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Gerrit Renker
410e27a49b This reverts "Merge branch 'dccp' of git://eden-feed.erg.abdn.ac.uk/dccp_exp"
as it accentally contained the wrong set of patches. These will be
submitted separately.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-09 13:27:22 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
6224877b2c tcp/dccp: Consolidate common code for RFC 3390 conversion
This patch consolidates the code common to TCP and CCID-2:
 * TCP uses RFC 3390 in a packet-oriented manner (tcp_input.c) and
 * CCID-2 uses RFC 3390 in packet-oriented manner (RFC 4341).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:39 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
20bbd0f75e dccp ccid-2: Remove wrappers around sk_{reset,stop}_timer()
This removes the wrappers around the sk timer functions as it makes the code
clearer and not much is gained from using wrappers: the BUG_ON in 
start_rto_timer will never trigger since that function was called only when
 * the RTO timer expired (rto_expire, and then timer_pending() is false);
 * in tx_packet_sent only if !timer_pending() (BUG_ON is redundant here);
 * previously in new_ack, after stopping the timer (timer_pending() false).

One further motive behind this patch is to replace the RTO timer with the
icsk retransmission timer, as it is already part of the DCCP socket.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:39 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
1435562d7e dccp ccid-2: Replace broken RTT estimator with better algorithm
The current CCID-2 RTT estimator code is in parts broken and lags behind the
suggestions in RFC2988 of using scaled variants for SRTT/RTTVAR. 
That code is replaced by the present patch, which reuses the Linux TCP RTT
estimator code - reasons for this code duplication are given below.

Further details:
----------------
 1. The minimum RTO of previously one second has been replaced with TCP's, since
    RFC4341, sec. 5 says that the minimum of 1 sec. (suggested in RFC2988, 2.4)
    is not necessary. Instead, the TCP_RTO_MIN is used, which agrees with DCCP's
    concept of a default RTT (RFC 4340, 3.4). 
 2. The maximum RTO has been set to DCCP_RTO_MAX (64 sec), which agrees with 
    RFC2988, (2.5). 
 3. De-inlined the function ccid2_new_ack().
 4. Added a FIXME: the RTT is sampled several times per Ack Vector, which will
    give the wrong estimate. It should be replaced with one sample per Ack.
    However, at the moment this can not be resolved easily, since     
    - it depends on TX history code (which also needs some work),
    - the cleanest solution is not to use the `sent' time at all (saves 4 bytes
      per entry) and use DCCP timestamps / elapsed time to estimated the RTT,
      which however is non-trivial to get right (but needs to be done).

Reasons for reusing the Linux TCP estimator algorithm:   
------------------------------------------------------
Some time was spent to find a better alternative, using basic RFC2988 as a first
step. Further analysis and experimentation showed that the Linux TCP RTO
estimator is superior to a basic RFC2988 implementation. A summary is on
http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/dccp/notes/ccid2/rto_estimator/

In addition, this estimator fared well in a recent empirical evaluation:

    Rewaskar, Sushant, Jasleen Kaur and F. Donelson Smith.
    A Performance Study of Loss Detection/Recovery in Real-world TCP
    Implementations. Proceedings of 15th IEEE International
    Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP-07). 2007.

Thus there is significant benefit in reusing the existing TCP code.


Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:39 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
e9803c0104 dccp ccid-2: Simplify dec_pipe and rearming of RTO timer
This removes the dec_pipe function and improves the way the RTO timer is rearmed
when a new acknowledgment comes in.

Details and justification for removal:
--------------------------------------
 1) The BUG_ON in dec_pipe is never triggered: pipe is only decremented for TX 
    history entries between tail and head, for which it had previously been 
    incremented in tx_packet_sent; and it is not decremented twice for the same
    entry, since it is
    - either decremented when a corresponding Ack Vector cell in state 0 or 1 
      was received (and then ccid2s_acked==1),
    - or it is decremented when ccid2s_acked==0, as part of the loss detection
      in tx_packet_recv (and hence it can not have been decremented earlier).

 2) Restarting the RTO timer happens for every single entry in each Ack Vector
    parsed by tx_packet_recv (according to RFC 4340, 11.4 this can happen up to
    16192 times per Ack Vector). 

 3) The RTO timer should not be restarted when all outstanding data has been
    acknowledged. This is currently done similar to (2), in dec_pipe, when
    pipe has reached 0.

The patch onsolidates the code which rearms the RTO timer, combining the
segments from new_ack and dec_pipe. As a result, the code becomes clearer
(compare with tcp_rearm_rto()).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:38 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
c6f0f2e71f dccp ccid-2: Remove redundant sanity tests
This removes the ccid2_hc_tx_check_sanity function: it is redundant.

Details:
========
The tx_check_sanity function performs three tests:
 1) it checks that the circular TX list is sorted
    - in ascending order of sequence number (ccid2s_seq) 
    - and time (ccid2s_sent),
    - in the direction from `tail' (hctx_seqt) to `head' (hctx_seqh);
 2) it ensures that the entire list has the length seqbufc * CCID2_SEQBUF_LEN;
 3) it ensures that pipe equals the number of packets that were not
    marked `acked' (ccid2s_acked) between `tail' and `head'.

The following argues that each of these tests is redundant, this can be verified
by going through the code.

(1) is not necessary, since both time and GSS increase from one packet to the
next, so that subsequent insertions in tx_packet_sent (which advance the `head'
pointer) will be in ascending order of time and sequence number.

In (2), the length of the list is always equal to seqbufc times CCID2_SEQBUF_LEN
(set to 1024) unless allocation caused an earlier failure, because:
 * at initialisation (tx_init), there is one chunk of size 1024 and seqbufc=1;
 * subsequent calls to tx_alloc_seq take place whenever head->next == tail in 
   tx_packet_sent; then a new chunk of size 1024 is inserted between head and
   tail, and seqbufc is incremented by one.

To show that (3) is redundant requires looking at two cases. 

The `pipe' variable of the TX socket is incremented only in tx_packet_sent, and 
decremented in tx_packet_recv.  When head == tail (TX history empty) then pipe
should be 0, which is the case directly after initialisation and after a
retransmission timeout has occurred (ccid2_hc_tx_rto_expire).

The first case involves parsing Ack Vectors for packets recorded in the live
portion of the buffer, between tail and head. For each packet marked by the
receiver as received (state 0) or ECN-marked (state 1), pipe is decremented by
one, so for all such packets the BUG_ON in tx_check_sanity will not trigger.

The second case is the loss detection in the second half of tx_packet_recv,
below the comment "Check for NUMDUPACK".

The first while-loop here ensures that the sequence number of `seqp' is either
above or equal to `high_ack', or otherwise equal to the highest sequence number
sent so far (of the entry head->prev, as head points to the next unsent entry).
The next while-loop ("while (1)") counts the number of acked packets starting
from that position of seqp, going backwards in the direction from head->prev to
tail. If NUMDUPACK=3 such packets were counted within this loop, `seqp' points
to the last acknowledged packet of these, and the "if (done == NUMDUPACK)" block
is entered next. 
The while-loop contained within that block in turn traverses the list backwards,
from head to tail; the position of `seqp' is saved in the variable `last_acked'. 
For each packet not marked as `acked', a congestion event is triggered within 
the loop, and pipe is decremented. The loop terminates when `seqp' has reached
`tail', whereupon tail is set to the position previously stored in `last_acked'.
Thus, between `last_acked' and the previous position of `tail', 
 - pipe has been decremented earlier if the packet was marked as state 0 or 1;
 - pipe was decremented if the packet was not marked as acked.
That is, pipe has been decremented by the number of packets between `last_acked'
and the previous position of `tail'. As a consequence, pipe now again reflects
the number of packets which have not (yet) been acked between the new position
of tail (at `last_acked') and head->prev, or 0 if head==tail. The result is that
the BUG_ON condition in check_sanity will also not be triggered, hence the test
(3) is also redundant.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:38 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
83337dae6c dccp ccid-2: Stop polling
This updates CCID2 to use the CCID dequeuing mechanism, converting from
previous constant-polling to a now event-driven mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:38 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
c8bf462bc5 dccp ccid-2: Separate option parsing from CCID processing
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.

The patch provides a new data structure and associated list housekeeping.

Only small changes were necessary to integrate with CCID-2: data structure
initialisation, adapt list traversal routine, and add call to the provided
cleanup routine.

The latter also lead to fixing the following BUG: CCID-2 so far ignored
Ack Vectors on all packets other than Ack/DataAck, which is incorrect,
since Ack Vectors can be present on any packet that has an Ack field.

Details:
--------
 * received Ack Vectors are parsed by dccp_parse_options() alone, which passes
   the result on to the CCID-specific routine ccid_hc_tx_parse_options();
 * CCIDs interested in using/decoding Ack Vector information will add code
   to fetch parsed Ack Vectors via this interface;
 * a data structure, `struct dccp_ackvec_parsed' is provided as interface;
 * this structure arranges Ack Vectors of the same skb into a FIFO order;
 * a doubly-linked list is used to keep the required FIFO code small.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:37 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
ff49e27089 dccp ccid-2: Ack Vector interface clean-up
This patch brings the Ack Vector interface up to date. Its main purpose is
to lay the basis for the subsequent patches of this set, which will use the
new data structure fields and routines.

There are no real algorithmic changes, rather an adaptation:

 (1) Replaced the static Ack Vector size (2) with a #define so that it can
     be adapted (with low loss / Ack Ratio, a value of 1 works, so 2 seems
     to be sufficient for the moment) and added a solution so that computing
     the ECN nonce will continue to work - even with larger Ack Vectors.

 (2) Replaced the #defines for Ack Vector states with a complete enum.

 (3) Replaced #defines to compute Ack Vector length and state with general
     purpose routines (inlines), and updated code to use these.

 (4) Added a `tail' field (conversion to circular buffer in subsequent patch).

 (5) Updated the (outdated) documentation for Ack Vector struct.

 (6) All sequence number containers now trimmed to 48 bits.

 (7) Removal of unused bits:
     * removed dccpav_ack_nonce from struct dccp_ackvec, since this is already
       redundantly stored in the `dccpavr_ack_nonce' (of Ack Vector record);
     * removed Elapsed Time for Ack Vectors (it was nowhere used);
     * replaced semantics of dccpavr_sent_len with dccpavr_ack_runlen, since
       the code needs to be able to remember the old run length; 
     * reduced the de-/allocation routines (redundant / duplicate tests).


Justification for removing Elapsed Time information [can be removed]:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
 1. The Elapsed Time information for Ack Vectors was nowhere used in the code.
 2. DCCP does not implement rate-based pacing of acknowledgments. The only
    recommendation for always including Elapsed Time is in section 11.3 of
    RFC 4340: "Receivers that rate-pace acknowledgements SHOULD [...]
    include Elapsed Time options". But such is not the case here.
 3. It does not really improve estimation accuracy. The Elapsed Time field only
    records the time between the arrival of the last acknowledgeable packet and
    the time the Ack Vector is sent out. Since Linux does not (yet) implement
    delayed Acks, the time difference will typically be small, since often the
    arrival of a data packet triggers sending feedback at the HC-receiver.


Justification for changes in de-/allocation routines [can be removed]:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
  * INIT_LIST_HEAD in dccp_ackvec_record_new was redundant, since the list
    pointers were later overwritten when the node was added via list_add();
  * dccp_ackvec_record_new() was called in a single place only;
  * calls to list_del_init() before calling dccp_ackvec_record_delete() were
    redundant, since subsequently the entire element was k-freed;
  * since all calls to dccp_ackvec_record_delete() were preceded to a call to
    list_del_init(), the WARN_ON test would never evaluate to true;
  * since all calls to dccp_ackvec_record_delete() were made from within
    list_for_each_entry_safe(), the test for avr == NULL was redundant;
  * list_empty() in ackvec_free was redundant, since the same condition is
    embedded in the loop condition of the subsequent list_for_each_entry_safe().

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:36 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
c506d91d9a dccp: Unused argument in CCID tx function
This removes the argument `more' from ccid_hc_tx_packet_sent, since it was
nowhere used in the entire code.

(Anecdotally, this argument was not even used in the original KAME code where
 the function originally came from; compare the variable moreToSend in the
 freebsd61-dccp-kame-28.08.2006.patch now maintained by Emmanuel Lochin.)

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:35 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
1fb8750960 dccp ccid-2: Remove ccid2hc{tx,rx}_ prefixes
This patch fixes two problems caused by the ubiquitous long "hctx->ccid2htx_"
and "hcrx->ccid2hcrx_" prefixes:
 * code becomes hard to read;
 * multiple-line statements are almost inevitable even for simple expressions;
The prefixes are not really necessary (compare with "struct tcp_sock").

There had been previous discussion of this on dccp@vger, but so far this was
not followed up (most people agreed that the prefixes are too long). 

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Leandro Melo de Sales <leandroal@gmail.com>
2008-09-04 07:45:33 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
86349c8d9c dccp: Registration routines for changing feature values
Two registration routines, for SP and NN features, are provided by this patch,
replacing a previous routine which was used for both feature types.

These are internal-only routines and therefore start with `__feat_register'.

It further exports the known limits of Sequence Window and Ack Ratio as symbolic
constants.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:27 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
432649916b dccp: Toggle debug output without module unloading
This sets the sysfs permissions so that root can toggle the `debug'
parameter available for nearly every DCCP module. This is useful 
since there are various module inter-dependencies. The debug flag
can now be toggled at runtime using

  echo 1 > /sys/module/dccp/parameters/dccp_debug
  echo 1 > /sys/module/dccp_ccid2/parameters/ccid2_debug
  echo 1 > /sys/module/dccp_ccid3/parameters/ccid3_debug
  echo 1 > /sys/module/dccp_tfrc_lib/parameters/tfrc_debug

The last is not very useful yet, since no code at the moment calls
the tfrc_debug() macro.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:25 +02:00
Harvey Harrison
84994e16f2 dccp: ccid2.c, ccid3.c use clamp(), clamp_t()
Makes the intention of the nested min/max clear.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-02 16:44:07 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
84a97b0af8 [CCID]: More informative registration
The patch makes the registration messages of CCID 2/3 a bit more
informative: instead of repeating the CCID number as currently done,

        "CCID: Registered CCID 2 (ccid2)"  or
        "CCID: Registered CCID 3 (ccid3)",

the descriptive names of the CCID's (from RFCs) are now used:

	"CCID: Registered CCID 2 (TCP-like)" and
	"CCID: Registered CCID 3 (TCP-Friendly Rate Control)".

To allow spaces in the name, the slab name string has been changed to
refer to the numeric CCID identifier, using the same format as before.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:57:58 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
dcfbc7e97a [CCID2]: Remove misleading comment
This removes a comment which identifies an `issue' with dccp_write_xmit() where there is none.
The comment assumes it is possible that a packet is sent between the calls to

	ccid_hc_tx_send_packet(),
	dccp_transmit_skb(),
	ccid_hc_tx_packet_sent()

(in the above order) in dccp_write_xmit().

I think that this is impossible, since dccp_write_xmit() is always called under lock:

 * when called as dccp_write_xmit(sk, 1) from dccp_send_close(), the socket is locked
   (see code comment above dccp_send_close());
 * when called as dccp_write_xmit(sk, 0) from dccp_send_msg(), it is after lock_sock() has been called;
 * when called as dccp_write_xmit(sk, 0) from dccp_write_xmit_timer(), bh_lock_sock() has been called
   and the if/else statement has made sure that sk_lock.owner is not set;
 * there are no other places where dccp_write_xmit() is called.

Furthermore, the debug statement for printing the sequence number of the packet just sent has been
removed, since the entire list is being printed anyway and so the entry of that number appears last.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:01 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
a302002516 [CCID2]: Remove redundant ack-counting variable
The code used two different variables to count Acks, one of them redundant.
This patch reduces the number of Ack counters to one.

The type of the Ack counter has also been changed to u32 (twice the range of int);
and the variable has been renamed into `packets_acked' - for consistency with
RFC 3465 (and similarly named variables are used by TCP and SCTP).

Lastly, a slightly less aggressive `maxincr' increment is used (for even Ack Ratios,
maxincr was Ack Ratio/2 + 1 instead of Ack Ratio/2).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:00 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
83399361c3 [CCID2]: Remove redundant synchronisation variable
This removes the synchronisation variable `ccid2hctx_sendwait', which is set to 1
when the CCID2 sender may send a new packet, and which is set to 0 otherwise

The variable is redundant, since it is only used in combination with the hc_tx_send_packet/
hc_tx_packet_sent function pair. Both functions are called under socket lock, so the
following happens when the CCID2 may send a new packet:

 * it sets sendwait = 1 in tx_send_packet and returns 0;
 * the subsequent call to tx_packet_sent clears the sendwait flag;
 * since tx_send_packet returns 0 if and only if sendwait == 1, the BUG_ON condition
   in tx_packet_sent is never satisfied, since that function is never called when
   tx_send_packet returns a value different from 0 (cf. dccp_write_xmit);
 * the call to tx_packet_sent clears the flag so that the condition "!sendwait" is
   true the next time tx_packet_sent is called.

In other words, it is sufficient to just return 0 / not-0 to synchronise tx_send_packet
and tx_packet_sent -- which is what the patch does.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:59 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
da98e0b5d4 [CCID2]: Redundant debugging output
This reduces the amount of redundant debugging messages:

 * pipe/cwnd are printed in both tx_send_packet() and tx_packet_sent().
   Both functions are called immediately after one another, so one occurrence is sufficient.

 * Since tx_packet_sent() prints pipe/cwnd already, the second printk for pipe is redundant.

 * In tx_packet_sent() the check_sanity function is called twice (at the begin and at the end).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:59 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
95b21d7e9d [CCID2]: Replace pipe assignment-function with assignment
The function ccid2_change_pipe only does an assignment. This patch simplifies the code by
replacing the function with the assignment it performs.

Furthermore, the type of pipe is promoted from `signed' to unsigned (increasing the range).
As a result, a BUG_ON test for negative values now becomes obsolete (for safety not removed,
but replaced with a less annoying `DCCP_BUG').

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:58 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
3deeadd74b [CCID2]: Replace cwnd assignment-function with assignment
The current function ccid2_change_cwnd in effect makes only an assignment, as
the test whether cwnd has reached 0 is only required when cwnd is halved.

This patch simplifies the code by replacing the function with the assignment
it performs.

Furthermore, since ssthresh derives from cwnd and appears in many assignments and
comparisons, the type of ssthresh has also been changed to match that of cwnd.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:57 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
63df18ad7f [CCID2]: Replace read-only variable with constant
This replaces the field member `numdupack', which was used as a read-only
constant in the code, with a #define.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:57 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
7792cd8885 [CCID2]: Remove unused variable
This removes a variable `ccid2hctx_sent' which is incremented but
never referenced/read (i.e., dead code).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:56 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
900bfed471 [CCID2]: Disable broken Ack Ratio adaptation algorithm
This comments out a problematic section comprising a half-finished algorithm:

 - The variable `ccid2hctx_ackloss' is never initialised to a value different from 0 and
   hence in fact is a read-only constant.
 - The `arsent' variable counts packets other than Acks (it is incremented for every packet),
   and there is no test for Ack Loss.
 - The concept of counting Acks as such leads to a complex calculation, and the calculation
   at the moment is inconsistent with this concept.
   The problem is that the number of Acks - rather than the number of windows - is counted,
   which leads to a complex (cubic/quadratic) expression - this is not even implemented.

In its current state, the commented-out algorithm interfers with normal processing by
changing Ack Ratio incorrectly, and at the wrong times.

A new algorithm is necessary, which will not necessarily use the same variables as used by
the unfinished one; hence the old variables have been removed.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:55 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
b00d2bbc45 [CCID2]: Larger initial windows also for CCID2
RFC 4341, sec. 5 states that "The cwnd parameter is initialized to at most
four packets for new connections, following the rules from [RFC3390]", which
is implemented by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:55 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
d50ad163e6 [CCID2]: Deadlock and spurious timeouts when Ack Ratio > cwnd
This patch removes a bug in the current code. I agree with Andrea's comment
that there is a problem here but the way it is treated does not fix it.

The problem is that whenever Ack Ratio > cwnd, starvation/deadlock occurs:
 * the receiver will not send an Ack until (Ack Ratio - cwnd) data packets
   have arrived;
 * the sender will not send any data packet before the receipt of an Ack
   advances the send window.
The only way that the connection then progresses was via RTO timeout. In one
extreme case (bulk transfer), it was observed that this happened for every single
packet; i.e. hundreds of packets, each a RTO timeout of 1..3 seconds apart:
a transfer which normally would take a fraction of a second thus grew to
several minutes.

The solution taken by this approach is to observe the relation

                   "Ack Ratio <= cwnd"

by using the constraint (1) from RFC 4341, 6.1.2; i.e. set

                 Ack Ratio = ceil(cwnd / 2)

and update it whenever either Ack Ratio or cwnd change. This ensures that
the deadlock problem can not arise.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:53 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
df054e1d00 [CCID2]: Don't assign negative values to Ack Ratio
Since it makes not sense to assign negative values to Ack Ratio, this
patch disallows this possibility.

As a consequence, a Bug test for negative Ack Ratio values becomes obsolete.

Furthermore, a check against overflow (as Ack Ratio may not exceed 2 bytes,
due to RFC 4340, 11.3) has been added.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:53 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
cfbbeabc88 [CCID2]: Fix sequence number arithmetic/comparisons
This replaces use of normal subtraction with modulo-48 subtraction.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:52 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
3de5489f47 [CCID2]: Bug in reading Ack Vectors
In CCID2 the receiver-history is sorted in ascending order of sequence number,
but the processing of received Ack Vectors requires the list traversal in the
opposite direction.

The current code has a bug in this regard: the list traversal is upwards. As a
consequence, only Ack Vectors with a run length of 1 will pass, in all other
Ack Vectors the remaining (acked) sequence numbers are missed, and may later
falsely be identified as lost.

Note: This bug is only visible when Ack Ratio > 1, since otherwise the run
      lengths of Ack Vectors are 0.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:51 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov
b24b8a247f [NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer
Many-many code in the kernel initialized the timer->function
and  timer->data together with calling init_timer(timer). There
is already a helper for this. Use it for networking code.

The patch is HUGE, but makes the code 130 lines shorter
(98 insertions(+), 228 deletions(-)).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:53:35 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
24c667db59 [CCID2/3]: Initialisation assignments of 0 are redundant
Assigning initial values of `0' is redundant when loading a new CCID structure,
since in net/dccp/ccid.c the entire CCID structure is zeroed out prior to
initialisation in ccid_new():

    	struct ccid {
    		struct ccid_operations *ccid_ops;
    		char		       ccid_priv[0];
    	};

    	// ...
    	if (rx) {
    		memset(ccid + 1, 0, ccid_ops->ccid_hc_rx_obj_size);
    		if (ccid->ccid_ops->ccid_hc_rx_init != NULL &&
    		    ccid->ccid_ops->ccid_hc_rx_init(ccid, sk) != 0)
    			goto out_free_ccid;
    	} else {
    		memset(ccid + 1, 0, ccid_ops->ccid_hc_tx_obj_size);
    		/* analogous to the rx case */
    	}

This patch therefore removes the redundant assignments. Thanks to Arnaldo for
the inspiration.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2007-10-24 10:53:01 -02:00
Gerrit Renker
5e28599a6e [CCID2]: Sequence number wraparound issues
This replaces several uses of standard arithmetic with the DCCP
sequence number arithmetic functions. The problem here is that the
sequence number wrap-around was not taken into consideration.

 * Condition "seqp->ccid2s_seq <= prev->ccid2s_seq" has been replaced
   by

   	dccp_delta_seqno(seqp->ccid2s_seq, prev->ccid2s_seq) >= 0

   since if seqp is `before' prev, then the delta_seqno() is positive.

 * The test whether sequence numbers `a' and `b' are consecutive has
   the form

   	dccp_delta_seqno(a, b) == 1

 * Increment of ccid2hctx_rpseq could be done using dccp_inc_seqno(),
   but since here the incremented ccid2hctx_rpseq == seqno, used
   assignment instead.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:35 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
6c58324808 [CCID2]: Remove redundant case block
skb's passed to ccid2_hc_tx_send_packet() are headerless, the packet
type is decided later, in dccp_write_xmit(). Therefore the first test
of the switch/case block is always true, the others are never reached.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:35 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
ee196c2186 [CCID2]: Remove redundant BUG_ON
This removes a test for `val < 1' which would only have been triggered
when val < 0, due to a preceding test for 0.  Fixed by using an
unsigned type for cwnd (as in TCP) instead.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:34 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
7d9e8931f9 [CCID2]: Remove ugly BUG_ON
This removes an ugly BUG_ON which has been pointed out by Arnaldo.

Instead of freezing up the machine, a `critical' message is now issued
to the system log.

There is potential of doing this more gracefully (eg. there are a few
internal variables which could be updated despite the lack of memory),
but that requires more complicated changes to the algorithm; thus a
`FIXME' has been added.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:34 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
cd1f7d347c [CCID2]: Simplify interface
This patch simplifies the interface of ccid2_hc_tx_alloc_seq():

   * ccid2_hc_tx_alloc_seq() is always called with an argument of
     CCID2_SEQBUF_LEN;

   * other code - ccid2_hc_tx_check_sanity() - even depends on the
     assumption that ccid2_hc_tx_alloc_seq() has been called with this
     particular size;

   * passing the `gfp_t' argument to ccid2_hc_tx_alloc_seq() is
     redundant with gfp_any().

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:33 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
042d18f9f3 [DCCP]: Make all `debug' parameters bool
This just sets the parameter to bool, since debugging messages are
either on or off.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:32 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
39dad26c37 [DCCP]: Allocation in atomic context
This fixes the following bug reported in syslog:

[ 4039.051658] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at /usr/src/davem-2.6/mm/slab.c:3032
[ 4039.051668] in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
[ 4039.051670] INFO: lockdep is turned off.
[ 4039.051674]  [<c0104c0f>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
[ 4039.051687]  [<c0104d4d>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
[ 4039.051691]  [<c0104d65>] dump_stack+0x16/0x18
[ 4039.051695]  [<c011371e>] __might_sleep+0xaf/0xbe
[ 4039.051700]  [<c0157b66>] __kmalloc+0xb1/0xd0
[ 4039.051706]  [<f090416f>] ccid2_hc_tx_alloc_seq+0x35/0xc3 [dccp_ccid2]
[ 4039.051717]  [<f09048d6>] ccid2_hc_tx_packet_sent+0x27f/0x2d9 [dccp_ccid2]
[ 4039.051723]  [<f085486b>] dccp_write_xmit+0x1eb/0x338 [dccp]
[ 4039.051741]  [<f085603d>] dccp_sendmsg+0x113/0x18f [dccp]
[ 4039.051750]  [<c03907fc>] inet_sendmsg+0x2e/0x4c
[ 4039.051758]  [<c033a47d>] sock_aio_write+0xd5/0x107
[ 4039.051766]  [<c015abc1>] do_sync_write+0xcd/0x11c
[ 4039.051772]  [<c015b296>] vfs_write+0x118/0x11f
[ 4039.051840]  [<c015b932>] sys_write+0x3d/0x64
[ 4039.051845]  [<c0103e7c>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
[ 4039.051848]  =======================

The problem was that GFP_KERNEL was used; fixed by using gfp_any().

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-21 20:58:06 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
c9eaf17341 [NET] DCCP: Fix whitespace errors.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-10 23:19:27 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
8109b02b53 [DCCP]: Whitespace cleanups
That accumulated over the last months hackaton, shame on me for not
using git-apply whitespace helping hand, will do that from now on.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-11 14:35:00 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
6b57c93dc3 [DCCP]: Use `unsigned' for packet lengths
This patch implements a suggestion by Ian McDonald and

 1) Avoids tests against negative packet lengths by using unsigned int
    for packet payload lengths in the CCID send_packet()/packet_sent() routines

 2) As a consequence, it removes an now unnecessary test with regard to `len > 0'
    in ccid3_hc_tx_packet_sent: that condition is always true, since
      * negative packet lengths are avoided
      * ccid3_hc_tx_send_packet flags an error whenever the payload length is 0.
        As a consequence, ccid3_hc_tx_packet_sent is never called as all errors
        returned by ccid_hc_tx_send_packet are caught in dccp_write_xmit

 3) Removes the third argument of ccid_hc_tx_send_packet (the `len' parameter),
    since it is currently always set to skb->len. The code is updated with regard
    to this parameter change.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02 21:31:02 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
59348b19ef [DCCP]: Simplified conditions due to use of enum:8 states
This reaps the benefit of the earlier patch, which changed the type of
CCID 3 states to use enums, in that many conditions are now simplified
and the number of possible (unexpected) values is greatly reduced.

In a few instances, this also allowed to simplify pre-conditions; where
care has been taken to retain logical equivalence.

[DCCP]: Introduce a consistent BUG/WARN message scheme

This refines the existing set of DCCP messages so that
 * BUG(), BUG_ON(), WARN_ON() have meaningful DCCP-specific counterparts
 * DCCP_CRIT (for severe warnings) is not rate-limited
 * DCCP_WARN() is introduced as rate-limited wrapper

Using these allows a faster and cleaner transition to their original
counterparts once the code has matured into a full DCCP implementation.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02 21:24:38 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
84116716cc [DCCP]: enable debug messages also for static builds
This patch
  * makes debugging (when configured) work both for static / module build
  * provides generic debugging macros for use in other DCCP / CCID modules
  * adds missing information about debug parameters to Kconfig
  * performs some code tidy-up

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02 21:24:35 -08:00
Andrea Bittau
32aac18dfa [DCCP] CCID2: Code optimizations
These are code optimizations which are relevant when dealing with large
windows.  They are not coded the way I would like to, but they do the job for
the short-term.  This patch should be more neat.

Commiter note: Changed the seqno comparisions to use {after,before}48 to handle
               wrapping.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02 21:23:52 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
234af48401 [DCCP]: fix printk format warnings
Fix printk format warnings:
build2.out:net/dccp/ccids/ccid2.c:355: warning: long long unsigned int format, u64 arg (arg 3)
build2.out:net/dccp/ccids/ccid2.c:360: warning: long long unsigned int format, u64 arg (arg 3)
build2.out:net/dccp/ccids/ccid2.c:482: warning: long long unsigned int format, u64 arg (arg 5)
build2.out:net/dccp/ccids/ccid2.c:639: warning: long long unsigned int format, u64 arg (arg 3)
build2.out:net/dccp/ccids/ccid2.c:639: warning: long long unsigned int format, u64 arg (arg 4)
build2.out:net/dccp/ccids/ccid2.c:674: warning: long long unsigned int format, u64 arg (arg 3)
build2.out:net/dccp/ccids/ccid2.c:720: warning: long long unsigned int format, u64 arg (arg 3)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-30 15:24:37 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
0e64e94e47 [DCCP]: Update documentation references.
Updates the references to spec documents throughout the code, taking into
account that

* the DCCP, CCID 2, and CCID 3 drafts all became RFCs in March this year

* RFC 1063 was obsoleted by RFC 1191

* draft-ietf-tcpimpl-pmtud-0x.txt was published as an Informational
  RFC, RFC 2923 on 2000-09-22.

All references verified.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-24 16:17:51 -07:00
Ian McDonald
3dd9a7c3a1 [DCCP]: Use constants for CCIDs
With constants for CCID numbers this now uses them in some places.

Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-09-24 18:03:41 -03:00
Andrea Bittau
593f16aa62 [DCCP] CCID2: Add helper functions for changing important CCID2 state
Introduce methods which manipulate interesting congestion control
state such as pipe and rtt estimate.  This is useful for people
wishing to monitor the variables of CCID and instrument the code
[perhaps using Kprobes].  Personally, I am a fan of
encapsulation---that justifies this change =D.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 15:19:42 -07:00
Andrea Bittau
374bcf32c8 [DCCP] CCID2: Halve cwnd once upon multiple losses in a single RTT
When multiple losses occur in one RTT, the window should be halved
only once [a single "congestion event"].  This is now implemented,
although not perfectly.  Slightly changed the interface for changing
the cwnd: pass hctx instead of dp.  This is required in order to allow
for change_cwnd to be called from _init().

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 15:19:41 -07:00
Andrea Bittau
07978aabd5 [DCCP] CCID2: Allocate seq records on demand
Allocate more sequence state on demand.  Each time a packet is sent
out by CCID2, a record of it needs to be kept.  This list of records
grows proportionally to cwnd.  Previously, the length of this list was
hardcored and therefore the cwnd could only grow to this value (of
128).  Now, records are allocated on demand as necessary---cwnd may
grow as it wishes.  The exceptional case of when memory is not
available is not handled gracefully.  Perhaps, cwnd should be capped
at that point.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 15:19:40 -07:00