from Larry Peterson &co. at Arizona:
- Header prediction for ACKs did not exclude Fast Retransmit/Recovery.
- srtt calculation tended to get ``stuck'' and could never decrease
when below 8. It still can't, but the scaling factors are adjusted
so that this artifact does not cause as bad an effect on the RTO
value as it used to.
The paper also points out the incr/8 error that has been long since fixed,
and the problems with ACKing frequency resulting from the use of options
which I suspect to be fixed already as well (as part of the T/TCP work).
Obtained from: Brakmo & Peterson, ``Performance Problems in BSD4.4 TCP''
*' instead of caddr_t and it isn't optional (it never was). Most of the
netipx (and netns) pr_ctlinput functions abuse the second arg instead of
using the third arg but fixing this is beyond the scope of this round
of changes.
have to decide whether to send a CC or CCnew option in our SYN segment
depending on the contents of our TAO cache. This decision has to be
made once when the connection starts. The earlier code delayed this
decision until the segment was assembled in tcp_output() and
retransmitted SYN segments could have different CC options.
Reviewed by: Richard Stevens, davidg, wollman
a few new wrinkles for MTU discovery which tcp_output() had better
be prepared to handle. ip_output() is also modified to do something
helpful in this case, since it has already calculated the information
we need.
turned out not to be necessary; simply watching for MTU decreases (which
we already did) automagically eliminates all the cases we were trying to
protect against.
middle of a fully-open window. Also, keep track of how many retransmits
we do as a result of MTU discovery. This may actually do more work than
necessary, but it's an unusual condition...
Suggested by: Janey Hoe <janey@lcs.mit.edu>
to be no ill effects, and so far as Iknow none of the variables in
question depend on 16-bit wraparound behavior. (The sizes are in
many cases relics from when a PCB had to fit inside a 128-byte mbuf. PCBs
are no longer stored in that way, and the old structure would not have
fit, either.)
time ago. I left in Garrett's one, because his was in the 4.4-Lite-2
location, making any diffs just that little bit smaller.
I presume this choice means that netstat needs to be recompiled before
"netstat -s" will give a meaningful answer on tcp stats.
or ssthresh that we were able to use
tcp_var.h - declare tcpstat entries for above; declare tcp_{send,recv}space
in_rmx.c - fill in the MTU and pipe sizes with the defaults TCP would have
used anyway in the absence of values here
know better when to cache values in the route, rather than relying on a
heuristic involving sequence numbers that broke when tcp_sendspace
was increased to 16k.
its connection parameters, we want to keep statistics on how often this
actually happens to see whether there is any work that needs to be done in
TCP itself.
Suggested by: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>
Bob Braden <braden@isi.edu>.
NB: This has not had David's TCP ACK hack re-integrated. It is not clear
what the correct solution to this problem is, if any. If a better solution
doesn't pop up in response to this message, I'll put David's code back in
(or he's welcome to do so himself).
