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reassembly inbound tcp segments. The old algorithm just blindly
dropped in segments without coalescing. This meant that every
segment could take up greater and greater room on the linked list
of segments. This of course is now subject to a tighter limit (100)
of segments which in a high BDP situation will cause us to be a
lot more in-efficent as we drop segments beyond 100 entries that
we receive. What this restructure does is cause the reassembly
buffer to coalesce segments putting an emphasis on the two
common cases (which avoid walking the list of segments) i.e.
where we add to the back of the queue of segments and where we
add to the front. We also have the reassembly buffer supporting
a couple of debug options (black box logging as well as counters
for code coverage). These are compiled out by default but can
be added by uncommenting the defines.
Sponsored by: Netflix Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16626
Rack includes the following features:
- A different SACK processing scheme (the old sack structures are not used).
- RACK (Recent acknowledgment) where counting dup-acks is no longer done
instead time is used to knwo when to retransmit. (see the I-D)
- TLP (Tail Loss Probe) where we will probe for tail-losses to attempt
to try not to take a retransmit time-out. (see the I-D)
- Burst mitigation using TCPHTPS
- PRR (partial rate reduction) see the RFC.
Once built into your kernel, you can select this stack by either
socket option with the name of the stack is "rack" or by setting
the global sysctl so the default is rack.
Note that any connection that does not support SACK will be kicked
back to the "default" base FreeBSD stack (currently known as "default").
To build this into your kernel you will need to enable in your
kernel:
makeoptions WITH_EXTRA_TCP_STACKS=1
options TCPHPTS
Sponsored by: Netflix Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15525
controlled by the TCP_BLACKBOX option.
Enable this as part of amd64 GENERIC. For now, leave it disabled on
other platforms.
Sponsored by: Netflix, Inc.
summits at BSDCan and BSDCam in 2017.
The TCP Blackbox Recorder allows you to capture events on a TCP connection
in a ring buffer. It stores metadata with the event. It optionally stores
the TCP header associated with an event (if the event is associated with a
packet) and also optionally stores information on the sockets.
It supports setting a log ID on a TCP connection and using this to correlate
multiple connections that share a common log ID.
You can log connections in different modes. If you are doing a coordinated
test with a particular connection, you may tell the system to put it in
mode 4 (continuous dump). Or, if you just want to monitor for errors, you
can put it in mode 1 (ring buffer) and dump all the ring buffers associated
with the connection ID when we receive an error signal for that connection
ID. You can set a default mode that will be applied to a particular ratio
of incoming connections. You can also manually set a mode using a socket
option.
This commit includes only basic probes. rrs@ has added quite an abundance
of probes in his TCP development work. He plans to commit those soon.
There are user-space programs which we plan to commit as ports. These read
the data from the log device and output pcapng files, and then let you
analyze the data (and metadata) in the pcapng files.
Reviewed by: gnn (previous version)
Obtained from: Netflix, Inc.
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11085
