linux/net/tipc
Jon Paul Maloy f21e897ecc tipc: improve link congestion algorithm
The link congestion algorithm used until now implies two problems.

- It is too generous towards lower-level messages in situations of high
  load by giving "absolute" bandwidth guarantees to the different
  priority levels. LOW traffic is guaranteed 10%, MEDIUM is guaranted
  20%, HIGH is guaranteed 30%, and CRITICAL is guaranteed 40% of the
  available bandwidth. But, in the absence of higher level traffic, the
  ratio between two distinct levels becomes unreasonable. E.g. if there
  is only LOW and MEDIUM traffic on a system, the former is guaranteed
  1/3 of the bandwidth, and the latter 2/3. This again means that if
  there is e.g. one LOW user and 10 MEDIUM users, the  former will have
  33.3% of the bandwidth, and the others will have to compete for the
  remainder, i.e. each will end up with 6.7% of the capacity.

- Packets of type MSG_BUNDLER are created at SYSTEM importance level,
  but only after the packets bundled into it have passed the congestion
  test for their own respective levels. Since bundled packets don't
  result in incrementing the level counter for their own importance,
  only occasionally for the SYSTEM level counter, they do in practice
  obtain SYSTEM level importance. Hence, the current implementation
  provides a gap in the congestion algorithm that in the worst case
  may lead to a link reset.

We now refine the congestion algorithm as follows:

- A message is accepted to the link backlog only if its own level
  counter, and all superior level counters, permit it.

- The importance of a created bundle packet is set according to its
  contents. A bundle packet created from messges at levels LOW to
  CRITICAL is given importance level CRITICAL, while a bundle created
  from a SYSTEM level message is given importance SYSTEM. In the latter
  case only subsequent SYSTEM level messages are allowed to be bundled
  into it.

This solves the first problem described above, by making the bandwidth
guarantee relative to the total number of users at all levels; only
the upper limit for each level remains absolute. In the example
described above, the single LOW user would use 1/11th of the bandwidth,
the same as each of the ten MEDIUM users, but he still has the same
guarantee against starvation as the latter ones.

The fix also solves the second problem. If the CRITICAL level is filled
up by bundle packets of that level, no lower level packets will be
accepted any more.

Suggested-by: Gergely Kiss <gergely.kiss@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-14 12:24:46 -04:00
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Kconfig tipc: add ip/udp media type 2015-03-05 22:08:42 -05:00
Makefile tipc: add ip/udp media type 2015-03-05 22:08:42 -05:00
addr.c tipc: simplify include dependencies 2015-05-14 12:24:45 -04:00
addr.h tipc: simplify include dependencies 2015-05-14 12:24:45 -04:00
bcast.c tipc: rename fields in struct tipc_link 2015-05-14 12:24:46 -04:00
bcast.h tipc: add broadcast link window set/get to nl api 2015-05-09 16:40:02 -04:00
bearer.c tipc: simplify resetting and disabling of bearers 2015-05-14 12:24:45 -04:00
bearer.h tipc: simplify include dependencies 2015-05-14 12:24:45 -04:00
core.c tipc: rename functions defined in subscr.c 2015-05-04 15:04:00 -04:00
core.h tipc: simplify packet sequence number handling 2015-05-14 12:24:46 -04:00
discover.c tipc: involve reference counter for node structure 2015-03-29 12:40:28 -07:00
discover.h tipc: involve namespace infrastructure 2015-01-12 16:24:32 -05:00
eth_media.c tipc: make media address offset a common define 2015-02-27 18:18:48 -05:00
ib_media.c tipc: rename media/msg related definitions 2015-02-27 18:18:48 -05:00
link.c tipc: improve link congestion algorithm 2015-05-14 12:24:46 -04:00
link.h tipc: simplify link supervision checkpointing 2015-05-14 12:24:46 -04:00
msg.c tipc: improve link congestion algorithm 2015-05-14 12:24:46 -04:00
msg.h tipc: improve link congestion algorithm 2015-05-14 12:24:46 -04:00
name_distr.c tipc: involve reference counter for node structure 2015-03-29 12:40:28 -07:00
name_distr.h tipc: resolve race problem at unicast message reception 2015-02-05 16:00:02 -08:00
name_table.c tipc: rename functions defined in subscr.c 2015-05-04 15:04:00 -04:00
name_table.h tipc: convert legacy nl name table dump to nl compat 2015-02-09 13:20:48 -08:00
net.c tipc: simplify include dependencies 2015-05-14 12:24:45 -04:00
net.h tipc: make tipc node table aware of net namespace 2015-01-12 16:24:32 -05:00
netlink.c tipc: move and rename the legacy nl api to "nl compat" 2015-02-09 13:20:47 -08:00
netlink.h tipc: move and rename the legacy nl api to "nl compat" 2015-02-09 13:20:47 -08:00
netlink_compat.c tipc: send explicit not supported error in nl compat 2015-05-09 16:40:03 -04:00
node.c tipc: simplify include dependencies 2015-05-14 12:24:45 -04:00
node.h tipc: simplify include dependencies 2015-05-14 12:24:45 -04:00
server.c tipc: deal with return value of tipc_conn_new callback 2015-05-04 15:04:01 -04:00
server.h tipc: make subscriber server support net namespace 2015-01-12 16:24:33 -05:00
socket.c tipc: simplify include dependencies 2015-05-14 12:24:45 -04:00
socket.h tipc: fix netns refcnt leak 2015-03-17 22:11:26 -04:00
subscr.c tipc: adjust locking policy of subscription 2015-05-04 15:04:01 -04:00
subscr.h tipc: rename functions defined in subscr.c 2015-05-04 15:04:00 -04:00
sysctl.c tipc: add name distributor resiliency queue 2014-09-01 17:51:48 -07:00
udp_media.c udp_tunnel: Pass UDP socket down through udp_tunnel{, 6}_xmit_skb(). 2015-04-07 15:29:08 -04:00