This comments out a problematic section comprising a half-finished algorithm:
- The variable `ccid2hctx_ackloss' is never initialised to a value different from 0 and
hence in fact is a read-only constant.
- The `arsent' variable counts packets other than Acks (it is incremented for every packet),
and there is no test for Ack Loss.
- The concept of counting Acks as such leads to a complex calculation, and the calculation
at the moment is inconsistent with this concept.
The problem is that the number of Acks - rather than the number of windows - is counted,
which leads to a complex (cubic/quadratic) expression - this is not even implemented.
In its current state, the commented-out algorithm interfers with normal processing by
changing Ack Ratio incorrectly, and at the wrong times.
A new algorithm is necessary, which will not necessarily use the same variables as used by
the unfinished one; hence the old variables have been removed.
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@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
RFC 4341, sec. 5 states that "The cwnd parameter is initialized to at most
four packets for new connections, following the rules from [RFC3390]", which
is implemented by this patch.
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@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch removes a bug in the current code. I agree with Andrea's comment
that there is a problem here but the way it is treated does not fix it.
The problem is that whenever Ack Ratio > cwnd, starvation/deadlock occurs:
* the receiver will not send an Ack until (Ack Ratio - cwnd) data packets
have arrived;
* the sender will not send any data packet before the receipt of an Ack
advances the send window.
The only way that the connection then progresses was via RTO timeout. In one
extreme case (bulk transfer), it was observed that this happened for every single
packet; i.e. hundreds of packets, each a RTO timeout of 1..3 seconds apart:
a transfer which normally would take a fraction of a second thus grew to
several minutes.
The solution taken by this approach is to observe the relation
"Ack Ratio <= cwnd"
by using the constraint (1) from RFC 4341, 6.1.2; i.e. set
Ack Ratio = ceil(cwnd / 2)
and update it whenever either Ack Ratio or cwnd change. This ensures that
the deadlock problem can not arise.
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@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Since it makes not sense to assign negative values to Ack Ratio, this
patch disallows this possibility.
As a consequence, a Bug test for negative Ack Ratio values becomes obsolete.
Furthermore, a check against overflow (as Ack Ratio may not exceed 2 bytes,
due to RFC 4340, 11.3) has been added.
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@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This replaces use of normal subtraction with modulo-48 subtraction.
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@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In CCID2 the receiver-history is sorted in ascending order of sequence number,
but the processing of received Ack Vectors requires the list traversal in the
opposite direction.
The current code has a bug in this regard: the list traversal is upwards. As a
consequence, only Ack Vectors with a run length of 1 will pass, in all other
Ack Vectors the remaining (acked) sequence numbers are missed, and may later
falsely be identified as lost.
Note: This bug is only visible when Ack Ratio > 1, since otherwise the run
lengths of Ack Vectors are 0.
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 cleans up the consequences of an earlier patch which
introduced the `if IP_DCCP' clause into net/dccp/Kconfig.
The CCID Kconfig menu is sourced within this clause; as a
consequence, all tests of type `depends on IP_DCCP' are now
redundant.
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 patch addresses the following problems:
1. DCCP relies for its proper functioning on having at least one CCID module
enabled (as in TCP plugable congestion control). Currently it is possible to
disable both CCIDs and thus leave the DCCP module in a compiled, but entirely
non-functional state: no sockets can be created when no CCID is available.
Furthermore, the protocol is (again like TCP) not intended to be used without
CCIDs. Last, a non-empty CCID list is needed for doing CCID feature negotiation.
2. Internally the default CCID that is advertised by the Linux host is set to CCID2
(DCCPF_INITIAL_CCID in include/linux/dccp.h). Disabling CCID2 in the Kconfig
menu without changing the defaults leads to a failure `module not found' when
trying to load the dccp module (which internally tries to load the default CCID).
3. The specification (RFC 4340, sec. 10) treats CCID2 somewhat like a
`minimum common denominator'; the specification says that:
* "New connections start with CCID 2 for both endpoints"
* "A DCCP implementation intended for general use, such as an implementation in a
general-purpose operating system kernel, SHOULD implement at least CCID 2.
The intent is to make CCID 2 broadly available for interoperability [...]"
Providing CCID2 as minimum-required CCID (like Reno/Cubic in TCP) thus seems reasonable.
Hence this patch automatically selects CCID2 when DCCP is enabled. Documentation also added.
Discussions with Ian McDonald on this subject are gratefully acknowledged.
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>
The moving average computation occurs so frequently in the CCID 3 code that
it merits an inline function of its own. This is uses a suggestion by
Arnaldo as per http://www.mail-archive.com/dccp@vger.kernel.org/msg01662.html
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 fixes/updates the handling of idle and application-limited periods in CCID3,
which currently is broken: there is no detection as to how long a sender has been
idle - there is only one flag which is toggled in between function calls.
Being obsolete now, the `idle' flag is removed.
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 patch fixes a previously undiscovered bug; the problem is in computing
the elapsed time as the time between `receiving' the packet (i.e. skb enters
CCID module) and sending feedback:
- there is no layer-processing, queueing, or delay involved,
- hence the elapsed time is in the order of 1 function call
- this is in the dimension of maximally 50..100usec
- which renders the use of elapsed time almost entirely useless.
The fix is simply to ignore such trivial amounts of elapsed time.
As a further advantage, the now useless elapsed_time field can be removed from
the socket, which reduces the socket structure by another four bytes.
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 updates the CCID3 code with regard to two instances of using `MSS' in place of `s':
1. The RFC3390-based initial rate: both rfc3448bis as well as the Faster Restart
draft now consistently use `s' instead of MSS.
2. Now agrees with section 4.2 of rfc3448bis: "If the sender is ready to send data when
it does not yet have a round trip sample, the value of X is set to s bytes per
second, for segment size s [...]"
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>
Many-many code in the kernel initialized the timer->function
and timer->data together with calling init_timer(timer). There
is already a helper for this. Use it for networking code.
The patch is HUGE, but makes the code 130 lines shorter
(98 insertions(+), 228 deletions(-)).
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Assigning initial values of `0' is redundant when loading a new CCID structure,
since in net/dccp/ccid.c the entire CCID structure is zeroed out prior to
initialisation in ccid_new():
struct ccid {
struct ccid_operations *ccid_ops;
char ccid_priv[0];
};
// ...
if (rx) {
memset(ccid + 1, 0, ccid_ops->ccid_hc_rx_obj_size);
if (ccid->ccid_ops->ccid_hc_rx_init != NULL &&
ccid->ccid_ops->ccid_hc_rx_init(ccid, sk) != 0)
goto out_free_ccid;
} else {
memset(ccid + 1, 0, ccid_ops->ccid_hc_tx_obj_size);
/* analogous to the rx case */
}
This patch therefore removes the redundant assignments. Thanks to Arnaldo for
the inspiration.
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>
This fixes `unaligned (read) access' errors of the type
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[100f970c] dccp_parse_options+0x4f4/0x7e0 [dccp]
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[1011f2e4] ccid3_hc_tx_parse_options+0x1ac/0x380 [dccp_ccid3]
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[100f9898] dccp_parse_options+0x680/0x880 [dccp]
by using the get_unaligned macro for parsing options.
Commiter note: Preserved the sparse __be{16,32} annotations.
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>
This replaces several uses of standard arithmetic with the DCCP
sequence number arithmetic functions. The problem here is that the
sequence number wrap-around was not taken into consideration.
* Condition "seqp->ccid2s_seq <= prev->ccid2s_seq" has been replaced
by
dccp_delta_seqno(seqp->ccid2s_seq, prev->ccid2s_seq) >= 0
since if seqp is `before' prev, then the delta_seqno() is positive.
* The test whether sequence numbers `a' and `b' are consecutive has
the form
dccp_delta_seqno(a, b) == 1
* Increment of ccid2hctx_rpseq could be done using dccp_inc_seqno(),
but since here the incremented ccid2hctx_rpseq == seqno, used
assignment instead.
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>
skb's passed to ccid2_hc_tx_send_packet() are headerless, the packet
type is decided later, in dccp_write_xmit(). Therefore the first test
of the switch/case block is always true, the others are never reached.
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 removes a test for `val < 1' which would only have been triggered
when val < 0, due to a preceding test for 0. Fixed by using an
unsigned type for cwnd (as in TCP) instead.
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 removes an ugly BUG_ON which has been pointed out by Arnaldo.
Instead of freezing up the machine, a `critical' message is now issued
to the system log.
There is potential of doing this more gracefully (eg. there are a few
internal variables which could be updated despite the lack of memory),
but that requires more complicated changes to the algorithm; thus a
`FIXME' has been added.
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 simplifies the interface of ccid2_hc_tx_alloc_seq():
* ccid2_hc_tx_alloc_seq() is always called with an argument of
CCID2_SEQBUF_LEN;
* other code - ccid2_hc_tx_check_sanity() - even depends on the
assumption that ccid2_hc_tx_alloc_seq() has been called with this
particular size;
* passing the `gfp_t' argument to ccid2_hc_tx_alloc_seq() is
redundant with gfp_any().
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 just sets the parameter to bool, since debugging messages are
either on or off.
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 several instances of testing against NULL into the function which is
used to de-reference the CCID-private data.
Committer note: Made the BUG_ON depend on having CONFIG_IP_DCCP_CCID3_DEBUG, as it
is too much to have this on production code. Also made sure that
the macro is used only after checking if sk_state is not LISTEN,
to make it equivalent to what we had before.
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@ghostprotocols.net>
The third parameter of dccp_sample_rtt now becomes useless and is removed.
Also combined the subtraction of the timestamp echo and the elapsed time.
This is safe, since (a) presence of timestamp echo is tested first and (b)
elapsed time is either present and non-zero or it is not set and equals 0
due to the memset in dccp_parse_options.
To avoid measuring option-processing time, the timestamp for measuring the
initial Request/Response RTT sample is taken directly when the function is
called (the Linux implementation always adds a timestamp on the Request,
so there is no loss in doing this).
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@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch reduces the number of timestamps taken in the receive path
for each packet.
The ccid3_hc_tx_update_x() routine is called in
* the receive path for each CCID3-controlled packet
* for the nofeedback timer (if no feedback arrives during 4 RTT)
Currently, when there is no loss, each packet gets timestamped twice.
The patch resolves this by recycling the first timestamp taken on packet
reception for RTT sampling.
When the no_feedback_timer() is called, then the timestamp argument is
simply set to NULL - so that ccid3_hc_tx_update_x() takes care of the logic.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Now to convert the ackvec code to ktime_t so that we can get rid of
dccp_timestamp and the epoch thing in dccp_sock.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The code was too complicated, if p > 0 in ccid3_hc_tx_no_feedback_timer the
timestamp was being obtained to be passed to ccid3_hc_tx_update_x, where only
if p > 0 the timestamp was needed, so just leave it to ccid3_hc_tx_update_x to
obtain the timestamp if needed.
This will help in the upcoming changesets where we'll convert t_ld to ktime_t.
We'll eventually try to reuse ktime_get_real() calls again.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f22 change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
either.
This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
or the documentation references).
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ccid3_hc_tx_send_packet currently returns 0 when the time difference between
current time and t_nom is less than 1000 microseconds.
In this case the packet is sent immediately; but, unlike other packets that can
be emitted on first attempt, it will not have its window counter updated and
its options set as required. This is a bug.
Fix: Require the time difference to be at least 1000 microseconds. The
algorithm then converges: time differences > 1000 microseconds trigger the
timer in dccp_write_xmit; after timer expiry this function is tried again; when
the time difference is less than 1000, the packet will have its options added
and window counter updated as required.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
This updates the computation of t_nom and t_last_win_count to use the newer
gettimeofday interface.
Committer note: used ktime_to_timeval to set the 'now' variable to t_ld in
ccid3hctx_no_feedback_timer
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
It had just a slab cache, so, for the sake of simplicity just make
dccp_trfc_lib module init routine create the slab cache, no need for users of
the lib to create a private loss_interval object.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Now ccid3_hc_rx_update_li is ready to be moved to
net/dccp/ccids/lib/loss_interval, it uses the same interface as the other
functions there.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This is a preparatory patch for moving these loss interval functions from
net/dccp/ccids/ccid3.c to net/dccp/ccids/lib/loss_interval.c.
Based on a patch by Ian McDonald.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
When compiling with EXTRA_CFLAGS=-W noticed that tstamp is not initialised
correctly in dccp_li_calc_first_li.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Gerrit Renker