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<title>linux-toradex.git/net/dccp/ccids, branch v3.2.5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>net: add moduleparam.h for users of module_param/MODULE_PARM_DESC</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T23:30:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
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<published>2011-09-18T17:21:27+00:00</published>
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These files were getting access to these two via the implicit
presence of module.h everywhere.  They aren't modules, so they
don't need the full module.h inclusion though.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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These files were getting access to these two via the implicit
presence of module.h everywhere.  They aren't modules, so they
don't need the full module.h inclusion though.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dccp ccid-2: check Ack Ratio when reducing cwnd</title>
<updated>2011-08-01T13:52:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Samuel Jero</name>
<email>sj323707@ohio.edu</email>
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<published>2011-07-25T02:57:49+00:00</published>
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This patch causes CCID-2 to check the Ack Ratio after reducing the congestion
window. If the Ack Ratio is greater than the congestion window, it is
reduced. This prevents timeouts caused by an Ack Ratio larger than the
congestion window.

In this situation, we choose to set the Ack Ratio to half the congestion window
(or one if that's zero) so that if we loose one ack we don't trigger a timeout.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Jero &lt;sj323707@ohio.edu&gt; 
Acked-by: Gerrit Renker &lt;gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk&gt;
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This patch causes CCID-2 to check the Ack Ratio after reducing the congestion
window. If the Ack Ratio is greater than the congestion window, it is
reduced. This prevents timeouts caused by an Ack Ratio larger than the
congestion window.

In this situation, we choose to set the Ack Ratio to half the congestion window
(or one if that's zero) so that if we loose one ack we don't trigger a timeout.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Jero &lt;sj323707@ohio.edu&gt; 
Acked-by: Gerrit Renker &lt;gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dccp ccid-2: increment cwnd correctly</title>
<updated>2011-08-01T13:52:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Samuel Jero</name>
<email>sj323707@ohio.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-25T03:05:16+00:00</published>
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This patch fixes an issue where CCID-2 will not increase the congestion
window for numerous RTTs after an idle period, application-limited period,
or a loss once the algorithm is in Congestion Avoidance.

What happens is that, when CCID-2 is in Congestion Avoidance mode, it will
increase hc-&gt;tx_packets_acked by one for every packet and will increment cwnd
every cwnd packets. However, if there is now an idle period in the connection,
cwnd will be reduced, possibly below the slow start threshold. This will
cause the connection to go into Slow Start. However, in Slow Start CCID-2
performs this test to increment cwnd every second ack:

	++hc-&gt;tx_packets_acked == 2

Unfortunately, this will be incorrect, if cwnd previous to the idle period
was larger than 2 and if tx_packets_acked was close to cwnd. For example:
	cwnd=50  and  tx_packets_acked=45.

In this case, the current code, will increment tx_packets_acked until it
equals two, which will only be once tx_packets_acked (an unsigned 32-bit
integer) overflows.

My fix is simply to change that test for tx_packets_acked greater than or
equal to two in slow start.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Jero &lt;sj323707@ohio.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Gerrit Renker &lt;gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk&gt;
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This patch fixes an issue where CCID-2 will not increase the congestion
window for numerous RTTs after an idle period, application-limited period,
or a loss once the algorithm is in Congestion Avoidance.

What happens is that, when CCID-2 is in Congestion Avoidance mode, it will
increase hc-&gt;tx_packets_acked by one for every packet and will increment cwnd
every cwnd packets. However, if there is now an idle period in the connection,
cwnd will be reduced, possibly below the slow start threshold. This will
cause the connection to go into Slow Start. However, in Slow Start CCID-2
performs this test to increment cwnd every second ack:

	++hc-&gt;tx_packets_acked == 2

Unfortunately, this will be incorrect, if cwnd previous to the idle period
was larger than 2 and if tx_packets_acked was close to cwnd. For example:
	cwnd=50  and  tx_packets_acked=45.

In this case, the current code, will increment tx_packets_acked until it
equals two, which will only be once tx_packets_acked (an unsigned 32-bit
integer) overflows.

My fix is simply to change that test for tx_packets_acked greater than or
equal to two in slow start.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Jero &lt;sj323707@ohio.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Gerrit Renker &lt;gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dccp ccid-2: prevent cwnd &gt; Sequence Window</title>
<updated>2011-08-01T13:52:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Samuel Jero</name>
<email>sj323707@ohio.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-25T02:49:19+00:00</published>
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Add a check to prevent CCID-2 from increasing the cwnd greater than the
Sequence Window.

When the congestion window becomes bigger than the Sequence Window, CCID-2
will attempt to keep more data in the network than the DCCP Sequence Window
code considers possible. This results in the Sequence Window code issuing
a Sync, thereby inducing needless overhead. Further, if this occurs at the
sender, CCID-2 will never detect the problem because the Acks it receives
will indicate no losses. I have seen this cause a drop of 1/3rd in throughput
for a connection.

Also add code to adjust the Sequence Window to be about 5 times the number of
packets in the network (RFC 4340, 7.5.2) and to adjust the Ack Ratio so that
the remote Sequence Window will hold about 5 times the number of packets in
the network. This allows the congestion window to increase correctly without
being limited by the Sequence Window.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Jero &lt;sj323707@ohio.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Gerrit Renker &lt;gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk&gt;
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Add a check to prevent CCID-2 from increasing the cwnd greater than the
Sequence Window.

When the congestion window becomes bigger than the Sequence Window, CCID-2
will attempt to keep more data in the network than the DCCP Sequence Window
code considers possible. This results in the Sequence Window code issuing
a Sync, thereby inducing needless overhead. Further, if this occurs at the
sender, CCID-2 will never detect the problem because the Acks it receives
will indicate no losses. I have seen this cause a drop of 1/3rd in throughput
for a connection.

Also add code to adjust the Sequence Window to be about 5 times the number of
packets in the network (RFC 4340, 7.5.2) and to adjust the Ack Ratio so that
the remote Sequence Window will hold about 5 times the number of packets in
the network. This allows the congestion window to increase correctly without
being limited by the Sequence Window.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Jero &lt;sj323707@ohio.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Gerrit Renker &lt;gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dccp ccid-2: use feature-negotiation to report Ack Ratio changes</title>
<updated>2011-08-01T13:52:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gerrit Renker</name>
<email>gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-25T03:18:25+00:00</published>
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This uses the new feature-negotiation framework to signal Ack Ratio changes,
as required by RFC 4341, sec. 6.1.2.

That raises some problems with CCID-2, which at the moment can not cope
gracefully with Ack Ratios &gt; 1. Since these issues are not directly related
to feature negotiation, they are marked by a FIXME.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker &lt;gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Samuel Jero &lt;sj323707@ohio.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Ian McDonald &lt;ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.uk&gt;
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This uses the new feature-negotiation framework to signal Ack Ratio changes,
as required by RFC 4341, sec. 6.1.2.

That raises some problems with CCID-2, which at the moment can not cope
gracefully with Ack Ratios &gt; 1. Since these issues are not directly related
to feature negotiation, they are marked by a FIXME.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker &lt;gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Samuel Jero &lt;sj323707@ohio.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Ian McDonald &lt;ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dccp ccid-2: Perform congestion-window validation</title>
<updated>2011-07-04T18:37:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gerrit Renker</name>
<email>gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-03T15:55:03+00:00</published>
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CCID-2's cwnd increases like TCP during slow-start, which has implications for
 * the local Sequence Window value (should be &gt; cwnd),
 * the Ack Ratio value.
Hence an exponential growth, if it does not reflect the actual network
conditions, can quickly lead to instability.

This patch adds congestion-window validation (RFC2861) to CCID-2:
 * cwnd is constrained if the sender is application limited;
 * cwnd is reduced after a long idle period, as suggested in the '90 paper
   by Van Jacobson, in RFC 2581 (sec. 4.1);
 * cwnd is never reduced below the RFC 3390 initial window.

As marked in the comments, the code is actually almost a direct copy of the
TCP congestion-window-validation algorithms. By continuing this work, it may
in future be possible to use the TCP code (not possible at the moment).

The mechanism can be turned off using a module parameter. Sampling of the
currently-used window (moving-maximum) is however done constantly; this is
used to determine the expected window, which can be exploited to regulate
DCCP's Sequence Window value.

This patch also sets slow-start-after-idle (RFC 4341, 5.1), i.e. it behaves like
TCP when net.ipv4.tcp_slow_start_after_idle = 1.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker &lt;gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk&gt;
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CCID-2's cwnd increases like TCP during slow-start, which has implications for
 * the local Sequence Window value (should be &gt; cwnd),
 * the Ack Ratio value.
Hence an exponential growth, if it does not reflect the actual network
conditions, can quickly lead to instability.

This patch adds congestion-window validation (RFC2861) to CCID-2:
 * cwnd is constrained if the sender is application limited;
 * cwnd is reduced after a long idle period, as suggested in the '90 paper
   by Van Jacobson, in RFC 2581 (sec. 4.1);
 * cwnd is never reduced below the RFC 3390 initial window.

As marked in the comments, the code is actually almost a direct copy of the
TCP congestion-window-validation algorithms. By continuing this work, it may
in future be possible to use the TCP code (not possible at the moment).

The mechanism can be turned off using a module parameter. Sampling of the
currently-used window (moving-maximum) is however done constantly; this is
used to determine the expected window, which can be exploited to regulate
DCCP's Sequence Window value.

This patch also sets slow-start-after-idle (RFC 4341, 5.1), i.e. it behaves like
TCP when net.ipv4.tcp_slow_start_after_idle = 1.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker &lt;gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dccp ccid-2: Use existing function to test for data packets</title>
<updated>2011-07-04T18:37:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gerrit Renker</name>
<email>gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-03T15:53:12+00:00</published>
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This replaces a switch statement with a test, using the equivalent
function dccp_data_packet(skb).  It also doubles the range of the field
`rx_num_data_pkts' by changing the type from `int' to `u32', avoiding
signed/unsigned comparison with the u16 field `dccps_r_ack_ratio'.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker &lt;gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk&gt;
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This replaces a switch statement with a test, using the equivalent
function dccp_data_packet(skb).  It also doubles the range of the field
`rx_num_data_pkts' by changing the type from `int' to `u32', avoiding
signed/unsigned comparison with the u16 field `dccps_r_ack_ratio'.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker &lt;gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dccp ccid-2: move rfc 3390 function into header file</title>
<updated>2011-07-04T18:37:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gerrit Renker</name>
<email>gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-03T15:04:18+00:00</published>
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This moves CCID-2's initial window function into the header file, since several
parts throughout the CCID-2 code need to call it (CCID-2 still uses RFC 3390).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker &lt;gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Leandro Melo de Sales &lt;leandro@ic.ufal.br&gt;
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This moves CCID-2's initial window function into the header file, since several
parts throughout the CCID-2 code need to call it (CCID-2 still uses RFC 3390).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker &lt;gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Leandro Melo de Sales &lt;leandro@ic.ufal.br&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tcp: Increase the initial congestion window to 10.</title>
<updated>2011-02-03T04:48:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-03T01:05:11+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Nandita Dukkipati &lt;nanditad@google.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Nandita Dukkipati &lt;nanditad@google.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dccp ccid-2: Separate option parsing from CCID processing</title>
<updated>2010-11-15T06:12:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gerrit Renker</name>
<email>gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-14T16:26:13+00:00</published>
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This patch replaces an almost identical replication of code: large parts
of dccp_parse_options() re-appeared as ccid2_ackvector() in ccid2.c.

Apart from the duplication, this caused two more problems:
 1. CCIDs should not need to be concerned with parsing header options;
 2. one can not assume that Ack Vectors appear as a contiguous area within an
    skb, it is legal to insert other options and/or padding in between. The
    current code would throw an error and stop reading in such a case.

Since Ack Vectors provide CCID-specific information, they are now processed
by the CCID directly, separating this functionality from the main DCCP code.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker &lt;gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk&gt;
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This patch replaces an almost identical replication of code: large parts
of dccp_parse_options() re-appeared as ccid2_ackvector() in ccid2.c.

Apart from the duplication, this caused two more problems:
 1. CCIDs should not need to be concerned with parsing header options;
 2. one can not assume that Ack Vectors appear as a contiguous area within an
    skb, it is legal to insert other options and/or padding in between. The
    current code would throw an error and stop reading in such a case.

Since Ack Vectors provide CCID-specific information, they are now processed
by the CCID directly, separating this functionality from the main DCCP code.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker &lt;gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk&gt;
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