TFO is disabled by default in the kernel build. See the top comment
in sys/netinet/tcp_fastopen.c for implementation particulars.
Reviewed by: gnn, jch, stas
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Verisign, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4350
to do is to clean up the timer handling using the async-drain.
Other optimizations may be coming to go with this. Whats here
will allow differnet tcp implementations (one included).
Reviewed by: jtl, hiren, transports
Sponsored by: Netflix Inc.
Differential Revision: D4055
packets and/or state transitions from each TCP socket. That would help with
narrowing down certain problems we see in the field that are hard to reproduce
without understanding the history of how we got into a certain state. This
change provides just that.
It saves copies of the last N packets in a list in the tcpcb. When the tcpcb is
destroyed, the list is freed. I thought this was likely to be more
performance-friendly than saving copies of the tcpcb. Plus, with the packets,
you should be able to reverse-engineer what happened to the tcpcb.
To enable the feature, you will need to compile a kernel with the TCPPCAP
option. Even then, the feature defaults to being deactivated. You can activate
it by setting a positive value for the number of captured packets. You can do
that on either a global basis or on a per-socket basis (via a setsockopt call).
There is no way to get the packets out of the kernel other than using kmem or
getting a coredump. I thought that would help some of the legal/privacy concerns
regarding such a feature. However, it should be possible to add a future effort
to export them in PCAP format.
I tested this at low scale, and found that there were no mbuf leaks and the peak
mbuf usage appeared to be unchanged with and without the feature.
The main performance concern I can envision is the number of mbufs that would be
used on systems with a large number of sockets. If you save five packets per
direction per socket and have 3,000 sockets, that will consume at least 30,000
mbufs just to keep these packets. I tried to reduce the concerns associated with
this by limiting the number of clusters (not mbufs) that could be used for this
feature. Again, in my testing, that appears to work correctly.
Differential Revision: D3100
Submitted by: Jonathan Looney <jlooney at juniper dot net>
Reviewed by: gnn, hiren
to provide the TCPDEBUG functionality with pure DTrace.
Reviewed by: rwatson
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Limelight Networks
Differential Revision: D3530
Avoid too strict INP_INFO_RLOCK_ASSERT checks due to
tcp_notify() being called from in6_pcbnotify().
Reported by: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Submitted by: markj, jch
- The existing TCP INP_INFO lock continues to protect the global inpcb list
stability during full list traversal (e.g. tcp_pcblist()).
- A new INP_LIST lock protects inpcb list actual modifications (inp allocation
and free) and inpcb global counters.
It allows to use TCP INP_INFO_RLOCK lock in critical paths (e.g. tcp_input())
and INP_INFO_WLOCK only in occasional operations that walk all connections.
PR: 183659
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2599
Reviewed by: jhb, adrian
Tested by: adrian, nitroboost-gmail.com
Sponsored by: Verisign, Inc.
non-inline urgent data and introduce an mbuf exhaustion attack vector
similar to FreeBSD-SA-15:15.tcp, but not requiring VNETs.
Address the issue described in FreeBSD-SA-15:15.tcp.
Reviewed by: glebius
Approved by: so
Approved by: jmallett (mentor)
Security: FreeBSD-SA-15:15.tcp
Sponsored by: Norse Corp, Inc.
- Provide pru_ready function for TCP.
- Don't call tcp_output() from tcp_usr_send() if no ready data was put
into the socket buffer.
- In case of dropped connection don't try to m_freem() not ready data.
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
Sponsored by: Netflix
sending not ready data:
o Add new flag to pru_send() flags - PRUS_NOTREADY.
o Add new protocol method pru_ready().
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
Sponsored by: Netflix
received any RST packet. Do not set error to ECONNRESET in this case.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D879
Reviewed by: rpaulo, adrian
Approved by: jhb (mentor)
Sponsored by: Verisign, Inc.
mixing on stack memory and UMA memory in one linked list.
Thus, rewrite TCP reassembly code in terms of memory usage. The
algorithm remains unchanged.
We actually do not need extra memory to build a reassembly queue.
Arriving mbufs are always packet header mbufs. So we got the length
of data as pkthdr.len. We got m_nextpkt for linkage. And we need
only one pointer to point at the tcphdr, use PH_loc for that.
In tcpcb the t_segq fields becomes mbuf pointer. The t_segqlen
field now counts not packets, but bytes in the queue. This gives
us more precision when comparing to socket buffer limits.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
the INP_INFO lock from tcp_usr_accept. As the PR/patch states
this was following the advice already in the code.
See the PR below for a full disucssion of this change and its
measured effects.
PR: 183659
Submitted by: Julian Charbon
Reviewed by: jhb
to this event, adding if_var.h to files that do need it. Also, include
all includes that now are included due to implicit pollution via if_var.h
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
dynamic translation so that their arguments match the definitions for
these providers in Solaris and illumos. Thus, existing scripts for these
providers should work unmodified on FreeBSD.
Tested by: gnn, hiren
MFC after: 1 month
of reviewing of r231025.
Unlike other options from this family TCP_KEEPCNT doesn't specify
time interval, but a count, thus parameter supplied doesn't need
to be multiplied by hz.
Reported & tested by: amdmi3
- Stateful TCP offload drivers for Terminator 3 and 4 (T3 and T4) ASICs.
These are available as t3_tom and t4_tom modules that augment cxgb(4)
and cxgbe(4) respectively. The cxgb/cxgbe drivers continue to work as
usual with or without these extra features.
- iWARP driver for Terminator 3 ASIC (kernel verbs). T4 iWARP in the
works and will follow soon.
Build-tested with make universe.
30s overview
============
What interfaces support TCP offload? Look for TOE4 and/or TOE6 in the
capabilities of an interface:
# ifconfig -m | grep TOE
Enable/disable TCP offload on an interface (just like any other ifnet
capability):
# ifconfig cxgbe0 toe
# ifconfig cxgbe0 -toe
Which connections are offloaded? Look for toe4 and/or toe6 in the
output of netstat and sockstat:
# netstat -np tcp | grep toe
# sockstat -46c | grep toe
Reviewed by: bz, gnn
Sponsored by: Chelsio communications.
MFC after: ~3 months (after 9.1, and after ensuring MFC is feasible)
TCP_KEEPCNT, that allow to control initial timeout, idle time, idle
re-send interval and idle send count on a per-socket basis.
Reviewed by: andre, bz, lstewart
- The existing ipi_lock continues to protect the global inpcb list and
inpcb counter. This lock is now relegated to a small number of
allocation and free operations, and occasional operations that walk
all connections (including, awkwardly, certain UDP multicast receive
operations -- something to revisit).
- A new ipi_hash_lock protects the two inpcbinfo hash tables for
looking up connections and bound sockets, manipulated using new
INP_HASH_*() macros. This lock, combined with inpcb locks, protects
the 4-tuple address space.
Unlike the current ipi_lock, ipi_hash_lock follows the individual inpcb
connection locks, so may be acquired while manipulating a connection on
which a lock is already held, avoiding the need to acquire the inpcbinfo
lock preemptively when a binding change might later be required. As a
result, however, lookup operations necessarily go through a reference
acquire while holding the lookup lock, later acquiring an inpcb lock --
if required.
A new function in_pcblookup() looks up connections, and accepts flags
indicating how to return the inpcb. Due to lock order changes, callers
no longer need acquire locks before performing a lookup: the lookup
routine will acquire the ipi_hash_lock as needed. In the future, it will
also be able to use alternative lookup and locking strategies
transparently to callers, such as pcbgroup lookup. New lookup flags are,
supplementing the existing INPLOOKUP_WILDCARD flag:
INPLOOKUP_RLOCKPCB - Acquire a read lock on the returned inpcb
INPLOOKUP_WLOCKPCB - Acquire a write lock on the returned inpcb
Callers must pass exactly one of these flags (for the time being).
Some notes:
- All protocols are updated to work within the new regime; especially,
TCP, UDPv4, and UDPv6. pcbinfo ipi_lock acquisitions are largely
eliminated, and global hash lock hold times are dramatically reduced
compared to previous locking.
- The TCP syncache still relies on the pcbinfo lock, something that we
may want to revisit.
- Support for reverting to the FreeBSD 7.x locking strategy in TCP input
is no longer available -- hash lookup locks are now held only very
briefly during inpcb lookup, rather than for potentially extended
periods. However, the pcbinfo ipi_lock will still be acquired if a
connection state might change such that a connection is added or
removed.
- Raw IP sockets continue to use the pcbinfo ipi_lock for protection,
due to maintaining their own hash tables.
- The interface in6_pcblookup_hash_locked() is maintained, which allows
callers to acquire hash locks and perform one or more lookups atomically
with 4-tuple allocation: this is required only for TCPv6, as there is no
in6_pcbconnect_setup(), which there should be.
- UDPv6 locking remains significantly more conservative than UDPv4
locking, which relates to source address selection. This needs
attention, as it likely significantly reduces parallelism in this code
for multithreaded socket use (such as in BIND).
- In the UDPv4 and UDPv6 multicast cases, we need to revisit locking
somewhat, as they relied on ipi_lock to stablise 4-tuple matches, which
is no longer sufficient. A second check once the inpcb lock is held
should do the trick, keeping the general case from requiring the inpcb
lock for every inpcb visited.
- This work reminds us that we need to revisit locking of the v4/v6 flags,
which may be accessed lock-free both before and after this change.
- Right now, a single lock name is used for the pcbhash lock -- this is
undesirable, and probably another argument is required to take care of
this (or a char array name field in the pcbinfo?).
This is not an MFC candidate for 8.x due to its impact on lookup and
locking semantics. It's possible some of these issues could be worked
around with compatibility wrappers, if necessary.
Reviewed by: bz
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Add some comments at #endifs given more nestedness. To make the compiler
happy, some default initializations were added in accordance with the style
on the files.
Reviewed by: gnn
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored by: iXsystems
MFC after: 4 days
Retransmitted Packets
Zero Window Advertisements
Out of Order Receives
These statistics are available via the -T argument to
netstat(1).
MFC after: 2 weeks
Control Algorithms for FreeBSD" FreeBSD Foundation funded project. More details
about the project are available at: http://caia.swin.edu.au/freebsd/5cc/
- Add a KPI and supporting infrastructure to allow modular congestion control
algorithms to be used in the net stack. Algorithms can maintain per-connection
state if required, and connections maintain their own algorithm pointer, which
allows different connections to concurrently use different algorithms. The
TCP_CONGESTION socket option can be used with getsockopt()/setsockopt() to
programmatically query or change the congestion control algorithm respectively
from within an application at runtime.
- Integrate the framework with the TCP stack in as least intrusive a manner as
possible. Care was also taken to develop the framework in a way that should
allow integration with other congestion aware transport protocols (e.g. SCTP)
in the future. The hope is that we will one day be able to share a single set
of congestion control algorithm modules between all congestion aware transport
protocols.
- Introduce a new congestion recovery (TF_CONGRECOVERY) state into the TCP stack
and use it to decouple the meaning of recovery from a congestion event and
recovery from packet loss (TF_FASTRECOVERY) a la RFC2581. ECN and delay based
congestion control protocols don't generally need to recover from packet loss
and need a different way to note a congestion recovery episode within the
stack.
- Remove the net.inet.tcp.newreno sysctl, which simplifies some portions of code
and ensures the stack always uses the appropriate mechanisms for recovering
from packet loss during a congestion recovery episode.
- Extract the NewReno congestion control algorithm from the TCP stack and
massage it into module form. NewReno is always built into the kernel and will
remain the default algorithm for the forseeable future. Implementations of
additional different algorithms will become available in the near future.
- Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900025 and note in UPDATING that rebuilding code
that relies on the size of "struct tcpcb" is required.
Many thanks go to the Cisco University Research Program Fund at Community
Foundation Silicon Valley and the FreeBSD Foundation. Their support of our work
at the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures, Swinburne University of
Technology is greatly appreciated.
In collaboration with: David Hayes <dahayes at swin edu au> and
Grenville Armitage <garmitage at swin edu au>
Sponsored by: Cisco URP, FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: rpaulo
Tested by: David Hayes (and many others over the years)
MFC after: 3 months
to give way for the pluggable congestion control framework. It is
the task of the congestion control algorithm to set the congestion
window and amount of inflight data without external interference.
In 'struct tcpcb' the variables previously used by the inflight
limiter are renamed to spares to keep the ABI intact and to have
some more space for future extensions.
In 'struct tcp_info' the variable 'tcpi_snd_bwnd' is not removed to
preserve the ABI. It is always set to 0.
In siftr.c in 'struct pkt_node' the variable 'snd_bwnd' is not removed
to preserve the ABI. It is always set to 0.
These unused variable in the various structures may be reused in the
future or garbage collected before the next release or at some other
point when an ABI change happens anyway for other reasons.
No MFC is planned. The inflight bandwidth limiter stays disabled by
default in the other branches but remains available.
tcbinfo lock there: r175612, which re-added it, masked a race between
sonewconn(2) and accept(2) that could allow an incompletely initialized
address on a newly-created socket on a listen queue to be exposed. Full
details can be found in that commit message.
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks
the leading underscores since they are now implemented.
- Implement the tcpi_rto and tcpi_last_data_recv fields in the tcp_info
structure.
Reviewed by: rwatson
MFC after: 2 weeks
TCP_SORECEIVE_STREAM for the time being.
Requested by: brooks
Once compiled in make it easily switchable for testers by using a tuneable
net.inet.tcp.soreceive_stream
and a corresponding read-only sysctl to report the current state.
Suggested by: rwatson
MFC after: 2 days
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M sys/conf/options
M sys/kern/uipc_socket.c
M sys/netinet/tcp_subr.c
M sys/netinet/tcp_usrreq.c
vnet.h, we now use jails (rather than vimages) as the abstraction
for virtualization management, and what remained was specific to
virtual network stacks. Minor cleanups are done in the process,
and comments updated to reflect these changes.
Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: re (vimage blanket)
(DPCPU), as suggested by Peter Wemm, and implement a new per-virtual
network stack memory allocator. Modify vnet to use the allocator
instead of monolithic global container structures (vinet, ...). This
change solves many binary compatibility problems associated with
VIMAGE, and restores ELF symbols for virtualized global variables.
Each virtualized global variable exists as a "reference copy", and also
once per virtual network stack. Virtualized global variables are
tagged at compile-time, placing the in a special linker set, which is
loaded into a contiguous region of kernel memory. Virtualized global
variables in the base kernel are linked as normal, but those in modules
are copied and relocated to a reserved portion of the kernel's vnet
region with the help of a the kernel linker.
Virtualized global variables exist in per-vnet memory set up when the
network stack instance is created, and are initialized statically from
the reference copy. Run-time access occurs via an accessor macro, which
converts from the current vnet and requested symbol to a per-vnet
address. When "options VIMAGE" is not compiled into the kernel, normal
global ELF symbols will be used instead and indirection is avoided.
This change restores static initialization for network stack global
variables, restores support for non-global symbols and types, eliminates
the need for many subsystem constructors, eliminates large per-subsystem
structures that caused many binary compatibility issues both for
monitoring applications (netstat) and kernel modules, removes the
per-function INIT_VNET_*() macros throughout the stack, eliminates the
need for vnet_symmap ksym(2) munging, and eliminates duplicate
definitions of virtualized globals under VIMAGE_GLOBALS.
Bump __FreeBSD_version and update UPDATING.
Portions submitted by: bz
Reviewed by: bz, zec
Discussed with: gnn, jamie, jeff, jhb, julian, sam
Suggested by: peter
Approved by: re (kensmith)
to save the selected source address rather than returning an
unreferenced copy to a pointer that might long be gone by the
time we use the pointer for anything meaningful.
Asked for by: rwatson
Reviewed by: rwatson
stream (TCP) sockets.
It is functionally identical to generic soreceive() but has a
number stream specific optimizations:
o does only one sockbuf unlock/lock per receive independent of
the length of data to be moved into the uio compared to
soreceive() which unlocks/locks per *mbuf*.
o uses m_mbuftouio() instead of its own copy(out) variant.
o much more compact code flow as a large number of special
cases is removed.
o much improved reability.
It offers significantly reduced CPU usage and lock contention
when receiving fast TCP streams. Additional gains are obtained
when the receiving application is using SO_RCVLOWAT to batch up
some data before a read (and wakeup) is done.
This function was written by "reverse engineering" and is not
just a stripped down variant of soreceive().
It is not yet enabled by default on TCP sockets. Instead it is
commented out in the protocol initialization in tcp_usrreq.c
until more widespread testing has been done.
Testers, especially with 10GigE gear, are welcome.
MFP4: r164817 //depot/user/andre/soreceive_stream/
t_rcvtime, t_starttime, t_rtttime, t_bw_rtttime, ts_recent_age,
t_badrxtwin.
- Change t_recent in struct timewait from u_long to u_int32_t to match
the type of the field it shadows from tcpcb: ts_recent.
- Change t_starttime in struct timewait from u_long to u_int to match
the t_starttime field in tcpcb.
Requested by: bde (1, 3)
instead of unsigned longs. This fixes a few overflow edge cases on 64-bit
platforms. Specifically, if an idle connection receives a packet shortly
before 2^31 clock ticks of uptime (about 25 days with hz=1000) and the keep
alive timer fires after 2^31 clock ticks, the keep alive timer will think
that the connection has been idle for a very long time and will immediately
drop the connection instead of sending a keep alive probe.
Reviewed by: silby, gnn, lstewart
MFC after: 1 week
TCPSTAT_INC(), rather than directly manipulating the fields across the
kernel. This will make it easier to change the implementation of
these statistics, such as using per-CPU versions of the data structures.
MFC after: 3 days
