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2015-06-11tcp: fill shinfo->gso_size at last momentEric Dumazet
In commit cd7d8498c9a5 ("tcp: change tcp_skb_pcount() location") we stored gso_segs in a temporary cache hot location. This patch does the same for gso_size. This allows to save 2 cache line misses in tcp xmit path for the last packet that is considered but not sent because of various conditions (cwnd, tso defer, receiver window, TSQ...) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-06-07tcp: get_cookie_sock() consolidationEric Dumazet
IPv4 and IPv6 share same implementation of get_cookie_sock(), and there is no point inlining it. We add tcp_ prefix to the common helper name and export it. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-19tcp: add rfc3168, section 6.1.1.1. fallbackDaniel Borkmann
This work as a follow-up of commit f7b3bec6f516 ("net: allow setting ecn via routing table") and adds RFC3168 section 6.1.1.1. fallback for outgoing ECN connections. In other words, this work adds a retry with a non-ECN setup SYN packet, as suggested from the RFC on the first timeout: [...] A host that receives no reply to an ECN-setup SYN within the normal SYN retransmission timeout interval MAY resend the SYN and any subsequent SYN retransmissions with CWR and ECE cleared. [...] Schematic client-side view when assuming the server is in tcp_ecn=2 mode, that is, Linux default since 2009 via commit 255cac91c3c9 ("tcp: extend ECN sysctl to allow server-side only ECN"): 1) Normal ECN-capable path: SYN ECE CWR -----> <----- SYN ACK ECE ACK -----> 2) Path with broken middlebox, when client has fallback: SYN ECE CWR ----X crappy middlebox drops packet (timeout, rtx) SYN -----> <----- SYN ACK ACK -----> In case we would not have the fallback implemented, the middlebox drop point would basically end up as: SYN ECE CWR ----X crappy middlebox drops packet (timeout, rtx) SYN ECE CWR ----X crappy middlebox drops packet (timeout, rtx) SYN ECE CWR ----X crappy middlebox drops packet (timeout, rtx) In any case, it's rather a smaller percentage of sites where there would occur such additional setup latency: it was found in end of 2014 that ~56% of IPv4 and 65% of IPv6 servers of Alexa 1 million list would negotiate ECN (aka tcp_ecn=2 default), 0.42% of these webservers will fail to connect when trying to negotiate with ECN (tcp_ecn=1) due to timeouts, which the fallback would mitigate with a slight latency trade-off. Recent related paper on this topic: Brian Trammell, Mirja Kühlewind, Damiano Boppart, Iain Learmonth, Gorry Fairhurst, and Richard Scheffenegger: "Enabling Internet-Wide Deployment of Explicit Congestion Notification." Proc. PAM 2015, New York. http://ecn.ethz.ch/ecn-pam15.pdf Thus, when net.ipv4.tcp_ecn=1 is being set, the patch will perform RFC3168, section 6.1.1.1. fallback on timeout. For users explicitly not wanting this which can be in DC use case, we add a net.ipv4.tcp_ecn_fallback knob that allows for disabling the fallback. tp->ecn_flags are not being cleared in tcp_ecn_clear_syn() on output, but rather we let tcp_ecn_rcv_synack() take that over on input path in case a SYN ACK ECE was delayed. Thus a spurious SYN retransmission will not prevent ECN being negotiated eventually in that case. Reference: https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/92/slides/slides-92-iccrg-1.pdf Reference: https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/89/slides/slides-89-tsvarea-1.pdf Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Mirja Kühlewind <mirja.kuehlewind@tik.ee.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Brian Trammell <trammell@tik.ee.ethz.ch> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Dave That <dave.taht@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-17tcp: introduce tcp_under_memory_pressure()Eric Dumazet
Introduce an optimized version of sk_under_memory_pressure() for TCP. Our intent is to use it in fast paths. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-17tcp: rename sk_forced_wmem_schedule() to sk_forced_mem_schedule()Eric Dumazet
We plan to use sk_forced_wmem_schedule() in input path as well, so make it non static and rename it. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-14tcp: syncookies: extend validity rangeEric Dumazet
Now we allow storing more request socks per listener, we might hit syncookie mode less often and hit following bug in our stack : When we send a burst of syncookies, then exit this mode, tcp_synq_no_recent_overflow() can return false if the ACK packets coming from clients are coming three seconds after the end of syncookie episode. This is a way too strong requirement and conflicts with rest of syncookie code which allows ACK to be aged up to 2 minutes. Perfectly valid ACK packets are dropped just because clients might be in a crowded wifi environment or on another planet. So let's fix this, and also change tcp_synq_overflow() to not dirty a cache line for every syncookie we send, as we are under attack. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-09tcp: add TCPWinProbe and TCPKeepAlive SNMP countersEric Dumazet
Diagnosing problems related to Window Probes has been hard because we lack a counter. TCPWinProbe counts the number of ACK packets a sender has to send at regular intervals to make sure a reverse ACK packet opening back a window had not been lost. TCPKeepAlive counts the number of ACK packets sent to keep TCP flows alive (SO_KEEPALIVE) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-09tcp: adjust window probe timers to safer valuesEric Dumazet
With the advent of small rto timers in datacenter TCP, (ip route ... rto_min x), the following can happen : 1) Qdisc is full, transmit fails. TCP sets a timer based on icsk_rto to retry the transmit, without exponential backoff. With low icsk_rto, and lot of sockets, all cpus are servicing timer interrupts like crazy. Intent of the code was to retry with a timer between 200 (TCP_RTO_MIN) and 500ms (TCP_RESOURCE_PROBE_INTERVAL) 2) Receivers can send zero windows if they don't drain their receive queue. TCP sends zero window probes, based on icsk_rto current value, with exponential backoff. With /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_retries2 being 15 (or even smaller in some cases), sender can abort in less than one or two minutes ! If receiver stops the sender, it obviously doesn't care of very tight rto. Probability of dropping the ACK reopening the window is not worth the risk. Lets change the base timer to be at least 200ms (TCP_RTO_MIN) for these events (but not normal RTO based retransmits) A followup patch adds a new SNMP counter, as it would have helped a lot diagnosing this issue. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-04-29tcp: prepare CC get_info() access from getsockopt()Eric Dumazet
We would like that optional info provided by Congestion Control modules using netlink can also be read using getsockopt() This patch changes get_info() to put this information in a buffer, instead of skb, like tcp_get_info(), so that following patch can reuse this common infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-04-29tcp: add tcpi_bytes_acked to tcp_infoEric Dumazet
This patch tracks total number of bytes acked for a TCP socket. This is the sum of all changes done to tp->snd_una, and allows for precise tracking of delivered data. RFC4898 named this : tcpEStatsAppHCThruOctetsAcked This is a 64bit field, and can be fetched both from TCP_INFO getsockopt() if one has a handle on a TCP socket, or from inet_diag netlink facility (iproute2/ss patch will follow) Note that tp->bytes_acked was placed near tp->snd_una for best data locality and minimal performance impact. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Cc: Matt Mathis <mattmathis@google.com> Cc: Eric Salo <salo@google.com> Cc: Martin Lau <kafai@fb.com> Cc: Chris Rapier <rapier@psc.edu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-04-17inet_diag: fix access to tcp cc informationEric Dumazet
Two different problems are fixed here : 1) inet_sk_diag_fill() might be called without socket lock held. icsk->icsk_ca_ops can change under us and module be unloaded. -> Access to freed memory. Fix this using rcu_read_lock() to prevent module unload. 2) Some TCP Congestion Control modules provide information but again this is not safe against icsk->icsk_ca_ops change and nla_put() errors were ignored. Some sockets could not get the additional info if skb was almost full. Fix this by returning a status from get_info() handlers and using rcu protection as well. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-04-07tcp: RFC7413 option support for Fast Open clientDaniel Lee
Fast Open has been using an experimental option with a magic number (RFC6994). This patch makes the client by default use the RFC7413 option (34) to get and send Fast Open cookies. This patch makes the client solicit cookies from a given server first with the RFC7413 option. If that fails to elicit a cookie, then it tries the RFC6994 experimental option. If that also fails, it uses the RFC7413 option on all subsequent connect attempts. If the server returns a Fast Open cookie then the client caches the form of the option that successfully elicited a cookie, and uses that form on later connects when it presents that cookie. The idea is to gradually obsolete the use of experimental options as the servers and clients upgrade, while keeping the interoperability meanwhile. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lee <Longinus00@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-04-07tcp: RFC7413 option support for Fast Open serverDaniel Lee
Fast Open has been using the experimental option with a magic number (RFC6994) to request and grant Fast Open cookies. This patch enables the server to support the official IANA option 34 in RFC7413 in addition. The change has passed all existing Fast Open tests with both old and new options at Google. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lee <Longinus00@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-29tcp: tcp_syn_flood_action() can be staticEric Dumazet
After commit 1fb6f159fd21 ("tcp: add tcp_conn_request"), tcp_syn_flood_action() is no longer used from IPv6. We can make it static, by moving it above tcp_conn_request() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-24tcp: md5: get rid of tcp_v[46]_reqsk_md5_lookup()Eric Dumazet
With request socks convergence, we no longer need different lookup methods. A request socket can use generic lookup function. Add const qualifier to 2nd tcp_v[46]_md5_lookup() parameter. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-24tcp: md5: remove request sock argument of calc_md5_hash()Eric Dumazet
Since request and established sockets now have same base, there is no need to pass two pointers to tcp_v4_md5_hash_skb() or tcp_v6_md5_hash_skb() Also add a const qualifier to their struct tcp_md5sig_key argument. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-23ipv4: tcp: handle ICMP messages on TCP_NEW_SYN_RECV request socketsEric Dumazet
tcp_v4_err() can restrict lookups to ehash table, and not to listeners. Note this patch creates the infrastructure, but this means that ICMP messages for request sockets are ignored until complete conversion. New tcp_req_err() helper is exported so that we can use it in IPv6 in following patch. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-23inet: remove sk_listener parameter from syn_ack_timeout()Eric Dumazet
It is not needed, and req->sk_listener points to the listener anyway. request_sock argument can be const. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-20inet: drop prev pointer handling in request sockEric Dumazet
When request sock are put in ehash table, the whole notion of having a previous request to update dl_next is pointless. Also, following patch will get rid of big purge timer, so we want to delete a request sock without holding listener lock. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-17tcp: uninline tcp_oow_rate_limited()Eric Dumazet
tcp_oow_rate_limited() is hardly used in fast path, there is no point inlining it. Signed-of-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-17tcp: move tcp_openreq_init() to tcp_input.cEric Dumazet
This big helper is called once from tcp_conn_request(), there is no point having it in an include. Compiler will inline it anyway. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-06ipv4: Create probe timer for tcp PMTU as per RFC4821Fan Du
As per RFC4821 7.3. Selecting Probe Size, a probe timer should be armed once probing has converged. Once this timer expired, probing again to take advantage of any path PMTU change. The recommended probing interval is 10 minutes per RFC1981. Probing interval could be sysctled by sysctl_tcp_probe_interval. Eric Dumazet suggested to implement pseudo timer based on 32bits jiffies tcp_time_stamp instead of using classic timer for such rare event. Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-06ipv4: Use binary search to choose tcp PMTU probe_sizeFan Du
Current probe_size is chosen by doubling mss_cache, the probing process will end shortly with a sub-optimal mss size, and the link mtu will not be taken full advantage of, in return, this will make user to tweak tcp_base_mss with care. Use binary search to choose probe_size in a fine granularity manner, an optimal mss will be found to boost performance as its maxmium. In addition, introduce a sysctl_tcp_probe_threshold to control when probing will stop in respect to the width of search range. Test env: Docker instance with vxlan encapuslation(82599EB) iperf -c 10.0.0.24 -t 60 before this patch: 1.26 Gbits/sec After this patch: increase 26% 1.59 Gbits/sec Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com> Acked-by: John Heffner <johnwheffner@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-06ipv4: Raise tcp PMTU probe mss base sizeFan Du
Quotes from RFC4821 7.2. Selecting Initial Values It is RECOMMENDED that search_low be initially set to an MTU size that is likely to work over a very wide range of environments. Given today's technologies, a value of 1024 bytes is probably safe enough. The initial value for search_low SHOULD be configurable. Moreover, set a small value will introduce extra time for the search to converge. So set the initial probe base mss size to 1024 Bytes. Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com> Acked-by: John Heffner <johnwheffner@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-02net: Remove iocb argument from sendmsg and recvmsgYing Xue
After TIPC doesn't depend on iocb argument in its internal implementations of sendmsg() and recvmsg() hooks defined in proto structure, no any user is using iocb argument in them at all now. Then we can drop the redundant iocb argument completely from kinds of implementations of both sendmsg() and recvmsg() in the entire networking stack. Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-02-09ipv4: Namespecify TCP PMTU mechanismFan Du
Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery works separately beside Path MTU Discovery at IP level, different net namespace has various requirements on which one to chose, e.g., a virutalized container instance would require TCP PMTU to probe an usable effective mtu for underlying tunnel, while the host would employ classical ICMP based PMTU to function. Hence making TCP PMTU mechanism per net namespace to decouple two functionality. Furthermore the probe base MSS should also be configured separately for each namespace. Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-02-08tcp: mitigate ACK loops for connections as tcp_request_sockNeal Cardwell
In the SYN_RECV state, where the TCP connection is represented by tcp_request_sock, we now rate-limit SYNACKs in response to a client's retransmitted SYNs: we do not send a SYNACK in response to client SYN if it has been less than sysctl_tcp_invalid_ratelimit (default 500ms) since we last sent a SYNACK in response to a client's retransmitted SYN. This allows the vast majority of legitimate client connections to proceed unimpeded, even for the most aggressive platforms, iOS and MacOS, which actually retransmit SYNs 1-second intervals for several times in a row. They use SYN RTO timeouts following the progression: 1,1,1,1,1,2,4,8,16,32. Reported-by: Avery Fay <avery@mixpanel.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-02-08tcp: helpers to mitigate ACK loops by rate-limiting out-of-window dupacksNeal Cardwell
Helpers for mitigating ACK loops by rate-limiting dupacks sent in response to incoming out-of-window packets. This patch includes: - rate-limiting logic - sysctl to control how often we allow dupacks to out-of-window packets - SNMP counter for cases where we rate-limited our dupack sending The rate-limiting logic in this patch decides to not send dupacks in response to out-of-window segments if (a) they are SYNs or pure ACKs and (b) the remote endpoint is sending them faster than the configured rate limit. We rate-limit our responses rather than blocking them entirely or resetting the connection, because legitimate connections can rely on dupacks in response to some out-of-window segments. For example, zero window probes are typically sent with a sequence number that is below the current window, and ZWPs thus expect to thus elicit a dupack in response. We allow dupacks in response to TCP segments with data, because these may be spurious retransmissions for which the remote endpoint wants to receive DSACKs. This is safe because segments with data can't realistically be part of ACK loops, which by their nature consist of each side sending pure/data-less ACKs to each other. The dupack interval is controlled by a new sysctl knob, tcp_invalid_ratelimit, given in milliseconds, in case an administrator needs to dial this upward in the face of a high-rate DoS attack. The name and units are chosen to be analogous to the existing analogous knob for ICMP, icmp_ratelimit. The default value for tcp_invalid_ratelimit is 500ms, which allows at most one such dupack per 500ms. This is chosen to be 2x faster than the 1-second minimum RTO interval allowed by RFC 6298 (section 2, rule 2.4). We allow the extra 2x factor because network delay variations can cause packets sent at 1 second intervals to be compressed and arrive much closer. Reported-by: Avery Fay <avery@mixpanel.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-02-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: drivers/net/vxlan.c drivers/vhost/net.c include/linux/if_vlan.h net/core/dev.c The net/core/dev.c conflict was the overlap of one commit marking an existing function static whilst another was adding a new function. In the include/linux/if_vlan.h case, the type used for a local variable was changed in 'net', whereas the function got rewritten to fix a stacked vlan bug in 'net-next'. In drivers/vhost/net.c, Al Viro's iov_iter conversions in 'net-next' overlapped with an endainness fix for VHOST 1.0 in 'net'. In drivers/net/vxlan.c, vxlan_find_vni() added a 'flags' parameter in 'net-next' whereas in 'net' there was a bug fix to pass in the correct network namespace pointer in calls to this function. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-02-04tcp: do not pace pure ack packetsEric Dumazet
When we added pacing to TCP, we decided to let sch_fq take care of actual pacing. All TCP had to do was to compute sk->pacing_rate using simple formula: sk->pacing_rate = 2 * cwnd * mss / rtt It works well for senders (bulk flows), but not very well for receivers or even RPC : cwnd on the receiver can be less than 10, rtt can be around 100ms, so we can end up pacing ACK packets, slowing down the sender. Really, only the sender should pace, according to its own logic. Instead of adding a new bit in skb, or call yet another flow dissection, we tweak skb->truesize to a small value (2), and we instruct sch_fq to use new helper and not pace pure ack. Note this also helps TCP small queue, as ack packets present in qdisc/NIC do not prevent sending a data packet (RPC workload) This helps to reduce tx completion overhead, ack packets can use regular sock_wfree() instead of tcp_wfree() which is a bit more expensive. This has no impact in the case packets are sent to loopback interface, as we do not coalesce ack packets (were we would detect skb->truesize lie) In case netem (with a delay) is used, skb_orphan_partial() also sets skb->truesize to 1. This patch is a combination of two patches we used for about one year at Google. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-28tcp: stretch ACK fixes prepNeal Cardwell
LRO, GRO, delayed ACKs, and middleboxes can cause "stretch ACKs" that cover more than the RFC-specified maximum of 2 packets. These stretch ACKs can cause serious performance shortfalls in common congestion control algorithms that were designed and tuned years ago with receiver hosts that were not using LRO or GRO, and were instead politely ACKing every other packet. This patch series fixes Reno and CUBIC to handle stretch ACKs. This patch prepares for the upcoming stretch ACK bug fix patches. It adds an "acked" parameter to tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to allow for future fixes to tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to correctly handle stretch ACKs, and changes all congestion control algorithms to pass in 1 for the ACKed count. It also changes tcp_slow_start() to return the number of packet ACK "credits" that were not processed in slow start mode, and can be processed by the congestion control module in additive increase mode. In future patches we will fix tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to handle stretch ACKs, and fix Reno and CUBIC handling of stretch ACKs in slow start and additive increase mode. Reported-by: Eyal Perry <eyalpe@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-05net: tcp: add per route congestion controlDaniel Borkmann
This work adds the possibility to define a per route/destination congestion control algorithm. Generally, this opens up the possibility for a machine with different links to enforce specific congestion control algorithms with optimal strategies for each of them based on their network characteristics, even transparently for a single application listening on all links. For our specific use case, this additionally facilitates deployment of DCTCP, for example, applications can easily serve internal traffic/dsts in DCTCP and external one with CUBIC. Other scenarios would also allow for utilizing e.g. long living, low priority background flows for certain destinations/routes while still being able for normal traffic to utilize the default congestion control algorithm. We also thought about a per netns setting (where different defaults are possible), but given its actually a link specific property, we argue that a per route/destination setting is the most natural and flexible. The administrator can utilize this through ip-route(8) by appending "congctl [lock] <name>", where <name> denotes the name of a congestion control algorithm and the optional lock parameter allows to enforce the given algorithm so that applications in user space would not be allowed to overwrite that algorithm for that destination. The dst metric lookups are being done when a dst entry is already available in order to avoid a costly lookup and still before the algorithms are being initialized, thus overhead is very low when the feature is not being used. While the client side would need to drop the current reference on the module, on server side this can actually even be avoided as we just got a flat-copied socket clone. Joint work with Florian Westphal. Suggested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-05net: tcp: add RTAX_CC_ALGO fib handlingDaniel Borkmann
This patch adds the minimum necessary for the RTAX_CC_ALGO congestion control metric to be set up and dumped back to user space. While the internal representation of RTAX_CC_ALGO is handled as a u32 key, we avoided to expose this implementation detail to user space, thus instead, we chose the netlink attribute that is being exchanged between user space to be the actual congestion control algorithm name, similarly as in the setsockopt(2) API in order to allow for maximum flexibility, even for 3rd party modules. It is a bit unfortunate that RTAX_QUICKACK used up a whole RTAX slot as it should have been stored in RTAX_FEATURES instead, we first thought about reusing it for the congestion control key, but it brings more complications and/or confusion than worth it. Joint work with Florian Westphal. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-05net: tcp: add key management to congestion controlDaniel Borkmann
This patch adds necessary infrastructure to the congestion control framework for later per route congestion control support. For a per route congestion control possibility, our aim is to store a unique u32 key identifier into dst metrics, which can then be mapped into a tcp_congestion_ops struct. We argue that having a RTAX key entry is the most simple, generic and easy way to manage, and also keeps the memory footprint of dst entries lower on 64 bit than with storing a pointer directly, for example. Having a unique key id also allows for decoupling actual TCP congestion control module management from the FIB layer, i.e. we don't have to care about expensive module refcounting inside the FIB at this point. We first thought of using an IDR store for the realization, which takes over dynamic assignment of unused key space and also performs the key to pointer mapping in RCU. While doing so, we stumbled upon the issue that due to the nature of dynamic key distribution, it just so happens, arguably in very rare occasions, that excessive module loads and unloads can lead to a possible reuse of previously used key space. Thus, previously stale keys in the dst metric are now being reassigned to a different congestion control algorithm, which might lead to unexpected behaviour. One way to resolve this would have been to walk FIBs on the actually rare occasion of a module unload and reset the metric keys for each FIB in each netns, but that's just very costly. Therefore, we argue a better solution is to reuse the unique congestion control algorithm name member and map that into u32 key space through jhash. For that, we split the flags attribute (as it currently uses 2 bits only anyway) into two u32 attributes, flags and key, so that we can keep the cacheline boundary of 2 cachelines on x86_64 and cache the precalculated key at registration time for the fast path. On average we might expect 2 - 4 modules being loaded worst case perhaps 15, so a key collision possibility is extremely low, and guaranteed collision-free on LE/BE for all in-tree modules. Overall this results in much simpler code, and all without the overhead of an IDR. Due to the deterministic nature, modules can now be unloaded, the congestion control algorithm for a specific but unloaded key will fall back to the default one, and on module reload time it will switch back to the expected algorithm transparently. Joint work with Florian Westphal. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-04net: allow setting ecn via routing tableFlorian Westphal
This patch allows to set ECN on a per-route basis in case the sysctl tcp_ecn is not set to 1. In other words, when ECN is set for specific routes, it provides a tcp_ecn=1 behaviour for that route while the rest of the stack acts according to the global settings. One can use 'ip route change dev $dev $net features ecn' to toggle this. Having a more fine-grained per-route setting can be beneficial for various reasons, for example, 1) within data centers, or 2) local ISPs may deploy ECN support for their own video/streaming services [1], etc. There was a recent measurement study/paper [2] which scanned the Alexa's publicly available top million websites list from a vantage point in US, Europe and Asia: Half of the Alexa list will now happily use ECN (tcp_ecn=2, most likely blamed to commit 255cac91c3 ("tcp: extend ECN sysctl to allow server-side only ECN") ;)); the break in connectivity on-path was found is about 1 in 10,000 cases. Timeouts rather than receiving back RSTs were much more common in the negotiation phase (and mostly seen in the Alexa middle band, ranks around 50k-150k): from 12-thousand hosts on which there _may_ be ECN-linked connection failures, only 79 failed with RST when _not_ failing with RST when ECN is not requested. It's unclear though, how much equipment in the wild actually marks CE when buffers start to fill up. We thought about a fallback to non-ECN for retransmitted SYNs as another global option (which could perhaps one day be made default), but as Eric points out, there's much more work needed to detect broken middleboxes. Two examples Eric mentioned are buggy firewalls that accept only a single SYN per flow, and middleboxes that successfully let an ECN flow establish, but later mark CE for all packets (so cwnd converges to 1). [1] http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/89/slides/slides-89-tsvarea-1.pdf, p.15 [2] http://ecn.ethz.ch/ Joint work with Daniel Borkmann. Reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/335797 Suggested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-04syncookies: split cookie_check_timestamp() into two functionsFlorian Westphal
The function cookie_check_timestamp(), both called from IPv4/6 context, is being used to decode the echoed timestamp from the SYN/ACK into TCP options used for follow-up communication with the peer. We can remove ECN handling from that function, split it into a separate one, and simply rename the original function into cookie_decode_options(). cookie_decode_options() just fills in tcp_option struct based on the echoed timestamp received from the peer. Anything that fails in this function will actually discard the request socket. While this is the natural place for decoding options such as ECN which commit 172d69e63c7f ("syncookies: add support for ECN") added, we argue that in particular for ECN handling, it can be checked at a later point in time as the request sock would actually not need to be dropped from this, but just ECN support turned off. Therefore, we split this functionality into cookie_ecn_ok(), which tells us if the timestamp indicates ECN support AND the tcp_ecn sysctl is enabled. This prepares for per-route ECN support: just looking at the tcp_ecn sysctl won't be enough anymore at that point; if the timestamp indicates ECN and sysctl tcp_ecn == 0, we will also need to check the ECN dst metric. This would mean adding a route lookup to cookie_check_timestamp(), which we definitely want to avoid. As we already do a route lookup at a later point in cookie_{v4,v6}_check(), we can simply make use of that as well for the new cookie_ecn_ok() function w/o any additional cost. Joint work with Daniel Borkmann. Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-29tcp: allow for bigger reordering levelEric Dumazet
While testing upcoming Yaogong patch (converting out of order queue into an RB tree), I hit the max reordering level of linux TCP stack. Reordering level was limited to 127 for no good reason, and some network setups [1] can easily reach this limit and get limited throughput. Allow a new max limit of 300, and add a sysctl to allow admins to even allow bigger (or lower) values if needed. [1] Aggregation of links, per packet load balancing, fabrics not doing deep packet inspections, alternative TCP congestion modules... Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Yaogong Wang <wygivan@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-24net: Remove trailing whitespace in tcp.h icmp.c syncookies.cKenjiro Nakayama
Remove trailing whitespace in tcp.h icmp.c syncookies.c Signed-off-by: Kenjiro Nakayama <nakayamakenjiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-18tcp: fix build error if IPv6 is not enabledEric Dumazet
$ make M=net/ipv4 CC net/ipv4/route.o In file included from net/ipv4/route.c:102:0: include/net/tcp.h: In function ‘tcp_v6_iif’: include/net/tcp.h:738:32: error: ‘union <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘h6’ return TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->header.h6.iif; Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Fixes: 870c3151382c ("ipv6: introduce tcp_v6_iif()") Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-17ipv6: introduce tcp_v6_iif()Eric Dumazet
Commit 971f10eca186 ("tcp: better TCP_SKB_CB layout to reduce cache line misses") added a regression for SO_BINDTODEVICE on IPv6. This is because we still use inet6_iif() which expects that IP6 control block is still at the beginning of skb->cb[] This patch adds tcp_v6_iif() helper and uses it where necessary. Because __inet6_lookup_skb() is used by TCP and DCCP, we add an iif parameter to it. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Fixes: 971f10eca186 ("tcp: better TCP_SKB_CB layout to reduce cache line misses") Acked-by: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-17ipv4: clean up cookie_v4_check()Cong Wang
We can retrieve opt from skb, no need to pass it as a parameter. And opt should always be non-NULL, no need to check. Cc: Krzysztof Kolasa <kkolasa@winsoft.pl> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Tested-by: Krzysztof Kolasa <kkolasa@winsoft.pl> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-17ipv4: share tcp_v4_save_options() with cookie_v4_check()Cong Wang
cookie_v4_check() allocates ip_options_rcu in the same way with tcp_v4_save_options(), we can just make it a helper function. Cc: Krzysztof Kolasa <kkolasa@winsoft.pl> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-08Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds
Pull networking updates from David Miller: "Most notable changes in here: 1) By far the biggest accomplishment, thanks to a large range of contributors, is the addition of multi-send for transmit. This is the result of discussions back in Chicago, and the hard work of several individuals. Now, when the ->ndo_start_xmit() method of a driver sees skb->xmit_more as true, it can choose to defer the doorbell telling the driver to start processing the new TX queue entires. skb->xmit_more means that the generic networking is guaranteed to call the driver immediately with another SKB to send. There is logic added to the qdisc layer to dequeue multiple packets at a time, and the handling mis-predicted offloads in software is now done with no locks held. Finally, pktgen is extended to have a "burst" parameter that can be used to test a multi-send implementation. Several drivers have xmit_more support: i40e, igb, ixgbe, mlx4, virtio_net Adding support is almost trivial, so export more drivers to support this optimization soon. I want to thank, in no particular or implied order, Jesper Dangaard Brouer, Eric Dumazet, Alexander Duyck, Tom Herbert, Jamal Hadi Salim, John Fastabend, Florian Westphal, Daniel Borkmann, David Tat, Hannes Frederic Sowa, and Rusty Russell. 2) PTP and timestamping support in bnx2x, from Michal Kalderon. 3) Allow adjusting the rx_copybreak threshold for a driver via ethtool, and add rx_copybreak support to enic driver. From Govindarajulu Varadarajan. 4) Significant enhancements to the generic PHY layer and the bcm7xxx driver in particular (EEE support, auto power down, etc.) from Florian Fainelli. 5) Allow raw buffers to be used for flow dissection, allowing drivers to determine the optimal "linear pull" size for devices that DMA into pools of pages. The objective is to get exactly the necessary amount of headers into the linear SKB area pre-pulled, but no more. The new interface drivers use is eth_get_headlen(). From WANG Cong, with driver conversions (several had their own by-hand duplicated implementations) by Alexander Duyck and Eric Dumazet. 6) Support checksumming more smoothly and efficiently for encapsulations, and add "foo over UDP" facility. From Tom Herbert. 7) Add Broadcom SF2 switch driver to DSA layer, from Florian Fainelli. 8) eBPF now can load programs via a system call and has an extensive testsuite. Alexei Starovoitov and Daniel Borkmann. 9) Major overhaul of the packet scheduler to use RCU in several major areas such as the classifiers and rate estimators. From John Fastabend. 10) Add driver for Intel FM10000 Ethernet Switch, from Alexander Duyck. 11) Rearrange TCP_SKB_CB() to reduce cache line misses, from Eric Dumazet. 12) Add Datacenter TCP congestion control algorithm support, From Florian Westphal. 13) Reorganize sk_buff so that __copy_skb_header() is significantly faster. From Eric Dumazet" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1558 commits) netlabel: directly return netlbl_unlabel_genl_init() net: add netdev_txq_bql_{enqueue, complete}_prefetchw() helpers net: description of dma_cookie cause make xmldocs warning cxgb4: clean up a type issue cxgb4: potential shift wrapping bug i40e: skb->xmit_more support net: fs_enet: Add NAPI TX net: fs_enet: Remove non NAPI RX r8169:add support for RTL8168EP net_sched: copy exts->type in tcf_exts_change() wimax: convert printk to pr_foo() af_unix: remove 0 assignment on static ipv6: Do not warn for informational ICMP messages, regardless of type. Update Intel Ethernet Driver maintainers list bridge: Save frag_max_size between PRE_ROUTING and POST_ROUTING tipc: fix bug in multicast congestion handling net: better IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE support net/mlx4_en: remove NETDEV_TX_BUSY 3c59x: fix bad split of cpu_to_le32(pci_map_single()) net: bcmgenet: fix Tx ring priority programming ...
2014-10-07Merge tag 'dmaengine-3.17' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/dmaengine Pull dmaengine updates from Dan Williams: "Even though this has fixes marked for -stable, given the size and the needed conflict resolutions this is 3.18-rc1/merge-window material. These patches have been languishing in my tree for a long while. The fact that I do not have the time to do proper/prompt maintenance of this tree is a primary factor in the decision to step down as dmaengine maintainer. That and the fact that the bulk of drivers/dma/ activity is going through Vinod these days. The net_dma removal has not been in -next. It has developed simple conflicts against mainline and net-next (for-3.18). Continuing thanks to Vinod for staying on top of drivers/dma/. Summary: 1/ Step down as dmaengine maintainer see commit 08223d80df38 "dmaengine maintainer update" 2/ Removal of net_dma, as it has been marked 'broken' since 3.13 (commit 77873803363c "net_dma: mark broken"), without reports of performance regression. 3/ Miscellaneous fixes" * tag 'dmaengine-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/dmaengine: net: make tcp_cleanup_rbuf private net_dma: revert 'copied_early' net_dma: simple removal dmaengine maintainer update dmatest: prevent memory leakage on error path in thread ioat: Use time_before_jiffies() dmaengine: fix xor sources continuation dma: mv_xor: Rename __mv_xor_slot_cleanup() to mv_xor_slot_cleanup() dma: mv_xor: Remove all callers of mv_xor_slot_cleanup() dma: mv_xor: Remove unneeded mv_xor_clean_completed_slots() call ioat: Use pci_enable_msix_exact() instead of pci_enable_msix() drivers: dma: Include appropriate header file in dca.c drivers: dma: Mark functions as static in dma_v3.c dma: mv_xor: Add DMA API error checks ioat/dca: Use dev_is_pci() to check whether it is pci device
2014-09-30tcp: Change tcp_slow_start function to return voidLi RongQing
No caller uses the return value, so make this function return void. Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-29tcp: move TCP_ECN_create_request out of headerFlorian Westphal
After Octavian Purdilas tcp ipv4/ipv6 unification work this helper only has a single callsite. While at it, convert name to lowercase, suggested by Stephen. Suggested-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-29net: tcp: more detailed ACK events and events for CE marked packetsFlorian Westphal
DataCenter TCP (DCTCP) determines cwnd growth based on ECN information and ACK properties, e.g. ACK that updates window is treated differently than DUPACK. Also DCTCP needs information whether ACK was delayed ACK. Furthermore, DCTCP also implements a CE state machine that keeps track of CE markings of incoming packets. Therefore, extend the congestion control framework to provide these event types, so that DCTCP can be properly implemented as a normal congestion algorithm module outside of the core stack. Joint work with Daniel Borkmann and Glenn Judd. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Glenn Judd <glenn.judd@morganstanley.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-29net: tcp: split ack slow/fast events from cwnd_eventFlorian Westphal
The congestion control ops "cwnd_event" currently supports CA_EVENT_FAST_ACK and CA_EVENT_SLOW_ACK events (among others). Both FAST and SLOW_ACK are only used by Westwood congestion control algorithm. This removes both flags from cwnd_event and adds a new in_ack_event callback for this. The goal is to be able to provide more detailed information about ACKs, such as whether ECE flag was set, or whether the ACK resulted in a window update. It is required for DataCenter TCP (DCTCP) congestion control algorithm as it makes a different choice depending on ECE being set or not. Joint work with Daniel Borkmann and Glenn Judd. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Glenn Judd <glenn.judd@morganstanley.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-29net: tcp: add flag for ca to indicate that ECN is requiredDaniel Borkmann
This patch adds a flag to TCP congestion algorithms that allows for requesting to mark IPv4/IPv6 sockets with transport as ECN capable, that is, ECT(0), when required by a congestion algorithm. It is currently used and needed in DataCenter TCP (DCTCP), as it requires both peers to assert ECT on all IP packets sent - it uses ECN feedback (i.e. CE, Congestion Encountered information) from switches inside the data center to derive feedback to the end hosts. Therefore, simply add a new flag to icsk_ca_ops. Note that DCTCP's algorithm/behaviour slightly diverges from RFC3168, therefore this is only (!) enabled iff the assigned congestion control ops module has requested this. By that, we can tightly couple this logic really only to the provided congestion control ops. Joint work with Florian Westphal and Glenn Judd. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Glenn Judd <glenn.judd@morganstanley.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-29net: tcp: assign tcp cong_ops when tcp sk is createdFlorian Westphal
Split assignment and initialization from one into two functions. This is required by followup patches that add Datacenter TCP (DCTCP) congestion control algorithm - we need to be able to determine if the connection is moderated by DCTCP before the 3WHS has finished. As we walk the available congestion control list during the assignment, we are always guaranteed to have Reno present as it's fixed compiled-in. Therefore, since we're doing the early assignment, we don't have a real use for the Reno alias tcp_init_congestion_ops anymore and can thus remove it. Actual usage of the congestion control operations are being made after the 3WHS has finished, in some cases however we can access get_info() via diag if implemented, therefore we need to zero out the private area for those modules. Joint work with Daniel Borkmann and Glenn Judd. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Glenn Judd <glenn.judd@morganstanley.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>