A ringbuffer-based implementation of loss interval history is easier to
maintain, allocate, and update.
The `swap' routine to keep the RX history sorted is due to and was written
by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, simplifying an earlier macro-based variant.
Details:
* access to the Loss Interval Records via macro wrappers (with safety checks);
* simplified, on-demand allocation of entries (no extra memory consumption on
lossless links); cache allocation is local to the module / exported as service;
* provision of RFC-compliant algorithm to re-compute average loss interval;
* provision of comprehensive, new loss detection algorithm
- support for all cases of loss, including re-ordered/duplicate packets;
- waiting for NDUPACK=3 packets to fill the hole;
- updating loss records when a late-arriving packet fills a hole.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This moves the inlines (which were previously declared as macros) back into
packet_history.h since the loss detection code needs to be able to read entries
from the RX history in order to create the relevant loss entries: it needs at
least tfrc_rx_hist_loss_prev() and tfrc_rx_hist_last_rcv(), which in turn
require the definition of the other inlines (macros).
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Credit here goes to Gerrit Renker, that provided the initial implementation for
this new codebase.
I modified it just to try to make it closer to the existing API, renaming some
functions, add namespacing and fix one bug where the tfrc_rx_hist_alloc was not
freeing the allocated ring entries on the error path.
Original changeset comment from Gerrit:
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This provides a new, self-contained and generic RX history service for TFRC
based protocols.
Details:
* new data structure, initialisation and cleanup routines;
* allocation of dccp_rx_hist entries local to packet_history.c,
as a service exported by the dccp_tfrc_lib module.
* interface to automatically track highest-received seqno;
* receiver-based RTT estimation (needed for instance by RFC 3448, 6.3.1);
* a generic function to test for `data packets' as per RFC 4340, sec. 7.7.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is in preparation for merging the new rx history code written by Gerrit Renker.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is in preparation for merging the new rx history code written by Gerrit Renker.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch changes the tfrc_lib module in the following manner:
(1) a dedicated tfrc source file to call the packet history &
loss interval init/exit functions.
(2) a dedicated tfrc_pr_debug macro with toggle switch `tfrc_debug'.
Commiter note: renamed tfrc_module.c to tfrc.c, and made CONFIG_IP_DCCP_CCID3
select IP_DCCP_TFRC_LIB.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Based on a previous patch by Gerrit Renker.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch was based on another made by Gerrit Renker, his changelog was:
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The patch set migrates TFRC TX history to a singly-linked list.
The details are:
* use of a consistent naming scheme (all TFRC functions now begin with `tfrc_');
* allocation and cleanup are taken care of internally;
* provision of a lookup function, which is used by the CCID TX infrastructure
to determine the time a packet was sent (in turn used for RTT sampling);
* integration of the new interface with the present use in CCID3.
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Simplifications I did:
. removing the tfrc_tx_hist_head that had a pointer to the list head and
another for the slabcache.
. No need for creating a slabcache for each CCID that wants to use the TFRC
tx history routines, create a single slabcache when the dccp_tfrc_lib module
init routine is called.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
No code change at all.
To make the header file easier to read, the following ordering is established
among the declarations:
* hist_new
* hist_delete
* hist_entry_new
* hist_head
* hist_find_entry
* hist_add_entry
* hist_entry_delete
* hist_purge
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
This removes the `dccphtx_ccval' field since it is nowhere used in the code and
in fact not necessary for the accounting.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.
The patch was generated using the following script:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
#
set -e
for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
quilt add $file
sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
mv /tmp/$$ $file
quilt refresh
done
The script was run like this
sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This fixes CCID3 to give much closer performance to RFC4342.
CCID3 is meant to alter sending rate based on RTT and loss.
The performance was verified against:
http://wand.net.nz/~perry/max_download.php
For example I tested with netem and had the following parameters:
Delayed Acks 1, MSS 256 bytes, RTT 105 ms, packet loss 5%.
This gives a theoretical speed of 71.9 Kbits/s. I measured across three
runs with this patch set and got 70.1 Kbits/s. Without this patchset the
average was 232 Kbits/s which means Linux can't be used for CCID3 research
properly.
I also tested with netem turned off so box just acting as router with 1.2
msec RTT. The performance with this is the same with or without the patch
at around 30 Mbit/s.
Signed off by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This adds a new function dccp_rx_hist_find_entry.
Signed off by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;
- replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly
the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change
generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with
typedef) and documents what's going on far better.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To start the timestamps with 0.0ms, easing the integer maths in the CCIDs, this
probably will be reworked to use the to be introduced struct timeval_offset
infrastructure out of skb_get_timestamp, etc.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Renaming it to dccp_rx_hist_detect_loss.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Renaming it to dccp_rx_hist_add_packet.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
