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<title>linux-toradex.git/net/ipv4/tcp_veno.c, branch v4.4.142</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>tcp: add tcp_in_slow_start helper</title>
<updated>2015-07-09T21:22:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuchung Cheng</name>
<email>ycheng@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-09T20:16:29+00:00</published>
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Add a helper to test the slow start condition in various congestion
control modules and other places. This is to prepare a slight improvement
in policy as to exactly when to slow start.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati &lt;nanditad@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add a helper to test the slow start condition in various congestion
control modules and other places. This is to prepare a slight improvement
in policy as to exactly when to slow start.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati &lt;nanditad@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: stretch ACK fixes prep</title>
<updated>2015-01-29T06:18:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Neal Cardwell</name>
<email>ncardwell@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-29T01:01:35+00:00</published>
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LRO, GRO, delayed ACKs, and middleboxes can cause "stretch ACKs" that
cover more than the RFC-specified maximum of 2 packets. These stretch
ACKs can cause serious performance shortfalls in common congestion
control algorithms that were designed and tuned years ago with
receiver hosts that were not using LRO or GRO, and were instead
politely ACKing every other packet.

This patch series fixes Reno and CUBIC to handle stretch ACKs.

This patch prepares for the upcoming stretch ACK bug fix patches. It
adds an "acked" parameter to tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to allow for future
fixes to tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to correctly handle stretch ACKs, and
changes all congestion control algorithms to pass in 1 for the ACKed
count. It also changes tcp_slow_start() to return the number of packet
ACK "credits" that were not processed in slow start mode, and can be
processed by the congestion control module in additive increase mode.

In future patches we will fix tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to handle stretch
ACKs, and fix Reno and CUBIC handling of stretch ACKs in slow start
and additive increase mode.

Reported-by: Eyal Perry &lt;eyalpe@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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LRO, GRO, delayed ACKs, and middleboxes can cause "stretch ACKs" that
cover more than the RFC-specified maximum of 2 packets. These stretch
ACKs can cause serious performance shortfalls in common congestion
control algorithms that were designed and tuned years ago with
receiver hosts that were not using LRO or GRO, and were instead
politely ACKing every other packet.

This patch series fixes Reno and CUBIC to handle stretch ACKs.

This patch prepares for the upcoming stretch ACK bug fix patches. It
adds an "acked" parameter to tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to allow for future
fixes to tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to correctly handle stretch ACKs, and
changes all congestion control algorithms to pass in 1 for the ACKed
count. It also changes tcp_slow_start() to return the number of packet
ACK "credits" that were not processed in slow start mode, and can be
processed by the congestion control module in additive increase mode.

In future patches we will fix tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to handle stretch
ACKs, and fix Reno and CUBIC handling of stretch ACKs in slow start
and additive increase mode.

Reported-by: Eyal Perry &lt;eyalpe@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: whitespace fixes</title>
<updated>2014-09-02T01:12:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>stephen hemminger</name>
<email>stephen@networkplumber.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-30T06:32:05+00:00</published>
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Fix places where there is space before tab, long lines, and
awkward if(){, double spacing etc. Add blank line after declaration/initialization.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Fix places where there is space before tab, long lines, and
awkward if(){, double spacing etc. Add blank line after declaration/initialization.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: Fix integer-overflows in TCP veno</title>
<updated>2014-07-31T00:31:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Paasch</name>
<email>christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-29T10:07:27+00:00</published>
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In veno we do a multiplication of the cwnd and the rtt. This
may overflow and thus their result is stored in a u64. However, we first
need to cast the cwnd so that actually 64-bit arithmetic is done.

A first attempt at fixing 76f1017757aa0 ([TCP]: TCP Veno congestion
control) was made by 159131149c2 (tcp: Overflow bug in Vegas), but it
failed to add the required cast in tcp_veno_cong_avoid().

Fixes: 76f1017757aa0 ([TCP]: TCP Veno congestion control)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch &lt;christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In veno we do a multiplication of the cwnd and the rtt. This
may overflow and thus their result is stored in a u64. However, we first
need to cast the cwnd so that actually 64-bit arithmetic is done.

A first attempt at fixing 76f1017757aa0 ([TCP]: TCP Veno congestion
control) was made by 159131149c2 (tcp: Overflow bug in Vegas), but it
failed to add the required cast in tcp_veno_cong_avoid().

Fixes: 76f1017757aa0 ([TCP]: TCP Veno congestion control)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch &lt;christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: remove in_flight parameter from cong_avoid() methods</title>
<updated>2014-05-03T23:23:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-03T04:18:05+00:00</published>
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Commit e114a710aa505 ("tcp: fix cwnd limited checking to improve
congestion control") obsoleted in_flight parameter from
tcp_is_cwnd_limited() and its callers.

This patch does the removal as promised.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Commit e114a710aa505 ("tcp: fix cwnd limited checking to improve
congestion control") obsoleted in_flight parameter from
tcp_is_cwnd_limited() and its callers.

This patch does the removal as promised.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: switch rtt estimations to usec resolution</title>
<updated>2014-02-26T22:08:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-26T22:02:48+00:00</published>
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Upcoming congestion controls for TCP require usec resolution for RTT
estimations. Millisecond resolution is simply not enough these days.

FQ/pacing in DC environments also require this change for finer control
and removal of bimodal behavior due to the current hack in
tcp_update_pacing_rate() for 'small rtt'

TCP_CONG_RTT_STAMP is no longer needed.

As Julian Anastasov pointed out, we need to keep user compatibility :
tcp_metrics used to export RTT and RTTVAR in msec resolution,
so we added RTT_US and RTTVAR_US. An iproute2 patch is needed
to use the new attributes if provided by the kernel.

In this example ss command displays a srtt of 32 usecs (10Gbit link)

lpk51:~# ./ss -i dst lpk52
Netid  State      Recv-Q Send-Q   Local Address:Port       Peer
Address:Port
tcp    ESTAB      0      1         10.246.11.51:42959
10.246.11.52:64614
         cubic wscale:6,6 rto:201 rtt:0.032/0.001 ato:40 mss:1448
cwnd:10 send
3620.0Mbps pacing_rate 7240.0Mbps unacked:1 rcv_rtt:993 rcv_space:29559

Updated iproute2 ip command displays :

lpk51:~# ./ip tcp_metrics | grep 10.246.11.52
10.246.11.52 age 561.914sec cwnd 10 rtt 274us rttvar 213us source
10.246.11.51

Old binary displays :

lpk51:~# ip tcp_metrics | grep 10.246.11.52
10.246.11.52 age 561.914sec cwnd 10 rtt 250us rttvar 125us source
10.246.11.51

With help from Julian Anastasov, Stephen Hemminger and Yuchung Cheng

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Cc: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Cc: Larry Brakmo &lt;brakmo@google.com&gt;
Cc: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Upcoming congestion controls for TCP require usec resolution for RTT
estimations. Millisecond resolution is simply not enough these days.

FQ/pacing in DC environments also require this change for finer control
and removal of bimodal behavior due to the current hack in
tcp_update_pacing_rate() for 'small rtt'

TCP_CONG_RTT_STAMP is no longer needed.

As Julian Anastasov pointed out, we need to keep user compatibility :
tcp_metrics used to export RTT and RTTVAR in msec resolution,
so we added RTT_US and RTTVAR_US. An iproute2 patch is needed
to use the new attributes if provided by the kernel.

In this example ss command displays a srtt of 32 usecs (10Gbit link)

lpk51:~# ./ss -i dst lpk52
Netid  State      Recv-Q Send-Q   Local Address:Port       Peer
Address:Port
tcp    ESTAB      0      1         10.246.11.51:42959
10.246.11.52:64614
         cubic wscale:6,6 rto:201 rtt:0.032/0.001 ato:40 mss:1448
cwnd:10 send
3620.0Mbps pacing_rate 7240.0Mbps unacked:1 rcv_rtt:993 rcv_space:29559

Updated iproute2 ip command displays :

lpk51:~# ./ip tcp_metrics | grep 10.246.11.52
10.246.11.52 age 561.914sec cwnd 10 rtt 274us rttvar 213us source
10.246.11.51

Old binary displays :

lpk51:~# ip tcp_metrics | grep 10.246.11.52
10.246.11.52 age 561.914sec cwnd 10 rtt 250us rttvar 125us source
10.246.11.51

With help from Julian Anastasov, Stephen Hemminger and Yuchung Cheng

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Cc: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Cc: Larry Brakmo &lt;brakmo@google.com&gt;
Cc: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: properly handle stretch acks in slow start</title>
<updated>2013-11-05T00:57:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuchung Cheng</name>
<email>ycheng@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-31T18:07:31+00:00</published>
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Slow start now increases cwnd by 1 if an ACK acknowledges some packets,
regardless the number of packets. Consequently slow start performance
is highly dependent on the degree of the stretch ACKs caused by
receiver or network ACK compression mechanisms (e.g., delayed-ACK,
GRO, etc).  But slow start algorithm is to send twice the amount of
packets of packets left so it should process a stretch ACK of degree
N as if N ACKs of degree 1, then exits when cwnd exceeds ssthresh. A
follow up patch will use the remainder of the N (if greater than 1)
to adjust cwnd in the congestion avoidance phase.

In addition this patch retires the experimental limited slow start
(LSS) feature. LSS has multiple drawbacks but questionable benefit. The
fractional cwnd increase in LSS requires a loop in slow start even
though it's rarely used. Configuring such an increase step via a global
sysctl on different BDPS seems hard. Finally and most importantly the
slow start overshoot concern is now better covered by the Hybrid slow
start (hystart) enabled by default.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Slow start now increases cwnd by 1 if an ACK acknowledges some packets,
regardless the number of packets. Consequently slow start performance
is highly dependent on the degree of the stretch ACKs caused by
receiver or network ACK compression mechanisms (e.g., delayed-ACK,
GRO, etc).  But slow start algorithm is to send twice the amount of
packets of packets left so it should process a stretch ACK of degree
N as if N ACKs of degree 1, then exits when cwnd exceeds ssthresh. A
follow up patch will use the remainder of the N (if greater than 1)
to adjust cwnd in the congestion avoidance phase.

In addition this patch retires the experimental limited slow start
(LSS) feature. LSS has multiple drawbacks but questionable benefit. The
fractional cwnd increase in LSS requires a loop in slow start even
though it's rarely used. Configuring such an increase step via a global
sysctl on different BDPS seems hard. Finally and most importantly the
slow start overshoot concern is now better covered by the Hybrid slow
start (hystart) enabled by default.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: mark tcp_congestion_ops read_mostly</title>
<updated>2011-03-10T08:40:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Hemminger</name>
<email>shemminger@vyatta.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-10T08:40:17+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Update broken web addresses in the kernel.</title>
<updated>2010-10-18T09:03:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Justin P. Mattock</name>
<email>justinmattock@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-18T09:03:14+00:00</published>
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The patch below updates broken web addresses in the kernel

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock &lt;justinmattock@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Finn Thain &lt;fthain@telegraphics.com.au&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@xenotime.net&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dimitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier.adi@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff &lt;blp@cs.stanford.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch &lt;hjk@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Finn Thain &lt;fthain@telegraphics.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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The patch below updates broken web addresses in the kernel

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock &lt;justinmattock@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Finn Thain &lt;fthain@telegraphics.com.au&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@xenotime.net&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dimitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier.adi@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff &lt;blp@cs.stanford.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch &lt;hjk@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Finn Thain &lt;fthain@telegraphics.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/ipv4: Move &amp;&amp; and || to end of previous line</title>
<updated>2009-11-23T18:41:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-23T18:41:23+00:00</published>
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On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 16:31 -0800, David Miller wrote:
&gt; It should be of the form:
&gt; 	if (x &amp;&amp;
&gt; 	    y)
&gt; 
&gt; or:
&gt; 	if (x &amp;&amp; y)
&gt; 
&gt; Fix patches, rather than complaints, for existing cases where things
&gt; do not follow this pattern are certainly welcome.

Also collapsed some multiple tabs to single space.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 16:31 -0800, David Miller wrote:
&gt; It should be of the form:
&gt; 	if (x &amp;&amp;
&gt; 	    y)
&gt; 
&gt; or:
&gt; 	if (x &amp;&amp; y)
&gt; 
&gt; Fix patches, rather than complaints, for existing cases where things
&gt; do not follow this pattern are certainly welcome.

Also collapsed some multiple tabs to single space.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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