freebsd kernel with SKQ
Go to file
Lawrence Stewart dbc4240942 This commit marks the first formal contribution of the "Five New TCP Congestion
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
2010-11-12 06:41:55 +00:00
bin test: Move tests to tools/regression/bin/test. 2010-11-08 23:15:10 +00:00
cddl Fix ztest when it is executed by just 'ztest' and not by full path 2010-11-01 10:42:14 +00:00
contrib Set symbol visibility to hidden. 2010-11-11 16:53:25 +00:00
crypto Upgrade to OpenSSH 5.6p1. 2010-11-11 11:46:19 +00:00
etc Hide 460.chkportsum in MK_PKGTOOLS != no case. 2010-11-09 18:46:44 +00:00
games mdoc: drop redundant .Pp and .LP calls 2010-10-08 12:40:16 +00:00
gnu Garbage collect gnu/usr.bin/binutils/{gasp,gdb,gdbreplay}, as these have 2010-11-11 23:45:19 +00:00
include Add a new libc function: cfmakesane(3). 2010-11-02 17:00:56 +00:00
kerberos5 Fix a typo. 2010-01-09 18:53:03 +00:00
lib Make sure to specify the alignment of minbrk and curbrk. They were correctly 2010-11-11 22:35:42 +00:00
libexec Use -fPIC to build libexec/rtld-elf on sparc64, so it will also be able 2010-11-11 22:53:55 +00:00
release Add gpart and glabel to the release CD mfsroot. 2010-11-07 19:23:25 +00:00
rescue MFtbemd: 2010-08-23 22:24:11 +00:00
sbin Append to CFLAGS, don't clobber it. 2010-11-05 11:31:39 +00:00
secure Revert changes of 'assure' to 'ensure' made in r211936. 2010-09-11 10:49:56 +00:00
share The first releases SIFTR will ship in will be 7.4 and 8.2. 2010-11-12 01:40:29 +00:00
sys This commit marks the first formal contribution of the "Five New TCP Congestion 2010-11-12 06:41:55 +00:00
tools Insulate the nanobsd build from the current system by opting out of 2010-11-10 06:24:16 +00:00
usr.bin Add my birthday to the calendar so everyone can send me presents. 2010-11-10 18:45:32 +00:00
usr.sbin Add a man page for usb_quirk module, plus references in other man pages, 2010-11-10 23:45:44 +00:00
COPYRIGHT Happy New Year 2010! :-) 2009-12-31 10:00:37 +00:00
LOCKS Update LOCKS syntax. 2008-06-05 19:47:58 +00:00
MAINTAINERS Add a comment to MAINTAINERS indicating that sbin/routed is in fact 2010-04-10 12:29:09 +00:00
Makefile Complete the integration of tbemd branch into head. 2010-11-10 06:39:49 +00:00
Makefile.inc1 Replace libgcc.a by libcompiler_rt.a. 2010-11-11 15:48:27 +00:00
Makefile.mips Guard against TARGET_ABI being undefined (TARGET_ABI will go away soon) 2010-08-26 14:54:12 +00:00
ObsoleteFiles.inc Do not build or install gasp.info anymore, as gasp has not been built or 2010-11-11 23:41:36 +00:00
README
UPDATING This commit marks the first formal contribution of the "Five New TCP Congestion 2010-11-12 06:41:55 +00:00

This is the top level of the FreeBSD source directory.  This file
was last revised on:
$FreeBSD$

For copyright information, please see the file COPYRIGHT in this
directory (additional copyright information also exists for some
sources in this tree - please see the specific source directories for
more information).

The Makefile in this directory supports a number of targets for
building components (or all) of the FreeBSD source tree, the most
commonly used one being ``world'', which rebuilds and installs
everything in the FreeBSD system from the source tree except the
kernel, the kernel-modules and the contents of /etc.  The ``world''
target should only be used in cases where the source tree has not
changed from the currently running version.  See:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
for more information, including setting make(1) variables.

The ``buildkernel'' and ``installkernel'' targets build and install
the kernel and the modules (see below).  Please see the top of
the Makefile in this directory for more information on the
standard build targets and compile-time flags.

Building a kernel is a somewhat more involved process, documentation
for which can be found at:
   http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html
And in the config(8) man page.
Note: If you want to build and install the kernel with the
``buildkernel'' and ``installkernel'' targets, you might need to build
world before.  More information is available in the handbook.

The sample kernel configuration files reside in the sys/<arch>/conf
sub-directory (assuming that you've installed the kernel sources), the
file named GENERIC being the one used to build your initial installation
kernel.  The file NOTES contains entries and documentation for all possible
devices, not just those commonly used.  It is the successor of the ancient
LINT file, but in contrast to LINT, it is not buildable as a kernel but a
pure reference and documentation file.


Source Roadmap:
---------------
bin		System/user commands.

contrib		Packages contributed by 3rd parties.

crypto		Cryptography stuff (see crypto/README).

etc		Template files for /etc.

games		Amusements.

gnu		Various commands and libraries under the GNU Public License.
		Please see gnu/COPYING* for more information.

include		System include files.

kerberos5	Kerberos5 (Heimdal) package.

lib		System libraries.

libexec		System daemons.

release		Release building Makefile & associated tools.

rescue		Build system for statically linked /rescue utilities.

sbin		System commands.

secure		Cryptographic libraries and commands.

share		Shared resources.

sys		Kernel sources.

tools		Utilities for regression testing and miscellaneous tasks.

usr.bin		User commands.

usr.sbin	System administration commands.


For information on synchronizing your source tree with one or more of
the FreeBSD Project's development branches, please see:

  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html