lwn.git/include/net/tcp.h, branch docs-4.19

Revert changes to convert to ->poll_mask() and aio IOCB_CMD_POLL

2018-06-28T17:40:47+00:00

The poll() changes were not well thought out, and completely unexplained. They also caused a huge performance regression, because "->poll()" was no longer a trivial file operation that just called down to the underlying file operations, but instead did at least two indirect calls. Indirect calls are sadly slow now with the Spectre mitigation, but the performance problem could at least be largely mitigated by changing the "->get_poll_head()" operation to just have a per-file-descriptor pointer to the poll head instead. That gets rid of one of the new indirections. But that doesn't fix the new complexity that is completely unwarranted for the regular case. The (undocumented) reason for the poll() changes was some alleged AIO poll race fixing, but we don't make the common case slower and more complex for some uncommon special case, so this all really needs way more explanations and most likely a fundamental redesign. [ This revert is a revert of about 30 different commits, not reverted individually because that would just be unnecessarily messy - Linus ] Cc: Al Viro Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2018-06-07T01:39:49+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller: 1) Add Maglev hashing scheduler to IPVS, from Inju Song. 2) Lots of new TC subsystem tests from Roman Mashak. 3) Add TCP zero copy receive and fix delayed acks and autotuning with SO_RCVLOWAT, from Eric Dumazet. 4) Add XDP_REDIRECT support to mlx5 driver, from Jesper Dangaard Brouer. 5) Add ttl inherit support to vxlan, from Hangbin Liu. 6) Properly separate ipv6 routes into their logically independant components. fib6_info for the routing table, and fib6_nh for sets of nexthops, which thus can be shared. From David Ahern. 7) Add bpf_xdp_adjust_tail helper, which can be used to generate ICMP messages from XDP programs. From Nikita V. Shirokov. 8) Lots of long overdue cleanups to the r8169 driver, from Heiner Kallweit. 9) Add BTF ("BPF Type Format"), from Martin KaFai Lau. 10) Add traffic condition monitoring to iwlwifi, from Luca Coelho. 11) Plumb extack down into fib_rules, from Roopa Prabhu. 12) Add Flower classifier offload support to igb, from Vinicius Costa Gomes. 13) Add UDP GSO support, from Willem de Bruijn. 14) Add documentation for eBPF helpers, from Quentin Monnet. 15) Add TLS tx offload to mlx5, from Ilya Lesokhin. 16) Allow applications to be given the number of bytes available to read on a socket via a control message returned from recvmsg(), from Soheil Hassas Yeganeh. 17) Add x86_32 eBPF JIT compiler, from Wang YanQing. 18) Add AF_XDP sockets, with zerocopy support infrastructure as well. From Björn Töpel. 19) Remove indirect load support from all of the BPF JITs and handle these operations in the verifier by translating them into native BPF instead. From Daniel Borkmann. 20) Add GRO support to ipv6 gre tunnels, from Eran Ben Elisha. 21) Allow XDP programs to do lookups in the main kernel routing tables for forwarding. From David Ahern. 22) Allow drivers to store hardware state into an ELF section of kernel dump vmcore files, and use it in cxgb4. From Rahul Lakkireddy. 23) Various RACK and loss detection improvements in TCP, from Yuchung Cheng. 24) Add TCP SACK compression, from Eric Dumazet. 25) Add User Mode Helper support and basic bpfilter infrastructure, from Alexei Starovoitov. 26) Support ports and protocol values in RTM_GETROUTE, from Roopa Prabhu. 27) Support bulking in ->ndo_xdp_xmit() API, from Jesper Dangaard Brouer. 28) Add lots of forwarding selftests, from Petr Machata. 29) Add generic network device failover driver, from Sridhar Samudrala. * ra.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1959 commits) strparser: Add __strp_unpause and use it in ktls. rxrpc: Fix terminal retransmission connection ID to include the channel net: hns3: Optimize PF CMDQ interrupt switching process net: hns3: Fix for VF mailbox receiving unknown message net: hns3: Fix for VF mailbox cannot receiving PF response bnx2x: use the right constant Revert "net: sched: cls: Fix offloading when ingress dev is vxlan" net: dsa: b53: Fix for brcm tag issue in Cygnus SoC enic: fix UDP rss bits netdev-FAQ: clarify DaveM's position for stable backports rtnetlink: validate attributes in do_setlink() mlxsw: Add extack messages for port_{un, }split failures netdevsim: Add extack error message for devlink reload devlink: Add extack to reload and port_{un, }split operations net: metrics: add proper netlink validation ipmr: fix error path when ipmr_new_table fails ip6mr: only set ip6mr_table from setsockopt when ip6mr_new_table succeeds net: hns3: remove unused hclgevf_cfg_func_mta_filter netfilter: provide udp*_lib_lookup for nf_tproxy qed*: Utilize FW 8.37.2.0 ...

Merge branch 'work.aio-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2018-06-04T20:57:43+00:00

Pull aio updates from Al Viro: "Majority of AIO stuff this cycle. aio-fsync and aio-poll, mostly. The only thing I'm holding back for a day or so is Adam's aio ioprio - his last-minute fixup is trivial (missing stub in !CONFIG_BLOCK case), but let it sit in -next for decency sake..." * 'work.aio-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (46 commits) aio: sanitize the limit checking in io_submit(2) aio: fold do_io_submit() into callers aio: shift copyin of iocb into io_submit_one() aio_read_events_ring(): make a bit more readable aio: all callers of aio_{read,write,fsync,poll} treat 0 and -EIOCBQUEUED the same way aio: take list removal to (some) callers of aio_complete() aio: add missing break for the IOCB_CMD_FDSYNC case random: convert to ->poll_mask timerfd: convert to ->poll_mask eventfd: switch to ->poll_mask pipe: convert to ->poll_mask crypto: af_alg: convert to ->poll_mask net/rxrpc: convert to ->poll_mask net/iucv: convert to ->poll_mask net/phonet: convert to ->poll_mask net/nfc: convert to ->poll_mask net/caif: convert to ->poll_mask net/bluetooth: convert to ->poll_mask net/sctp: convert to ->poll_mask net/tipc: convert to ->poll_mask ...

tcp: minor optimization around tcp_hdr() usage in receive path

2018-05-31T17:20:47+00:00

This is additional to the commit ea1627c20c34 ("tcp: minor optimizations around tcp_hdr() usage"). At this point, skb->data is same with tcp_hdr() as tcp header has not been pulled yet. So use the less expensive one to get the tcp header. Remove the third parameter of tcp_rcv_established() and put it into the function body. Furthermore, the local variables are listed as a reverse christmas tree :) Cc: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net/tcp: convert to ->poll_mask

2018-05-26T07:16:44+00:00

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig

tcp: add SACK compression

2018-05-18T15:40:27+00:00

When TCP receives an out-of-order packet, it immediately sends a SACK packet, generating network load but also forcing the receiver to send 1-MSS pathological packets, increasing its RTX queue length/depth, and thus processing time. Wifi networks suffer from this aggressive behavior, but generally speaking, all these SACK packets add fuel to the fire when networks are under congestion. This patch adds a high resolution timer and tp->compressed_ack counter. Instead of sending a SACK, we program this timer with a small delay, based on RTT and capped to 1 ms : delay = min ( 5 % of RTT, 1 ms) If subsequent SACKs need to be sent while the timer has not yet expired, we simply increment tp->compressed_ack. When timer expires, a SACK is sent with the latest information. Whenever an ACK is sent (if data is sent, or if in-order data is received) timer is canceled. Note that tcp_sack_new_ofo_skb() is able to force a SACK to be sent if the sack blocks need to be shuffled, even if the timer has not expired. A new SNMP counter is added in the following patch. Two other patches add sysctls to allow changing the 1,000,000 and 44 values that this commit hard-coded. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: use __sock_put() instead of sock_put() in tcp_clear_xmit_timers()

2018-05-18T15:40:27+00:00

Socket can not disappear under us. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: new helper tcp_rack_skb_timeout

2018-05-17T19:41:29+00:00

Create and export a new helper tcp_rack_skb_timeout and move tcp_is_rack to prepare the final RTO change. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh Reviewed-by: Priyaranjan Jha Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: account lost retransmit after timeout

2018-05-17T19:41:29+00:00

The previous approach for the lost and retransmit bits was to wipe the slate clean: zero all the lost and retransmit bits, correspondingly zero the lost_out and retrans_out counters, and then add back the lost bits (and correspondingly increment lost_out). The new approach is to treat this very much like marking packets lost in fast recovery. We don’t wipe the slate clean. We just say that for all packets that were not yet marked sacked or lost, we now mark them as lost in exactly the same way we do for fast recovery. This fixes the lost retransmit accounting at RTO time and greatly simplifies the RTO code by sharing much of the logic with Fast Recovery. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh Reviewed-by: Priyaranjan Jha Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: simpler NewReno implementation

2018-05-17T19:41:28+00:00

This is a rewrite of NewReno loss recovery implementation that is simpler and standalone for readability and better performance by using less states. Note that NewReno refers to RFC6582 as a modification to the fast recovery algorithm. It is used only if the connection does not support SACK in Linux. It should not to be confused with the Reno (AIMD) congestion control. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh Reviewed-by: Priyaranjan Jha Signed-off-by: David S. Miller