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Neal Cardwell 5a45f0086a tcp: fix undo after RTO for CUBIC
This patch fixes CUBIC so that cwnd reductions made during RTOs can be
undone (just as they already can be undone when using the default/Reno
behavior).

When undoing cwnd reductions, BIC-derived congestion control modules
were restoring the cwnd from last_max_cwnd. There were two problems
with using last_max_cwnd to restore a cwnd during undo:

(a) last_max_cwnd was set to 0 on state transitions into TCP_CA_Loss
(by calling the module's reset() functions), so cwnd reductions from
RTOs could not be undone.

(b) when fast_covergence is enabled (which it is by default)
last_max_cwnd does not actually hold the value of snd_cwnd before the
loss; instead, it holds a scaled-down version of snd_cwnd.

This patch makes the following changes:

(1) upon undo, revert snd_cwnd to ca->loss_cwnd, which is already, as
the existing comment notes, the "congestion window at last loss"

(2) stop forgetting ca->loss_cwnd on TCP_CA_Loss events

(3) use ca->last_max_cwnd to check if we're in slow start

Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Sangtae Ha <sangtae.ha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-20 14:17:26 -05:00
stephen hemminger b9f47a3aae tcp_cubic: limit delayed_ack ratio to prevent divide error
TCP Cubic keeps a metric that estimates the amount of delayed
acknowledgements to use in adjusting the window. If an abnormally
large number of packets are acknowledged at once, then the update
could wrap and reach zero. This kind of ACK could only
happen when there was a large window and huge number of
ACK's were lost.

This patch limits the value of delayed ack ratio. The choice of 32
is just a conservative value since normally it should be range of
1 to 4 packets.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-05-08 15:51:57 -07:00
David S. Miller c337ffb68e Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2011-03-15 15:15:17 -07:00
Sangtae Ha b5ccd07337 tcp_cubic: fix low utilization of CUBIC with HyStart
HyStart sets the initial exit point of slow start.
Suppose that HyStart exits at 0.5BDP in a BDP network and no history exists.
If the BDP of a network is large, CUBIC's initial cwnd growth may be
too conservative to utilize the link.
CUBIC increases the cwnd 20% per RTT in this case.

Signed-off-by: Sangtae Ha <sangtae.ha@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-14 15:54:42 -07:00
Sangtae Ha 2b4636a5f8 tcp_cubic: make the delay threshold of HyStart less sensitive
Make HyStart less sensitive to abrupt delay variations due to buffer bloat.

Signed-off-by: Sangtae Ha <sangtae.ha@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Reported-by: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas.nussbaum@loria.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-14 15:54:42 -07:00
stephen hemminger 3b585b3449 tcp_cubic: enable high resolution ack time if needed
This is a refined version of an earlier patch by Lucas Nussbaum.
Cubic needs RTT values in milliseconds. If HZ < 1000 then
the values will be too coarse.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Reported-by: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas.nussbaum@loria.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-14 15:54:40 -07:00
stephen hemminger 17a6e9f1aa tcp_cubic: fix clock dependency
The hystart code was written with assumption that HZ=1000.
Replace the use of jiffies with bictcp_clock as a millisecond
real time clock.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Reported-by: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas.nussbaum@loria.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-14 15:54:39 -07:00
stephen hemminger aac46324e1 tcp_cubic: make ack train delta value a parameter
Make the spacing between ACK's that indicates a train a tuneable
value like other hystart values.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-14 15:54:39 -07:00
stephen hemminger c54b4b7655 tcp_cubic: fix comparison of jiffies
Jiffies wraps around therefore the correct way to compare is
to use cast to signed value.

Note: cubic is not using full jiffies value on 64 bit arch
because using full unsigned long makes struct bictcp grow too
large for the available ca_priv area.

Includes correction from Sangtae Ha to improve ack train detection.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-14 15:54:38 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger a252bebe22 tcp: mark tcp_congestion_ops read_mostly
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-10 00:40:17 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 758ce5c8d1 tcp: add helper for AI algorithm
It seems that implementation in yeah was inconsistent to what
other did as it would increase cwnd one ack earlier than the
others do.

Size benefits:

  bictcp_cong_avoid |  -36
  tcp_cong_avoid_ai |  +52
  bictcp_cong_avoid |  -34
  tcp_scalable_cong_avoid |  -36
  tcp_veno_cong_avoid |  -12
  tcp_yeah_cong_avoid |  -38

= -104 bytes total

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02 03:00:15 -08:00
Sangtae Ha ae27e98a51 [TCP] CUBIC v2.3
Signed-off-by: Sangtae Ha <sha2@ncsu.edu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-02 00:28:10 -07:00
Roman Zippel 6f6d6a1a6a rename div64_64 to div64_u64
Rename div64_64 to div64_u64 to make it consistent with the other divide
functions, so it clearly includes the type of the divide.  Move its definition
to math64.h as currently no architecture overrides the generic implementation.
 They can still override it of course, but the duplicated declarations are
avoided.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-01 08:03:58 -07:00
Sangtae Ha 6b3d626321 [TCP]: TCP cubic v2.2
We have updated CUBIC to fix some issues with slow increase in large
BDP networks. We also improved its convergence speed. The fix is in
fact very simple -- the window increase limit of smax during the
window probing phase (i.e., convex growth phase) is removed. We found
that this does not affect TCP friendliness, but only improves its
scalability. We have run some tests in our lab and also over the
Internet path from NCSU to Japan. These results can be seen from the
following page:

http://netsrv.csc.ncsu.edu/wiki/index.php/Intra_protocol_fairness_testing_with_linux-2.6.23.9
http://netsrv.csc.ncsu.edu/wiki/index.php/RTT_fairness_testing_with_linux-2.6.23.9
http://netsrv.csc.ncsu.edu/wiki/index.php/TCP_friendliness_testing_with_linux-2.6.23.9

Signed-off-by: Sangtae Ha <sha2@ncsu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-04 14:17:41 -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 35e8694198 [TCP]: Remove num_acked>0 checks from cong.ctrl mods pkts_acked
There is no need for such check in pkts_acked because the
callback is not invoked unless at least one segment got fully
ACKed (i.e., the snd_una moved past skb's end_seq) by the
cumulative ACK's snd_una advancement.

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
Stephen Hemminger e7d0c88586 [TCP]: cubic - eliminate use of receive time stamp
Remove use of received timestamp option value from RTT calculation in Cubic.
A hostile receiver may be returning a larger timestamp option than the original
value. This would cause the sender to believe the malevolent receiver had
a larger RTT and because Cubic tries to provide some RTT friendliness, the
sender would then favor the liar.

Instead, use the jiffie resolutionRTT value already computed and
passed back after ack.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-31 02:27:58 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 30cfd0baf0 [TCP]: congestion control API pass RTT in microseconds
This patch changes the API for the callback that is done after an ACK is
received. It solves a couple of issues:

  * Some congestion controls want higher resolution value of RTT
    (controlled by TCP_CONG_RTT_SAMPLE flag). These don't really want a ktime, but
    all compute a RTT in microseconds.

  * Other congestion control could use RTT at jiffies resolution.

To keep API consistent the units should be the same for both cases, just the
resolution should change.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-31 02:27:57 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 16751347a0 [TCP]: remove unused argument to cong_avoid op
None of the existing TCP congestion controls use the rtt value pased
in the ca_ops->cong_avoid interface.  Which is lucky because seq_rtt
could have been -1 when handling a duplicate ack.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-18 01:46:58 -07:00
David S. Miller 66e1e3b20c [TCP]: Set initial_ssthresh default to zero in Cubic and BIC.
Because of the current default of 100, Cubic and BIC perform very
poorly compared to standard Reno.

In the worst case, this change makes Cubic and BIC as aggressive as
Reno.  So this change should be very safe.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-06-13 01:03:53 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 164891aadf [TCP]: Congestion control API update.
Do some simple changes to make congestion control API faster/cleaner.
* use ktime_t rather than timeval
* merge rtt sampling into existing ack callback
  this means one indirect call versus two per ack.
* use flags bits to store options/settings

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:45 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger e1c3e7ab6d [TCP]: cubic update for net-2.6.22
The following update received from Injong updates TCP cubic to the latest
version. I am running more complete tests and will have results after 4/1.

According to Injong: the new version improves on its scalability,
fairness and stability.  So in all properties, we confirmed it shows better
performance.

NCSU results (for 2.6.18 and 2.6.20) available:
	http://netsrv.csc.ncsu.edu/wiki/index.php/TCP_Testing

This version is described in a new Internet draft for CUBIC.
	http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-rhee-tcp-cubic-00.txt

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:09 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 7e58886b45 [TCP]: cubic optimization
Use willy's work in optimizing cube root by having table for small values.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:19 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger c5f5877c04 [TCP] tcp_cubic: faster cube root
The Newton-Raphson method is quadratically convergent so
only a small fixed number of steps are necessary.
Therefore it is faster to unroll the loop. Since div64_64 is no longer
inline it won't cause code explosion.

Also fixes a bug that can occur if x^2 was bigger than 32 bits.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:23:47 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 3927f2e8f9 [NET]: div64_64 consolidate (rev3)
Here is the current version of the 64 bit divide common code.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:23:33 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 59758f4459 [TCP]: Use read mostly for CUBIC parameters.
These module parameters should be in the read mostly area to avoid
cache pollution.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-12 13:15:20 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki e905a9edab [NET] IPV4: Fix whitespace errors.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-10 23:19:39 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 22119240b1 [TCP] cubic: scaling error
Doug Leith observed a discrepancy between the version of CUBIC described
in the papers and the version in 2.6.18. A math error related to scaling
causes Cubic to grow too slowly.

Patch is from "Sangtae Ha" <sha2@ncsu.edu>. I validated that
it does fix the problems.

See the following to show behavior over 500ms 100 Mbit link.

Sender (2.6.19-rc3) ---  Bridge (2.6.18-rt7) ------- Receiver (2.6.19-rc3)
                    1G      [netem]           100M

	http://developer.osdl.org/shemminger/tcp/2.6.19-rc3/cubic-orig.png
	http://developer.osdl.org/shemminger/tcp/2.6.19-rc3/cubic-fix.png

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-25 23:04:12 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 74975d40b1 [TCP] Congestion control (modulo lp, bic): use BUILD_BUG_ON
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 15:18:13 -07:00
Jörn Engel 6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Stephen Hemminger 72dc5b9225 [TCP]: Minimum congestion window consolidation.
Many of the TCP congestion methods all just use ssthresh
as the minimum congestion window on decrease.  Rather than
duplicating the code, just have that be the default if that
handle in the ops structure is not set.

Minor behaviour change to TCP compound.  It probably wants
to use this (ssthresh) as lower bound, rather than ssthresh/2
because the latter causes undershoot on loss.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 21:29:29 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 9eb2d62719 [TCP] cubic: use Newton-Raphson
Replace cube root algorithim with a faster version using Newton-Raphson.
Surprisingly, doing the scaled div64_64 is faster than a true 64 bit
division on 64 bit CPU's.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:11:09 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 89b3d9aaf4 [TCP] cubic: precompute constants
Revised version of patch to pre-compute values for TCP cubic.
  * d32,d64 replaced with descriptive names
  * cube_factor replaces
	 srtt[scaled by count] / HZ * ((1 << (10+2*BICTCP_HZ)) / bic_scale)
  * beta_scale replaces
	8*(BICTCP_BETA_SCALE+beta)/3/(BICTCP_BETA_SCALE-beta);

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:11:08 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger df3271f336 [TCP] BIC: CUBIC window growth (2.0)
Replace existing BIC version 1.1 with new version 2.0.
The main change is to replace the window growth function
with a cubic function as described in:
  http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/cubic-paper.pdf

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:10:28 -08:00