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2018-08-01tcp: add stat of data packet reordering eventsWei Wang
Introduce a new TCP stats to record the number of reordering events seen and expose it in both tcp_info (TCP_INFO) and opt_stats (SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS). Application can use this stats to track the frequency of the reordering events in addition to the existing reordering stats which tracks the magnitude of the latest reordering event. Note: this new stats tracks reordering events triggered by ACKs, which could often be fewer than the actual number of packets being delivered out-of-order. Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-05-18tcp: tcp_rack_reo_wnd() can be statickbuild test robot
Fixes: 20b654dfe1be ("tcp: support DUPACK threshold in RACK") Signed-off-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-05-17tcp: new helper tcp_rack_skb_timeoutYuchung Cheng
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 <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Reviewed-by: Priyaranjan Jha <priyarjha@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-05-17tcp: account lost retransmit after timeoutYuchung Cheng
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 <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Reviewed-by: Priyaranjan Jha <priyarjha@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-05-17tcp: simpler NewReno implementationYuchung Cheng
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 <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Reviewed-by: Priyaranjan Jha <priyarjha@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-05-17tcp: support DUPACK threshold in RACKYuchung Cheng
This patch adds support for the classic DUPACK threshold rule (#DupThresh) in RACK. When the number of packets SACKed is greater or equal to the threshold, RACK sets the reordering window to zero which would immediately mark all the unsacked packets below the highest SACKed sequence lost. Since this approach is known to not work well with reordering, RACK only uses it if no reordering has been observed. The DUPACK threshold rule is a particularly useful extension to the fast recoveries triggered by RACK reordering timer. For example data-center transfers where the RTT is much smaller than a timer tick, or high RTT path where the default RTT/4 may take too long. Note that this patch differs slightly from RFC6675. RFC6675 considers a packet lost when at least #DupThresh higher-sequence packets are SACKed. With RACK, for connections that have seen reordering, RACK continues to use a dynamically-adaptive time-based reordering window to detect losses. But for connections on which we have not yet seen reordering, this patch considers a packet lost when at least one higher sequence packet is SACKed and the total number of SACKed packets is at least DupThresh. For example, suppose a connection has not seen reordering, and sends 10 packets, and packets 3, 5, 7 are SACKed. RFC6675 considers packets 1 and 2 lost. RACK considers packets 1, 2, 4, 6 lost. There is some small risk of spurious retransmits here due to reordering. However, this is mostly limited to the first flight of a connection on which the sender receives SACKs from reordering. And RFC 6675 and FACK loss detection have a similar risk on the first flight with reordering (it's just that the risk of spurious retransmits from reordering was slightly narrower for those older algorithms due to the margin of 3*MSS). Also the minimum reordering window is reduced from 1 msec to 0 to recover quicker on short RTT transfers. Therefore RACK is more aggressive in marking packets lost during recovery to reduce the reordering window timeouts. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Reviewed-by: Priyaranjan Jha <priyarjha@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-12-08tcp: evaluate packet losses upon RTT changeYuchung Cheng
RACK skips an ACK unless it advances the most recently delivered TX timestamp (rack.mstamp). Since RACK also uses the most recent RTT to decide if a packet is lost, RACK should still run the loss detection whenever the most recent RTT changes. For example, an ACK that does not advance the timestamp but triggers the cwnd undo due to reordering, would then use the most recent (higher) RTT measurement to detect further losses. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Reviewed-by: Priyaranjan Jha <priyarjha@google.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-12-08tcp: fix off-by-one bug in RACKYuchung Cheng
RACK should mark a packet lost when remaining wait time is zero. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Reviewed-by: Priyaranjan Jha <priyarjha@google.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-12-08tcp: correctly test congestion state in RACKYuchung Cheng
RACK does not test the loss recovery state correctly to compute the reordering window. It assumes if lost_out is zero then TCP is not in loss recovery. But it can be zero during recovery before calling tcp_rack_detect_loss(): when an ACK acknowledges all packets marked lost before receiving this ACK, but has not yet to discover new ones by tcp_rack_detect_loss(). The fix is to simply test the congestion state directly. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Reviewed-by: Priyaranjan Jha <priyarjha@google.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-11-05tcp: higher throughput under reordering with adaptive RACK reordering wndPriyaranjan Jha
Currently TCP RACK loss detection does not work well if packets are being reordered beyond its static reordering window (min_rtt/4).Under such reordering it may falsely trigger loss recoveries and reduce TCP throughput significantly. This patch improves that by increasing and reducing the reordering window based on DSACK, which is now supported in major TCP implementations. It makes RACK's reo_wnd adaptive based on DSACK and no. of recoveries. - If DSACK is received, increment reo_wnd by min_rtt/4 (upper bounded by srtt), since there is possibility that spurious retransmission was due to reordering delay longer than reo_wnd. - Persist the current reo_wnd value for TCP_RACK_RECOVERY_THRESH (16) no. of successful recoveries (accounts for full DSACK-based loss recovery undo). After that, reset it to default (min_rtt/4). - At max, reo_wnd is incremented only once per rtt. So that the new DSACK on which we are reacting, is due to the spurious retx (approx) after the reo_wnd has been updated last time. - reo_wnd is tracked in terms of steps (of min_rtt/4), rather than absolute value to account for change in rtt. In our internal testing, we observed significant increase in throughput, in scenarios where reordering exceeds min_rtt/4 (previous static value). Signed-off-by: Priyaranjan Jha <priyarjha@google.com> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-11-04Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Files removed in 'net-next' had their license header updated in 'net'. We take the remove from 'net-next'. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-10-27tcp: Namespace-ify sysctl_tcp_recoveryEric Dumazet
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-10-05tcp: a small refactor of RACK loss detectionYuchung Cheng
Refactor the RACK loop to improve readability and speed up the checks. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-10-05tcp: more efficient RACK loss detectionYuchung Cheng
Use the new time-ordered list to speed up RACK. The detection logic is identical. But since the list is chronologically ordered by skb_mstamp and contains only skbs not yet acked or sacked, RACK can abort the loop upon hitting skbs that were sent more recently. On YouTube servers this patch reduces the iterations on write queue by 40x. The improvement is even bigger with large BDP networks. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-07-19tcp: adjust tail loss probe timeoutYuchung Cheng
This patch adjusts the timeout formula to schedule the TCP loss probe (TLP). The previous formula uses 2*SRTT or 1.5*RTT + DelayACKMax if only one packet is in flight. It keeps a lower bound of 10 msec which is too large for short RTT connections (e.g. within a data-center). The new formula = 2*RTT + (inflight == 1 ? 200ms : 2ticks) which performs better for short and fast connections. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-05-17tcp: switch TCP TS option (RFC 7323) to 1ms clockEric Dumazet
TCP Timestamps option is defined in RFC 7323 Traditionally on linux, it has been tied to the internal 'jiffies' variable, because it had been a cheap and good enough generator. For TCP flows on the Internet, 1 ms resolution would be much better than 4ms or 10ms (HZ=250 or HZ=100 respectively) For TCP flows in the DC, Google has used usec resolution for more than two years with great success [1] Receive size autotuning (DRS) is indeed more precise and converges faster to optimal window size. This patch converts tp->tcp_mstamp to a plain u64 value storing a 1 usec TCP clock. This choice will allow us to upstream the 1 usec TS option as discussed in IETF 97. [1] https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/97/slides/slides-97-tcpm-tcp-options-for-low-latency-00.pdf Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-05-17tcp: use tp->tcp_mstamp in output pathEric Dumazet
Idea is to later convert tp->tcp_mstamp to a full u64 counter using usec resolution, so that we can later have fine grained TCP TS clock (RFC 7323), regardless of HZ value. We try to refresh tp->tcp_mstamp only when necessary. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-04-27tcp: tcp_rack_reo_timeout() must update tp->tcp_mstampEric Dumazet
I wrongly assumed tp->tcp_mstamp was up to date at the time tcp_rack_reo_timeout() was called. It is not true, since we only update tcp->tcp_mstamp when receiving a packet (as initially done in commit 69e996c58a35 ("tcp: add tp->tcp_mstamp field") tcp_rack_reo_timeout() being called by a timer and not an incoming packet, we need to refresh tp->tcp_mstamp Fixes: 7c1c7308592f ("tcp: do not pass timestamp to tcp_rack_detect_loss()") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-04-26tcp: do not pass timestamp to tcp_rack_advance()Eric Dumazet
No longer needed, since tp->tcp_mstamp holds the information. This is needed to remove sack_state.ack_time in a following patch. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-04-26tcp: do not pass timestamp to tcp_rack_mark_lost()Eric Dumazet
This is no longer used, since tcp_rack_detect_loss() takes the timestamp from tp->tcp_mstamp Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-04-26tcp: do not pass timestamp to tcp_rack_detect_loss()Eric Dumazet
We can use tp->tcp_mstamp as it contains a recent timestamp. This removes a call to skb_mstamp_get() from tcp_rack_reo_timeout() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-04-05tcp: fix lost retransmit SNMP under-countingYuchung Cheng
The lost retransmit SNMP stat is under-counting retransmission that uses segment offloading. This patch fixes that so all retransmission related SNMP counters are consistent. Fixes: 10d3be569243 ("tcp-tso: do not split TSO packets at retransmit time") Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-01-13tcp: enable RACK loss detection to trigger recoveryYuchung Cheng
This patch changes two things: 1. Start fast recovery with RACK in addition to other heuristics (e.g., DUPACK threshold, FACK). Prior to this change RACK is enabled to detect losses only after the recovery has started by other algorithms. 2. Disable TCP early retransmit. RACK subsumes the early retransmit with the new reordering timer feature. A latter patch in this series removes the early retransmit code. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-01-13tcp: use sequence to break TS ties for RACK loss detectionYuchung Cheng
The packets inside a jumbo skb (e.g., TSO) share the same skb timestamp, even though they are sent sequentially on the wire. Since RACK is based on time, it can not detect some packets inside the same skb are lost. However, we can leverage the packet sequence numbers as extended timestamps to detect losses. Therefore, when RACK timestamp is identical to skb's timestamp (i.e., one of the packets of the skb is acked or sacked), we use the sequence numbers of the acked and unacked packets to break ties. We can use the same sequence logic to advance RACK xmit time as well to detect more losses and avoid timeout. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-01-13tcp: add reordering timer in RACK loss detectionYuchung Cheng
This patch makes RACK install a reordering timer when it suspects some packets might be lost, but wants to delay the decision a little bit to accomodate reordering. It does not create a new timer but instead repurposes the existing RTO timer, because both are meant to retransmit packets. Specifically it arms a timer ICSK_TIME_REO_TIMEOUT when the RACK timing check fails. The wait time is set to RACK.RTT + RACK.reo_wnd - (NOW - Packet.xmit_time) + fudge This translates to expecting a packet (Packet) should take (RACK.RTT + RACK.reo_wnd + fudge) to deliver after it was sent. When there are multiple packets that need a timer, we use one timer with the maximum timeout. Therefore the timer conservatively uses the maximum window to expire N packets by one timeout, instead of N timeouts to expire N packets sent at different times. The fudge factor is 2 jiffies to ensure when the timer fires, all the suspected packets would exceed the deadline and be marked lost by tcp_rack_detect_loss(). It has to be at least 1 jiffy because the clock may tick between calling icsk_reset_xmit_timer(timeout) and actually hang the timer. The next jiffy is to lower-bound the timeout to 2 jiffies when reo_wnd is < 1ms. When the reordering timer fires (tcp_rack_reo_timeout): If we aren't in Recovery we'll enter fast recovery and force fast retransmit. This is very similar to the early retransmit (RFC5827) except RACK is not constrained to only enter recovery for small outstanding flights. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-01-13tcp: record most recent RTT in RACK loss detectionYuchung Cheng
Record the most recent RTT in RACK. It is often identical to the "ca_rtt_us" values in tcp_clean_rtx_queue. But when the packet has been retransmitted, RACK choses to believe the ACK is for the (latest) retransmitted packet if the RTT is over minimum RTT. This requires passing the arrival time of the most recent ACK to RACK routines. The timestamp is now recorded in the "ack_time" in tcp_sacktag_state during the ACK processing. This patch does not change the RACK algorithm itself. It only adds the RTT variable to prepare the next main patch. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-01-13tcp: new helper for RACK to detect lossYuchung Cheng
Create a new helper tcp_rack_detect_loss to prepare the upcoming RACK reordering timer patch. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-01-13tcp: new helper function for RACK loss detectionYuchung Cheng
Create a new helper tcp_rack_mark_skb_lost to prepare the upcoming RACK reordering timer support. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-05-02tcp: do not assume TCP code is non preemptibleEric Dumazet
We want to to make TCP stack preemptible, as draining prequeue and backlog queues can take lot of time. Many SNMP updates were assuming that BH (and preemption) was disabled. Need to convert some __NET_INC_STATS() calls to NET_INC_STATS() and some __TCP_INC_STATS() to TCP_INC_STATS() Before using this_cpu_ptr(net->ipv4.tcp_sk) in tcp_v4_send_reset() and tcp_v4_send_ack(), we add an explicit preempt disabled section. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-27net: rename NET_{ADD|INC}_STATS_BH()Eric Dumazet
Rename NET_INC_STATS_BH() to __NET_INC_STATS() and NET_ADD_STATS_BH() to __NET_ADD_STATS() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-21tcp: use RACK to detect lossesYuchung Cheng
This patch implements the second half of RACK that uses the the most recent transmit time among all delivered packets to detect losses. tcp_rack_mark_lost() is called upon receiving a dubious ACK. It then checks if an not-yet-sacked packet was sent at least "reo_wnd" prior to the sent time of the most recently delivered. If so the packet is deemed lost. The "reo_wnd" reordering window starts with 1msec for fast loss detection and changes to min-RTT/4 when reordering is observed. We found 1msec accommodates well on tiny degree of reordering (<3 pkts) on faster links. We use min-RTT instead of SRTT because reordering is more of a path property but SRTT can be inflated by self-inflicated congestion. The factor of 4 is borrowed from the delayed early retransmit and seems to work reasonably well. Since RACK is still experimental, it is now used as a supplemental loss detection on top of existing algorithms. It is only effective after the fast recovery starts or after the timeout occurs. The fast recovery is still triggered by FACK and/or dupack threshold instead of RACK. We introduce a new sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_recovery for future experiments of loss recoveries. For now RACK can be disabled by setting it to 0. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-21tcp: track the packet timings in RACKYuchung Cheng
This patch is the first half of the RACK loss recovery. RACK loss recovery uses the notion of time instead of packet sequence (FACK) or counts (dupthresh). It's inspired by the previous FACK heuristic in tcp_mark_lost_retrans(): when a limited transmit (new data packet) is sacked, then current retransmitted sequence below the newly sacked sequence must been lost, since at least one round trip time has elapsed. But it has several limitations: 1) can't detect tail drops since it depends on limited transmit 2) is disabled upon reordering (assumes no reordering) 3) only enabled in fast recovery ut not timeout recovery RACK (Recently ACK) addresses these limitations with the notion of time instead: a packet P1 is lost if a later packet P2 is s/acked, as at least one round trip has passed. Since RACK cares about the time sequence instead of the data sequence of packets, it can detect tail drops when later retransmission is s/acked while FACK or dupthresh can't. For reordering RACK uses a dynamically adjusted reordering window ("reo_wnd") to reduce false positives on ever (small) degree of reordering. This patch implements tcp_advanced_rack() which tracks the most recent transmission time among the packets that have been delivered (ACKed or SACKed) in tp->rack.mstamp. This timestamp is the key to determine which packet has been lost. Consider an example that the sender sends six packets: T1: P1 (lost) T2: P2 T3: P3 T4: P4 T100: sack of P2. rack.mstamp = T2 T101: retransmit P1 T102: sack of P2,P3,P4. rack.mstamp = T4 T205: ACK of P4 since the hole is repaired. rack.mstamp = T101 We need to be careful about spurious retransmission because it may falsely advance tp->rack.mstamp by an RTT or an RTO, causing RACK to falsely mark all packets lost, just like a spurious timeout. We identify spurious retransmission by the ACK's TS echo value. If TS option is not applicable but the retransmission is acknowledged less than min-RTT ago, it is likely to be spurious. We refrain from using the transmission time of these spurious retransmissions. The second half is implemented in the next patch that marks packet lost using RACK timestamp. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>