
with
if (dp->dccps_hc_rx_ackvec != NULL)
/* ... */
The dccps_hc_rx_ackvec is allocated by the dccp_hdlr_ackvec() when feature
negotiation concluded that Ack Vectors are to be used on the half-connection.
Otherwise, it is NULL (due to dccp_init_sock/dccp_create_openreq_child),
so that the test is a valid one.
The activation handler for Ack Vectors is called as soon as the feature
negotiation has concluded at the
* server when the Ack marking the transition RESPOND => OPEN arrives;
* client after it has sent its ACK, marking the transition REQUEST => PARTOPEN.
Adding the sequence number of the Response packet to the Ack Vector has been
removed, since
(a) connection establishment implies that the Response has been received;
(b) the CCIDs only look at packets received in the (PART)OPEN state, i.e.
this entry will always be ignored;
(c) it can not be used for anything useful - to detect loss for instance, only
packets received after the loss can serve as pseudo-dupacks.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Updating the NDP count feature is handled automatically now:
* for CCID-2 it is disabled, since the code does not use NDP counts;
* for CCID-3 it is enabled, as NDP counts are used to determine loss lengths.
Allowing the user to change NDP values leads to unpredictable and failing
behaviour, since it is then possible to disable NDP counts even when they
are needed (e.g. in CCID-3).
This means that only those user settings are sensible that agree with the
values for Send NDP Count implied by the choice of CCID. But those settings
are already activated by the feature negotiation (CCID dependency tracking),
hence this form of support is redundant.
At startup the initialisation of the NDP count feature is with the default
value of 0, which is done implicitly by the zeroing-out of the socket when
it is allocated. If the choice of CCID or feature negotiation enables NDP
count, this will then be updated via the NDP activation handler.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
The TX/RX CCIDs of the minisock are now redundant: similar to the Ack Vector
case, their value equals initially that of the sysctl, but at the end of
feature negotiation may be something different.
The old interface removed by this patch thus has been replaced by the newer
interface to dynamically query the currently loaded CCIDs earlier in this
patch set.
Also removed the constructors for the TX CCID and the RX CCID, since the
switch rx/non-rx is done by the handler in minisocks.c (and the handler is
the only place in the code where CCIDs are loaded).
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
The code removed by this patch is no longer referenced or used, the added
lines update documentation and copyrights.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
This integrates feature-activation in the client, with these details:
1. When dccp_parse_options() fails, the reset code is already set, request_sent
_state_process() currently overrides this with `Packet Error', which is not
intended - so changed to use the reset code set in dccp_parse_options();
2. There was a FIXME to change the error code when dccp_ackvec_add() fails.
I have looked this up and found that:
* the check whether ackno < ISN is already made earlier,
* this Response is likely the 1st packet with an Ackno that the client gets,
* so when dccp_ackvec_add() fails, the reason is likely not a packet error.
3. When feature negotiation fails, the socket should be marked as not usable,
so that the application is notified that an error occurs. This is achieved
by a new label, which uses an error code of `Aborted' and which sets the
socket state to CLOSED, as well as sk_err.
4. Avoids parsing the Ack twice in Respond state by not doing option processing
again in dccp_rcv_respond_partopen_state_process (as option processing has
already been done on the request_sock in dccp_check_req).
Since this addresses congestion-control initialisation, a corresponding
FIXME has been removed.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
This patch integrates the activation of features at the end of negotiation
into the server-side code.
Note:
In dccp_create_openreq_child the request_sock argument is no longer constant,
since dccp_activate_values() uses the feature-negotiation list on dreq to sort
out the initialisation values for the different features of the child socket;
and purges this queue after use (but the `req' argument to openreq_child
can and does still remain constant).
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
This first patch out of three replaces the hardcoded default settings with
initialisation code for the dynamic feature negotiation.
Note on retransmitting Confirm options:
---------------------------------------
This patch also defers flushing the client feature-negotiation queue,
due to the following considerations.
As long as the client is in PARTOPEN, it needs to retransmit the Confirm
options for the Change options received on the DCCP-Response from the server.
Otherwise, if the packet containing the Confirm options gets dropped in the
network, the connection aborts due to undefined feature negotiation state.
Thanks to Leandro Melo de Sales who reported a bug in an earlier revision
of the patch set, resulting from not retransmitting the Confirm options.
The patch now ensures that the client feature-negotiation queue is flushed only
when entering the OPEN state. Since confirmed Change options are removed as
soon as they are confirmed (in the DCCP-Response), this ensures that Confirm
options are retransmitted.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
This patch provides the post-processing of feature negotiation state, after
the negotiation has completed.
To this purpose, handlers are used and added to the dccp_feat_table. Each
handler is passed a boolean flag whether the RX or TX side of the feature
is meant.
Several handlers are provided already, new handlers can easily be added.
The initialisation is now fully dynamic, i.e. CCIDs are activated only
after the feature negotiation. The integration of this dynamic activation
is done in the subsequent patches.
Thanks to Wei Yongjun for pointing out the necessity of skipping over empty
Confirm options while copying the negotiated feature values.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Analogous to the previous patch, this adds code to interpret incoming Confirm
feature-negotiation options. Both functions operate on the feature-negotiation
list of either the request_sock (server) or the dccp_sock (client).
Thanks to Wei Yongjun for pointing out that it is overly restrictive to check
the entire list of confirmed SP values.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
This adds/replaces code for processing incoming ChangeL/R options.
The main difference is that:
* mandatory FN options are now interpreted inside the function
(there are too many individual cases to do this externally);
* the function returns an appropriate Reset code or 0,
which is then used to fill in the data for the Reset packet.
Old code, which is no longer used or referenced, has been removed.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This provides two functions to
* reconcile preference lists (with appropriate return codes) and
* reorder the preference list if successful reconciliation changed the
preferred value.
The patch also removes the old code for processing SP/NN Change options, since
new code to process these is mostly there already; related references have been
commented out.
The code for processing Change options follows in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
The patch implements insertion of feature negotiation at the server (listening
and request socket) and the client (connecting socket).
In dccp_insert_options(), several statements have been grouped together now
to achieve (I hope) better efficiency by reducing the number of tests each
packet has to go through:
- Ack Vectors are sent if the packet is neither a Data or a Request packet;
- a previous issue is corrected - feature negotiation options are allowed
on DataAck packets (5.8).
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
This patch replaces the earlier insertion routine from options.c, so that
code specific to feature negotiation can remain in feat.c. This is possible
by calling a function already existing in options.c.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
The patch extends existing code:
* Confirm options divide into the confirmed value plus an optional preference
list for SP values. Previously only the preference list was echoed for SP
values, now the confirmed value is added as per RFC 4340, 6.1;
* length and sanity checks are added to avoid illegal memory (or NULL) access.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Support for Mandatory options is provided by this patch, which will
be used by subsequent feature-negotiation patches.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This extends the scope of two available functions, encode|decode_value_var,
to work up to 6 (8) bytes, to match maximum requirements in the RFC.
These functions are going to be used both by general option processing and
feature negotiation code, hence declarations have been put into feat.h.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This provides function to query the current TX/RX CCID dynamically, without
reliance on the minisock value, using dynamic information available in the
currently loaded CCID module.
This query function is then used to
(a) provide the getsockopt part for getting/setting CCIDs via sockopts;
(b) replace the current test for "which CCID is in use" in probe.c.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
With this patch, TX/RX CCIDs can now be changed on a per-connection basis, which
overrides the defaults set by the global sysctl variables for TX/RX CCIDs.
To make full use of this facility, the remaining patches of this patch set are
needed, which track dependencies and activate negotiated feature values.
Note on the maximum number of CCIDs that can be registered:
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The maximum number of CCIDs that can be registered on the socket is constrained
by the space in a Confirm/Change feature negotiation option.
The space in these in turn depends on the size of header options as defined
in RFC 4340, 5.8. Since this is a recurring constant, it has been moved from
ackvec.h into linux/dccp.h, clarifying its purpose.
Relative to this size, the maximum number of CCID identifiers that can be
present in a Confirm option (which always consumes 1 byte more than a Change
option, cf. 6.1) is 2 bytes less than the maximum TLV size: one for the
CCID-feature-type and one for the selected value.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This splits the setsockopt calls into two groups, depending on whether an
integer argument (val) is required and whether routines being called do
their own locking.
Some options (such as setting the CCID) use u8 rather than int, so that for
these the test with regard to integer-sizeof can not be used.
The second switch-case statement now only has those statements which need
locking and which make use of `val'.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
This patch deprecates the Ack Ratio sysctl, since
* Ack Ratio is entirely ignored by CCID-3 and CCID-4,
* Ack Ratio currently doesn't work in CCID-2 (i.e. is always set to 1);
* even if it would work in CCID-2, there is no point for a user to change it:
- Ack Ratio is constrained by cwnd (RFC 4341, 6.1.2),
- if Ack Ratio > cwnd, the system resorts to spurious RTO timeouts
(since waiting for Acks which will never arrive in this window),
- cwnd is not a user-configurable value.
The only reasonable place for Ack Ratio is to print it for debugging. It is
planned to do this later on, as part of e.g. dccp_probe.
With this patch Ack Ratio is now under full control of feature negotiation:
* Ack Ratio is resolved as a dependency of the selected CCID;
* if the chosen CCID supports it (i.e. CCID == CCID-2), Ack Ratio is set to
the default of 2, following RFC 4340, 11.3 - "New connections start with Ack
Ratio 2 for both endpoints";
* what happens then is part of another patch set, since it concerns the
dynamic update of Ack Ratio while the connection is in full flight.
Thanks to Tomasz Grobelny for discussion leading up to this patch.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This provides feature negotiation for server minimum checksum coverage
which so far has been missing.
Since sender/receiver coverage values range only from 0...15, their
type has also been reduced in size from u16 to u4.
Feature-negotiation options are now generated for both sender and receiver
coverage, i.e. when the peer has `forgotten' to enable partial coverage
then feature negotiation will automatically enable (negotiate) the partial
coverage value for this connection.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
The previous setsockopt interface, which passed socket options via struct
dccp_so_feat, is complicated/difficult to use. Continuing to support it leads to
ugly code since the old approach did not distinguish between NN and SP values.
This patch removes the old setsockopt interface and replaces it with two new
functions to register NN/SP values for feature negotiation. These are
essentially wrappers around the internal __feat_register functions, with
checking added to avoid
* wrong usage (type);
* changing values while the connection is in progress.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
This adds a hook to resolve features whose value depends on the choice of
CCID. It is done at the server since it can only be done after the CCID
values have been negotiated; i.e. the client will add its CCID preference
list on the Change options sent in the Request, which will be reconciled
with the local preference list of the server.
The concept is documented on
http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/dccp/notes/feature_negotiation/\
implementation_notes.html#ccid_dependencies
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
This provides a missing link in the code chain, as several features implicitly
depend and/or rely on the choice of CCID. Most notably, this is the Send Ack Vector
feature, but also Ack Ratio and Send Loss Event Rate (also taken care of).
For Send Ack Vector, the situation is as follows:
* since CCID2 mandates the use of Ack Vectors, there is no point in allowing
endpoints which use CCID2 to disable Ack Vector features such a connection;
* a peer with a TX CCID of CCID2 will always expect Ack Vectors, and a peer
with a RX CCID of CCID2 must always send Ack Vectors (RFC 4341, sec. 4);
* for all other CCIDs, the use of (Send) Ack Vector is optional and thus
negotiable. However, this implies that the code negotiating the use of Ack
Vectors also supports it (i.e. is able to supply and to either parse or
ignore received Ack Vectors). Since this is not the case (CCID-3 has no Ack
Vector support), the use of Ack Vectors is here disabled, with a comment
in the source code.
An analogous consideration arises for the Send Loss Event Rate feature,
since the CCID-3 implementation does not support the loss interval options
of RFC 4342. To make such use explicit, corresponding feature-negotiation
options are inserted which signal the use of the loss event rate option,
as it is used by the CCID3 code.
Lastly, the values of the Ack Ratio feature are matched to the choice of CCID.
The patch implements this as a function which is called after the user has
made all other registrations for changing default values of features.
The table is variable-length, the reserved (and hence for feature-negotiation
invalid, confirmed by considering section 19.4 of RFC 4340) feature number `0'
is used to mark the end of the table.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Gerrit Renker