with the latest socket API ID. Especially it can be disabled.
Full compliance needs changing the structure used in the
socket option. Since this breaks the API, it will be a
seperate commit which will not be MFCed to stable/8.
MFC after: 3 months.
Khelp/Hhook KPIs to hook into the TCP stack and maintain a per-connection, low
noise estimate of the instantaneous RTT. ERTT's implementation is robust even in
the face of delayed acknowledgements and/or TSO being in use for a connection.
A high quality, low noise RTT estimate is a requirement for applications such as
delay-based congestion control, for which we will be importing some algorithm
implementations shortly.
In collaboration with: David Hayes <dahayes at swin edu au> and
Grenville Armitage <garmitage at swin edu au>
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: bz and others along the way
MFC after: 3 months
write to the buffer causes it to overflow. We therefore can't hold the CC list
rwlock over a call to sbuf_printf() for an sbuf configured with SBUF_AUTOEXTEND.
Switch to a fixed length sbuf which should be of sufficient size except in the
very unlikely event that the sysctl is being processed as one or more new
algorithms are loaded. If that happens, we accept the race and may fail the
sysctl gracefully if there is insufficient room to print the names of all the
algorithms.
This should address a WITNESS warning and the potential panic that would occur
if the sbuf call to malloc did sleep whilst holding the CC list rwlock.
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Reported by: Nick Hibma
Reviewed by: bz
MFC after: 3 weeks
X-MFC with: r215166
- The mean RTT is updated at the end of each congestion epoch, but if we switch
to congestion avoidance within the first epoch (e.g. if ssthresh was primed
from the hostcache), we'll trigger a divide by zero panic in
cubic_ack_received(). Set the mean to the min in cubic_record_rtt() if the
mean is less than the min to ensure we have a sane mean for use in this
situation. This fixes the panic reported by Nick Hibma.
- Adjust conditions under which we update the mean RTT in cubic_post_recovery()
to ensure a low latency path won't yield an RTT of less than 1. This avoids
another potential divide by zero panic when running CUBIC in networks with
sub-millisecond latencies.
- Remove the "safety" assignment of min into mean when we don't update the mean
because of failed conditions. The above change to the conditions for updating
the mean ensures the safety issue is addressed and I feel it is better to keep
our previous mean estimate around if we can't update than to revert to the
min.
- Initialise the mean RTT to 1 on connection startup to act as a safety belt if
a situation we haven't considered and addressed with the above changes were to
crop up in the wild.
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Reported and tested by: Nick Hibma
Discussed with: David Hayes <dahayes at swin edu au>
MFC after: 5 weeks
X-MFC with: r216114
udp endpoint may end up echoing back to the sender
even with OUT joining the multi-cast group.
Reviewed by: gnn, bms, bz?
Obtained from: deischen (with help from)
packets.
*) Reject requests with a protocol length not equal to 4. This is IPv4
and there is no reason to accept anything else.
*) Reject packets that have a multicast source hardware address.
*) Drop requests where the hardware address length is not equal
to the hardware address length of the interface.
Pointed out by: Rozhuk Ivan
MFC after: 1 week
hint is 0 when no SACK data is received to update the hint with. This was
accidentally omitted from r216753.
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 10 weeks
X-MFC with: 216753
an unbound socket, regardless of any multicast options.
If an address is specified via a multicast option, then
let it override normal the source address selection.
This fixes a bug where source address selection was
not being performed when multicast options were present
but without an interface being specified.
Reviewed by: bz
MFC after: 1 day
(also test for negative MTUs if checking it anyway).
An MTU of 0 is arguably a bug elsewhere, but this at least gives us some
more debugging hints.
Sponsored by: ISPsystem (Early 2010)
MFC after: 1 week
access inbound/outbound events and associated data for established TCP
connections. The hooks only run if at least one hook function is registered
for the hook point, ensuring the impact on the stack is effectively nil when
no TCP Khelp modules are loaded. struct tcp_hhook_data is passed as contextual
data to any registered Khelp module hook functions.
- Add an OSD (Object Specific Data) pointer to struct tcpcb to allow Khelp
modules to associate per-connection data with the TCP control block.
- Bump __FreeBSD_version and add a note to UPDATING regarding to ABI changes
introduced by this commit and r216753.
In collaboration with: David Hayes <dahayes at swin edu au> and
Grenville Armitage <garmitage at swin edu au>
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: bz, others along the way
MFC after: 3 months
This will be used by the incoming Enhanced RTT Khelp module.
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Submitted by: David Hayes <dahayes at swin edu au>
Reviewed by: bz and others (as part of a larger patch)
MFC after: 3 months
Keep three lines disabled which I am unsure if they had been used at all.
This will allow us to seek testers and possibly bring it all back.
Discussed with: rwatson
MFC after: 7 weeks
algorithm based on the Internet-Draft "draft-leith-tcp-htcp-06.txt". It is
implemented as a kernel module compatible with the recently committed modular
congestion control framework.
H-TCP was designed to provide increased throughput in fast and long-distance
networks. It attempts to maintain fairness when competing with legacy NewReno
TCP in lower speed scenarios where NewReno is able to operate adequately. The
paper "H-TCP: A framework for congestion control in high-speed and long-distance
networks" provides additional detail.
In collaboration with: David Hayes <dahayes at swin edu au> and
Grenville Armitage <garmitage at swin edu au>
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: rpaulo (older patch from a few weeks ago)
MFC after: 3 months
