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Neal Cardwell
675297c904 tcp: remove redundant code in __tcp_retransmit_skb()
Remove the specialized code in __tcp_retransmit_skb() that tries to trim
any ACKed payload preceding a FIN before we retransmit (this was added
in 1999 in v2.2.3pre3). This trimming code was made unreachable by the
more general code added above it that uses tcp_trim_head() to trim any
ACKed payload, with or without a FIN (this was added in "[NET]: Add
segmentation offload support to TCP." in 2002 circa v2.5.33).

Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-18 16:22:00 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
8f26fb1c1e tcp: remove the sk_can_gso() check from tcp_set_skb_tso_segs()
sk_can_gso() should only be used as a hint in tcp_sendmsg() to build GSO
packets in the first place. (As a performance hint)

Once we have GSO packets in write queue, we can not decide they are no
longer GSO only because flow now uses a route which doesn't handle
TSO/GSO.

Core networking stack handles the case very well for us, all we need
is keeping track of packet counts in MSS terms, regardless of
segmentation done later (in GSO or hardware)

Right now, if  tcp_fragment() splits a GSO packet in two parts,
@left and @right, and route changed through a non GSO device,
both @left and @right have pcount set to 1, which is wrong,
and leads to incorrect packet_count tracking.

This problem was added in commit d5ac99a648 ("[TCP]: skb pcount with MTU
discovery")

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Reported-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-17 16:08:08 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
c52e2421f7 tcp: must unclone packets before mangling them
TCP stack should make sure it owns skbs before mangling them.

We had various crashes using bnx2x, and it turned out gso_size
was cleared right before bnx2x driver was populating TC descriptor
of the _previous_ packet send. TCP stack can sometime retransmit
packets that are still in Qdisc.

Of course we could make bnx2x driver more robust (using
ACCESS_ONCE(shinfo->gso_size) for example), but the bug is TCP stack.

We have identified two points where skb_unclone() was needed.

This patch adds a WARN_ON_ONCE() to warn us if we missed another
fix of this kind.

Kudos to Neal for finding the root cause of this bug. Its visible
using small MSS.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-17 16:08:08 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
ccdbb6e96b tcp: tcp_transmit_skb() optimizations
1) We need to take a timestamp only for skb that should be cloned.

Other skbs are not in write queue and no rtt estimation is done on them.

2) the unlikely() hint is wrong for receivers (they send pure ACK)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: MF Nowlan <fitz@cs.yale.edu>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-By: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-11 17:48:18 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
b44084c2c8 inet: rename ir_loc_port to ir_num
In commit 634fb979e8 ("inet: includes a sock_common in request_sock")
I forgot that the two ports in sock_common do not have same byte order :

skc_dport is __be16 (network order), but skc_num is __u16 (host order)

So sparse complains because ir_loc_port (mapped into skc_num) is
considered as __u16 while it should be __be16

Let rename ir_loc_port to ireq->ir_num (analogy with inet->inet_num),
and perform appropriate htons/ntohs conversions.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-10 14:37:35 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
634fb979e8 inet: includes a sock_common in request_sock
TCP listener refactoring, part 5 :

We want to be able to insert request sockets (SYN_RECV) into main
ehash table instead of the per listener hash table to allow RCU
lookups and remove listener lock contention.

This patch includes the needed struct sock_common in front
of struct request_sock

This means there is no more inet6_request_sock IPv6 specific
structure.

Following inet_request_sock fields were renamed as they became
macros to reference fields from struct sock_common.
Prefix ir_ was chosen to avoid name collisions.

loc_port   -> ir_loc_port
loc_addr   -> ir_loc_addr
rmt_addr   -> ir_rmt_addr
rmt_port   -> ir_rmt_port
iif        -> ir_iif

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-10 00:08:07 -04:00
Andi Kleen
5843ef4213 tcp: Always set options to 0 before calling tcp_established_options
tcp_established_options assumes opts->options is 0 before calling,
as it read modify writes it.

For the tcp_current_mss() case the opts structure is not zeroed,
so this can be done with uninitialized values.

This is ok, because ->options is not read in this path.
But it's still better to avoid the operation on the uninitialized
field. This shuts up a static code analyzer, and presumably
may help the optimizer.

Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-02 16:32:43 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
c9eeec26e3 tcp: TSQ can use a dynamic limit
When TCP Small Queues was added, we used a sysctl to limit amount of
packets queues on Qdisc/device queues for a given TCP flow.

Problem is this limit is either too big for low rates, or too small
for high rates.

Now TCP stack has rate estimation in sk->sk_pacing_rate, and TSO
auto sizing, it can better control number of packets in Qdisc/device
queues.

New limit is two packets or at least 1 to 2 ms worth of packets.

Low rates flows benefit from this patch by having even smaller
number of packets in queues, allowing for faster recovery,
better RTT estimations.

High rates flows benefit from this patch by allowing more than 2 packets
in flight as we had reports this was a limiting factor to reach line
rate. [ In particular if TX completion is delayed because of coalescing
parameters ]

Example for a single flow on 10Gbp link controlled by FQ/pacing

14 packets in flight instead of 2

$ tc -s -d qd
qdisc fq 8001: dev eth0 root refcnt 32 limit 10000p flow_limit 100p
buckets 1024 quantum 3028 initial_quantum 15140
 Sent 1168459366606 bytes 771822841 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0
requeues 6822476)
 rate 9346Mbit 771713pps backlog 953820b 14p requeues 6822476
  2047 flow, 2046 inactive, 1 throttled, delay 15673 ns
  2372 gc, 0 highprio, 0 retrans, 9739249 throttled, 0 flows_plimit

Note that sk_pacing_rate is currently set to twice the actual rate, but
this might be refined in the future when a flow is in congestion
avoidance.

Additional change : skb->destructor should be set to tcp_wfree().

A future patch (for linux 3.13+) might remove tcp_limit_output_bytes

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-30 20:41:57 -07:00
David S. Miller
06c54055be Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c
	net/bridge/br_multicast.c
	net/ipv6/sit.c

The conflicts were minor:

1) sit.c changes overlap with change to ip_tunnel_xmit() signature.

2) br_multicast.c had an overlap between computing max_delay using
   msecs_to_jiffies and turning MLDV2_MRC() into an inline function
   with a name using lowercase instead of uppercase letters.

3) stmmac had two overlapping changes, one which conditionally allocated
   and hooked up a dma_cfg based upon the presence of the pbl OF property,
   and another one handling store-and-forward DMA made.  The latter of
   which should not go into the new of_find_property() basic block.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-05 14:58:52 -04:00
Phil Oester
eb8895debe tcp: tcp_make_synack() should use sock_wmalloc
In commit 90ba9b19 (tcp: tcp_make_synack() can use alloc_skb()), Eric changed
the call to sock_wmalloc in tcp_make_synack to alloc_skb.  In doing so,
the netfilter owner match lost its ability to block the SYNACK packet on
outbound listening sockets.  Revert the change, restoring the owner match
functionality.

This closes netfilter bugzilla #847.

Signed-off-by: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-30 16:02:04 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
95bd09eb27 tcp: TSO packets automatic sizing
After hearing many people over past years complaining against TSO being
bursty or even buggy, we are proud to present automatic sizing of TSO
packets.

One part of the problem is that tcp_tso_should_defer() uses an heuristic
relying on upcoming ACKS instead of a timer, but more generally, having
big TSO packets makes little sense for low rates, as it tends to create
micro bursts on the network, and general consensus is to reduce the
buffering amount.

This patch introduces a per socket sk_pacing_rate, that approximates
the current sending rate, and allows us to size the TSO packets so
that we try to send one packet every ms.

This field could be set by other transports.

Patch has no impact for high speed flows, where having large TSO packets
makes sense to reach line rate.

For other flows, this helps better packet scheduling and ACK clocking.

This patch increases performance of TCP flows in lossy environments.

A new sysctl (tcp_min_tso_segs) is added, to specify the
minimal size of a TSO packet (default being 2).

A follow-up patch will provide a new packet scheduler (FQ), using
sk_pacing_rate as an input to perform optional per flow pacing.

This explains why we chose to set sk_pacing_rate to twice the current
rate, allowing 'slow start' ramp up.

sk_pacing_rate = 2 * cwnd * mss / srtt

v2: Neal Cardwell reported a suspect deferring of last two segments on
initial write of 10 MSS, I had to change tcp_tso_should_defer() to take
into account tp->xmit_size_goal_segs

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Van Jacobson <vanj@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-29 15:50:06 -04:00
Andrew Vagin
c7781a6e3c tcp: initialize rcv_tstamp for restored sockets
u32 rcv_tstamp;     /* timestamp of last received ACK */

Its value used in tcp_retransmit_timer, which closes socket
if the last ack was received more then TCP_RTO_MAX ago.

Currently rcv_tstamp is initialized to zero and if tcp_retransmit_timer
is called before receiving a first ack, the connection is closed.

This patch initializes rcv_tstamp to a timestamp, when a socket was
restored.

Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Reported-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-29 15:11:11 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
c9bee3b7fd tcp: TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option
Idea of this patch is to add optional limitation of number of
unsent bytes in TCP sockets, to reduce usage of kernel memory.

TCP receiver might announce a big window, and TCP sender autotuning
might allow a large amount of bytes in write queue, but this has little
performance impact if a large part of this buffering is wasted :

Write queue needs to be large only to deal with large BDP, not
necessarily to cope with scheduling delays (incoming ACKS make room
for the application to queue more bytes)

For most workloads, using a value of 128 KB or less is OK to give
applications enough time to react to POLLOUT events in time
(or being awaken in a blocking sendmsg())

This patch adds two ways to set the limit :

1) Per socket option TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT

2) A sysctl (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat) for sockets
not using TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option (or setting a zero value)
Default value being UINT_MAX (0xFFFFFFFF), meaning this has no effect.

This changes poll()/select()/epoll() to report POLLOUT
only if number of unsent bytes is below tp->nosent_lowat

Note this might increase number of sendmsg()/sendfile() calls
when using non blocking sockets,
and increase number of context switches for blocking sockets.

Note this is not related to SO_SNDLOWAT (as SO_SNDLOWAT is
defined as :
 Specify the minimum number of bytes in the buffer until
 the socket layer will pass the data to the protocol)

Tested:

netperf sessions, and watching /proc/net/protocols "memory" column for TCP

With 200 concurrent netperf -t TCP_STREAM sessions, amount of kernel memory
used by TCP buffers shrinks by ~55 % (20567 pages instead of 45458)

lpq83:~# echo -1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
lpq83:~# (super_netperf 200 -t TCP_STREAM -H remote -l 90 &); sleep 60 ; grep TCP /proc/net/protocols
TCPv6     1880      2   45458   no     208   yes  ipv6        y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  n  y  y  y  y  y
TCP       1696    508   45458   no     208   yes  kernel      y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  n  y  y  y  y  y

lpq83:~# echo 131072 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
lpq83:~# (super_netperf 200 -t TCP_STREAM -H remote -l 90 &); sleep 60 ; grep TCP /proc/net/protocols
TCPv6     1880      2   20567   no     208   yes  ipv6        y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  n  y  y  y  y  y
TCP       1696    508   20567   no     208   yes  kernel      y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  n  y  y  y  y  y

Using 128KB has no bad effect on the throughput or cpu usage
of a single flow, although there is an increase of context switches.

A bonus is that we hold socket lock for a shorter amount
of time and should improve latencies of ACK processing.

lpq83:~# echo -1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
lpq83:~# perf stat -e context-switches ./netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t omni -l 20 -c -i10,3
OMNI Send TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : +/-2.500% @ 99% conf.
Local       Remote      Local  Elapsed Throughput Throughput  Local Local  Remote Remote Local   Remote  Service
Send Socket Recv Socket Send   Time               Units       CPU   CPU    CPU    CPU    Service Service Demand
Size        Size        Size   (sec)                          Util  Util   Util   Util   Demand  Demand  Units
Final       Final                                             %     Method %      Method
1651584     6291456     16384  20.00   17447.90   10^6bits/s  3.13  S      -1.00  U      0.353   -1.000  usec/KB

 Performance counter stats for './netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t omni -l 20 -c -i10,3':

           412,514 context-switches

     200.034645535 seconds time elapsed

lpq83:~# echo 131072 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
lpq83:~# perf stat -e context-switches ./netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t omni -l 20 -c -i10,3
OMNI Send TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : +/-2.500% @ 99% conf.
Local       Remote      Local  Elapsed Throughput Throughput  Local Local  Remote Remote Local   Remote  Service
Send Socket Recv Socket Send   Time               Units       CPU   CPU    CPU    CPU    Service Service Demand
Size        Size        Size   (sec)                          Util  Util   Util   Util   Demand  Demand  Units
Final       Final                                             %     Method %      Method
1593240     6291456     16384  20.00   17321.16   10^6bits/s  3.35  S      -1.00  U      0.381   -1.000  usec/KB

 Performance counter stats for './netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t omni -l 20 -c -i10,3':

         2,675,818 context-switches

     200.029651391 seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-By: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-07-24 17:54:48 -07:00
Yuchung Cheng
24ab6bec80 tcp: account all retransmit failures
Change snmp RETRANSFAILS stat to include timeout retransmit failures
in addition to other loss recoveries.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-07-12 16:15:56 -07:00
Cong Wang
bcefe17cff tcp: introduce a per-route knob for quick ack
In previous discussions, I tried to find some reasonable heuristics
for delayed ACK, however this seems not possible, according to Eric:

	"ACKS might also be delayed because of bidirectional
	traffic, and is more controlled by the application
	response time. TCP stack can not easily estimate it."

	"ACK can be incredibly useful to recover from losses in
	a short time.

	The vast majority of TCP sessions are small lived, and we
	send one ACK per received segment anyway at beginning or
	retransmits to let the sender smoothly increase its cwnd,
	so an auto-tuning facility wont help them that much."

and according to David:

	"ACKs are the only information we have to detect loss.

	And, for the same reasons that TCP VEGAS is fundamentally
	broken, we cannot measure the pipe or some other
	receiver-side-visible piece of information to determine
	when it's "safe" to stretch ACK.

	And even if it's "safe", we should not do it so that losses are
	accurately detected and we don't spuriously retransmit.

	The only way to know when the bandwidth increases is to
	"test" it, by sending more and more packets until drops happen.
	That's why all successful congestion control algorithms must
	operate on explicited tested pieces of information.

	Similarly, it's not really possible to universally know if
	it's safe to stretch ACK or not."

It still makes sense to enable or disable quick ack mode like
what TCP_QUICK_ACK does.

Similar to TCP_QUICK_ACK option, but for people who can't
modify the source code and still wants to control
TCP delayed ACK behavior. As David suggested, this should belong
to per-path scope, since different pathes may want different
behaviors.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
CC: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-19 23:06:51 -07:00
Weiping Pan
9ef71e0c82 tcp:typo unset should be unsent
Signed-off-by: Weiping Pan <wpan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-19 22:21:09 -07:00
Yuchung Cheng
85f16525a2 tcp: properly send new data in fast recovery in first RTT
Linux sends new unset data during disorder and recovery state if all
(suspected) lost packets have been retransmitted ( RFC5681, section
3.2 step 1 & 2, RFC3517 section 4, NexSeg() Rule 2).  One requirement
is to keep the receive window about twice the estimated sender's
congestion window (tcp_rcv_space_adjust()), assuming the fast
retransmits repair the losses in the next round trip.

But currently it's not the case on the first round trip in either
normal or Fast Open connection, beucase the initial receive window
is identical to (expected) sender's initial congestion window. The
fix is to double it.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-13 02:46:29 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
547669d483 tcp: xps: fix reordering issues
commit 3853b5841c ("xps: Improvements in TX queue selection")
introduced ooo_okay flag, but the condition to set it is slightly wrong.

In our traces, we have seen ACK packets being received out of order,
and RST packets sent in response.

We should test if we have any packets still in host queue.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-05-23 18:29:20 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
6a5dc9e598 net: Add MIB counters for checksum errors
Add MIB counters for checksum errors in IP layer,
and TCP/UDP/ICMP layers, to help diagnose problems.

$ nstat -a | grep  Csum
IcmpInCsumErrors                72                 0.0
TcpInCsumErrors                 382                0.0
UdpInCsumErrors                 463221             0.0
Icmp6InCsumErrors               75                 0.0
Udp6InCsumErrors                173442             0.0
IpExtInCsumErrors               10884              0.0

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-29 15:14:03 -04:00
David S. Miller
6e0895c2ea Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
	drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
	include/net/scm.h
	net/batman-adv/routing.c
	net/ipv4/tcp_input.c

The e{uid,gid} --> {uid,gid} credentials fix conflicted with the
cleanup in net-next to now pass cred structs around.

The be2net driver had a bug fix in 'net' that overlapped with the VLAN
interface changes by Patrick McHardy in net-next.

An IGB conflict existed because in 'net' the build_skb() support was
reverted, and in 'net-next' there was a comment style fix within that
code.

Several batman-adv conflicts were resolved by making sure that all
calls to batadv_is_my_mac() are changed to have a new bat_priv first
argument.

Eric Dumazet's TS ECR fix in TCP in 'net' conflicted with the F-RTO
rewrite in 'net-next', mostly overlapping changes.

Thanks to Stephen Rothwell and Antonio Quartulli for help with several
of these merge resolutions.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-22 20:32:51 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
0e280af026 tcp: introduce TCPSpuriousRtxHostQueues SNMP counter
Host queues (Qdisc + NIC) can hold packets so long that TCP can
eventually retransmit a packet before the first transmit even left
the host.

Its not clear right now if we could avoid this in the first place :

- We could arm RTO timer not at the time we enqueue packets, but
  at the time we TX complete them (tcp_wfree())

- Cancel the sending of the new copy of the packet if prior one
  is still in queue.

This patch adds instrumentation so that we can at least see how
often this problem happens.

TCPSpuriousRtxHostQueues SNMP counter is incremented every time
we detect the fast clone is not yet freed in tcp_transmit_skb()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-18 14:57:25 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
d6a4a10411 tcp: GSO should be TSQ friendly
I noticed that TSQ (TCP Small queues) was less effective when TSO is
turned off, and GSO is on. If BQL is not enabled, TSQ has then no
effect.

It turns out the GSO engine frees the original gso_skb at the time the
fragments are generated and queued to the NIC.

We should instead call the tcp_wfree() destructor for the last fragment,
to keep the flow control as intended in TSQ. This effectively limits
the number of queued packets on qdisc + NIC layers.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-12 18:17:06 -04:00
Thomas Graf
50bceae9bd tcp: Reallocate headroom if it would overflow csum_start
If a TCP retransmission gets partially ACKed and collapsed multiple
times it is possible for the headroom to grow beyond 64K which will
overflow the 16bit skb->csum_start which is based on the start of
the headroom. It has been observed rarely in the wild with IPoIB due
to the 64K MTU.

Verify if the acking and collapsing resulted in a headroom exceeding
what csum_start can cover and reallocate the headroom if so.

A big thank you to Jim Foraker <foraker1@llnl.gov> and the team at
LLNL for helping out with the investigation and testing.

Reported-by: Jim Foraker <foraker1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-11 18:12:41 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
ca10b9e9a8 selinux: add a skb_owned_by() hook
Commit 90ba9b1986 (tcp: tcp_make_synack() can use alloc_skb())
broke certain SELinux/NetLabel configurations by no longer correctly
assigning the sock to the outgoing SYNACK packet.

Cost of atomic operations on the LISTEN socket is quite big,
and we would like it to happen only if really needed.

This patch introduces a new security_ops->skb_owned_by() method,
that is a void operation unless selinux is active.

Reported-by: Miroslav Vadkerti <mvadkert@redhat.com>
Diagnosed-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-09 13:23:11 -04:00
David S. Miller
ea3d1cc285 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Pull to get the thermal netlink multicast group name fix, otherwise
the assertion added in net-next to netlink to detect that kind of bug
makes systems unbootable for some folks.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-22 12:53:09 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
f4541d60a4 tcp: preserve ACK clocking in TSO
A long standing problem with TSO is the fact that tcp_tso_should_defer()
rearms the deferred timer, while it should not.

Current code leads to following bad bursty behavior :

20:11:24.484333 IP A > B: . 297161:316921(19760) ack 1 win 119
20:11:24.484337 IP B > A: . ack 263721 win 1117
20:11:24.485086 IP B > A: . ack 265241 win 1117
20:11:24.485925 IP B > A: . ack 266761 win 1117
20:11:24.486759 IP B > A: . ack 268281 win 1117
20:11:24.487594 IP B > A: . ack 269801 win 1117
20:11:24.488430 IP B > A: . ack 271321 win 1117
20:11:24.489267 IP B > A: . ack 272841 win 1117
20:11:24.490104 IP B > A: . ack 274361 win 1117
20:11:24.490939 IP B > A: . ack 275881 win 1117
20:11:24.491775 IP B > A: . ack 277401 win 1117
20:11:24.491784 IP A > B: . 316921:332881(15960) ack 1 win 119
20:11:24.492620 IP B > A: . ack 278921 win 1117
20:11:24.493448 IP B > A: . ack 280441 win 1117
20:11:24.494286 IP B > A: . ack 281961 win 1117
20:11:24.495122 IP B > A: . ack 283481 win 1117
20:11:24.495958 IP B > A: . ack 285001 win 1117
20:11:24.496791 IP B > A: . ack 286521 win 1117
20:11:24.497628 IP B > A: . ack 288041 win 1117
20:11:24.498459 IP B > A: . ack 289561 win 1117
20:11:24.499296 IP B > A: . ack 291081 win 1117
20:11:24.500133 IP B > A: . ack 292601 win 1117
20:11:24.500970 IP B > A: . ack 294121 win 1117
20:11:24.501388 IP B > A: . ack 295641 win 1117
20:11:24.501398 IP A > B: . 332881:351881(19000) ack 1 win 119

While the expected behavior is more like :

20:19:49.259620 IP A > B: . 197601:202161(4560) ack 1 win 119
20:19:49.260446 IP B > A: . ack 154281 win 1212
20:19:49.261282 IP B > A: . ack 155801 win 1212
20:19:49.262125 IP B > A: . ack 157321 win 1212
20:19:49.262136 IP A > B: . 202161:206721(4560) ack 1 win 119
20:19:49.262958 IP B > A: . ack 158841 win 1212
20:19:49.263795 IP B > A: . ack 160361 win 1212
20:19:49.264628 IP B > A: . ack 161881 win 1212
20:19:49.264637 IP A > B: . 206721:211281(4560) ack 1 win 119
20:19:49.265465 IP B > A: . ack 163401 win 1212
20:19:49.265886 IP B > A: . ack 164921 win 1212
20:19:49.266722 IP B > A: . ack 166441 win 1212
20:19:49.266732 IP A > B: . 211281:215841(4560) ack 1 win 119
20:19:49.267559 IP B > A: . ack 167961 win 1212
20:19:49.268394 IP B > A: . ack 169481 win 1212
20:19:49.269232 IP B > A: . ack 171001 win 1212
20:19:49.269241 IP A > B: . 215841:221161(5320) ack 1 win 119

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Van Jacobson <vanj@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-22 10:34:03 -04:00
Yuchung Cheng
9b44190dc1 tcp: refactor F-RTO
The patch series refactor the F-RTO feature (RFC4138/5682).

This is to simplify the loss recovery processing. Existing F-RTO
was developed during the experimental stage (RFC4138) and has
many experimental features.  It takes a separate code path from
the traditional timeout processing by overloading CA_Disorder
instead of using CA_Loss state. This complicates CA_Disorder state
handling because it's also used for handling dubious ACKs and undos.
While the algorithm in the RFC does not change the congestion control,
the implementation intercepts congestion control in various places
(e.g., frto_cwnd in tcp_ack()).

The new code implements newer F-RTO RFC5682 using CA_Loss processing
path.  F-RTO becomes a small extension in the timeout processing
and interfaces with congestion control and Eifel undo modules.
It lets congestion control (module) determines how many to send
independently.  F-RTO only chooses what to send in order to detect
spurious retranmission. If timeout is found spurious it invokes
existing Eifel undo algorithms like DSACK or TCP timestamp based
detection.

The first patch removes all F-RTO code except the sysctl_tcp_frto is
left for the new implementation.  Since CA_EVENT_FRTO is removed, TCP
westwood now computes ssthresh on regular timeout CA_EVENT_LOSS event.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-21 11:47:50 -04:00
David S. Miller
61816596d1 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Pull in the 'net' tree to get Daniel Borkmann's flow dissector
infrastructure change.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-20 12:46:26 -04:00
Christoph Paasch
1a2c6181c4 tcp: Remove TCPCT
TCPCT uses option-number 253, reserved for experimental use and should
not be used in production environments.
Further, TCPCT does not fully implement RFC 6013.

As a nice side-effect, removing TCPCT increases TCP's performance for
very short flows:

Doing an apache-benchmark with -c 100 -n 100000, sending HTTP-requests
for files of 1KB size.

before this patch:
	average (among 7 runs) of 20845.5 Requests/Second
after:
	average (among 7 runs) of 21403.6 Requests/Second

Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-17 14:35:13 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
16fad69cfe tcp: fix skb_availroom()
Chrome OS team reported a crash on a Pixel ChromeBook in TCP stack :

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=182056

commit a21d45726a (tcp: avoid order-1 allocations on wifi and tx
path) did a poor choice adding an 'avail_size' field to skb, while
what we really needed was a 'reserved_tailroom' one.

It would have avoided commit 22b4a4f22d (tcp: fix retransmit of
partially acked frames) and this commit.

Crash occurs because skb_split() is not aware of the 'avail_size'
management (and should not be aware)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Mukesh Agrawal <quiche@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-14 11:49:45 -04:00
Nandita Dukkipati
9b717a8d24 tcp: TLP loss detection.
This is the second of the TLP patch series; it augments the basic TLP
algorithm with a loss detection scheme.

This patch implements a mechanism for loss detection when a Tail
loss probe retransmission plugs a hole thereby masking packet loss
from the sender. The loss detection algorithm relies on counting
TLP dupacks as outlined in Sec. 3 of:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dukkipati-tcpm-tcp-loss-probe-01

The basic idea is: Sender keeps track of TLP "episode" upon
retransmission of a TLP packet. An episode ends when the sender receives
an ACK above the SND.NXT (tracked by tlp_high_seq) at the time of the
episode. We want to make sure that before the episode ends the sender
receives a "TLP dupack", indicating that the TLP retransmission was
unnecessary, so there was no loss/hole that needed plugging. If the
sender gets no TLP dupack before the end of the episode, then it reduces
ssthresh and the congestion window, because the TLP packet arriving at
the receiver probably plugged a hole.

Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-12 08:30:34 -04:00
Nandita Dukkipati
6ba8a3b19e tcp: Tail loss probe (TLP)
This patch series implement the Tail loss probe (TLP) algorithm described
in http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dukkipati-tcpm-tcp-loss-probe-01. The
first patch implements the basic algorithm.

TLP's goal is to reduce tail latency of short transactions. It achieves
this by converting retransmission timeouts (RTOs) occuring due
to tail losses (losses at end of transactions) into fast recovery.
TLP transmits one packet in two round-trips when a connection is in
Open state and isn't receiving any ACKs. The transmitted packet, aka
loss probe, can be either new or a retransmission. When there is tail
loss, the ACK from a loss probe triggers FACK/early-retransmit based
fast recovery, thus avoiding a costly RTO. In the absence of loss,
there is no change in the connection state.

PTO stands for probe timeout. It is a timer event indicating
that an ACK is overdue and triggers a loss probe packet. The PTO value
is set to max(2*SRTT, 10ms) and is adjusted to account for delayed
ACK timer when there is only one oustanding packet.

TLP Algorithm

On transmission of new data in Open state:
  -> packets_out > 1: schedule PTO in max(2*SRTT, 10ms).
  -> packets_out == 1: schedule PTO in max(2*RTT, 1.5*RTT + 200ms)
  -> PTO = min(PTO, RTO)

Conditions for scheduling PTO:
  -> Connection is in Open state.
  -> Connection is either cwnd limited or no new data to send.
  -> Number of probes per tail loss episode is limited to one.
  -> Connection is SACK enabled.

When PTO fires:
  new_segment_exists:
    -> transmit new segment.
    -> packets_out++. cwnd remains same.

  no_new_packet:
    -> retransmit the last segment.
       Its ACK triggers FACK or early retransmit based recovery.

ACK path:
  -> rearm RTO at start of ACK processing.
  -> reschedule PTO if need be.

In addition, the patch includes a small variation to the Early Retransmit
(ER) algorithm, such that ER and TLP together can in principle recover any
N-degree of tail loss through fast recovery. TLP is controlled by the same
sysctl as ER, tcp_early_retrans sysctl.
tcp_early_retrans==0; disables TLP and ER.
		 ==1; enables RFC5827 ER.
		 ==2; delayed ER.
		 ==3; TLP and delayed ER. [DEFAULT]
		 ==4; TLP only.

The TLP patch series have been extensively tested on Google Web servers.
It is most effective for short Web trasactions, where it reduced RTOs by 15%
and improved HTTP response time (average by 6%, 99th percentile by 10%).
The transmitted probes account for <0.5% of the overall transmissions.

Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-12 08:30:34 -04:00
Yuchung Cheng
1b63edd6ec tcp: fix SYN-data space mis-accounting
In fast open the sender unncessarily reduces the space available
for data in SYN by 12 bytes.  This is because in the sender
incorrectly reserves space for TS option twice in tcp_send_syn_data():
tcp_mtu_to_mss() already accounts for TS option space. But it further
reserves MAX_TCP_OPTION_SPACE when computing the payload space.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-22 15:10:19 -05:00
Pravin B Shelar
14bbd6a565 net: Add skb_unclone() helper function.
This function will be used in next GRE_GSO patch. This patch does
not change any functionality.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
2013-02-15 15:10:37 -05:00
Pravin B Shelar
c9af6db4c1 net: Fix possible wrong checksum generation.
Patch cef401de7b (net: fix possible wrong checksum
generation) fixed wrong checksum calculation but it broke TSO by
defining new GSO type but not a netdev feature for that type.
net_gso_ok() would not allow hardware checksum/segmentation
offload of such packets without the feature.

Following patch fixes TSO and wrong checksum. This patch uses
same logic that Eric Dumazet used. Patch introduces new flag
SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG if at least one frag can be modified by
the user. but SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG flag is kept in skb shared
info tx_flags rather than gso_type.

tx_flags is better compared to gso_type since we can have skb with
shared frag without gso packet. It does not link SHARED_FRAG to
GSO, So there is no need to define netdev feature for this.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-13 13:30:10 -05:00
Andrey Vagin
ee684b6f28 tcp: send packets with a socket timestamp
A socket timestamp is a sum of the global tcp_time_stamp and
a per-socket offset.

A socket offset is added in places where externally visible
tcp timestamp option is parsed/initialized.

Connections in the SYN_RECV state are not supported, global
tcp_time_stamp is used for them, because repair mode doesn't support
this state. In a future it can be implemented by the similar way
as for TIME_WAIT sockets.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-13 13:22:16 -05:00
Eric Dumazet
cef401de7b net: fix possible wrong checksum generation
Pravin Shelar mentioned that GSO could potentially generate
wrong TX checksum if skb has fragments that are overwritten
by the user between the checksum computation and transmit.

He suggested to linearize skbs but this extra copy can be
avoided for normal tcp skbs cooked by tcp_sendmsg().

This patch introduces a new SKB_GSO_SHARED_FRAG flag, set
in skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type if at least one frag can be
modified by the user.

Typical sources of such possible overwrites are {vm}splice(),
sendfile(), and macvtap/tun/virtio_net drivers.

Tested:

$ netperf -H 7.7.8.84
MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to
7.7.8.84 () port 0 AF_INET
Recv   Send    Send
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/sec

 87380  16384  16384    10.00    3959.52

$ netperf -H 7.7.8.84 -t TCP_SENDFILE
TCP SENDFILE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 7.7.8.84 ()
port 0 AF_INET
Recv   Send    Send
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/sec

 87380  16384  16384    10.00    3216.80

Performance of the SENDFILE is impacted by the extra allocation and
copy, and because we use order-0 pages, while the TCP_STREAM uses
bigger pages.

Reported-by: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-28 00:27:15 -05:00
Hannes Frederic Sowa
5d134f1c1f tcp: make sysctl_tcp_ecn namespace aware
As per suggestion from Eric Dumazet this patch makes tcp_ecn sysctl
namespace aware.  The reason behind this patch is to ease the testing
of ecn problems on the internet and allows applications to tune their
own use of ecn.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-06 21:09:56 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6be35c700f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking changes from David Miller:

1) Allow to dump, monitor, and change the bridge multicast database
   using netlink.  From Cong Wang.

2) RFC 5961 TCP blind data injection attack mitigation, from Eric
   Dumazet.

3) Networking user namespace support from Eric W. Biederman.

4) tuntap/virtio-net multiqueue support by Jason Wang.

5) Support for checksum offload of encapsulated packets (basically,
   tunneled traffic can still be checksummed by HW).  From Joseph
   Gasparakis.

6) Allow BPF filter access to VLAN tags, from Eric Dumazet and
   Daniel Borkmann.

7) Bridge port parameters over netlink and BPDU blocking support
   from Stephen Hemminger.

8) Improve data access patterns during inet socket demux by rearranging
   socket layout, from Eric Dumazet.

9) TIPC protocol updates and cleanups from Ying Xue, Paul Gortmaker, and
   Jon Maloy.

10) Update TCP socket hash sizing to be more in line with current day
    realities.  The existing heurstics were choosen a decade ago.
    From Eric Dumazet.

11) Fix races, queue bloat, and excessive wakeups in ATM and
    associated drivers, from Krzysztof Mazur and David Woodhouse.

12) Support DOVE (Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet) extensions
    in VXLAN driver, from David Stevens.

13) Add "oops_only" mode to netconsole, from Amerigo Wang.

14) Support set and query of VEB/VEPA bridge mode via PF_BRIDGE, also
    allow DCB netlink to work on namespaces other than the initial
    namespace.  From John Fastabend.

15) Support PTP in the Tigon3 driver, from Matt Carlson.

16) tun/vhost zero copy fixes and improvements, plus turn it on
    by default, from Michael S. Tsirkin.

17) Support per-association statistics in SCTP, from Michele
    Baldessari.

And many, many, driver updates, cleanups, and improvements.  Too
numerous to mention individually.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1722 commits)
  net/mlx4_en: Add support for destination MAC in steering rules
  net/mlx4_en: Use generic etherdevice.h functions.
  net: ethtool: Add destination MAC address to flow steering API
  bridge: add support of adding and deleting mdb entries
  bridge: notify mdb changes via netlink
  ndisc: Unexport ndisc_{build,send}_skb().
  uapi: add missing netconf.h to export list
  pkt_sched: avoid requeues if possible
  solos-pci: fix double-free of TX skb in DMA mode
  bnx2: Fix accidental reversions.
  bna: Driver Version Updated to 3.1.2.1
  bna: Firmware update
  bna: Add RX State
  bna: Rx Page Based Allocation
  bna: TX Intr Coalescing Fix
  bna: Tx and Rx Optimizations
  bna: Code Cleanup and Enhancements
  ath9k: check pdata variable before dereferencing it
  ath5k: RX timestamp is reported at end of frame
  ath9k_htc: RX timestamp is reported at end of frame
  ...
2012-12-12 18:07:07 -08:00
Yuchung Cheng
93b174ad71 tcp: bug fix Fast Open client retransmission
If SYN-ACK partially acks SYN-data, the client retransmits the
remaining data by tcp_retransmit_skb(). This increments lost recovery
state variables like tp->retrans_out in Open state. If loss recovery
happens before the retransmission is acked, it triggers the WARN_ON
check in tcp_fastretrans_alert(). For example: the client sends
SYN-data, gets SYN-ACK acking only ISN, retransmits data, sends
another 4 data packets and get 3 dupacks.

Since the retransmission is not caused by network drop it should not
update the recovery state variables. Further the server may return a
smaller MSS than the cached MSS used for SYN-data, so the retranmission
needs a loop. Otherwise some data will not be retransmitted until timeout
or other loss recovery events.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-07 14:39:28 -05:00
Andrey Vagin
2b9164771e ipv6: adapt connect for repair move
This is work the same as for ipv4.

All other hacks about tcp repair are in common code for ipv4 and ipv6,
so this patch is enough for repairing ipv6 connections.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-22 15:30:14 -05:00
Andrew Vagin
ec34232575 tcp: fix retransmission in repair mode
Currently if a socket was repaired with a few packet in a write queue,
a kernel bug may be triggered:

kernel BUG at net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:2330!
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8155784f>] tcp_retransmit_skb+0x5ff/0x610

According to the initial realization v3.4-rc2-963-gc0e88ff,
all skb-s should look like already posted. This patch fixes code
according with this sentence.

Here are three points, which were not done in the initial patch:
1. A tcp send head should not be changed
2. Initialize TSO state of a skb
3. Reset the retransmission time

This patch moves logic from tcp_sendmsg to tcp_write_xmit. A packet
passes the ussual way, but isn't sent to network. This patch solves
all described problems and handles tcp_sendpages.

Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-15 17:44:58 -05:00
Yuchung Cheng
684bad1107 tcp: use PRR to reduce cwin in CWR state
Use proportional rate reduction (PRR) algorithm to reduce cwnd in CWR state,
in addition to Recovery state. Retire the current rate-halving in CWR.
When losses are detected via ACKs in CWR state, the sender enters Recovery
state but the cwnd reduction continues and does not restart.

Rename and refactor cwnd reduction functions since both CWR and Recovery
use the same algorithm:
tcp_init_cwnd_reduction() is new and initiates reduction state variables.
tcp_cwnd_reduction() is previously tcp_update_cwnd_in_recovery().
tcp_ends_cwnd_reduction() is previously  tcp_complete_cwr().

The rate halving functions and logic such as tcp_cwnd_down(), tcp_min_cwnd(),
and the cwnd moderation inside tcp_enter_cwr() are removed. The unused
parameter, flag, in tcp_cwnd_reduction() is also removed.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-03 14:34:02 -04:00
Jerry Chu
8336886f78 tcp: TCP Fast Open Server - support TFO listeners
This patch builds on top of the previous patch to add the support
for TFO listeners. This includes -

1. allocating, properly initializing, and managing the per listener
fastopen_queue structure when TFO is enabled

2. changes to the inet_csk_accept code to support TFO. E.g., the
request_sock can no longer be freed upon accept(), not until 3WHS
finishes

3. allowing a TCP_SYN_RECV socket to properly poll() and sendmsg()
if it's a TFO socket

4. properly closing a TFO listener, and a TFO socket before 3WHS
finishes

5. supporting TCP_FASTOPEN socket option

6. modifying tcp_check_req() to use to check a TFO socket as well
as request_sock

7. supporting TCP's TFO cookie option

8. adding a new SYN-ACK retransmit handler to use the timer directly
off the TFO socket rather than the listener socket. Note that TFO
server side will not retransmit anything other than SYN-ACK until
the 3WHS is completed.

The patch also contains an important function
"reqsk_fastopen_remove()" to manage the somewhat complex relation
between a listener, its request_sock, and the corresponding child
socket. See the comment above the function for the detail.

Signed-off-by: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-31 20:02:19 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
144d56e910 tcp: fix possible socket refcount problem
Commit 6f458dfb40 (tcp: improve latencies of timer triggered events)
added bug leading to following trace :

[ 2866.131281] IPv4: Attempt to release TCP socket in state 1 ffff880019ec0000
[ 2866.131726]
[ 2866.132188] =========================
[ 2866.132281] [ BUG: held lock freed! ]
[ 2866.132281] 3.6.0-rc1+ #622 Not tainted
[ 2866.132281] -------------------------
[ 2866.132281] kworker/0:1/652 is freeing memory ffff880019ec0000-ffff880019ec0a1f, with a lock still held there!
[ 2866.132281]  (sk_lock-AF_INET-RPC){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff81903619>] tcp_sendmsg+0x29/0xcc6
[ 2866.132281] 4 locks held by kworker/0:1/652:
[ 2866.132281]  #0:  (rpciod){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff81083567>] process_one_work+0x1de/0x47f
[ 2866.132281]  #1:  ((&task->u.tk_work)){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81083567>] process_one_work+0x1de/0x47f
[ 2866.132281]  #2:  (sk_lock-AF_INET-RPC){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff81903619>] tcp_sendmsg+0x29/0xcc6
[ 2866.132281]  #3:  (&icsk->icsk_retransmit_timer){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff81078017>] run_timer_softirq+0x1ad/0x35f
[ 2866.132281]
[ 2866.132281] stack backtrace:
[ 2866.132281] Pid: 652, comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 3.6.0-rc1+ #622
[ 2866.132281] Call Trace:
[ 2866.132281]  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff810bc527>] debug_check_no_locks_freed+0x112/0x159
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff818a0839>] ? __sk_free+0xfd/0x114
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff811549fa>] kmem_cache_free+0x6b/0x13a
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff818a0839>] __sk_free+0xfd/0x114
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff818a08c0>] sk_free+0x1c/0x1e
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81911e1c>] tcp_write_timer+0x51/0x56
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81078082>] run_timer_softirq+0x218/0x35f
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81078017>] ? run_timer_softirq+0x1ad/0x35f
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff810f5831>] ? rb_commit+0x58/0x85
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81911dcb>] ? tcp_write_timer_handler+0x148/0x148
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81070bd6>] __do_softirq+0xcb/0x1f9
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81a0a00c>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x29/0x2e
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81a1227c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81039f38>] do_softirq+0x4a/0xa6
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81070f2b>] irq_exit+0x51/0xad
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81a129cd>] do_IRQ+0x9d/0xb4
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81a0a3ef>] common_interrupt+0x6f/0x6f
[ 2866.132281]  <EOI>  [<ffffffff8109d006>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x58/0xd1
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81a0a172>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4c/0x56
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81078692>] mod_timer+0x178/0x1a9
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff818a00aa>] sk_reset_timer+0x19/0x26
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8190b2cc>] tcp_rearm_rto+0x99/0xa4
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8190dfba>] tcp_event_new_data_sent+0x6e/0x70
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8190f7ea>] tcp_write_xmit+0x7de/0x8e4
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff818a565d>] ? __alloc_skb+0xa0/0x1a1
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8190f952>] __tcp_push_pending_frames+0x2e/0x8a
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81904122>] tcp_sendmsg+0xb32/0xcc6
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff819229c2>] inet_sendmsg+0xaa/0xd5
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81922918>] ? inet_autobind+0x5f/0x5f
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff810ee7f1>] ? trace_clock_local+0x9/0xb
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8189adab>] sock_sendmsg+0xa3/0xc4
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff810f5de6>] ? rb_reserve_next_event+0x26f/0x2d5
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8103e6a9>] ? native_sched_clock+0x29/0x6f
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8103e6f8>] ? sched_clock+0x9/0xd
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff810ee7f1>] ? trace_clock_local+0x9/0xb
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8189ae03>] kernel_sendmsg+0x37/0x43
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8199ce49>] xs_send_kvec+0x77/0x80
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8199cec1>] xs_sendpages+0x6f/0x1a0
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8107826d>] ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0x55/0x61
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8199d0d2>] xs_tcp_send_request+0x55/0xf1
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8199bb90>] xprt_transmit+0x89/0x1db
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81999bcd>] ? call_connect+0x3c/0x3c
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81999d92>] call_transmit+0x1c5/0x20e
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff819a0d55>] __rpc_execute+0x6f/0x225
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81999bcd>] ? call_connect+0x3c/0x3c
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff819a0f33>] rpc_async_schedule+0x28/0x34
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff810835d6>] process_one_work+0x24d/0x47f
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81083567>] ? process_one_work+0x1de/0x47f
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff819a0f0b>] ? __rpc_execute+0x225/0x225
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81083a6d>] worker_thread+0x236/0x317
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81083837>] ? process_scheduled_works+0x2f/0x2f
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8108b7b8>] kthread+0x9a/0xa2
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81a12184>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81a0a4b0>] ? retint_restore_args+0x13/0x13
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff8108b71e>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x5a/0x5a
[ 2866.132281]  [<ffffffff81a12180>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13
[ 2866.308506] IPv4: Attempt to release TCP socket in state 1 ffff880019ec0000
[ 2866.309689] =============================================================================
[ 2866.310254] BUG TCP (Not tainted): Object already free
[ 2866.310254] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ 2866.310254]

The bug comes from the fact that timer set in sk_reset_timer() can run
before we actually do the sock_hold(). socket refcount reaches zero and
we free the socket too soon.

timer handler is not allowed to reduce socket refcnt if socket is owned
by the user, or we need to change sk_reset_timer() implementation.

We should take a reference on the socket in case TCP_DELACK_TIMER_DEFERRED
or TCP_DELACK_TIMER_DEFERRED bit are set in tsq_flags

Also fix a typo in tcp_delack_timer(), where TCP_WRITE_TIMER_DEFERRED
was used instead of TCP_DELACK_TIMER_DEFERRED.

For consistency, use same socket refcount change for TCP_MTU_REDUCED_DEFERRED,
even if not fired from a timer.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-21 14:42:23 -07:00
Silviu-Mihai Popescu
8e7dfbc8d1 tcp_output: fix sparse warning for tcp_wfree
Fix sparse warning:
	* symbol 'tcp_wfree' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Silviu-Mihai Popescu <silviupopescu1990@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-06 13:29:56 -07:00
Ben Hutchings
1485348d24 tcp: Apply device TSO segment limit earlier
Cache the device gso_max_segs in sock::sk_gso_max_segs and use it to
limit the size of TSO skbs.  This avoids the need to fall back to
software GSO for local TCP senders.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-02 00:19:17 -07:00
Mel Gorman
99a1dec70d net: introduce sk_gfp_atomic() to allow addition of GFP flags depending on the individual socket
Introduce sk_gfp_atomic(), this function allows to inject sock specific
flags to each sock related allocation.  It is only used on allocation
paths that may be required for writing pages back to network storage.

[davem@davemloft.net: Use sk_gfp_atomic only when necessary]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:46 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
563d34d057 tcp: dont drop MTU reduction indications
ICMP messages generated in output path if frame length is bigger than
mtu are actually lost because socket is owned by user (doing the xmit)

One example is the ipgre_tunnel_xmit() calling
icmp_send(skb, ICMP_DEST_UNREACH, ICMP_FRAG_NEEDED, htonl(mtu));

We had a similar case fixed in commit a34a101e1e (ipv6: disable GSO on
sockets hitting dst_allfrag).

Problem of such fix is that it relied on retransmit timers, so short tcp
sessions paid a too big latency increase price.

This patch uses the tcp_release_cb() infrastructure so that MTU
reduction messages (ICMP messages) are not lost, and no extra delay
is added in TCP transmits.

Reported-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Diagnosed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-23 00:58:46 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
6f458dfb40 tcp: improve latencies of timer triggered events
Modern TCP stack highly depends on tcp_write_timer() having a small
latency, but current implementation doesn't exactly meet the
expectations.

When a timer fires but finds the socket is owned by the user, it rearms
itself for an additional delay hoping next run will be more
successful.

tcp_write_timer() for example uses a 50ms delay for next try, and it
defeats many attempts to get predictable TCP behavior in term of
latencies.

Use the recently introduced tcp_release_cb(), so that the user owning
the socket will call various handlers right before socket release.

This will permit us to post a followup patch to address the
tcp_tso_should_defer() syndrome (some deferred packets have to wait
RTO timer to be transmitted, while cwnd should allow us to send them
sooner)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Cc: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Cc: John Heffner <johnwheffner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-20 10:59:41 -07:00
Yuchung Cheng
67da22d23f net-tcp: Fast Open client - cookie-less mode
In trusted networks, e.g., intranet, data-center, the client does not
need to use Fast Open cookie to mitigate DoS attacks. In cookie-less
mode, sendmsg() with MSG_FASTOPEN flag will send SYN-data regardless
of cookie availability.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-19 11:02:03 -07:00
Yuchung Cheng
aab4874355 net-tcp: Fast Open client - detecting SYN-data drops
On paths with firewalls dropping SYN with data or experimental TCP options,
Fast Open connections will have experience SYN timeout and bad performance.
The solution is to track such incidents in the cookie cache and disables
Fast Open temporarily.

Since only the original SYN includes data and/or Fast Open option, the
SYN-ACK has some tell-tale sign (tcp_rcv_fastopen_synack()) to detect
such drops. If a path has recurring Fast Open SYN drops, Fast Open is
disabled for 2^(recurring_losses) minutes starting from four minutes up to
roughly one and half day. sendmsg with MSG_FASTOPEN flag will succeed but
it behaves as connect() then write().

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-19 11:02:03 -07:00
Yuchung Cheng
783237e8da net-tcp: Fast Open client - sending SYN-data
This patch implements sending SYN-data in tcp_connect(). The data is
from tcp_sendmsg() with flag MSG_FASTOPEN (implemented in a later patch).

The length of the cookie in tcp_fastopen_req, init'd to 0, controls the
type of the SYN. If the cookie is not cached (len==0), the host sends
data-less SYN with Fast Open cookie request option to solicit a cookie
from the remote. If cookie is not available (len > 0), the host sends
a SYN-data with Fast Open cookie option. If cookie length is negative,
  the SYN will not include any Fast Open option (for fall back operations).

To deal with middleboxes that may drop SYN with data or experimental TCP
option, the SYN-data is only sent once. SYN retransmits do not include
data or Fast Open options. The connection will fall back to regular TCP
handshake.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-19 11:02:03 -07:00
Yuchung Cheng
2100c8d2d9 net-tcp: Fast Open base
This patch impelements the common code for both the client and server.

1. TCP Fast Open option processing. Since Fast Open does not have an
   option number assigned by IANA yet, it shares the experiment option
   code 254 by implementing draft-ietf-tcpm-experimental-options
   with a 16 bits magic number 0xF989. This enables global experiments
   without clashing the scarce(2) experimental options available for TCP.

   When the draft status becomes standard (maybe), the client should
   switch to the new option number assigned while the server supports
   both numbers for transistion.

2. The new sysctl tcp_fastopen

3. A place holder init function

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-19 10:55:36 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
d01cb20711 tcp: add LAST_ACK as a valid state for TSQ
Socket state LAST_ACK should allow TSQ to send additional frames,
or else we rely on incoming ACKS or timers to send them.

Reported-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Matt Mathis <mattmathis@google.com>
Cc: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-13 05:48:36 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
46d3ceabd8 tcp: TCP Small Queues
This introduce TSQ (TCP Small Queues)

TSQ goal is to reduce number of TCP packets in xmit queues (qdisc &
device queues), to reduce RTT and cwnd bias, part of the bufferbloat
problem.

sk->sk_wmem_alloc not allowed to grow above a given limit,
allowing no more than ~128KB [1] per tcp socket in qdisc/dev layers at a
given time.

TSO packets are sized/capped to half the limit, so that we have two
TSO packets in flight, allowing better bandwidth use.

As a side effect, setting the limit to 40000 automatically reduces the
standard gso max limit (65536) to 40000/2 : It can help to reduce
latencies of high prio packets, having smaller TSO packets.

This means we divert sock_wfree() to a tcp_wfree() handler, to
queue/send following frames when skb_orphan() [2] is called for the
already queued skbs.

Results on my dev machines (tg3/ixgbe nics) are really impressive,
using standard pfifo_fast, and with or without TSO/GSO.

Without reduction of nominal bandwidth, we have reduction of buffering
per bulk sender :
< 1ms on Gbit (instead of 50ms with TSO)
< 8ms on 100Mbit (instead of 132 ms)

I no longer have 4 MBytes backlogged in qdisc by a single netperf
session, and both side socket autotuning no longer use 4 Mbytes.

As skb destructor cannot restart xmit itself ( as qdisc lock might be
taken at this point ), we delegate the work to a tasklet. We use one
tasklest per cpu for performance reasons.

If tasklet finds a socket owned by the user, it sets TSQ_OWNED flag.
This flag is tested in a new protocol method called from release_sock(),
to eventually send new segments.

[1] New /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_limit_output_bytes tunable
[2] skb_orphan() is usually called at TX completion time,
  but some drivers call it in their start_xmit() handler.
  These drivers should at least use BQL, or else a single TCP
  session can still fill the whole NIC TX ring, since TSQ will
  have no effect.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Dave Taht <dave.taht@bufferbloat.net>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Matt Mathis <mattmathis@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-11 18:12:59 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
4aea39c11c tcp: tcp_make_synack() consumes dst parameter
tcp_make_synack() clones the dst, and callers release it.

We can avoid two atomic operations per SYNACK if tcp_make_synack()
consumes dst instead of cloning it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-04 11:27:39 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
90ba9b1986 tcp: tcp_make_synack() can use alloc_skb()
There is no value using sock_wmalloc() in tcp_make_synack().

A listener socket only sends SYNACK packets, they are not queued in a
socket queue, only in Qdisc and device layers, so the number of in
flight packets is limited in these layers. We used sock_wmalloc() with
the %force parameter set to 1 to ignore socket limits anyway.

This patch removes two atomic operations per SYNACK packet.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-04 11:27:39 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
a2a385d627 tcp: bool conversions
bool conversions where possible.

__inline__ -> inline

space cleanups

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-17 14:59:59 -04:00
Joe Perches
91df42bedc net: ipv4 and ipv6: Convert printk(KERN_DEBUG to pr_debug
Use the current debugging style and enable dynamic_debug.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-16 01:01:03 -04:00
Joe Perches
e87cc4728f net: Convert net_ratelimit uses to net_<level>_ratelimited
Standardize the net core ratelimited logging functions.

Coalesce formats, align arguments.
Change a printk then vprintk sequence to use printf extension %pV.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-15 13:45:03 -04:00
Yuchung Cheng
750ea2bafa tcp: early retransmit: delayed fast retransmit
Implementing the advanced early retransmit (sysctl_tcp_early_retrans==2).
Delays the fast retransmit by an interval of RTT/4. We borrow the
RTO timer to implement the delay. If we receive another ACK or send
a new packet, the timer is cancelled and restored to original RTO
value offset by time elapsed.  When the delayed-ER timer fires,
we enter fast recovery and perform fast retransmit.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-02 20:56:10 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
6746960140 ipv6: RTAX_FEATURE_ALLFRAG causes inefficient TCP segment sizing
Quoting Tore Anderson from :
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42572

When RTAX_FEATURE_ALLFRAG is set on a route, the effective TCP segment
size does not take into account the size of the IPv6 Fragmentation
header that needs to be included in outbound packets, causing every
transmitted TCP segment to be fragmented across two IPv6 packets, the
latter of which will only contain 8 bytes of actual payload.

RTAX_FEATURE_ALLFRAG is typically set on a route in response to
receving a ICMPv6 Packet Too Big message indicating a Path MTU of less
than 1280 bytes. 1280 bytes is the minimum IPv6 MTU, however ICMPv6
PTBs with MTU < 1280 are still valid, in particular when an IPv6
packet is sent to an IPv4 destination through a stateless translator.
Any ICMPv4 Need To Fragment packets originated from the IPv4 part of
the path will be translated to ICMPv6 PTB which may then indicate an
MTU of less than 1280.

The Linux kernel refuses to reduce the effective MTU to anything below
1280 bytes, instead it sets it to exactly 1280 bytes, and
RTAX_FEATURE_ALLFRAG is also set. However, the TCP segment size appears
to be set to 1240 bytes (1280 Path MTU - 40 bytes of IPv6 header),
instead of 1232 (additionally taking into account the 8 bytes required
by the IPv6 Fragmentation extension header).

This in turn results in rather inefficient transmission, as every
transmitted TCP segment now is split in two fragments containing
1232+8 bytes of payload.

After this patch, all the outgoing packets that includes a
Fragmentation header all are "atomic" or "non-fragmented" fragments,
i.e., they both have Offset=0 and More Fragments=0.

With help from David S. Miller

Reported-by: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Tested-by: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-27 00:03:34 -04:00
David S. Miller
f24001941c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Fix merge between commit 3adadc08cc ("net ax25: Reorder ax25_exit to
remove races") and commit 0ca7a4c87d ("net ax25: Simplify and
cleanup the ax25 sysctl handling")

The former moved around the sysctl register/unregister calls, the
later simply removed them.

With help from Stephen Rothwell.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-23 23:15:17 -04:00
Pavel Emelyanov
c0e88ff0f2 tcp: Repair socket queues
Reading queues under repair mode is done with recvmsg call.
The queue-under-repair set by TCP_REPAIR_QUEUE option is used
to determine which queue should be read. Thus both send and
receive queue can be read with this.

Caller must pass the MSG_PEEK flag.

Writing to queues is done with sendmsg call and yet again --
the repair-queue option can be used to push data into the
receive queue.

When putting an skb into receive queue a zero tcp header is
appented to its head to address the tcp_hdr(skb)->syn and
the ->fin checks by the (after repair) tcp_recvmsg. These
flags flags are both set to zero and that's why.

The fin cannot be met in the queue while reading the source
socket, since the repair only works for closed/established
sockets and queueing fin packet always changes its state.

The syn in the queue denotes that the respective skb's seq
is "off-by-one" as compared to the actual payload lenght. Thus,
at the rcv queue refill we can just drop this flag and set the
skb's sequences to precice values.

When the repair mode is turned off, the write queue seqs are
updated so that the whole queue is considered to be 'already sent,
waiting for ACKs' (write_seq = snd_nxt <= snd_una). From the
protocol POV the send queue looks like it was sent, but the data
between the write_seq and snd_nxt is lost in the network.

This helps to avoid another sockoption for setting the snd_nxt
sequence. Leaving the whole queue in a 'not yet sent' state (as
it will be after sendmsg-s) will not allow to receive any acks
from the peer since the ack_seq will be after the snd_nxt. Thus
even the ack for the window probe will be dropped and the
connection will be 'locked' with the zero peer window.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-21 15:52:25 -04:00
Pavel Emelyanov
ee9952831c tcp: Initial repair mode
This includes (according the the previous description):

* TCP_REPAIR sockoption

This one just puts the socket in/out of the repair mode.
Allowed for CAP_NET_ADMIN and for closed/establised sockets only.
When repair mode is turned off and the socket happens to be in
the established state the window probe is sent to the peer to
'unlock' the connection.

* TCP_REPAIR_QUEUE sockoption

This one sets the queue which we're about to repair. The
'no-queue' is set by default.

* TCP_QUEUE_SEQ socoption

Sets the write_seq/rcv_nxt of a selected repaired queue.
Allowed for TCP_CLOSE-d sockets only. When the socket changes
its state the other seq-s are changed by the kernel according
to the protocol rules (most of the existing code is actually
reused).

* Ability to forcibly bind a socket to a port

The sk->sk_reuse is set to SK_FORCE_REUSE.

* Immediate connect modification

The connect syscall initializes the connection, then directly jumps
to the code which finalizes it.

* Silent close modification

The close just aborts the connection (similar to SO_LINGER with 0
time) but without sending any FIN/RST-s to peer.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-21 15:52:25 -04:00
Pavel Emelyanov
370816aef0 tcp: Move code around
This is just the preparation patch, which makes the needed for
TCP repair code ready for use.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-21 15:52:25 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
22b4a4f22d tcp: fix retransmit of partially acked frames
Alexander Beregalov reported skb_over_panic errors and provided stack
trace.

I occurs commit a21d45726a (tcp: avoid order-1 allocations on wifi and
tx path) added a regression, when a retransmit is done after a partial
ACK.

tcp_retransmit_skb() tries to aggregate several frames if the first one
has enough available room to hold the following ones payload. This is
controlled by /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_retrans_collapse tunable (default :
enabled)

Problem is we must make sure _pskb_trim_head() doesnt fool
skb_availroom() when pulling some bytes from skb (this pull is done when
receiver ACK part of the frame).

Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Cc: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-18 16:52:45 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
95c9617472 net: cleanup unsigned to unsigned int
Use of "unsigned int" is preferred to bare "unsigned" in net tree.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-15 12:44:40 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
a21d45726a tcp: avoid order-1 allocations on wifi and tx path
Marc Merlin reported many order-1 allocations failures in TX path on its
wireless setup, that dont make any sense with MTU=1500 network, and non
SG capable hardware.

After investigation, it turns out TCP uses sk_stream_alloc_skb() and
used as a convention skb_tailroom(skb) to know how many bytes of data
payload could be put in this skb (for non SG capable devices)

Note : these skb used kmalloc-4096 (MTU=1500 + MAX_HEADER +
sizeof(struct skb_shared_info) being above 2048)

Later, mac80211 layer need to add some bytes at the tail of skb
(IEEE80211_ENCRYPT_TAILROOM = 18 bytes) and since no more tailroom is
available has to call pskb_expand_head() and request order-1
allocations.

This patch changes sk_stream_alloc_skb() so that only
sk->sk_prot->max_header bytes of headroom are reserved, and use a new
skb field, avail_size to hold the data payload limit.

This way, order-0 allocations done by TCP stack can leave more than 2 KB
of tailroom and no more allocation is performed in mac80211 layer (or
any layer needing some tailroom)

avail_size is unioned with mark/dropcount, since mark will be set later
in IP stack for output packets. Therefore, skb size is unchanged.

Reported-by: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
Tested-by: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-11 10:11:12 -04:00
David S. Miller
dd48dc34fe Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-02-04 16:39:32 -05:00
Neal Cardwell
5b35e1e6e9 tcp: fix tcp_trim_head() to adjust segment count with skb MSS
This commit fixes tcp_trim_head() to recalculate the number of
segments in the skb with the skb's existing MSS, so trimming the head
causes the skb segment count to be monotonically non-increasing - it
should stay the same or go down, but not increase.

Previously tcp_trim_head() used the current MSS of the connection. But
if there was a decrease in MSS between original transmission and ACK
(e.g. due to PMTUD), this could cause tcp_trim_head() to
counter-intuitively increase the segment count when trimming bytes off
the head of an skb. This violated assumptions in tcp_tso_acked() that
tcp_trim_head() only decreases the packet count, so that packets_acked
in tcp_tso_acked() could underflow, leading tcp_clean_rtx_queue() to
pass u32 pkts_acked values as large as 0xffffffff to
ca_ops->pkts_acked().

As an aside, if tcp_trim_head() had really wanted the skb to reflect
the current MSS, it should have called tcp_set_skb_tso_segs()
unconditionally, since a decrease in MSS would mean that a
single-packet skb should now be sliced into multiple segments.

Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-30 12:42:58 -05:00
Eric Dumazet
09e9b813d3 tcp: add LINUX_MIB_TCPRETRANSFAIL counter
It might be useful to get a counter of failed tcp_retransmit_skb()
calls.

Reported-by: Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-26 13:51:00 -05:00
Glauber Costa
180d8cd942 foundations of per-cgroup memory pressure controlling.
This patch replaces all uses of struct sock fields' memory_pressure,
memory_allocated, sockets_allocated, and sysctl_mem to acessor
macros. Those macros can either receive a socket argument, or a mem_cgroup
argument, depending on the context they live in.

Since we're only doing a macro wrapping here, no performance impact at all is
expected in the case where we don't have cgroups disabled.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Hiroyouki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-12 19:04:10 -05:00
Eric Dumazet
4fa48bf3c7 tcp: fix tcp_trim_head()
commit f07d960df3 (tcp: avoid frag allocation for small frames)
breaked assumption in tcp stack that skb is either linear (skb->data_len
== 0), or fully fragged (skb->data_len == skb->len)

tcp_trim_head() made this assumption, we must fix it.

Thanks to Vijay for providing a very detailed explanation.

Reported-by: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-05 18:30:03 -05:00
Eric Dumazet
117632e64d tcp: take care of misalignments
We discovered that TCP stack could retransmit misaligned skbs if a
malicious peer acknowledged sub MSS frame. This currently can happen
only if output interface is non SG enabled : If SG is enabled, tcp
builds headless skbs (all payload is included in fragments), so the tcp
trimming process only removes parts of skb fragments, header stay
aligned.

Some arches cant handle misalignments, so force a head reallocation and
shrink headroom to MAX_TCP_HEADER.

Dont care about misaligments on x86 and PPC (or other arches setting
NET_IP_ALIGN to 0)

This patch introduces __pskb_copy() which can specify the headroom of
new head, and pskb_copy() becomes a wrapper on top of __pskb_copy()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-04 13:20:39 -05:00
Neal Cardwell
6b5a5c0dbb tcp: do not scale TSO segment size with reordering degree
Since 2005 (c1b4a7e695)
tcp_tso_should_defer has been using tcp_max_burst() as a target limit
for deciding how large to make outgoing TSO packets when not using
sysctl_tcp_tso_win_divisor. But since 2008
(dd9e0dda66) tcp_max_burst() returns the
reordering degree. We should not have tcp_tso_should_defer attempt to
build larger segments just because there is more reordering. This
commit splits the notion of deferral size used in TSO from the notion
of burst size used in cwnd moderation, and returns the TSO deferral
limit to its original value.

Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-29 00:29:41 -05:00
Feng King
6d67e9beb6 tcp: Fix comments for Nagle algorithm
TCP_NODELAY is weaker than TCP_CORK, when TCP_CORK was set, small
segments will always pass Nagle test regardless of TCP_NODELAY option.

Signed-off-by: Feng King <kinwin2008@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-08 14:02:47 -05:00
Eric Dumazet
cf533ea53e tcp: add const qualifiers where possible
Adding const qualifiers to pointers can ease code review, and spot some
bugs. It might allow compiler to optimize code further.

For example, is it legal to temporary write a null cksum into tcphdr
in tcp_md5_hash_header() ? I am afraid a sniffer could catch the
temporary null value...

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-21 05:22:42 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
9e903e0852 net: add skb frag size accessors
To ease skb->truesize sanitization, its better to be able to localize
all references to skb frags size.

Define accessors : skb_frag_size() to fetch frag size, and
skb_frag_size_{set|add|sub}() to manipulate it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-19 03:10:46 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
4de075e043 tcp: rename tcp_skb_cb flags
Rename struct tcp_skb_cb "flags" to "tcp_flags" to ease code review and
maintenance.

Its content is a combination of FIN/SYN/RST/PSH/ACK/URG/ECE/CWR flags

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-09-27 13:25:05 -04:00
Nandita Dukkipati
a262f0cdf1 Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP.
This patch implements Proportional Rate Reduction (PRR) for TCP.
PRR is an algorithm that determines TCP's sending rate in fast
recovery. PRR avoids excessive window reductions and aims for
the actual congestion window size at the end of recovery to be as
close as possible to the window determined by the congestion control
algorithm. PRR also improves accuracy of the amount of data sent
during loss recovery.

The patch implements the recommended flavor of PRR called PRR-SSRB
(Proportional rate reduction with slow start reduction bound) and
replaces the existing rate halving algorithm. PRR improves upon the
existing Linux fast recovery under a number of conditions including:
  1) burst losses where the losses implicitly reduce the amount of
outstanding data (pipe) below the ssthresh value selected by the
congestion control algorithm and,
  2) losses near the end of short flows where application runs out of
data to send.

As an example, with the existing rate halving implementation a single
loss event can cause a connection carrying short Web transactions to
go into the slow start mode after the recovery. This is because during
recovery Linux pulls the congestion window down to packets_in_flight+1
on every ACK. A short Web response often runs out of new data to send
and its pipe reduces to zero by the end of recovery when all its packets
are drained from the network. Subsequent HTTP responses using the same
connection will have to slow start to raise cwnd to ssthresh. PRR on
the other hand aims for the cwnd to be as close as possible to ssthresh
by the end of recovery.

A description of PRR and a discussion of its performance can be found at
the following links:
- IETF Draft:
    http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mathis-tcpm-proportional-rate-reduction-01
- IETF Slides:
    http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/80/slides/tcpm-6.pdf
    http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/81/slides/tcpm-2.pdf
- Paper to appear in Internet Measurements Conference (IMC) 2011:
    Improving TCP Loss Recovery
    Nandita Dukkipati, Matt Mathis, Yuchung Cheng

Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-08-24 19:40:40 -07:00
Ian Campbell
aff65da0f1 net: ipv4: convert to SKB frag APIs
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Cc: "Pekka Savola (ipv6)" <pekkas@netcore.fi>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-08-24 17:52:11 -07:00
David S. Miller
d9d8da805d inet: Pass flowi to ->queue_xmit().
This allows us to acquire the exact route keying information from the
protocol, however that might be managed.

It handles all of the possibilities, from the simplest case of storing
the key in inet->cork.fl to the more complex setup SCTP has where
individual transports determine the flow.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-05-08 15:28:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
42933bac11 Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6:
  Fix common misspellings
2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
2fceec1337 tcp: len check is unnecessarily devastating, change to WARN_ON
All callers are prepared for alloc failures anyway, so this error
can safely be boomeranged to the callers domain without super
bad consequences. ...At worst the connection might go into a state
where each RTO tries to (unsuccessfully) re-fragment with such
a mis-sized value and eventually dies.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-04-01 21:47:41 -07:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Yuchung Cheng
c24f691b56 tcp: undo_retrans counter fixes
Fix a bug that undo_retrans is incorrectly decremented when undo_marker is
not set or undo_retrans is already 0. This happens when sender receives
more DSACK ACKs than packets retransmitted during the current
undo phase. This may also happen when sender receives DSACK after
the undo operation is completed or cancelled.

Fix another bug that undo_retrans is incorrectly incremented when
sender retransmits an skb and tcp_skb_pcount(skb) > 1 (TSO). This case
is rare but not impossible.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-02-21 11:31:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
008d23e485 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
  Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send.
  writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-time
  ppc: fix comment typo singal -> signal
  drivers: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
  m68k: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
  wireless: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
  media: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
  remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter
  remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt
  Fix spelling milisec -> ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description
  Fix spelling mistakes in comments
  Revert conflicting V4L changes
  i7core_edac: fix typos in comments
  mm/rmap.c: fix comment
  sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'.
  hrtimer: fix a typo in comment
  init/Kconfig: fix typo
  anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment
  fix comment typos concerning "consistent"
  poll: fix a typo in comment
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in:
 - drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c)
 - fs/ext4/ext4.h

Also fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.
2011-01-13 10:05:56 -08:00
Jiri Kosina
4b7bd36470 Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS
	arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm24xx.c
	drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcpim.c

Needed to update to apply fixes for which the old branch was too
outdated.
2010-12-22 18:57:02 +01:00
Nandita Dukkipati
356f039822 TCP: increase default initial receive window.
This patch changes the default initial receive window to 10 mss
(defined constant). The default window is limited to the maximum
of 10*1460 and 2*mss (when mss > 1460).

draft-ietf-tcpm-initcwnd-00 is a proposal to the IETF that recommends
increasing TCP's initial congestion window to 10 mss or about 15KB.
Leading up to this proposal were several large-scale live Internet
experiments with an initial congestion window of 10 mss (IW10), where
we showed that the average latency of HTTP responses improved by
approximately 10%. This was accompanied by a slight increase in
retransmission rate (0.5%), most of which is coming from applications
opening multiple simultaneous connections. To understand the extreme
worst case scenarios, and fairness issues (IW10 versus IW3), we further
conducted controlled testbed experiments. We came away finding minimal
negative impact even under low link bandwidths (dial-ups) and small
buffers.  These results are extremely encouraging to adopting IW10.

However, an initial congestion window of 10 mss is useless unless a TCP
receiver advertises an initial receive window of at least 10 mss.
Fortunately, in the large-scale Internet experiments we found that most
widely used operating systems advertised large initial receive windows
of 64KB, allowing us to experiment with a wide range of initial
congestion windows. Linux systems were among the few exceptions that
advertised a small receive window of 6KB. The purpose of this patch is
to fix this shortcoming.

References:
1. A comprehensive list of all IW10 references to date.
http://code.google.com/speed/protocols/tcpm-IW10.html

2. Paper describing results from large-scale Internet experiments with IW10.
http://ccr.sigcomm.org/drupal/?q=node/621

3. Controlled testbed experiments under worst case scenarios and a
fairness study.
http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/79/slides/tcpm-0.pdf

4. Raw test data from testbed experiments (Linux senders/receivers)
with initial congestion and receive windows of both 10 mss.
http://research.csc.ncsu.edu/netsrv/?q=content/iw10

5. Internet-Draft. Increasing TCP's Initial Window.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tcpm-initcwnd/

Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-20 21:33:00 -08:00
David S. Miller
0dbaee3b37 net: Abstract default ADVMSS behind an accessor.
Make all RTAX_ADVMSS metric accesses go through a new helper function,
dst_metric_advmss().

Leave the actual default metric as "zero" in the real metric slot,
and compute the actual default value dynamically via a new dst_ops
AF specific callback.

For stacked IPSEC routes, we use the advmss of the path which
preserves existing behavior.

Unlike ipv4/ipv6, DecNET ties the advmss to the mtu and thus updates
advmss on pmtu updates.  This inconsistency in advmss handling
results in more raw metric accesses than I wish we ended up with.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-13 12:52:14 -08:00
David S. Miller
fe6c791570 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_eeprom.c
	net/llc/af_llc.c
2010-12-08 13:47:38 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
f19872575f tcp: protect sysctl_tcp_cookie_size reads
Make sure sysctl_tcp_cookie_size is read once in
tcp_cookie_size_check(), or we might return an illegal value to caller
if sysctl_tcp_cookie_size is changed by another cpu.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-08 12:34:09 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
ad9f4f50fe tcp: avoid a possible divide by zero
sysctl_tcp_tso_win_divisor might be set to zero while one cpu runs in
tcp_tso_should_defer(). Make sure we dont allow a divide by zero by
reading sysctl_tcp_tso_win_divisor exactly once.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-08 12:34:08 -08:00
Nandita Dukkipati
b1afde60f2 tcp: Bug fix in initialization of receive window.
The bug has to do with boundary checks on the initial receive window.
If the initial receive window falls between init_cwnd and the
receive window specified by the user, the initial window is incorrectly
brought down to init_cwnd. The correct behavior is to allow it to
remain unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-08 09:38:37 -08:00
Shan Wei
97b1ce25e8 tcp: use TCP_BASE_MSS to set basic mss value
TCP_BASE_MSS is defined, but not used.
commit 5d424d5a introduce this macro, so use
it to initial sysctl_tcp_base_mss.

commit 5d424d5a67
Author: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
Date:   Mon Mar 20 17:53:41 2006 -0800

    [TCP]: MTU probing

Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-02 13:27:32 -08:00
Tom Herbert
3853b5841c xps: Improvements in TX queue selection
In dev_pick_tx, don't do work in calculating queue
index or setting
the index in the sock unless the device has more than one queue.  This
allows the sock to be set only with a queue index of a multi-queue
device which is desirable if device are stacked like in a tunnel.

We also allow the mapping of a socket to queue to be changed.  To
maintain in order packet transmission a flag (ooo_okay) has been
added to the sk_buff structure.  If a transport layer sets this flag
on a packet, the transmit queue can be changed for the socket.
Presumably, the transport would set this if there was no possbility
of creating OOO packets (for instance, there are no packets in flight
for the socket).  This patch includes the modification in TCP output
for setting this flag.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-24 11:44:19 -08:00
Eric Paris
ee58681195 network: tcp_connect should return certain errors up the stack
The current tcp_connect code completely ignores errors from sending an skb.
This makes sense in many situations (like -ENOBUFFS) but I want to be able to
immediately fail connections if they are denied by the SELinux netfilter hook.
Netfilter does not normally return ECONNREFUSED when it drops a packet so we
respect that error code as a final and fatal error that can not be recovered.

Based-on-patch-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-17 10:54:35 -08:00
Uwe Kleine-König
b595076a18 tree-wide: fix comment/printk typos
"gadget", "through", "command", "maintain", "maintain", "controller", "address",
"between", "initiali[zs]e", "instead", "function", "select", "already",
"equal", "access", "management", "hierarchy", "registration", "interest",
"relative", "memory", "offset", "already",

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-11-01 15:38:34 -04:00