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David S. Miller bb5b7c1126 tcp: Revert per-route SACK/DSACK/TIMESTAMP changes.
It creates a regression, triggering badness for SYN_RECV
sockets, for example:

[19148.022102] Badness at net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c:293
[19148.022570] NIP: c02a0914 LR: c02a0904 CTR: 00000000
[19148.023035] REGS: eeecbd30 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (2.6.32)
[19148.023496] MSR: 00029032 <EE,ME,CE,IR,DR>  CR: 24002442  XER: 00000000
[19148.024012] TASK = eee9a820[1756] 'privoxy' THREAD: eeeca000

This is likely caused by the change in the 'estab' parameter
passed to tcp_parse_options() when invoked by the functions
in net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c

But even if that is fixed, the ->conn_request() changes made in
this patch series is fundamentally wrong.  They try to use the
listening socket's 'dst' to probe the route settings.  The
listening socket doesn't even have a route, and you can't
get the right route (the child request one) until much later
after we setup all of the state, and it must be done by hand.

This stuff really isn't ready, so the best thing to do is a
full revert.  This reverts the following commits:

f55017a93f
022c3f7d82
1aba721eba
cda42ebd67
345cda2fd6
dc343475ed
05eaade278
6a2a2d6bf8

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-15 20:56:42 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 77722b177a tcp: fix retrans_stamp advancing in error cases
It can happen, that tcp_retransmit_skb fails due to some error.
In such cases we might end up into a state where tp->retrans_out
is zero but that's only because we removed the TCPCB_SACKED_RETRANS
bit from a segment but couldn't retransmit it because of the error
that happened. Therefore some assumptions that retrans_out checks
are based do not necessarily hold, as there still can be an old
retransmission but that is only visible in TCPCB_EVER_RETRANS bit.
As retransmission happen in sequential order (except for some very
rare corner cases), it's enough to check the head skb for that bit.

Main reason for all this complexity is the fact that connection dying
time now depends on the validity of the retrans_stamp, in particular,
that successive retransmissions of a segment must not advance
retrans_stamp under any conditions. It seems after quick thinking that
this has relatively low impact as eventually TCP will go into CA_Loss
and either use the existing check for !retrans_stamp case or send a
retransmission successfully, setting a new base time for the dying
timer (can happen only once). At worst, the dying time will be
approximately the double of the intented time. In addition,
tcp_packet_delayed() will return wrong result (has some cc aspects
but due to rarity of these errors, it's hardly an issue).

One of retrans_stamp clearing happens indirectly through first going
into CA_Open state and then a later ACK lets the clearing to happen.
Thus tcp_try_keep_open has to be modified too.

Thanks to Damian Lukowski <damian@tvk.rwth-aachen.de> for hinting
that this possibility exists (though the particular case discussed
didn't after all have it happening but was just a debug patch
artifact).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-08 20:56:12 -08:00
William Allen Simpson 4957faade1 TCPCT part 1g: Responder Cookie => Initiator
Parse incoming TCP_COOKIE option(s).

Calculate <SYN,ACK> TCP_COOKIE option.

Send optional <SYN,ACK> data.

This is a significantly revised implementation of an earlier (year-old)
patch that no longer applies cleanly, with permission of the original
author (Adam Langley):

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/102586

Requires:
   TCPCT part 1a: add request_values parameter for sending SYNACK
   TCPCT part 1b: generate Responder Cookie secret
   TCPCT part 1c: sysctl_tcp_cookie_size, socket option TCP_COOKIE_TRANSACTIONS
   TCPCT part 1d: define TCP cookie option, extend existing struct's
   TCPCT part 1e: implement socket option TCP_COOKIE_TRANSACTIONS
   TCPCT part 1f: Initiator Cookie => Responder

Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-02 22:07:26 -08:00
Joe Perches 9d4fb27db9 net/ipv4: Move && and || to end of previous line
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 16:31 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> It should be of the form:
> 	if (x &&
> 	    y)
> 
> or:
> 	if (x && y)
> 
> Fix patches, rather than complaints, for existing cases where things
> do not follow this pattern are certainly welcome.

Also collapsed some multiple tabs to single space.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-23 10:41:23 -08:00
William Allen Simpson bee7ca9ec0 net: TCP_MSS_DEFAULT, TCP_MSS_DESIRED
Define two symbols needed in both kernel and user space.

Remove old (somewhat incorrect) kernel variant that wasn't used in
most cases.  Default should apply to both RMSS and SMSS (RFC2581).

Replace numeric constants with defined symbols.

Stand-alone patch, originally developed for TCPCT.

Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-13 20:38:48 -08:00
Gilad Ben-Yossef 6a2a2d6bf8 tcp: Use defaults when no route options are available
Trying to parse the option of a SYN packet that we have
no route entry for should just use global wide defaults
for route entry options.

Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@codefidence.com>
Tested-by: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-04 23:24:15 -08:00
Gilad Ben-Yossef dc343475ed Allow disabling of DSACK TCP option per route
Add and use no DSCAK bit in the features field.

Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@codefidence.com>
Sigend-off-by: Ori Finkelman <ori@comsleep.com>
Sigend-off-by: Yony Amit <yony@comsleep.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-29 01:28:48 -07:00
Gilad Ben-Yossef 345cda2fd6 Allow to turn off TCP window scale opt per route
Add and use no window scale bit in the features field.

Note that this is not the same as setting a window scale of 0
as would happen with window limit on route.

Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@codefidence.com>
Sigend-off-by: Ori Finkelman <ori@comsleep.com>
Sigend-off-by: Yony Amit <yony@comsleep.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-29 01:28:47 -07:00
Gilad Ben-Yossef cda42ebd67 Allow disabling TCP timestamp options per route
Implement querying and acting upon the no timestamp bit in the feature
field.

Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@codefidence.com>
Sigend-off-by: Ori Finkelman <ori@comsleep.com>
Sigend-off-by: Yony Amit <yony@comsleep.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-29 01:28:45 -07:00
Gilad Ben-Yossef 1aba721eba Add the no SACK route option feature
Implement querying and acting upon the no sack bit in the features
field.

Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@codefidence.com>
Sigend-off-by: Ori Finkelman <ori@comsleep.com>
Sigend-off-by: Yony Amit <yony@comsleep.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-29 01:28:44 -07:00
Gilad Ben-Yossef 022c3f7d82 Allow tcp_parse_options to consult dst entry
We need tcp_parse_options to be aware of dst_entry to
take into account per dst_entry TCP options settings

Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@codefidence.com>
Sigend-off-by: Ori Finkelman <ori@comsleep.com>
Sigend-off-by: Yony Amit <yony@comsleep.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-29 01:28:41 -07:00
Andreas Petlund ea84e5555a net: Corrected spelling error heurestics->heuristics
Corrected a spelling error in a function name.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-28 04:00:03 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 0b6a05c1db tcp: fix ssthresh u16 leftover
It was once upon time so that snd_sthresh was a 16-bit quantity.
...That has not been true for long period of time. I run across
some ancient compares which still seem to trust such legacy.
Put all that magic into a single place, I hopefully found all
of them.

Compile tested, though linking of allyesconfig is ridiculous
nowadays it seems.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-15 01:30:10 -07:00
Damian Lukowski f1ecd5d9e7 Revert Backoff [v3]: Revert RTO on ICMP destination unreachable
Here, an ICMP host/network unreachable message, whose payload fits to
TCP's SND.UNA, is taken as an indication that the RTO retransmission has
not been lost due to congestion, but because of a route failure
somewhere along the path.
With true congestion, a router won't trigger such a message and the
patched TCP will operate as standard TCP.

This patch reverts one RTO backoff, if an ICMP host/network unreachable
message, whose payload fits to TCP's SND.UNA, arrives.
Based on the new RTO, the retransmission timer is reset to reflect the
remaining time, or - if the revert clocked out the timer - a retransmission
is sent out immediately.
Backoffs are only reverted, if TCP is in RTO loss recovery, i.e. if
there have been retransmissions and reversible backoffs, already.

Changes from v2:
1) Renaming of skb in tcp_v4_err() moved to another patch.
2) Reintroduced tcp_bound_rto() and __tcp_set_rto().
3) Fixed code comments.

Signed-off-by: Damian Lukowski <damian@tvk.rwth-aachen.de>
Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-01 02:45:42 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 2df9001edc tcp: fix loop in ofo handling code and reduce its complexity
Somewhat luckily, I was looking into these parts with very fine
comb because I've made somewhat similar changes on the same
area (conflicts that arose weren't that lucky though). The loop
was very much overengineered recently in commit 915219441d
(tcp: Use SKB queue and list helpers instead of doing it
by-hand), while it basically just wants to know if there are
skbs after 'skb'.

Also it got broken because skb1 = skb->next got translated into
skb1 = skb1->next (though abstracted) improperly. Note that
'skb1' is pointing to previous sk_buff than skb or NULL if at
head. Two things went wrong:
- We'll kfree 'skb' on the first iteration instead of the
  skbuff following 'skb' (it would require required SACK reneging
  to recover I think).
- The list head case where 'skb1' is NULL is checked too early
  and the loop won't execute whereas it previously did.

Conclusion, mostly revert the recent changes which makes the
cset very messy looking but using proper accessor in the
previous-like version.

The effective changes against the original can be viewed with:
  git-diff 915219441d566f1da0caa0e262be49b666159e17^ \
		net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | sed -n -e '57,70 p'

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-29 15:02:29 -07:00
David S. Miller 915219441d tcp: Use SKB queue and list helpers instead of doing it by-hand.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-28 21:35:47 -07:00
David S. Miller 22f6dacdfc Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	include/net/tcp.h
2009-05-08 02:48:30 -07:00
Satoru SATOH 0c266898b4 tcp: Fix tcp_prequeue() to get correct rto_min value
tcp_prequeue() refers to the constant value (TCP_RTO_MIN) regardless of
the actual value might be tuned. The following patches fix this and make
tcp_prequeue get the actual value returns from tcp_rto_min().

Signed-off-by: Satoru SATOH <satoru.satoh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-04 11:11:01 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 255cac91c3 tcp: extend ECN sysctl to allow server-side only ECN
This should be very safe compared with full enabled, so I see
no reason why it shouldn't be done right away. As ECN can only
be negotiated if the SYN sending party is also supporting it,
somebody in the loop probably knows what he/she is doing. If
SYN does not ask for ECN, the server side SYN-ACK is identical
to what it is without ECN. Thus it's quite safe.

The chosen value is safe w.r.t to existing configs which
choose to currently set manually either 0 or 1 but
silently upgrades those who have not explicitly requested
ECN off.

Whether to just enable both sides comes up time to time but
unless that gets done now we can at least make the servers
aware of ECN already. As there are some known problems to occur
if ECN is enabled, it's currently questionable whether there's
any real gain from enabling clients as servers mostly won't
support it anyway (so we'd hit just the negative sides). After
enabling the servers and getting that deployed, the client end
enable really has some potential gain too.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-04 11:07:36 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 86bcebafc5 tcp: fix >2 iw selection
A long-standing feature in tcp_init_metrics() is such that
any of its goto reset prevents call to tcp_init_cwnd().

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-14 02:08:53 -07:00
John Dykstra 96e0bf4b51 tcp: Discard segments that ack data not yet sent
Discard incoming packets whose ack field iincludes data not yet sent.
This is consistent with RFC 793 Section 3.9.

Change tcp_ack() to distinguish between too-small and too-large ack
field values.  Keep segments with too-large ack fields out of the fast
path, and change slow path to discard them.

Reported-by:  Oliver Zheng <mailinglists+netdev@oliverzheng.com>
Signed-off-by: John Dykstra <john.dykstra1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-22 21:49:57 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen a0bffffc14 net/*: use linux/kernel.h swap()
tcp_sack_swap seems unnecessary so I pushed swap to the caller.
Also removed comment that seemed then pointless, and added include
when not already there. Compile tested.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-21 13:36:17 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 0c54b85f28 tcp: simplify tcp_current_mss
There's very little need for most of the callsites to get
tp->xmit_goal_size updated. That will cost us divide as is,
so slice the function in two. Also, the only users of the
tp->xmit_goal_size are directly behind tcp_current_mss(),
so there's no need to store that variable into tcp_sock
at all! The drop of xmit_goal_size currently leaves 16-bit
hole and some reorganization would again be necessary to
change that (but I'm aiming to fill that hole with u16
xmit_goal_size_segs to cache the results of the remaining
divide to get that tso on regression).

Bring xmit_goal_size parts into tcp.c

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-15 20:09:54 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 72211e9050 tcp: don't check mtu probe completion in the loop
It seems that no variables clash such that we couldn't do
the check just once later on. Therefore move it.

Also kill dead obvious comment, dead argument and add
unlikely since this mtu probe does not happen too often.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-15 20:09:53 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen c887e6d2d9 tcp: consolidate paws check
Wow, it was quite tricky to merge that stream of negations
but I think I finally got it right:

check & replace_ts_recent:
(s32)(rcv_tsval - ts_recent) >= 0                  => 0
(s32)(ts_recent - rcv_tsval) <= 0                  => 0

discard:
(s32)(ts_recent - rcv_tsval)  > TCP_PAWS_WINDOW    => 1
(s32)(ts_recent - rcv_tsval) <= TCP_PAWS_WINDOW    => 0

I toggled the return values of tcp_paws_check around since
the old encoding added yet-another negation making tracking
of truth-values really complicated.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-15 20:09:52 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen c43d558a51 tcp: kill dead end_seq variable in clean_rtx_queue
I've already forgotten what for this was necessary, anyway
it's no longer used (if it ever was).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-15 20:09:51 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 5861f8e58d tcp: remove pointless .dsack/.num_sacks code
In the pure assignment case, the earlier zeroing is
still in effect.

David S. Miller raised concerns if the ifs are there to avoid
dirtying cachelines. I came to these conclusions:

> We'll be dirty it anyway (now that I check), the first "real" statement
> in tcp_rcv_established is:
>
>       tp->rx_opt.saw_tstamp = 0;
>
> ...that'll land on the same dword. :-/
>
> I suppose the blocks are there just because they had more complexity
> inside when they had to calculate the eff_sacks too (maybe it would
> have been better to just remove them in that drop-patch so you would
> have had less head-ache :-)).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-15 20:09:51 -07:00
Hantzis Fotis ee7537b63a tcp: tcp_init_wl / tcp_update_wl argument cleanup
The above functions from include/net/tcp.h have been defined with an
argument that they never use. The argument is 'u32 ack' which is never
used inside the function body, and thus it can be removed. The rest of
the patch involves the necessary changes to the function callers of the
above two functions.

Signed-off-by: Hantzis Fotis <xantzis@ceid.upatras.gr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 22:42:02 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen cabeccbd17 tcp: kill eff_sacks "cache", the sole user can calculate itself
Also fixes insignificant bug that would cause sending of stale
SACK block (would occur in some corner cases).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 03:00:16 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 7363a5b233 tcp: separate timeout marking loop to it's own function
Some comment about its current state added. So far I have
seen very few cases where the thing is actually useful,
usually just marginally (though admittedly I don't usually
see top of window losses where it seems possible that there
could be some gain), instead, more often the cases suffer
from L-marking spike which is certainly not desirable
(I'll bury improving it to my todo list, but on a low
prio position).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 03:00:12 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen d0af4160d1 tcp: remove redundant code from tcp_mark_lost_retrans
Arnd Hannemann <hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de> noticed and was
puzzled by the fact that !tcp_is_fack(tp) leads to early return
near the beginning and the later on tcp_is_fack(tp) was still
used in an if condition. The later check was a left-over from
RFC3517 SACK stuff (== !tcp_is_fack(tp) behavior nowadays) as
there wasn't clear way how to handle this particular check
cheaply in the spirit of RFC3517 (using only SACK blocks, not
holes + SACK blocks as with FACK). I sort of left it there as
a reminder but since it's confusing other people just remove
it and comment the missing-feature stuff instead.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Cc: Arnd Hannemann <hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 03:00:11 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 59a08cba6a tcp: fix lost_cnt_hint miscounts
It is possible that lost_cnt_hint gets underflow in
tcp_clean_rtx_queue because the cumulative ACK can cover
the segment where lost_skb_hint points to only partially,
which means that the hint is not cleared, opposite to what
my (earlier) comment claimed.

Also I don't agree what I ended up writing about non-trivial
case there to be what I intented to say. It was not supposed
to happen that the hint won't get cleared and we underflow
in any scenario.

In general, this is quite hard to trigger in practice.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 03:00:09 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 9ec06ff57a tcp: fix retrans_out leaks
There's conflicting assumptions in shifting, the caller assumes
that dupsack results in S'ed skbs (or a part of it) for sure but
never gave a hint to tcp_sacktag_one when dsack is actually in
use. Thus DSACK retrans_out -= pcount was not taken and the
counter became out of sync. Remove obstacle from that information
flow to get DSACKs accounted in tcp_sacktag_one as expected.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Tested-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-01 00:21:36 -08:00
Dan Williams f67b459992 net_dma: convert to dma_find_channel
Use the general-purpose channel allocation provided by dmaengine.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-01-06 11:38:15 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 41834b7332 tcp: share code through function, not through copy-paste. :-)
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-05 22:43:26 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen ee6aac5950 tcp: drop tcp_bound_rto, merge content of it tcp_set_rto
Both are called by the same sites.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-05 22:43:08 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 50133161a8 tcp: no need to pass prev skb around, reduces arg pressure
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-05 22:42:41 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen a1197f5a6f tcp: introduce struct tcp_sacktag_state to reduce arg pressure
There are just too many args to some sacktag functions. This
idea was first proposed by David S. Miller around a year ago,
and the current situation is much worse that what it was back
then.

tcp_sacktag_one can be made a bit simpler by returning the
new sacked (it can be achieved with a single variable though
the previous code "caching" sacked into a local variable and
therefore it is not exactly equal but the results will be the
same).

codiff on x86_64
  tcp_sacktag_one         |  -15
  tcp_shifted_skb         |  -50
  tcp_match_skb_to_sack   |   -1
  tcp_sacktag_walk        |  -64
  tcp_sacktag_write_queue |  -59
  tcp_urg                 |   +1
  tcp_event_data_recv     |   -1
 7 functions changed, 1 bytes added, 190 bytes removed, diff: -189

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-05 22:42:22 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 775ffabf77 tcp: make mtu probe failure to not break gso'ed skbs unnecessarily
I noticed that since skb->len has nothing to do with actual segment
length with gso, we need to figure it out separately, reuse
a function from the recent shifting stuff (generalize it).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-05 22:41:26 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 9969ca5f20 tcp: Fix thinko making the not-shiftable to cover S|R as well
S|R won't result in S if just SACK is received. DSACK is
another story (but it is covered correctly already).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-05 22:41:06 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen f0bc52f38b tcp: force mss equality with the next skb too.
Also make if-goto forest nicer looking.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-05 22:40:47 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 8eecaba900 tcp: tcp_limit_reno_sacked can become static
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-25 13:45:29 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 111cc8b913 tcp: add some mibs to track collapsing
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-24 21:27:22 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 92ee76b6d9 tcp: Make shifting not clear the hints
The earlier version was just very basic one which is "playing
safe" by always clearing the hints. However, clearing of a hint
is extremely costly operation with large windows, so it must be
avoided at all cost whenever possible, there is a way with
shifting too achieve not-clearing.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-24 21:26:56 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 832d11c5cd tcp: Try to restore large SKBs while SACK processing
During SACK processing, most of the benefits of TSO are eaten by
the SACK blocks that one-by-one fragment SKBs to MSS sized chunks.
Then we're in problems when cleanup work for them has to be done
when a large cumulative ACK comes. Try to return back to pre-split
state already while more and more SACK info gets discovered by
combining newly discovered SACK areas with the previous skb if
that's SACKed as well.

This approach has a number of benefits:

1) The processing overhead is spread more equally over the RTT
2) Write queue has less skbs to process (affect everything
   which has to walk in the queue past the sacked areas)
3) Write queue is consistent whole the time, so no other parts
   of TCP has to be aware of this (this was not the case with
   some other approach that was, well, quite intrusive all
   around).
4) Clean_rtx_queue can release most of the pages using single
   put_page instead of previous PAGE_SIZE/mss+1 calls

In case a hole is fully filled by the new SACK block, we attempt
to combine the next skb too which allows construction of skbs
that are even larger than what tso split them to and it handles
hole per on every nth patterns that often occur during slow start
overshoot pretty nicely. Though this to be really useful also
a retransmission would have to get lost since cumulative ACKs
advance one hole at a time in the most typical case.

TODO: handle upwards only merging. That should be rather easy
when segment is fully sacked but I'm leaving that as future
work item (it won't make very large difference anyway since
this current approach already covers quite a lot of normal
cases).

I was earlier thinking of some sophisticated way of tracking
timestamps of the first and the last segment but later on
realized that it won't be that necessary at all to store the
timestamp of the last segment. The cases that can occur are
basically either:
  1) ambiguous => no sensible measurement can be taken anyway
  2) non-ambiguous is due to reordering => having the timestamp
     of the last segment there is just skewing things more off
     than does some good since the ack got triggered by one of
     the holes (besides some substle issues that would make
     determining right hole/skb even harder problem). Anyway,
     it has nothing to do with this change then.

I choose to route some abnormal looking cases with goto noop,
some could be handled differently (eg., by stopping the
walking at that skb but again). In general, they either
shouldn't happen at all or are rare enough to make no difference
in practice.

In theory this change (as whole) could cause some macroscale
regression (global) because of cache misses that are taken over
the round-trip time but it gets very likely better because of much
less (local) cache misses per other write queue walkers and the
big recovery clearing cumulative ack.

Worth to note that these benefits would be very easy to get also
without TSO/GSO being on as long as the data is in pages so that
we can merge them. Currently I won't let that happen because
DSACK splitting at fragment that would mess up pcounts due to
sk_can_gso in tcp_set_skb_tso_segs. Once DSACKs fragments gets
avoided, we have some conditions that can be made less strict.

TODO: I will probably have to convert the excessive pointer
passing to struct sacktag_state... :-)

My testing revealed that considerable amount of skbs couldn't
be shifted because they were cloned (most likely still awaiting
tx reclaim)...

[The rest is considering future work instead since I got
repeatably EFAULT to tcpdump's recvfrom when I added
pskb_expand_head to deal with clones, so I separated that
into another, later patch]

...To counter that, I gave up on the fifth advantage:

5) When growing previous SACK block, less allocs for new skbs
   are done, basically a new alloc is needed only when new hole
   is detected and when the previous skb runs out of frags space

...which now only happens of if reclaim is fast enough to dispose
the clone before the SACK block comes in (the window is RTT long),
otherwise we'll have to alloc some.

With clones being handled I got these numbers (will be somewhat
worse without that), taken with fine-grained mibs:

                  TCPSackShifted 398
                   TCPSackMerged 877
            TCPSackShiftFallback 320
      TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKGSO 0
  TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKSKBBITS 0
  TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKSKBDATA 0
    TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKBELOW 0
    TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKFIRST 1
 TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKPREVBITS 318
      TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKMSS 1
   TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKNOHEAD 0
    TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKSHIFT 0
          TCPSACKCOLLAPSENOOPSEQ 0
  TCPSACKCOLLAPSENOOPSMALLPCOUNT 0
     TCPSACKCOLLAPSENOOPSMALLLEN 0
             TCPSACKCOLLAPSEHOLE 12

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-24 21:20:15 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen f58b22fd3c tcp: make tcp_sacktag_one able to handle partial skb too
This is preparatory work for SACK combiner patch which may
have to count TCP state changes for only a part of the skb
because it will intentionally avoids splitting skb to SACKed
and not sacked parts.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-24 21:14:43 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen adb92db857 tcp: Make SACK code to split only at mss boundaries
Sadly enough, this adds possible divide though we try to avoid
it by checking one mss as common case.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-24 21:13:50 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen e8bae275d9 tcp: more aggressive skipping
I knew already when rewriting the sacktag that this condition
was too conservative, change it now since it prevent lot of
useless work (especially in the sack shifter decision code
that is being added by a later patch). This shouldn't change
anything really, just save some processing regardless of the
shifter.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-24 21:12:28 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen e1aa680fa4 tcp: move tcp_simple_retransmit to tcp_input
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-24 21:11:55 -08:00
Harvey Harrison 673d57e723 net: replace NIPQUAD() in net/ipv4/ net/ipv6/
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>
2008-10-31 00:53:57 -07:00
Harvey Harrison 5b095d9892 net: replace %p6 with %pI6
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-29 12:52:50 -07:00
Harvey Harrison 0c6ce78abf net: replace uses of NIP6_FMT with %p6
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-28 23:02:31 -07:00
David S. Miller 4dd565134e Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c
	drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
2008-10-08 14:56:41 -07:00
Ali Saidi 53240c2087 tcp: Fix possible double-ack w/ user dma
From: Ali Saidi <saidi@engin.umich.edu>

When TCP receive copy offload is enabled it's possible that
tcp_rcv_established() will cause two acks to be sent for a single
packet. In the case that a tcp_dma_early_copy() is successful,
copied_early is set to true which causes tcp_cleanup_rbuf() to be
called early which can send an ack. Further along in
tcp_rcv_established(), __tcp_ack_snd_check() is called and will
schedule a delayed ACK. If no packets are processed before the delayed
ack timer expires the packet will be acked twice.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-07 15:31:19 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 4a7e56098f tcp: cleanup messy initializer
I'm quite sure that if I give this function in its old format
for you to inspect, you start to wonder what is the type of
demanded or if it's a global variable.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-07 14:43:31 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 33f5f57eeb tcp: kill pointless urg_mode
It all started from me noticing that this urgent check in
tcp_clean_rtx_queue is unnecessarily inside the loop. Then
I took a longer look to it and found out that the users of
urg_mode can trivially do without, well almost, there was
one gotcha.

Bonus: those funny people who use urg with >= 2^31 write_seq -
snd_una could now rejoice too (that's the only purpose for the
between being there, otherwise a simple compare would have done
the thing). Not that I assume that the rest of the tcp code
happily lives with such mind-boggling numbers :-). Alas, it
turned out to be impossible to set wmem to such numbers anyway,
yes I really tried a big sendfile after setting some wmem but
nothing happened :-). ...Tcp_wmem is int and so is sk_sndbuf...
So I hacked a bit variable to long and found out that it seems
to work... :-)

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-07 14:43:06 -07:00
David S. Miller 28e3487b7d tcp: Fix queue traversal in tcp_use_frto().
We must check tcp_skb_is_last() before doing a tcp_write_queue_next().

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-23 02:51:41 -07:00
David S. Miller 43f59c8939 net: Remove __skb_insert() calls outside of skbuff internals.
This minor cleanup simplifies later changes which will convert
struct sk_buff and friends over to using struct list_head.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-21 21:28:51 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 90638a04ad tcp: don't clear lost_skb_hint when not necessary
Most importantly avoid doing it with cumulative ACK. However,
since we have lost_cnt_hint in the picture as well needing
adjustments, it's not as trivial as dealing with
retransmit_skb_hint (and cannot be done in the all place we
could trivially leave retransmit_skb_hint untouched).

With the previous patch, this should mostly remove O(n^2)
behavior while cumulative ACKs start flowing once rexmit
after a lossy round-trip made it through.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-20 21:25:52 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen ef9da47c7c tcp: don't clear retransmit_skb_hint when not necessary
Most importantly avoid doing it with cumulative ACK. Not clearing
means that we no longer need n^2 processing in resolution of each
fast recovery.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-20 21:25:15 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 184d68b2b0 tcp: No need to clear retransmit_skb_hint when SACKing
Because lost counter no longer requires tuning, this is
trivial to remove (the tuning wouldn't have been too
hard either) because no "new" retransmittable skb appeared
below retransmit_skb_hint when SACKing for sure.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-20 21:21:16 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen f09142eddb tcp: Kill precaution that's very likely obsolete
I suspect it might have been related to the changed amount
of lost skbs, which was counted by retransmit_cnt_hint that
got changed.

The place for this clearing was very illogical anyway,
it should have been after the LOST-bit clearing loop to
make any sense.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-20 21:20:50 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 006f582c73 tcp: convert retransmit_cnt_hint to seqno
Main benefit in this is that we can then freely point
the retransmit_skb_hint to anywhere we want to because
there's no longer need to know what would be the count
changes involve, and since this is really used only as a
terminator, unnecessary work is one time walk at most,
and if some retransmissions are necessary after that
point later on, the walk is not full waste of time
anyway.

Since retransmit_high must be kept valid, all lost
markers must ensure that.

Now I also have learned how those "holes" in the
rexmittable skbs can appear, mtu probe does them. So
I removed the misleading comment as well.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-20 21:20:20 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 41ea36e35a tcp: add helper for lost bit toggling
This useful because we'd need to verifying soon in many places
which makes things slightly more complex than it used to be.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-20 21:19:22 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen c8c213f20c tcp: move tcp_verify_retransmit_hint
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-20 21:18:55 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 64edc2736e tcp: Partial hint clearing has again become meaningless
Ie., the difference between partial and all clearing doesn't
exists anymore since the SACK optimizations got dropped by
an sacktag rewrite.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-20 21:18:32 -07:00
Gerrit Renker 410e27a49b This reverts "Merge branch 'dccp' of git://eden-feed.erg.abdn.ac.uk/dccp_exp"
as it accentally contained the wrong set of patches. These will be
submitted separately.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-09 13:27:22 +02:00
David S. Miller 0a68a20cc3 Merge branch 'dccp' of git://eden-feed.erg.abdn.ac.uk/dccp_exp
Conflicts:

	net/dccp/input.c
	net/dccp/options.c
2008-09-08 17:28:59 -07:00
Gerrit Renker 6224877b2c tcp/dccp: Consolidate common code for RFC 3390 conversion
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>
2008-09-04 07:45:39 +02:00
Ilpo Järvinen a4356b2920 tcp: Add tcp_parse_aligned_timestamp
Some duplicated code lying around. Located with my suffix tree
tool.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-08-23 05:12:29 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 2cf46637b5 tcp: Add tcp_collapse_one to eliminate duplicated code
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-08-23 05:11:41 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen cbe2d128a0 tcp: Add tcp_validate_incoming & put duplicated code there
Large block of code duplication removed.

Sadly, the return value thing is a bit tricky here but it
seems the most sensible way to return positive from validator
on success rather than negative.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-08-23 05:10:12 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 547b792cac net: convert BUG_TRAP to generic WARN_ON
Removes legacy reinvent-the-wheel type thing. The generic
machinery integrates much better to automated debugging aids
such as kerneloops.org (and others), and is unambiguous due to
better naming. Non-intuively BUG_TRAP() is actually equal to
WARN_ON() rather than BUG_ON() though some might actually be
promoted to BUG_ON() but I left that to future.

I could make at least one BUILD_BUG_ON conversion.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-25 21:43:18 -07:00
David S. Miller 4b53fb67e3 tcp: Clear probes_out more aggressively in tcp_ack().
This is based upon an excellent bug report from Eric Dumazet.

tcp_ack() should clear ->icsk_probes_out even if there are packets
outstanding.  Otherwise if we get a sequence of ACKs while we do have
packets outstanding over and over again, we'll never clear the
probes_out value and eventually think the connection is too sick and
we'll reset it.

This appears to be some "optimization" added to tcp_ack() in the 2.4.x
timeframe.  In 2.2.x, probes_out is pretty much always cleared by
tcp_ack().

Here is Eric's original report:

----------------------------------------
Apparently, we can in some situations reset TCP connections in a couple of seconds when some frames are lost.

In order to reproduce the problem, please try the following program on linux-2.6.25.*

Setup some iptables rules to allow two frames per second sent on loopback interface to tcp destination port 12000

iptables -N SLOWLO
iptables -A SLOWLO -m hashlimit --hashlimit 2 --hashlimit-burst 1 --hashlimit-mode dstip --hashlimit-name slow2 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A SLOWLO -j DROP

iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -p tcp --dport 12000 -j SLOWLO

Then run the attached program and see the output :

# ./loop
State      Recv-Q Send-Q                                  Local Address:Port                                    Peer Address:Port
ESTAB      0      40                                          127.0.0.1:54455                                      127.0.0.1:12000  timer:(persist,200ms,1)
State      Recv-Q Send-Q                                  Local Address:Port                                    Peer Address:Port
ESTAB      0      40                                          127.0.0.1:54455                                      127.0.0.1:12000  timer:(persist,200ms,3)
State      Recv-Q Send-Q                                  Local Address:Port                                    Peer Address:Port
ESTAB      0      40                                          127.0.0.1:54455                                      127.0.0.1:12000  timer:(persist,200ms,5)
State      Recv-Q Send-Q                                  Local Address:Port                                    Peer Address:Port
ESTAB      0      40                                          127.0.0.1:54455                                      127.0.0.1:12000  timer:(persist,200ms,7)
State      Recv-Q Send-Q                                  Local Address:Port                                    Peer Address:Port
ESTAB      0      40                                          127.0.0.1:54455                                      127.0.0.1:12000  timer:(persist,200ms,9)
State      Recv-Q Send-Q                                  Local Address:Port                                    Peer Address:Port
ESTAB      0      40                                          127.0.0.1:54455                                      127.0.0.1:12000  timer:(persist,200ms,11)
State      Recv-Q Send-Q                                  Local Address:Port                                    Peer Address:Port
ESTAB      0      40                                          127.0.0.1:54455                                      127.0.0.1:12000  timer:(persist,201ms,13)
State      Recv-Q Send-Q                                  Local Address:Port                                    Peer Address:Port
ESTAB      0      40                                          127.0.0.1:54455                                      127.0.0.1:12000  timer:(persist,188ms,15)
write(): Connection timed out
wrote 890 bytes but was interrupted after 9 seconds
ESTAB      0      0                 127.0.0.1:12000            127.0.0.1:54455
Exiting read() because no data available (4000 ms timeout).
read 860 bytes

While this tcp session makes progress (sending frames with 50 bytes of payload, every 500ms), linux tcp stack decides to reset it, when tcp_retries 2 is reached (default value : 15)

tcpdump :

15:30:28.856695 IP 127.0.0.1.56554 > 127.0.0.1.12000: S 33788768:33788768(0) win 32792 <mss 16396,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 7>
15:30:28.856711 IP 127.0.0.1.12000 > 127.0.0.1.56554: S 33899253:33899253(0) ack 33788769 win 32792 <mss 16396,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 7>
15:30:29.356947 IP 127.0.0.1.56554 > 127.0.0.1.12000: P 1:61(60) ack 1 win 257
15:30:29.356966 IP 127.0.0.1.12000 > 127.0.0.1.56554: . ack 61 win 257
15:30:29.866415 IP 127.0.0.1.56554 > 127.0.0.1.12000: P 61:111(50) ack 1 win 257
15:30:29.866427 IP 127.0.0.1.12000 > 127.0.0.1.56554: . ack 111 win 257
15:30:30.366516 IP 127.0.0.1.56554 > 127.0.0.1.12000: P 111:161(50) ack 1 win 257
15:30:30.366527 IP 127.0.0.1.12000 > 127.0.0.1.56554: . ack 161 win 257
15:30:30.876196 IP 127.0.0.1.56554 > 127.0.0.1.12000: P 161:211(50) ack 1 win 257
15:30:30.876207 IP 127.0.0.1.12000 > 127.0.0.1.56554: . ack 211 win 257
15:30:31.376282 IP 127.0.0.1.56554 > 127.0.0.1.12000: P 211:261(50) ack 1 win 257
15:30:31.376290 IP 127.0.0.1.12000 > 127.0.0.1.56554: . ack 261 win 257
15:30:31.885619 IP 127.0.0.1.56554 > 127.0.0.1.12000: P 261:311(50) ack 1 win 257
15:30:31.885631 IP 127.0.0.1.12000 > 127.0.0.1.56554: . ack 311 win 257
15:30:32.385705 IP 127.0.0.1.56554 > 127.0.0.1.12000: P 311:361(50) ack 1 win 257
15:30:32.385715 IP 127.0.0.1.12000 > 127.0.0.1.56554: . ack 361 win 257
15:30:32.895249 IP 127.0.0.1.56554 > 127.0.0.1.12000: P 361:411(50) ack 1 win 257
15:30:32.895266 IP 127.0.0.1.12000 > 127.0.0.1.56554: . ack 411 win 257
15:30:33.395341 IP 127.0.0.1.56554 > 127.0.0.1.12000: P 411:461(50) ack 1 win 257
15:30:33.395351 IP 127.0.0.1.12000 > 127.0.0.1.56554: . ack 461 win 257
15:30:33.918085 IP 127.0.0.1.56554 > 127.0.0.1.12000: P 461:511(50) ack 1 win 257
15:30:33.918096 IP 127.0.0.1.12000 > 127.0.0.1.56554: . ack 511 win 257
15:30:34.418163 IP 127.0.0.1.56554 > 127.0.0.1.12000: P 511:561(50) ack 1 win 257
15:30:34.418172 IP 127.0.0.1.12000 > 127.0.0.1.56554: . ack 561 win 257
15:30:34.927685 IP 127.0.0.1.56554 > 127.0.0.1.12000: P 561:611(50) ack 1 win 257
15:30:34.927698 IP 127.0.0.1.12000 > 127.0.0.1.56554: . ack 611 win 257
15:30:35.427757 IP 127.0.0.1.56554 > 127.0.0.1.12000: P 611:661(50) ack 1 win 257
15:30:35.427766 IP 127.0.0.1.12000 > 127.0.0.1.56554: . ack 661 win 257
15:30:35.937359 IP 127.0.0.1.56554 > 127.0.0.1.12000: P 661:711(50) ack 1 win 257
15:30:35.937376 IP 127.0.0.1.12000 > 127.0.0.1.56554: . ack 711 win 257
15:30:36.437451 IP 127.0.0.1.56554 > 127.0.0.1.12000: P 711:761(50) ack 1 win 257
15:30:36.437464 IP 127.0.0.1.12000 > 127.0.0.1.56554: . ack 761 win 257
15:30:36.947022 IP 127.0.0.1.56554 > 127.0.0.1.12000: P 761:811(50) ack 1 win 257
15:30:36.947039 IP 127.0.0.1.12000 > 127.0.0.1.56554: . ack 811 win 257
15:30:37.447135 IP 127.0.0.1.56554 > 127.0.0.1.12000: P 811:861(50) ack 1 win 257
15:30:37.447203 IP 127.0.0.1.12000 > 127.0.0.1.56554: . ack 861 win 257
15:30:41.448171 IP 127.0.0.1.12000 > 127.0.0.1.56554: F 1:1(0) ack 861 win 257
15:30:41.448189 IP 127.0.0.1.56554 > 127.0.0.1.12000: R 33789629:33789629(0) win 0

Source of program :

/*
 * small producer/consumer program.
 * setup a listener on 127.0.0.1:12000
 * Forks a child
 *   child connect to 127.0.0.1, and sends 10 bytes on this tcp socket every 100 ms
 * Father accepts connection, and read all data
 */
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <sys/poll.h>

int port = 12000;
char buffer[4096];
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        int lfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
        struct sockaddr_in socket_address;
        time_t t0, t1;
        int on = 1, sfd, res;
        unsigned long total = 0;
        socklen_t alen = sizeof(socket_address);
        pid_t pid;

        time(&t0);
        socket_address.sin_family = AF_INET;
        socket_address.sin_port = htons(port);
        socket_address.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK);

        if (lfd == -1) {
                perror("socket()");
                return 1;
        }
        setsockopt(lfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, &on, sizeof(int));
        if (bind(lfd, (struct sockaddr *)&socket_address, sizeof(socket_address)) == -1) {
                perror("bind");
                close(lfd);
                return 1;
        }
        if (listen(lfd, 1) == -1) {
                perror("listen()");
                close(lfd);
                return 1;
        }
        pid = fork();
        if (pid == 0) {
                int i, cfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
                close(lfd);
                if (connect(cfd, (struct sockaddr *)&socket_address, sizeof(socket_address)) == -1) {
                        perror("connect()");
                        return 1;
                        }
                for (i = 0 ; ;) {
                        res = write(cfd, "blablabla\n", 10);
                        if (res > 0) total += res;
                        else if (res == -1) {
                                perror("write()");
                                break;
                        } else break;
                        usleep(100000);
                        if (++i == 10) {
                                system("ss -on dst 127.0.0.1:12000");
                                i = 0;
                        }
                }
                time(&t1);
                fprintf(stderr, "wrote %lu bytes but was interrupted after %g seconds\n", total, difftime(t1, t0));
                system("ss -on | grep 127.0.0.1:12000");
                close(cfd);
                return 0;
        }
        sfd = accept(lfd, (struct sockaddr *)&socket_address, &alen);
        if (sfd == -1) {
                perror("accept");
                return 1;
        }
        close(lfd);
        while (1) {
                struct pollfd pfd[1];
                pfd[0].fd = sfd;
                pfd[0].events = POLLIN;
                if (poll(pfd, 1, 4000) == 0) {
                        fprintf(stderr, "Exiting read() because no data available (4000 ms timeout).\n");
                        break;
                }
                res = read(sfd, buffer, sizeof(buffer));
                if (res > 0) total += res;
                else if (res == 0) break;
                else perror("read()");
        }
        fprintf(stderr, "read %lu bytes\n", total);
        close(sfd);
        return 0;
}
----------------------------------------

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-23 16:38:45 -07:00
Adam Langley 4389dded77 tcp: Remove redundant checks when setting eff_sacks
Remove redundant checks when setting eff_sacks and make the number of SACKs a
compile time constant. Now that the options code knows how many SACK blocks can
fit in the header, we don't need to have the SACK code guessing at it.

Signed-off-by: Adam Langley <agl@imperialviolet.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-19 00:07:02 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger c1e20f7c8b tcp: RTT metrics scaling
Some of the metrics (RTT, RTTVAR and RTAX_RTO_MIN) are stored in
kernel units (jiffies) and this leaks out through the netlink API to
user space where the units for jiffies are unknown.

This patches changes the kernel to convert to/from milliseconds. This
changes the ABI, but milliseconds seemed like the most natural unit
for these parameters.  Values available via syscall in
/proc/net/rt_cache and netlink will be in milliseconds.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-18 23:02:15 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov de0744af1f mib: add net to NET_INC_STATS_BH
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-16 20:31:16 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov 1ed834655a tcp: replace tcp_sock argument with sock in some places
These places have a tcp_sock, but we'd prefer the sock itself to
get net from it. Fortunately, tcp_sk macro is just a type cast, so
this replace is really cheap.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-16 20:29:51 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov 63231bddf6 mib: add net to TCP_INC_STATS_BH
Same as before - the sock is always there to get the net from,
but there are also some places with the net already saved on 
the stack.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-16 20:22:25 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov 40b215e594 tcp: de-bloat a bit with factoring NET_INC_STATS_BH out
There are some places in TCP that select one MIB index to
bump snmp statistics like this:

	if (<something>)
		NET_INC_STATS_BH(<some_id>);
	else if (<something_else>)
		NET_INC_STATS_BH(<some_other_id>);
	...
	else
		NET_INC_STATS_BH(<default_id>);

or in a more tricky but still similar way.

On the other hand, this NET_INC_STATS_BH is a camouflaged
increment of percpu variable, which is not that small.

Factoring those cases out de-bloats 235 bytes on non-preemptible
i386 config and drives parts of the code into 80 columns.

add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/7 up/down: 0/-235 (-235)
function                                     old     new   delta
tcp_fastretrans_alert                       1437    1424     -13
tcp_dsack_set                                137     124     -13
tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue                    690     676     -14
tcp_try_undo_recovery                        283     265     -18
tcp_sacktag_write_queue                     1550    1515     -35
tcp_update_reordering                        162     106     -56
tcp_retransmit_timer                         990     904     -86

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-03 01:05:41 -07:00
David S. Miller 4ae127d1b6 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/smc911x.c
2008-06-13 20:52:39 -07:00
David S. Miller ec0a196626 tcp: Revert 'process defer accept as established' changes.
This reverts two changesets, ec3c0982a2
("[TCP]: TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT updates - process as established") and
the follow-on bug fix 9ae27e0adb
("tcp: Fix slab corruption with ipv6 and tcp6fuzz").

This change causes several problems, first reported by Ingo Molnar
as a distcc-over-loopback regression where connections were getting
stuck.

Ilpo Järvinen first spotted the locking problems.  The new function
added by this code, tcp_defer_accept_check(), only has the
child socket locked, yet it is modifying state of the parent
listening socket.

Fixing that is non-trivial at best, because we can't simply just grab
the parent listening socket lock at this point, because it would
create an ABBA deadlock.  The normal ordering is parent listening
socket --> child socket, but this code path would require the
reverse lock ordering.

Next is a problem noticed by Vitaliy Gusev, he noted:

----------------------------------------
>--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
>+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
>@@ -481,6 +481,11 @@ static void tcp_keepalive_timer (unsigned long data)
> 		goto death;
> 	}
>
>+	if (tp->defer_tcp_accept.request && sk->sk_state == TCP_ESTABLISHED) {
>+		tcp_send_active_reset(sk, GFP_ATOMIC);
>+		goto death;

Here socket sk is not attached to listening socket's request queue. tcp_done()
will not call inet_csk_destroy_sock() (and tcp_v4_destroy_sock() which should
release this sk) as socket is not DEAD. Therefore socket sk will be lost for
freeing.
----------------------------------------

Finally, Alexey Kuznetsov argues that there might not even be any
real value or advantage to these new semantics even if we fix all
of the bugs:

----------------------------------------
Hiding from accept() sockets with only out-of-order data only
is the only thing which is impossible with old approach. Is this really
so valuable? My opinion: no, this is nothing but a new loophole
to consume memory without control.
----------------------------------------

So revert this thing for now.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-12 16:34:35 -07:00
David S. Miller e6e30add6b Merge branch 'net-next-2.6-misc-20080612a' of git://git.linux-ipv6.org/gitroot/yoshfuji/linux-2.6-next 2008-06-11 22:33:59 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 0b04082995 net: remove CVS keywords
This patch removes CVS keywords that weren't updated for a long time
from comments.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-11 21:00:38 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 7d5d5525bd tcp md5sig: Share MD5 Signature option parser between IPv4 and IPv6.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-06-12 02:38:18 +09:00
Ilpo Järvinen a6604471db tcp: fix skb vs fack_count out-of-sync condition
This bug is able to corrupt fackets_out in very rare cases.
In order for this to cause corruption:
  1) DSACK in the middle of previous SACK block must be generated.
  2) In order to take that particular branch, part or all of the
     DSACKed segment must already be SACKed so that we have that
     in cache in the first place.
  3) The new info must be top enough so that fackets_out will be
     updated on this iteration.
...then fack_count is updated while skb wasn't, then we walk again
that particular segment thus updating fack_count twice for
a single skb and finally that value is assigned to fackets_out
by tcp_sacktag_one.

It is safe to call tcp_sacktag_one just once for a segment (at
DSACK), no need to call again for plain SACK.

Potential problem of the miscount are limited to premature entry
to recovery and to inflated reordering metric (which could even
cancel each other out in the most the luckiest scenarios :-)).
Both are quite insignificant in worst case too and there exists
also code to reset them (fackets_out once sacked_out becomes zero
and reordering metric on RTO).

This has been reported by a number of people, because it occurred
quite rarely, it has been very evasive. Andy Furniss was able to
get it to occur couple of times so that a bit more info was
collected about the problem using a debug patch, though it still
required lot of checking around. Thanks also to others who have
tried to help here.

This is listed as Bugzilla #10346. The bug was introduced by
me in commit 68f8353b48 ([TCP]: Rewrite SACK block processing & 
sack_recv_cache use), I probably thought back then that there's
need to scan that entry twice or didn't dare to make it go
through it just once there. Going through twice would have
required restoring fack_count after the walk but as noted above,
I chose to drop the additional walk step altogether here.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-04 12:07:44 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 8aca6cb117 tcp: Fix inconsistency source (CA_Open only when !tcp_left_out(tp))
It is possible that this skip path causes TCP to end up into an
invalid state where ca_state was left to CA_Open while some
segments already came into sacked_out. If next valid ACK doesn't
contain new SACK information TCP fails to enter into
tcp_fastretrans_alert(). Thus at least high_seq is set
incorrectly to a too high seqno because some new data segments
could be sent in between (and also, limited transmit is not
being correctly invoked there). Reordering in both directions
can easily cause this situation to occur.

I guess we would want to use tcp_moderate_cwnd(tp) there as well
as it may be possible to use this to trigger oversized burst to
network by sending an old ACK with huge amount of SACK info, but
I'm a bit unsure about its effects (mainly to FlightSize), so to
be on the safe side I just currently fixed it minimally to keep
TCP's state consistent (obviously, such nasty ACKs have been
possible this far). Though it seems that FlightSize is already
underestimated by some amount, so probably on the long term we
might want to trigger recovery there too, if appropriate, to make
FlightSize calculation to resemble reality at the time when the
losses where discovered (but such change scares me too much now
and requires some more thinking anyway how to do that as it
likely involves some code shuffling).

This bug was found by Brian Vowell while running my TCP debug
patch to find cause of another TCP issue (fackets_out
miscount).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-04 11:34:22 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 79d44516b4 tcp FRTO: work-around inorder receivers
If receiver consumes segments successfully only in-order, FRTO
fallback to conventional recovery produces RTO loop because
FRTO's forward transmissions will always get dropped and need to
be resent, yet by default they're not marked as lost (which are
the only segments we will retransmit in CA_Loss).

Price to pay about this is occassionally unnecessarily
retransmitting the forward transmission(s). SACK blocks help
a bit to avoid this, so it's mainly a concern for NewReno case
though SACK is not fully immune either.

This change has a side-effect of fixing SACKFRTO problem where
it didn't have snd_nxt of the RTO time available anymore when
fallback become necessary (this problem would have only occured
when RTO would occur for two or more segments and ECE arrives
in step 3; no need to figure out how to fix that unless the
TODO item of selective behavior is considered in future).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Reported-by: Damon L. Chesser <damon@damtek.com>
Tested-by: Damon L. Chesser <damon@damtek.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-13 02:54:19 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen a1c1f281b8 tcp FRTO: Fix fallback to conventional recovery
It seems that commit 009a2e3e4e ("[TCP] FRTO: Improve
interoperability with other undo_marker users") run into
another land-mine which caused fallback to conventional
recovery to break:

1. Cumulative ACK arrives after FRTO retransmission
2. tcp_try_to_open sees zero retrans_out, clears retrans_stamp
   which should be kept like in CA_Loss state it would be
3. undo_marker change allowed tcp_packet_delayed to return
   true because of the cleared retrans_stamp once FRTO is
   terminated causing LossUndo to occur, which means all loss
   markings FRTO made are reverted.

This means that the conventional recovery basically recovered
one loss per RTT, which is not that efficient. It was quite
unobvious that the undo_marker change broken something like
this, I had a quite long session to track it down because of
the non-intuitiviness of the bug (luckily I had a trivial
reproducer at hand and I was also able to learn to use kprobes
in the process as well :-)).

This together with the NewReno+FRTO fix and FRTO in-order
workaround this fixes Damon's problems, this and the first
mentioned are enough to fix Bugzilla #10063.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Reported-by: Damon L. Chesser <damon@damtek.com>
Tested-by: Damon L. Chesser <damon@damtek.com>
Tested-by: Sebastian Hyrwall <zibbe@cisko.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-13 02:53:26 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 62ab222783 tcp FRTO: SACK variant is errorneously used with NewReno
Note: there's actually another bug in FRTO's SACK variant, which
is the causing failure in NewReno case because of the error
that's fixed here. I'll fix the SACK case separately (it's
a separate bug really, though related, but in order to fix that
I need to audit tp->snd_nxt usage a bit).

There were two places where SACK variant of FRTO is getting
incorrectly used even if SACK wasn't negotiated by the TCP flow.
This leads to incorrect setting of frto_highmark with NewReno
if a previous recovery was interrupted by another RTO.

An eventual fallback to conventional recovery then incorrectly
considers one or couple of segments as forward transmissions
though they weren't, which then are not LOST marked during
fallback making them "non-retransmittable" until the next RTO.
In a bad case, those segments are really lost and are the only
one left in the window. Thus TCP needs another RTO to continue.
The next FRTO, however, could again repeat the same events
making the progress of the TCP flow extremely slow.

In order for these events to occur at all, FRTO must occur
again in FRTOs step 3 while the key segments must be lost as
well, which is not too likely in practice. It seems to most
frequently with some small devices such as network printers
that *seem* to accept TCP segments only in-order. In cases
were key segments weren't lost, things get automatically
resolved because those wrongly marked segments don't need to be
retransmitted in order to continue.

I found a reproducer after digging up relevant reports (few
reports in total, none at netdev or lkml I know of), some
cases seemed to indicate middlebox issues which seems now
to be a false assumption some people had made. Bugzilla
#10063 _might_ be related. Damon L. Chesser <damon@damtek.com>
had a reproducable case and was kind enough to tcpdump it
for me. With the tcpdump log it was quite trivial to figure
out.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-08 01:09:11 -07:00
Satoru SATOH 5ffc02a158 ip: Use inline function dst_metric() instead of direct access to dst->metric[]
There are functions to refer to the value of dst->metric[THE_METRIC-1]
directly without use of a inline function "dst_metric" defined in
net/dst.h.

The following patch changes them to use the inline function
consistently.

Signed-off-by: Satoru SATOH <satoru.satoh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-04 22:14:42 -07:00
Harvey Harrison d3e2ce3bcd net: use get/put_unaligned_* helpers
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-02 16:26:16 -07:00
Evgeniy Polyakov 9ae27e0adb tcp: Fix slab corruption with ipv6 and tcp6fuzz
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>

This fixes a regression added by ec3c0982a2
("[TCP]: TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT updates - process as established")

tcp_v6_do_rcv()->tcp_rcv_established(), the latter goes to step5, where
eventually skb can be freed via tcp_data_queue() (drop: label), then if
check for tcp_defer_accept_check() returns true and thus
tcp_rcv_established() returns -1, which forces tcp_v6_do_rcv() to jump
to reset: label, which in turn will pass through discard: label and free
the same skb again.

Tested by Eric Sesterhenn.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-By: Patrick McManus <mcmanus@ducksong.com>
2008-04-27 15:27:30 -07:00
Arnd Hannemann d7ee147d4f tcp: Make use of before macro in tcp_input.c
Make use of tcp before macro.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Hannemann <hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-21 14:46:22 -07:00
David S. Miller 1e42198609 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2008-04-17 23:56:30 -07:00
Vitaliy Gusev 56f367bbfd [TCP]: Add return value indication to tcp_prune_ofo_queue().
Returns non-zero if tp->out_of_order_queue was seen non-empty.
This allows tcp_try_rmem_schedule() to return early.

Signed-off-by: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-15 20:26:34 -07:00
Vitaliy Gusev b000cd3707 [TCP]: Fix never pruned tcp out-of-order queue.
tcp_prune_queue() doesn't prune an out-of-order queue at all.
Therefore sk_rmem_schedule() can fail but the out-of-order queue isn't
pruned . This can lead to tcp deadlock state if the next two
conditions are held:

1. There are a sequence hole between last received in
   order segment and segments enqueued to the out-of-order queue.

2. Size of all segments in the out-of-order queue is more than tcp_mem[2].

Signed-off-by: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-15 00:33:38 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 569508c964 [TCP]: Format addresses appropriately in debug messages.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-14 04:09:36 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki a7d632b6b4 [IPV4]: Use NIPQUAD_FMT to format ipv4 addresses.
And use %u to format port.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-14 04:09:00 -07:00
David S. Miller df39e8ba56 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/Kconfig
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c
	net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c
	net/ipv6/raw.c
	net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c
2008-04-14 02:30:23 -07:00
Gerrit Renker 7de6c03336 [SKB]: __skb_append = __skb_queue_after
This expresses __skb_append in terms of __skb_queue_after, exploiting that

  __skb_append(old, new, list) = __skb_queue_after(list, old, new).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-14 00:05:09 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 6adb4f733e [TCP]: Don't allow FRTO to take place while MTU is being probed
MTU probe can cause some remedies for FRTO because the normal
packet ordering may be violated allowing FRTO to make a wrong
decision (it might not be that serious threat for anything
though). Thus it's safer to not run FRTO while MTU probe is
underway.

It seems that the basic FRTO variant should also look for an
skb at probe_seq.start to check if that's retransmitted one
but I didn't implement it now (plain seqno in window check
isn't robust against wraparounds).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-07 22:33:57 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 882bebaaca [TCP]: tcp_simple_retransmit can cause S+L
This fixes Bugzilla #10384

tcp_simple_retransmit does L increment without any checking
whatsoever for overflowing S+L when Reno is in use.

The simplest scenario I can currently think of is rather
complex in practice (there might be some more straightforward
cases though). Ie., if mss is reduced during mtu probing, it
may end up marking everything lost and if some duplicate ACKs
arrived prior to that sacked_out will be non-zero as well,
leading to S+L > packets_out, tcp_clean_rtx_queue on the next
cumulative ACK or tcp_fastretrans_alert on the next duplicate
ACK will fix the S counter.

More straightforward (but questionable) solution would be to
just call tcp_reset_reno_sack() in tcp_simple_retransmit but
it would negatively impact the probe's retransmission, ie.,
the retransmissions would not occur if some duplicate ACKs
had arrived.

So I had to add reno sacked_out reseting to CA_Loss state
when the first cumulative ACK arrives (this stale sacked_out
might actually be the explanation for the reports of left_out
overflows in kernel prior to 2.6.23 and S+L overflow reports
of 2.6.24). However, this alone won't be enough to fix kernel
before 2.6.24 because it is building on top of the commit
1b6d427bb7 ([TCP]: Reduce sacked_out with reno when purging
write_queue) to keep the sacked_out from overflowing.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Reported-by: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-07 22:33:07 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen c137f3dda0 [TCP]: Fix NewReno's fast rexmit/recovery problems with GSOed skb
Fixes a long-standing bug which makes NewReno recovery crippled.
With GSO the whole head skb was marked as LOST which is in
violation of NewReno procedure that only wants to mark one packet
and ended up breaking our TCP code by causing counter overflow
because our code was built on top of assumption about valid
NewReno procedure. This manifested as triggering a WARN_ON for
the overflow in a number of places.

It seems relatively safe alternative to just do nothing if
tcp_fragment fails due to oom because another duplicate ACK is
likely to be received soon and the fragmentation will be retried.

Special thanks goes to Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de> who was
lucky enough to be able to reproduce this so that the warning
for the overflow was hit. It's not as easy task as it seems even
if this bug happens quite often because the amount of outstanding
data is pretty significant for the mismarkings to lead to an
overflow.

Because it's very late in 2.6.25-rc cycle (if this even makes in
time), I didn't want to touch anything with SACK enabled here.
Fragmenting might be useful for it as well but it's more or less
a policy decision rather than mandatory fix. Thus there's no need
to rush and we can postpone considering tcp_fragment with SACK
for 2.6.26.

In 2.6.24 and earlier, this very same bug existed but the effect
is slightly different because of a small changes in the if
conditions that fit to the patch's context. With them nothing
got lost marker and thus no retransmissions happened.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-07 22:32:38 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 1b69d74539 [TCP]: Restore 2.6.24 mark_head_lost behavior for newreno/fack
The fast retransmission can be forced locally to the rfc3517
branch in tcp_update_scoreboard instead of making such fragile
constructs deeper in tcp_mark_head_lost.

This is necessary for the next patch which must not have
loopholes for cnt > packets check. As one can notice,
readability got some improvements too because of this :-).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-07 22:31:38 -07:00
Patrick McManus ec3c0982a2 [TCP]: TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT updates - process as established
Change TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT implementation so that it transitions a
connection to ESTABLISHED after handshake is complete instead of
leaving it in SYN-RECV until some data arrvies. Place connection in
accept queue when first data packet arrives from slow path.

Benefits:
  - established connection is now reset if it never makes it
   to the accept queue

 - diagnostic state of established matches with the packet traces
   showing completed handshake

 - TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT timeouts are expressed in seconds and can now be
   enforced with reasonable accuracy instead of rounding up to next
   exponential back-off of syn-ack retry.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McManus <mcmanus@ducksong.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-21 16:33:01 -07:00
Harvey Harrison 0dc47877a3 net: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-05 20:47:47 -08:00
David S. Miller 255333c1db Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c
2008-03-05 12:26:41 -08:00
Glenn Griffin c6aefafb7e [TCP]: Add IPv6 support to TCP SYN cookies
Updated to incorporate Eric's suggestion of using a per cpu buffer
rather than allocating on the stack.  Just a two line change, but will
resend in it's entirety.

Signed-off-by: Glenn Griffin <ggriffin.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-04 15:18:21 +09:00
Ilpo Järvinen d152a7d88a [TCP]: Must count fack_count also when skipping
It makes fackets_out to grow too slowly compared with the
real write queue.

This shouldn't cause those BUG_TRAP(packets <= tp->packets_out)
to trigger but how knows how such inconsistent fackets_out
affects here and there around TCP when everything is nowadays
assuming accurate fackets_out. So lets see if this silences
them all.

Reported by Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@gmail.com>.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-03 12:10:16 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen ad1984e844 [TCP]: NewReno must count every skb while marking losses
NewReno should add cnt per skb (as with FACK) instead of depending on
SACKED_ACKED bits which won't be set with it at all.  Effectively,
NewReno should always exists after the first iteration anyway (or
immediately if there's already head in lost_out.

This was fixed earlier in net-2.6.25 but got reverted among other
stuff and I didn't notice that this is still necessary (actually
wasn't even considering this case while trying to figure out the
reports because I lived with different kind of code than it in reality
was).

This should solve the WARN_ONs in TCP code that as a result of this
triggered multiple times in every place we check for this invariant.

Special thanks to Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> and Krishna
Kumar2 <krkumar2@in.ibm.com> for trying with my debug patches.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Tested-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-31 19:27:22 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen f038ac8f9b [TCP]: cleanup tcp_parse_options deep indented switch
Removed case indentation level & combined some nested ifs, mostly
within 80 lines now. This is a leftover from indent patch, it
just had to be done manually to avoid messing it up completely.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:33 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 056834d9f6 [TCP]: cleanup tcp_{in,out}put.c style
These were manually selected from indent's results which as is
are too noisy to be of any use without human reason. In addition,
some extra newlines between function and its comment were removed
too.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:25 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 4828e7f49a [TCP]: Remove TCPCB_URG & TCPCB_AT_TAIL as unnecessary
The snd_up check should be enough. I suspect this has been
there to provide a minor optimization in clean_rtx_queue which
used to have a small if (!->sacked) block which could skip
snd_up check among the other work.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:23 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen cadbd0313b [TCP]: Dropped unnecessary skb/sacked accessing in reneging
SACK reneging can be precalculated to a FLAG in clean_rtx_queue
which has the right skb looked up. This will help a bit in
future because skb->sacked access will be changed eventually,
changing it already won't hurt any.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:23 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 90840defab [TCP]: Introduce tcp_wnd_end() to reduce line lengths
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:22 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 3ccd3130b3 [TCP]: Make invariant check complain about invalid sacked_out
Earlier resolution for NewReno's sacked_out should now keep
it small enough for this to become invariant-like check.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:20 -08:00
Hideo Aoki 3ab224be6d [NET] CORE: Introducing new memory accounting interface.
This patch introduces new memory accounting functions for each network
protocol. Most of them are renamed from memory accounting functions
for stream protocols. At the same time, some stream memory accounting
functions are removed since other functions do same thing.

Renaming:
	sk_stream_free_skb()		->	sk_wmem_free_skb()
	__sk_stream_mem_reclaim()	->	__sk_mem_reclaim()
	sk_stream_mem_reclaim()		->	sk_mem_reclaim()
	sk_stream_mem_schedule 		->    	__sk_mem_schedule()
	sk_stream_pages()      		->	sk_mem_pages()
	sk_stream_rmem_schedule()	->	sk_rmem_schedule()
	sk_stream_wmem_schedule()	->	sk_wmem_schedule()
	sk_charge_skb()			->	sk_mem_charge()

Removeing
	sk_stream_rfree():	consolidates into sock_rfree()
	sk_stream_set_owner_r(): consolidates into skb_set_owner_r()
	sk_stream_mem_schedule()

The following functions are added.
    	sk_has_account(): check if the protocol supports accounting
	sk_mem_uncharge(): do the opposite of sk_mem_charge()

In addition, to achieve consolidation, updating sk_wmem_queued is
removed from sk_mem_charge().

Next, to consolidate memory accounting functions, this patch adds
memory accounting calls to network core functions. Moreover, present
memory accounting call is renamed to new accounting call.

Finally we replace present memory accounting calls with new interface
in TCP and SCTP.

Signed-off-by: Takahiro Yasui <tyasui@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:18 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen c776ee01bd [TCP]: Remove seq_rtt ptr from clean_rtx_queue args
While checking Gavin's patch I noticed that the returned seq_rtt
is not used by the caller.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:07 -08:00
Eric Dumazet dfd4f0ae2e [TCP]: Avoid two divides in __tcp_grow_window()
tcp_win_from_space() being signed, compiler might emit an integer divide
to compute tcp_win_from_space()/2 .

Using right shifts is OK here and less expensive.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:01 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 6859d49475 [TCP]: Abstract tp->highest_sack accessing & point to next skb
Pointing to the next skb is necessary to avoid referencing
already SACKed skbs which will soon be on a separate list.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:46 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 7201883599 [TCP]: Cleanup local variables of clean_rtx_queue
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:46 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen ea60658cde [TCP]: Add unlikely() to urgent handling in clean_rtx_queue
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:45 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 89d478f7f2 [TCP]: Remove duplicated code block from clean_rtx_queue
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:44 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen c3a05c6050 [TCP]: Cong.ctrl modules: remove unused good_ack from cong_avoid
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:41 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen ede9f3b186 [TCP]: Unite identical code from two seqno split blocks
Bogus seqno compares just mislead, the code is identical for
both sides of the seqno compare (and was even executed just
once because of return in between).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:41 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 407ef1de03 [TCP]: Remove superflucious FLAG_DATA_SACKED
To get there, highest_sack must have advanced. When it advances,
a new skb is SACKed, which already sets that FLAG. Besides, the
original purpose of it has puzzled me, never understood why
LOST bit setting of retransmitted skb is marked with
FLAG_DATA_SACKED.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:40 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen bce392f3b0 [TCP]: Move LOSTRETRANS MIB outside !(L|S) check
Usually those skbs will have L set, not counting them as lost
retransmissions is misleading.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:39 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen ea4f76ae13 [TCP]: Two fixes to new sacktag code
1) Skip condition used to be wrong way around which made SACK
processing very broken, missed many blocks because of that.

2) Use highest_sack advancement only if some skbs are already
sacked because otherwise tcp_write_queue_next may move things
too far (occurs mainly with GSO). The other similar advancement
is not problem because highest_sack was previosly put to point
a sacked skb.

These problems were located because of problem report from Matt
Mathis <mathis@psc.edu>.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:10 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov 8d8ad9d7c4 [NET]: Name magic constants in sock_wake_async()
The sock_wake_async() performs a bit different actions
depending on "how" argument. Unfortunately this argument
ony has numerical magic values.

I propose to give names to their constants to help people
reading this function callers understand what's going on
without looking into this function all the time.

I suppose this is 2.6.25 material, but if it's not (or the
naming seems poor/bad/awful), I can rework it against the
current net-2.6 tree.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:03 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 20de20beba [TCP]: Correct DSACK check placing
Previously one of the in-block skip branches was missing it.

Also, drop it from tail-fully-processed case because the next
iteration will do exactly the same thing, i.e., process the
SACK block that contains the DSACK information.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:15 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 68f8353b48 [TCP]: Rewrite SACK block processing & sack_recv_cache use
Key points of this patch are:

  - In case new SACK information is advance only type, no skb
    processing below previously discovered highest point is done
  - Optimize cases below highest point too since there's no need
    to always go up to highest point (which is very likely still
    present in that SACK), this is not entirely true though
    because I'm dropping the fastpath_skb_hint which could
    previously optimize those cases even better. Whether that's
    significant, I'm not too sure.

Currently it will provide skipping by walking. Combined with
RB-tree, all skipping would become fast too regardless of window
size (can be done incrementally later).

Previously a number of cases in TCP SACK processing fails to
take advantage of costly stored information in sack_recv_cache,
most importantly, expected events such as cumulative ACK and new
hole ACKs. Processing on such ACKs result in rather long walks
building up latencies (which easily gets nasty when window is
huge). Those latencies are often completely unnecessary
compared with the amount of _new_ information received, usually
for cumulative ACK there's no new information at all, yet TCP
walks whole queue unnecessary potentially taking a number of
costly cache misses on the way, etc.!

Since the inclusion of highest_sack, there's a lot information
that is very likely redundant (SACK fastpath hint stuff,
fackets_out, highest_sack), though there's no ultimate guarantee
that they'll remain the same whole the time (in all unearthly
scenarios). Take advantage of this knowledge here and drop
fastpath hint and use direct access to highest SACKed skb as
a replacement.

Effectively "special cased" fastpath is dropped. This change
adds some complexity to introduce better coveraged "fastpath",
though the added complexity should make TCP behave more cache
friendly.

The current ACK's SACK blocks are compared against each cached
block individially and only ranges that are new are then scanned
by the high constant walk. For other parts of write queue, even
when in previously known part of the SACK blocks, a faster skip
function is used (if necessary at all). In addition, whenever
possible, TCP fast-forwards to highest_sack skb that was made
available by an earlier patch. In typical case, no other things
but this fast-forward and mandatory markings after that occur
making the access pattern quite similar to the former fastpath
"special case".

DSACKs are special case that must always be walked.

The local to recv_sack_cache copying could be more intelligent
w.r.t DSACKs which are likely to be there only once but that
is left to a separate patch.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:07 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen fd6dad616d [TCP]: Earlier SACK block verification & simplify access to them
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:07 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 9e10c47cb9 [TCP]: Create tcp_sacktag_one().
Worker function that implements the main logic of
the inner-most loop of tcp_sacktag_write_queue().

Idea was originally presented by David S. Miller.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:06 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen b7d4815f35 [TCP]: Prior_fackets can be replaced by highest_sack seq
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:05 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 9f58f3b721 [TCP]: Make lost retrans detection more self-contained
Highest_sack_end_seq is no longer calculated in the loop,
thus it can be pushed to the worker function altogether
making that function independent of the sacktag.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:04 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen a47e5a988a [TCP]: Convert highest_sack to sk_buff to allow direct access
It is going to replace the sack fastpath hint quite soon... :-)

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:03 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 85cc391c0e [TCP]: non-FACK SACK follows conservative SACK loss recovery
Many assumptions that are true when no reordering or other
strange events happen are not a part of the RFC3517. FACK
implementation is based on such assumptions. Previously (before
the rewrite) the non-FACK SACK was basically doing fast rexmit
and then it times out all skbs when first cumulative ACK arrives,
which cannot really be called SACK based recovery :-).

RFC3517 SACK disables these things:
- Per SKB timeouts & head timeout entry to recovery
- Marking at least one skb while in recovery (RFC3517 does this
  only for the fast retransmission but not for the other skbs
  when cumulative ACKs arrive in the recovery)
- Sacktag's loss detection flavors B and C (see comment before
  tcp_sacktag_write_queue)

This does not implement the "last resort" rule 3 of NextSeg, which
allows retransmissions also when not enough SACK blocks have yet
arrived above a segment for IsLost to return true [RFC3517].

The implementation differs from RFC3517 in these points:
- Rate-halving is used instead of FlightSize / 2
- Instead of using dupACKs to trigger the recovery, the number
  of SACK blocks is used as FACK does with SACK blocks+holes
  (which provides more accurate number). It seems that the
  difference can affect negatively only if the receiver does not
  generate SACK blocks at all even though it claimed to be
  SACK-capable.
- Dupthresh is not a constant one. Dynamical adjustments include
  both holes and sacked segments (equal to what FACK has) due to
  complexity involved in determining the number sacked blocks
  between highest_sack and the reordered segment. Thus it's will
  be an over-estimate.

Implementation note:

tcp_clean_rtx_queue doesn't need a lost_cnt tweak because head
skb at that point cannot be SACKED_ACKED (nor would such
situation last for long enough to cause problems).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:03 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen f577111302 [TCP]: Extend reordering detection to cover CA_Loss partially
This implements more accurately what is stated in sacktag's
overall comment:

  "Both of these heuristics are not used in Loss state, when
   we cannot account for retransmits accurately."

When CA_Loss state is entered, the state changer ensures that
undo_marker is only set if no TCPCB_RETRANS skbs were found,
thus having non-zero undo_marker in CA_Loss basically tells
that the R-bits still accurately reflect the current state
of TCP.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:02 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen b9d86585dc [TCP]: Move !in_sack test earlier in sacktag & reorganize if()s
All intermediate conditions include it already, make them
simpler as well.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:01 -08:00
Gavin McCullagh 2072c228c9 [TCP]: use non-delayed ACK for congestion control RTT
When a delayed ACK representing two packets arrives, there are two RTT
samples available, one for each packet.  The first (in order of seq
number) will be artificially long due to the delay waiting for the
second packet, the second will trigger the ACK and so will not itself
be delayed.

According to rfc1323, the SRTT used for RTO calculation should use the
first rtt, so receivers echo the timestamp from the first packet in
the delayed ack.  For congestion control however, it seems measuring
delayed ack delay is not desirable as it varies independently of
congestion.

The patch below causes seq_rtt and last_ackt to be updated with any
available later packet rtts which should have less (and hopefully
zero) delack delay.  The rtt value then gets passed to
ca_ops->pkts_acked().

Where TCP_CONG_RTT_STAMP was set, effort was made to supress RTTs from
within a TSO chunk (!fully_acked), using only the final ACK (which
includes any TSO delay) to generate RTTs.  This patch removes these
checks so RTTs are passed for each ACK to ca_ops->pkts_acked().

For non-delay based congestion control (cubic, h-tcp), rtt is
sometimes used for rtt-scaling.  In shortening the RTT, this may make
them a little less aggressive.  Delay-based schemes (eg vegas, veno,
illinois) should get a cleaner, more accurate congestion signal,
particularly for small cwnds.  The congestion control module can
potentially also filter out bad RTTs due to the delayed ack alarm by
looking at the associated cnt which (where delayed acking is in use)
should probably be 1 if the alarm went off or greater if the ACK was
triggered by a packet.

Signed-off-by: Gavin McCullagh <gavin.mccullagh@nuim.ie>
Acked-by: Ilpo Jrvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-29 19:11:21 -08:00
Satoru SATOH 488faa2ae3 [IPV4]: Make tcp_input_metrics() get minimum RTO via tcp_rto_min()
tcp_input_metrics() refers to the built-time constant TCP_RTO_MIN
regardless of configured minimum RTO with iproute2.

Signed-off-by: Satoru SATOH <satoru.satoh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-16 14:00:19 -08:00
Ilpo Jrvinen 52d3408150 [TCP]: Move prior_in_flight collect to more robust place
The previous location is after sacktag processing, which affects
counters tcp_packets_in_flight depends on. This may manifest as
wrong behavior if new SACK blocks are present and all is clear
for call to tcp_cong_avoid, which in the case of
tcp_reno_cong_avoid bails out early because it thinks that
TCP is not limited by cwnd.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Jrvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-05 05:37:30 -08:00
Ilpo Jrvinen 3e6f049e0c [TCP] FRTO: Use of existing funcs make code more obvious & robust
Though there's little need for everything that tcp_may_send_now
does (actually, even the state had to be adjusted to pass some
checks FRTO does not want to occur), it's more robust to let it
make the decision if sending is allowed. State adjustments
needed:
- Make sure snd_cwnd limit is not hit in there
- Disable nagle (if necessary) through the frto_counter == 2

The result of check for frto_counter in argument to call for
tcp_enter_frto_loss can just be open coded, therefore there
isn't need to store the previous frto_counter past
tcp_may_send_now.

In addition, returns can then be combined.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Jrvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-05 05:37:29 -08:00
Ilpo Jrvinen e1cd8f78f8 [TCP] FRTO: Clear frto_highmark only after process_frto that uses it
I broke this in commit 3de96471bd7fb76406e975ef6387abe3a0698149:

	[TCP]: Wrap-safed reordering detection FRTO check

tcp_process_frto should always see a valid frto_highmark. An invalid
frto_highmark (zero) is very likely what ultimately caused a seqno
compare in tcp_frto_enter_loss to do the wrong leading to the LOST-bit
leak.

Having LOST-bits integry ensured like done after commit
23aeeec365dcf8bc87fae44c533e50d0bb4f23cc:

	[TCP] FRTO: Plug potential LOST-bit leak

won't hurt. It may still be useful in some other, possibly legimate,
scenario.

Reported by Chazarain Guillaume <guichaz@yahoo.fr>.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Jrvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-14 15:55:09 -08:00
Ilpo Jrvinen 96a2d41a3e [TCP]: Make sure write_queue_from does not begin with NULL ptr
NULL ptr can be returned from tcp_write_queue_head to cached_skb
and then assigned to skb if packets_out was zero. Without this,
system is vulnerable to a carefully crafted ACKs which obviously
is remotely triggerable.

Besides, there's very little that needs to be done in sacktag
if there weren't any packets outstanding, just skipping the rest
doesn't hurt.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Jrvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-14 15:47:18 -08:00
Ilpo Jrvinen 23aeeec365 [TCP] FRTO: Plug potential LOST-bit leak
It might be possible that, in some extreme scenario that
I just cannot now construct in my mind, end_seq <=
frto_highmark check does not match causing the lost_out
and LOST bits become out-of-sync due to clearing and
recounting in the loop.

This may fix LOST-bit leak reported by Chazarain Guillaume
<guichaz@yahoo.fr>.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Jrvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-13 21:03:13 -08:00
Ilpo Jrvinen 746aa32d28 [TCP] FRTO: Limit snd_cwnd if TCP was application limited
Otherwise TCP might violate packet ordering principles that FRTO
is based on. If conventional recovery path is chosen, this won't
be significant at all. In practice, any small enough value will
be sufficient to provide proper operation for FRTO, yet other
users of snd_cwnd might benefit from a "close enough" value.

FRTO's formula is now equal to what tcp_enter_cwr() uses.

FRTO used to check application limitedness a bit differently but
I changed that in commit 575ee7140d
and as a result checking for application limitedness became
completely non-existing.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Jrvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-13 21:01:23 -08:00
Ilpo Jrvinen fbd52eb2bd [TCP]: Split SACK FRTO flag clearing (fixes FRTO corner case bug)
In case we run out of mem when fragmenting, the clearing of
FLAG_ONLY_ORIG_SACKED might get missed which then feeds FRTO
with false information. Move clearing outside skb processing
loop so that it will get executed even if the skb loop
terminates prematurely due to out-of-mem.

Besides, now the core of the loop truly deals with a single
skb only, which also enables creation a more self-contained
of tcp_sacktag_one later on.

In addition, small reorganization of if branches was made.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Jrvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-10 21:24:19 -08:00
Ilpo Jrvinen e49aa5d456 [TCP]: Add unlikely() to sacktag out-of-mem in fragment case
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Jrvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-10 21:23:08 -08:00
Ilpo Jrvinen c7caf8d3ed [TCP]: Fix reord detection due to snd_una covered holes
Fixes subtle bug like the one with fastpath_cnt_hint happening
due to the way the GSO and hints interact. Because hints are not
reset when just a GSOed skb is partially ACKed, there's no
guarantee that the relevant part of the write queue is going to
be processed in sacktag at all (skbs below snd_una) because
fastpath hint can fast forward the entrypoint.

This was also on the way of future reductions in sacktag's skb
processing. Also future cleanups in sacktag can be made after
this (in 2.6.25).

This may make reordering update in tcp_try_undo_partial
redundant but I'm not too sure so I left it there.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Jrvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-10 21:22:18 -08:00
Ilpo Jrvinen 8dd71c5d28 [TCP]: Consider GSO while counting reord in sacktag
Reordering detection fails to take account that the reordered
skb may have pcount larger than 1. In such case the lowest of
them had the largest reordering, the old formula used the
highest of them which is pcount - 1 packets less reordered.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Jrvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-10 21:20:59 -08:00
Ilpo Jrvinen 261ab365fa [TCP]: Another TAGBITS -> SACKED_ACKED|LOST conversion
Similar to commit 3eec0047d9, point of this is to avoid
skipping R-bit skbs.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Jrvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-01 00:10:18 -07:00
Ilpo Jrvinen e56d6cd605 [TCP]: Process DSACKs that reside within a SACK block
DSACK inside another SACK block were missed if start_seq of DSACK
was larger than SACK block's because sorting prioritizes full
processing of the SACK block before DSACK. After SACK block
sorting situation is like this:

             SSSSSSSSS
                  D
                        SSSSSS
                               SSSSSSS

Because write_queue is walked in-order, when the first SACK block
has been processed, TCP is already past the skb for which the
DSACK arrived and we haven't taught it to backtrack (nor should
we), so TCP just continues processing by going to the next SACK
block after the DSACK (if any).

Whenever such DSACK is present, do an embedded checking during
the previous SACK block.

If the DSACK is below snd_una, there won't be overlapping SACK
block, and thus no problem in that case. Also if start_seq of
the DSACK is equal to the actual block, it will be processed
first.

Tested this by using netem to duplicate 15% of packets, and
by printing SACK block when found_dup_sack is true and the 
selected skb in the dup_sack = 1 branch (if taken):

  SACK block 0: 4344-5792 (relative to snd_una 2019137317)
  SACK block 1: 4344-5792 (relative to snd_una 2019137317) 

equal start seqnos => next_dup = 0, dup_sack = 1 won't occur...

  SACK block 0: 5792-7240 (relative to snd_una 2019214061)
  SACK block 1: 2896-7240 (relative to snd_una 2019214061)
  DSACK skb match 5792-7240 (relative to snd_una)

...and next_dup = 1 case (after the not shown start_seq sort),
went to dup_sack = 1 branch.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Jrvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-01 00:09:37 -07:00
Ryousei Takano 94d3b1e586 [TCP]: fix D-SACK cwnd handling
In the current net-2.6 kernel, handling FLAG_DSACKING_ACK is broken.
The flag is cleared to 1 just after FLAG_DSACKING_ACK is set.

        if (found_dup_sack)
                flag |= FLAG_DSACKING_ACK;
	:
	flag = 1;

To fix it, this patch introduces a part of the tcp_sacktag_state patch:
	http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=119210560431519&w=2

Signed-off-by: Ryousei Takano <takano-ryousei@aist.go.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-26 04:27:59 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 0f79efdc23 [TCP]: Make tcp_match_skb_to_sack() static.
tcp_match_skb_to_sack() can become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-26 03:57:36 -07:00
Ryousei Takano 564262c1f0 [TCP]: Fix inconsistency of terms.
Fix inconsistency of terms:
1) D-SACK
2) F-RTO

Signed-off-by: Ryousei Takano <takano-ryousei@aist.go.jp>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-25 23:03:52 -07:00
Chuck Lever c2636b4d9e [NET]: Treat the sign of the result of skb_headroom() consistently
In some places, the result of skb_headroom() is compared to an unsigned
integer, and in others, the result is compared to a signed integer.  Make
the comparisons consistent and correct.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-23 21:27:55 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen df2e014bfb [TCP]: Remove lost_retrans zero seqno special cases
Both high-sack detection and new lowest seq variables have
unnecessary zero special case which are now removed by setting
safe initial seqnos.

This also fixes problem which caused zero received_upto being
passed to tcp_mark_lost_retrans which confused after relations
within the marker loop causing incorrect TCPCB_SACKED_RETRANS
clearing. The problem was noticed because of a performance
report from TAKANO Ryousei <takano@axe-inc.co.jp>.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Ryousei Takano <takano-ryousei@aist.go.jp>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-18 05:07:57 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen f885c5b08e [TCP]: high_seq parameter removed (all callers use tp->high_seq)
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15 12:26:37 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen b08d6cb22c [TCP]: Limit processing lost_retrans loop to work-to-do cases
This addition of lost_retrans_low to tcp_sock might be
unnecessary, it's not clear how often lost_retrans worker is
executed when there wasn't work to do.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-11 17:36:13 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen f785a8e28b [TCP]: Fix lost_retrans loop vs fastpath problems
Detection implemented with lost_retrans must work also when
fastpath is taken, yet most of the queue is skipped including
(very likely) those retransmitted skb's we're interested in.
This problem appeared when the hints got added, which removed
a need to always walk over the whole write queue head.
Therefore decicion for the lost_retrans worker loop entry must
be separated from the sacktag processing more than it was
necessary before.

It turns out to be problematic to optimize the worker loop
very heavily because ack_seqs of skb may have a number of
discontinuity points. Maybe similar approach as currently is
implemented could be attempted but that's becoming more and
more complex because the trend is towards less skb walking
in sacktag marker. Trying a simple work until all rexmitted
skbs heve been processed approach.

Maybe after(highest_sack_end_seq, tp->high_seq) checking is not
sufficiently accurate and causes entry too often in no-work-to-do
cases. Since that's not known, I've separated solution to that
from this patch.

Noticed because of report against a related problem from TAKANO
Ryousei <takano@axe-inc.co.jp>. He also provided a patch to
that part of the problem. This patch includes solution to it
(though this patch has to use somewhat different placement).
TAKANO's description and patch is available here:

  http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=119149311913288&w=2

...In short, TAKANO's problem is that end_seq the loop is using
not necessarily the largest SACK block's end_seq because the
current ACK may still have higher SACK blocks which are later
by the loop.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-11 17:35:41 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 4cd829995b [TCP]: No need to re-count fackets_out/sacked_out at RTO
Both sacked_out and fackets_out are directly known from how
parameter. Since fackets_out is accurate, there's no need for
recounting (sacked_out was previously unnecessarily counted
in the loop anyway).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-11 17:34:57 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen d193594299 [TCP]: Extract tcp_match_queue_to_sack from sacktag code
This is necessary for upcoming DSACK bugfix. Reduces sacktag
length which is not very sad thing at all... :-)

Notice that there's a need to handle out-of-mem at caller's
place.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-11 17:34:25 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen f6fb128d27 [TCP]: Kill almost unused variable pcount from sacktag
It's on the way for future cutting of that function.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-11 17:33:55 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 3eec0047d9 [TCP]: Fix mark_head_lost to ignore R-bit when trying to mark L
This condition (plain R) can arise at least in recovery that
is triggered after tcp_undo_loss. There isn't any reason why
they should not be marked as lost, not marking makes in_flight
estimator to return too large values.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-11 17:33:11 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 16e906812f [TCP]: Add bytes_acked (ABC) clearing to FRTO too
I was reading tcp_enter_loss while looking for Cedric's bug and
noticed bytes_acked adjustment is missing from FRTO side.

Since bytes_acked will only be used in tcp_cong_avoid, I think
it's safe to assume RTO would be spurious. During FRTO cwnd
will be not controlled by tcp_cong_avoid and if FRTO calls for
conventional recovery, cwnd is adjusted and the result of wrong
assumption is cleared from bytes_acked. If RTO was in fact
spurious, we did normal ABC already and can continue without
any additional adjustments.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-11 17:32:31 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 1c1e87edb9 [TCP]: Separate lost_retrans loop into own function
Follows own function for each task principle, this is really
somewhat separate task being done in sacktag. Also reduces
indentation.

In addition, added ack_seq local var to break some long
lines & fixed coding style things.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:55:51 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger cfcabdcc2d [NET]: sparse warning fixes
Fix a bunch of sparse warnings. Mostly about 0 used as
NULL pointer, and shadowed variable declarations.
One notable case was that hash size should have been unsigned.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:48 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen de83c058af [TCP]: "Annotate" another fackets_out state reset
This should no longer be necessary because fackets_out is
accurate. It indicates bugs elsewhere, thus report it.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:48 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 3de96471bd [TCP]: Wrap-safed reordering detection FRTO check
In case somebody has a suggestion about a better place for this
check, which must guarantee execution "early enough" (i.e,
before the wrap can occur), I'm very open to them.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:00 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 0e835331e3 [TCP]: Update comment of SACK block validator
Just came across what RFC2018 states about generation of valid
SACK blocks in case of reneging. Alter comment a bit to point
out clearly.

IMHO, there isn't any reason to change code because the
validation is there for a purpose (counters will inform user
about decision TCP made if this case ever surfaces).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:53:59 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 95eacd27e2 [TCP]: fix comments that got messed up during code move
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:53:59 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 912d8f0b1f [TCP] MIB: Count FRTO's successfully detected spurious RTOs
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:39 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 93e6802029 [TCP]: Reordered ACK's (old) SACKs not included to discarded MIB
In case of ACK reordering, the SACK block might be valid in it's
time but is already obsoleted since we've received another kind
of confirmation about arrival of the segments through snd_una
advancement of an earlier packet.

I didn't bother to build distinguishing of valid and invalid
SACK blocks but simply made reordered SACK blocks that are too
old always not counted regardless of their "real" validity which
could be determined by using the ack field of the reordered
packet (won't be significant IMHO).

DSACKs can very well be considered useful even in this situation,
so won't do any of this for them.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:38 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen b76892051c [TCP]: Avoid clearing sacktag hint in trivial situations
There's no reason to clear the sacktag skb hint when small part
of the rexmit queue changes. Account changes (if any) instead when
fragmenting/collapsing. RTO/FRTO do not touch SACKED_ACKED bits so
no need to discard SACK tag hint at all.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:12 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen c96fd3d461 [TCP]: Enable SACK enhanced FRTO (RFC4138) by default
Most of the description that follows comes from my mail to
netdev (some editing done):

Main obstacle to FRTO use is its deployment as it has to be on
the sender side where as wireless link is often the receiver's
access link. Take initiative on behalf of unlucky receivers and
enable it by default in future Linux TCP senders. Also IETF
seems to interested in advancing FRTO from experimental [1].

How does FRTO help?
===================

FRTO detects spurious RTOs and avoids a number of unnecessary
retransmissions and a couple of other problems that can arise
due to incorrect guess made at RTO (i.e., that segments were
lost when they actually got delayed which is likely to occur
e.g. in wireless environments with link-layer retransmission).
Though FRTO cannot prevent the first (potentially unnecessary)
retransmission at RTO, I suspect that it won't cost that much
even if you have to pay for each bit (won't be that high
percentage out of all packets after all :-)). However, usually
when you have a spurious RTO, not only the first segment
unnecessarily retransmitted but the *whole window*. It goes like
this: all cumulative ACKs got delayed due to in-order delivery,
then TCP will actually send 1.5*original cwnd worth of data in
the RTO's slow-start when the delayed ACKs arrive (basically the
original cwnd worth of it unnecessarily). In case one is
interested in minimizing unnecessary retransmissions e.g. due to
cost, those rexmissions must never see daylight. Besides, in the
worst case the generated burst overloads the bottleneck buffers
which is likely to significantly delay the further progress of
the flow. In case of ll rexmissions, ACK compression often
occurs at the same time making the burst very "sharp edged" (in
that case TCP often loses most of the segments above high_seq
=> very bad performance too). When FRTO is enabled, those
unnecessary retransmissions are fully avoided except for the
first segment and the cwnd behavior after detected spurious RTO
is determined by the response (one can tune that by sysctl).

Basic version (non-SACK enhanced one), FRTO can fail to detect
spurious RTO as spurious and falls back to conservative
behavior. ACK lossage is much less significant than reordering,
usually the FRTO can detect spurious RTO if at least 2
cumulative ACKs from original window are preserved (excluding
the ACK that advances to high_seq). With SACK-enhanced version,
the detection is quite robust.

FRTO should remove the need to set a high lower bound for the
RTO estimator due to delay spikes that occur relatively common
in some environments (esp. in wireless/cellular ones).

[1] http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/current/msg02862.html

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:12 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 009a2e3e4e [TCP] FRTO: Improve interoperability with other undo_marker users
Basically this change enables it, previously other undo_marker
users were left with nothing. Reverse undo_marker logic
completely to get it set right in CA_Loss. On the other hand,
when spurious RTO is detected, clear it. Clearing might be too
heavy for some scenarios but seems safe enough starting point
for now and shouldn't have much effect except in majority of
cases (if in any).

By adding a new FLAG_ we avoid looping through write_queue when
RTO occurs.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:11 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 7c46a03e67 [TCP]: Cleanup tcp_tso_acked and tcp_clean_rtx_queue
Implements following cleanups:
- Comment re-placement (CodingStyle)
- tcp_tso_acked() local (wrapper-like) variable removal
  (readability)
- __-types removed (IMHO they make local variables jumpy looking
  and just was space)
- acked -> flag (naming conventions elsewhere in TCP code)
- linebreak adjustments (readability)
- nested if()s combined (reduced indentation)
- clarifying newlines added

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:10 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 13fcf850cc [TCP]: Move accounting from tso_acked to clean_rtx_queue
The accounting code is pretty much the same, so it's a shame
we do it in two places.

I'm not too sure if added fully_acked check in MTU probing is
really what we want perhaps the added end_seq could be used in
the after() comparison.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:09 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 5af4ec236f [TCP]: clear_all_retrans_hints prefixed by tcp_
In addition, fix its function comment spacing.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
2007-10-10 16:52:09 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 91fed7a15c [TCP]: Make fackets_out accurate
Substraction for fackets_out is unconditional when snd_una
advances, thus there's no need to do it inside the loop. Just
make sure correct bounds are honored.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:08 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 18f02545a9 [TCP] MIB: Add counters for discarded SACK blocks
In DSACK case, some events are not extraordinary, such as packet
duplication generated DSACK. They can arrive easily below
snd_una when undo_marker is not set (TCP being in CA_Open),
counting such DSACKs amoung SACK discards will likely just
mislead if they occur in some scenario when there are other
problems as well. Similarly, excessively delayed packets could
cause "normal" DSACKs. Therefore, separate counters are
allocated for DSACK events.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:48:30 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 5b3c98821a [TCP]: Discard fuzzy SACK blocks
SACK processing code has been a sort of russian roulette as no
validation of SACK blocks is previously attempted. Besides, it
is not very clear what all kinds of broken SACK blocks really
mean (e.g., one that has start and end sequence numbers
reversed). So now close the roulette once and for all.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:48:29 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 6728e7dc3e [TCP]: Rename tcp_ack_packets_out -> tcp_rearm_rto
Only thing that tiny function does is rearming the RTO (if
necessary), name it accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:48:28 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen e9144bd8da [TCP]: Remove unnecessary wrapper tcp_packets_out_dec
Makes caller side more obvious, there's no need to have
a wrapper for this oneliner!

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:48:27 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen e60402d0a9 [TCP]: Move sack_ok access to obviously named funcs & cleanup
Previously code had IsReno/IsFack defined as macros that were
local to tcp_input.c though sack_ok field has user elsewhere too
for the same purpose. This changes them to static inlines as
preferred according the current coding style and unifies the
access to sack_ok across multiple files. Magic bitops of sack_ok
for FACK and DSACK are also abstracted to functions with
appropriate names.

Note:
- One sack_ok = 1 remains but that's self explanary, i.e., it
  enables sack
- Couple of !IsReno cases are changed to tcp_is_sack
- There were no users for IsDSack => I dropped it

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:48:00 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 1b6d427bb7 [TCP]: Reduce sacked_out with reno when purging write_queue
Previously TCP had a transitional state during which reno
counted segments that are already below the current window into
sacked_out, which is now prevented. In addition, re-try now
the unconditional S+L skb catching.

This approach conservatively calls just remove_sack and leaves
reset_sack() calls alone. The best solution to the whole problem
would be to first calculate the new sacked_out fully (this patch
does not move reno_sack_reset calls from original sites and thus
does not implement this). However, that would require very
invasive change to fastretrans_alert (perhaps even slicing it to
two halves). Alternatively, all callers of tcp_packets_in_flight
(i.e., users that depend on sacked_out) should be postponed
until the new sacked_out has been calculated but it isn't any
simpler alternative.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:47:58 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen d02596e329 [TCP]: Keep state in Disorder also if only lost_out > 0
This happens rather infrequently and is only possible during
FRTO. We must not allow TCP to slip to Open state because
tcp_fastretrans_alert might then not be called on it's time
when FRTO has exited. This become a problem when left_out
got removed and was replaced by just sacked_out.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:47:58 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 86426c22d2 [TCP]: Restore over-zealous tcp_sync_left_out-like removals
tcp_verify_left_out is useful for verifying S+L condition, so
add it back to couple of places in where the code was not
calling to tcp_sync_left_out but used own ad-hoc solution
(before the tcp_sync_left_out got removed).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:47:57 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 005903bc3a [TCP]: Left out sync->verify (the new meaning of it) & definify
Left_out was dropped a while ago, thus leaving verifying
consistency of the "left out" as only task for the function in
question. Thus make it's name more appropriate.

In addition, it is intentionally converted to #define instead
of static inline because the location of the invariant failure
is the most important thing to have if this ever triggers. I
think it would have been helpful e.g. in this case where the
location of the failure point had to be based on some quesswork:
    http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/2/464
...Luckily the guesswork seems to have proved to be correct.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:47:57 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 83ae40885f [TCP]: Add tcp_left_out(tp) "back" to get cleaner looking lines
tp->left_out got removed but nothing came to replace it back
then (users just did addition by themselves), so add function
for users now.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:47:56 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen b5860bbac7 [TCP]: Tighten tcp_sock's belt, drop left_out
It is easily calculable when needed and user are not that many
after all.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:47:55 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen bdf1ee5d3b [TCP]: Move code from tcp_ecn.h to tcp*.c and tcp.h & remove it
No other users exist for tcp_ecn.h. Very few things remain in
tcp.h, for most TCP ECN functions callers reside within a
single .c file and can be placed there.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:47:54 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 9bff40fda0 [TCP] FRTO: remove unnecessary fackets/sacked_out recounting
F-RTO does not touch SACKED_ACKED bits at all, so there is no
need to recount them in tcp_enter_frto_loss. After removal of
the else branch, nested ifs can be combined.

This must also reset sacked_out when SACK is not in use as TCP
could have received some duplicate ACKs prior RTO. To achieve
that in a sane manner, tcp_reset_reno_sack was re-placed by the
previous patch.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:47:53 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 4ddf66769d [TCP]: Move Reno SACKed_out counter functions earlier
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:47:52 -07:00
David S. Miller d06e021d71 [TCP]: Extract DSACK detection code from tcp_sacktag_write_queue().
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:47:51 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 19b2b48658 [TCP]: Rexmit hint must be cleared instead of setting it
Stupid error from my side. Even though now that I noticed this,
I hoped it would have been an optimization but no, the counter
hint is then incorrect. Thus clearing is necessary for now (I
still suspect though that this path is never executed).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:47:51 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen d8f4f2235a [TCP]: Extracted rexmit hint clearing from the LOST marking code
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:47:50 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen d738cd8fca [TCP]: Add highest_sack seqno, points to globally highest SACK
It is guaranteed to be valid only when !tp->sacked_out. In most
cases this seqno is available in the last ACK but there is no
guarantee for that. The new fast recovery loss marking algorithm
needs this as entry point.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:47:50 -07:00