freebsd-skq/share/man/man4/cc_newreno.4
Lawrence Stewart 370efe5ac8 Add support for the experimental Internet-Draft "TCP Alternative Backoff with
ECN (ABE)" proposal to the New Reno congestion control algorithm module.
ABE reduces the amount of congestion window reduction in response to
ECN-signalled congestion relative to the loss-inferred congestion response.

More details about ABE can be found in the Internet-Draft:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tcpm-alternativebackoff-ecn

The implementation introduces four new sysctls:

- net.inet.tcp.cc.abe defaults to 0 (disabled) and can be set to non-zero to
  enable ABE for ECN-enabled TCP connections.

- net.inet.tcp.cc.newreno.beta and net.inet.tcp.cc.newreno.beta_ecn set the
  multiplicative window decrease factor, specified as a percentage, applied to
  the congestion window in response to a loss-based or ECN-based congestion
  signal respectively. They default to the values specified in the draft i.e.
  beta=50 and beta_ecn=80.

- net.inet.tcp.cc.abe_frlossreduce defaults to 0 (disabled) and can be set to
  non-zero to enable the use of standard beta (50% by default) when repairing
  loss during an ECN-signalled congestion recovery episode. It enables a more
  conservative congestion response and is provided for the purposes of
  experimentation as a result of some discussion at IETF 100 in Singapore.

The values of beta and beta_ecn can also be set per-connection by way of the
TCP_CCALGOOPT TCP-level socket option and the new CC_NEWRENO_BETA or
CC_NEWRENO_BETA_ECN CC algo sub-options.

Submitted by:	Tom Jones <tj@enoti.me>
Tested by:	Tom Jones <tj@enoti.me>, Grenville Armitage <garmitage@swin.edu.au>
Relnotes:	Yes
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11616
2018-03-19 16:37:47 +00:00

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.Dd March 19, 2018
.Dt CC_NEWRENO 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm cc_newreno
.Nd NewReno Congestion Control Algorithm
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In netinet/cc/cc_newreno.h
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The NewReno congestion control algorithm is the default for TCP.
Details about the algorithm can be found in RFC5681.
.Sh Socket Options
The
.Nm
module supports a number of socket options under TCP_CCALGOOPT (refer to
.Xr tcp 4
and
.Xr moc_cc 9 for details)
which can
be set with
.Xr setsockopt 2
and tested with
.Xr getsockopt 2 .
The
.Nm
socket options use this structure defined in
<sys/netinet/cc/cc_newreno.h>:
.Bd -literal
struct cc_newreno_opts {
int name;
uint32_t val;
}
.Ed
.Bl -tag -width ".Va CC_NEWRENO_BETA_ECN"
.It Va CC_NEWRENO_BETA
Multiplicative window decrease factor, specified as a percentage, applied to
the congestion window in response to a congestion signal per: cwnd = (cwnd *
CC_NEWRENO_BETA) / 100.
Default is 50.
.It Va CC_NEWRENO_BETA_ECN
Multiplicative window decrease factor, specified as a percentage, applied to
the congestion window in response to an ECN congestion signal when
.Va net.inet.tcp.cc.abe=1
per: cwnd = (cwnd * CC_NEWRENO_BETA_ECN) / 100.
Default is 80.
.Sh MIB Variables
The algorithm exposes these variables in the
.Va net.inet.tcp.cc.newreno
branch of the
.Xr sysctl 3
MIB:
.Bl -tag -width ".Va beta_ecn"
.It Va beta
Multiplicative window decrease factor, specified as a percentage, applied to
the congestion window in response to a congestion signal per: cwnd = (cwnd *
beta) / 100.
Default is 50.
.It Va beta_ecn
Multiplicative window decrease factor, specified as a percentage, applied to
the congestion window in response to an ECN congestion signal when
.Va net.inet.tcp.cc.abe=1
per: cwnd = (cwnd * beta_ecn) / 100.
Default is 80.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr cc_chd 4 ,
.Xr cc_cubic 4 ,
.Xr cc_hd 4 ,
.Xr cc_htcp 4 ,
.Xr cc_vegas 4 ,
.Xr mod_cc 4 ,
.Xr tcp 4 ,
.Xr mod_cc 9
.Rs
.%A "Mark Allman"
.%A "Vern Paxson"
.%A "Ethan Blanton"
.%T "TCP Congestion Control"
.%O "RFC 5681"
.Re
.Rs
.%A "Naeem Khademi"
.%A "Michael Welzl"
.%A "Grenville Armitage"
.%A "Gorry Fairhurst"
.%T "TCP Alternative Backoff with ECN (ABE)"
.%R "internet draft"
.%D "February 2018"
.%N "draft-ietf-tcpm-alternativebackoff-ecn"
.%O "work in progress"
.Re
.Sh ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Development and testing of this software were made possible in part by grants
from the FreeBSD Foundation and Cisco University Research Program Fund at
Community Foundation Silicon Valley.
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
congestion control algorithm first appeared in its modular form in
.Fx 9.0 .
.Pp
The module was first released in 2007 by James Healy and Lawrence Stewart whilst
working on the NewTCP research project at Swinburne University of Technology's
Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures, Melbourne, Australia, which was made
possible in part by a grant from the Cisco University Research Program Fund at
Community Foundation Silicon Valley.
More details are available at:
.Pp
http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/newtcp/
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
congestion control module was written by
.An James Healy Aq Mt jimmy@deefa.com ,
.An Lawrence Stewart Aq Mt lstewart@FreeBSD.org
and
.An David Hayes Aq Mt david.hayes@ieee.org .
.Pp
Support for TCP ABE was added by
.An Tom Jones Aq Mt tj@enoti.me .
.Pp
This manual page was written by
.An Lawrence Stewart Aq Mt lstewart@FreeBSD.org .