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Daniel Borkmann 30e502a34b net: tcp: add flag for ca to indicate that ECN is required
This patch adds a flag to TCP congestion algorithms that allows
for requesting to mark IPv4/IPv6 sockets with transport as ECN
capable, that is, ECT(0), when required by a congestion algorithm.

It is currently used and needed in DataCenter TCP (DCTCP), as it
requires both peers to assert ECT on all IP packets sent - it
uses ECN feedback (i.e. CE, Congestion Encountered information)
from switches inside the data center to derive feedback to the
end hosts.

Therefore, simply add a new flag to icsk_ca_ops. Note that DCTCP's
algorithm/behaviour slightly diverges from RFC3168, therefore this
is only (!) enabled iff the assigned congestion control ops module
has requested this. By that, we can tightly couple this logic really
only to the provided congestion control ops.

Joint work with Florian Westphal and Glenn Judd.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Glenn Judd <glenn.judd@morganstanley.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-29 00:13:10 -04:00
Eric Dumazet cd7d8498c9 tcp: change tcp_skb_pcount() location
Our goal is to access no more than one cache line access per skb in
a write or receive queue when doing the various walks.

After recent TCP_SKB_CB() reorganizations, it is almost done.

Last part is tcp_skb_pcount() which currently uses
skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_segs, which is a terrible choice, because it needs
3 cache lines in current kernel (skb->head, skb->end, and
shinfo->gso_segs are all in 3 different cache lines, far from skb->cb)

This very simple patch reuses space currently taken by tcp_tw_isn
only in input path, as tcp_skb_pcount is only needed for skb stored in
write queue.

This considerably speeds up tcp_ack(), granted we avoid shinfo->tx_flags
to get SKBTX_ACK_TSTAMP, which seems possible.

This also speeds up all sack processing in general.

This speeds up tcp_sendmsg() because it no longer has to access/dirty
shinfo.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-28 16:36:48 -04:00
Eric Dumazet 971f10eca1 tcp: better TCP_SKB_CB layout to reduce cache line misses
TCP maintains lists of skb in write queue, and in receive queues
(in order and out of order queues)

Scanning these lists both in input and output path usually requires
access to skb->next, TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq, and TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq

These fields are currently in two different cache lines, meaning we
waste lot of memory bandwidth when these queues are big and flows
have either packet drops or packet reorders.

We can move TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->header at the end of TCP_SKB_CB, because
this header is not used in fast path. This allows TCP to search much faster
in the skb lists.

Even with regular flows, we save one cache line miss in fast path.

Thanks to Christoph Paasch for noticing we need to cleanup
skb->cb[] (IPCB/IP6CB) before entering IP stack in tx path,
and that I forgot IPCB use in tcp_v4_hnd_req() and tcp_v4_save_options().

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-28 16:35:43 -04:00
Eric Dumazet f4a775d144 net: introduce __skb_header_release()
While profiling TCP stack, I noticed one useless atomic operation
in tcp_sendmsg(), caused by skb_header_release().

It turns out all current skb_header_release() users have a fresh skb,
that no other user can see, so we can avoid one atomic operation.

Introduce __skb_header_release() to clearly document this.

This gave me a 1.5 % improvement on TCP_RR workload.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-26 15:40:06 -04:00
Eric Dumazet fcdd1cf4dd tcp: avoid possible arithmetic overflows
icsk_rto is a 32bit field, and icsk_backoff can reach 15 by default,
or more if some sysctl (eg tcp_retries2) are changed.

Better use 64bit to perform icsk_rto << icsk_backoff operations

As Joe Perches suggested, add a helper for this.

Yuchung spotted the tcp_v4_err() case.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-22 16:27:10 -04:00
Neal Cardwell 87d943085b tcp: remove obsolete comment about TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->when in tcp_fragment()
The TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->when field no longer exists as of recent change
7faee5c0d5 ("tcp: remove TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->when"). And in any case,
tcp_fragment() is called on already-transmitted packets from the
__tcp_retransmit_skb() call site, so copying timestamps of any kind
in this spot is quite sensible.

Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Reported-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-06 12:29:10 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 7faee5c0d5 tcp: remove TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->when
After commit 740b0f1841 ("tcp: switch rtt estimations to usec resolution"),
we no longer need to maintain timestamps in two different fields.

TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->when can be removed, as same information sits in skb_mstamp.stamp_jiffies

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-05 17:49:33 -07:00
Neal Cardwell 4fab907195 tcp: fix tcp_release_cb() to dispatch via address family for mtu_reduced()
Make sure we use the correct address-family-specific function for
handling MTU reductions from within tcp_release_cb().

Previously AF_INET6 sockets were incorrectly always using the IPv6
code path when sometimes they were handling IPv4 traffic and thus had
an IPv4 dst.

Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Diagnosed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Fixes: 563d34d057 ("tcp: dont drop MTU reduction indications")
Reviewed-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-08-14 14:38:54 -07:00
Andrey Vagin 9d186cac7f tcp: don't use timestamp from repaired skb-s to calculate RTT (v2)
We don't know right timestamp for repaired skb-s. Wrong RTT estimations
isn't good, because some congestion modules heavily depends on it.

This patch adds the TCPCB_REPAIRED flag, which is included in
TCPCB_RETRANS.

Thanks to Eric for the advice how to fix this issue.

This patch fixes the warning:
[  879.562947] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2825 at net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:3078 tcp_ack+0x11f5/0x1380()
[  879.567253] CPU: 0 PID: 2825 Comm: socket-tcpbuf-l Not tainted 3.16.0-next-20140811 #1
[  879.567829] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
[  879.568177]  0000000000000000 00000000c532680c ffff880039643d00 ffffffff817aa2d2
[  879.568776]  0000000000000000 ffff880039643d38 ffffffff8109afbd ffff880039d6ba80
[  879.569386]  ffff88003a449800 000000002983d6bd 0000000000000000 000000002983d6bc
[  879.569982] Call Trace:
[  879.570264]  [<ffffffff817aa2d2>] dump_stack+0x4d/0x66
[  879.570599]  [<ffffffff8109afbd>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7d/0xa0
[  879.570935]  [<ffffffff8109b0ea>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[  879.571292]  [<ffffffff816d0a05>] tcp_ack+0x11f5/0x1380
[  879.571614]  [<ffffffff816d10bd>] tcp_rcv_established+0x1ed/0x710
[  879.571958]  [<ffffffff816dc9da>] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x10a/0x370
[  879.572315]  [<ffffffff81657459>] release_sock+0x89/0x1d0
[  879.572642]  [<ffffffff816c81a0>] do_tcp_setsockopt.isra.36+0x120/0x860
[  879.573000]  [<ffffffff8110a52e>] ? rcu_read_lock_held+0x6e/0x80
[  879.573352]  [<ffffffff816c8912>] tcp_setsockopt+0x32/0x40
[  879.573678]  [<ffffffff81654ac4>] sock_common_setsockopt+0x14/0x20
[  879.574031]  [<ffffffff816537b0>] SyS_setsockopt+0x80/0xf0
[  879.574393]  [<ffffffff817b40a9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[  879.574730] ---[ end trace a17cbc38eb8c5c00 ]---

v2: moving setting of skb->when for repaired skb-s in tcp_write_xmit,
    where it's set for other skb-s.

Fixes: 431a91242d ("tcp: timestamp SYN+DATA messages")
Fixes: 740b0f1841 ("tcp: switch rtt estimations to usec resolution")
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-08-14 14:38:54 -07:00
Willem de Bruijn 490cc7d03c net-timestamp: fix missing tcp fragmentation cases
Bytestream timestamps are correlated with a single byte in the skbuff,
recorded in skb_shinfo(skb)->tskey. When fragmenting skbuffs, ensure
that the tskey is set for the fragment in which the tskey falls
(seqno <= tskey < end_seqno).

The original implementation did not address fragmentation in
tcp_fragment or tso_fragment. Add code to inspect the sequence numbers
and move both tskey and the relevant tx_flags if necessary.

Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-08-13 20:06:06 -07:00
David S. Miller 1a98c69af1 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-07-16 14:09:34 -07:00
Christoph Paasch 5ee2c941b5 tcp: Remove unnecessary arg from tcp_enter_cwr and tcp_init_cwnd_reduction
Since Yuchung's 9b44190dc1 (tcp: refactor F-RTO), tcp_enter_cwr is always
called with set_ssthresh = 1. Thus, we can remove this argument from
tcp_enter_cwr. Further, as we remove this one, tcp_init_cwnd_reduction
is then always called with set_ssthresh = true, and so we can get rid of
this argument as well.

Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-07-15 16:19:36 -07:00
Yuchung Cheng 6e08d5e3c8 tcp: fix false undo corner cases
The undo code assumes that, upon entering loss recovery, TCP
1) always retransmit something
2) the retransmission never fails locally (e.g., qdisc drop)

so undo_marker is set in tcp_enter_recovery() and undo_retrans is
incremented only when tcp_retransmit_skb() is successful.

When the assumption is broken because TCP's cwnd is too small to
retransmit or the retransmit fails locally. The next (DUP)ACK
would incorrectly revert the cwnd and the congestion state in
tcp_try_undo_dsack() or tcp_may_undo(). Subsequent (DUP)ACKs
may enter the recovery state. The sender repeatedly enter and
(incorrectly) exit recovery states if the retransmits continue to
fail locally while receiving (DUP)ACKs.

The fix is to initialize undo_retrans to -1 and start counting on
the first retransmission. Always increment undo_retrans even if the
retransmissions fail locally because they couldn't cause DSACKs to
undo the cwnd reduction.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-07-07 21:40:48 -07:00
Tom Herbert b73c3d0e4f net: Save TX flow hash in sock and set in skbuf on xmit
For a connected socket we can precompute the flow hash for setting
in skb->hash on output. This is a performance advantage over
calculating the skb->hash for every packet on the connection. The
computation is done using the common hash algorithm to be consistent
with computations done for packets of the connection in other states
where thers is no socket (e.g. time-wait, syn-recv, syn-cookies).

This patch adds sk_txhash to the sock structure. inet_set_txhash and
ip6_set_txhash functions are added which are called from points in
TCP and UDP where socket moves to established state.

skb_set_hash_from_sk is a function which sets skb->hash from the
sock txhash value. This is called in UDP and TCP transmit path when
transmitting within the context of a socket.

Tested: ran super_netperf with 200 TCP_RR streams over a vxlan
interface (in this case skb_get_hash called on every TX packet to
create a UDP source port).

Before fix:

  95.02% CPU utilization
  154/256/505 90/95/99% latencies
  1.13042e+06 tps

  Time in functions:
    0.28% skb_flow_dissect
    0.21% __skb_get_hash

After fix:

  94.95% CPU utilization
  156/254/485 90/95/99% latencies
  1.15447e+06

  Neither __skb_get_hash nor skb_flow_dissect appear in perf

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-07-07 21:14:21 -07:00
Octavian Purdila 5db92c9949 tcp: unify tcp_v4_rtx_synack and tcp_v6_rtx_synack
Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-06-27 15:53:36 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f9da455b93 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Seccomp BPF filters can now be JIT'd, from Alexei Starovoitov.

 2) Multiqueue support in xen-netback and xen-netfront, from Andrew J
    Benniston.

 3) Allow tweaking of aggregation settings in cdc_ncm driver, from Bjørn
    Mork.

 4) BPF now has a "random" opcode, from Chema Gonzalez.

 5) Add more BPF documentation and improve test framework, from Daniel
    Borkmann.

 6) Support TCP fastopen over ipv6, from Daniel Lee.

 7) Add software TSO helper functions and use them to support software
    TSO in mvneta and mv643xx_eth drivers.  From Ezequiel Garcia.

 8) Support software TSO in fec driver too, from Nimrod Andy.

 9) Add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT driver, from Florian Fainelli.

10) Handle broadcasts more gracefully over macvlan when there are large
    numbers of interfaces configured, from Herbert Xu.

11) Allow more control over fwmark used for non-socket based responses,
    from Lorenzo Colitti.

12) Do TCP congestion window limiting based upon measurements, from Neal
    Cardwell.

13) Support busy polling in SCTP, from Neal Horman.

14) Allow RSS key to be configured via ethtool, from Venkata Duvvuru.

15) Bridge promisc mode handling improvements from Vlad Yasevich.

16) Don't use inetpeer entries to implement ID generation any more, it
    performs poorly, from Eric Dumazet.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1522 commits)
  rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2 < v3.9.0
  tcp: fixing TLP's FIN recovery
  net: fec: Add software TSO support
  net: fec: Add Scatter/gather support
  net: fec: Increase buffer descriptor entry number
  net: fec: Factorize feature setting
  net: fec: Enable IP header hardware checksum
  net: fec: Factorize the .xmit transmit function
  bridge: fix compile error when compiling without IPv6 support
  bridge: fix smatch warning / potential null pointer dereference
  via-rhine: fix full-duplex with autoneg disable
  bnx2x: Enlarge the dorq threshold for VFs
  bnx2x: Check for UNDI in uncommon branch
  bnx2x: Fix 1G-baseT link
  bnx2x: Fix link for KR with swapped polarity lane
  sctp: Fix sk_ack_backlog wrap-around problem
  net/core: Add VF link state control policy
  net/fsl: xgmac_mdio is dependent on OF_MDIO
  net/fsl: Make xgmac_mdio read error message useful
  net_sched: drr: warn when qdisc is not work conserving
  ...
2014-06-12 14:27:40 -07:00
Per Hurtig bef1909ee3 tcp: fixing TLP's FIN recovery
Fix to a problem observed when losing a FIN segment that does not
contain data.  In such situations, TLP is unable to recover from
*any* tail loss and instead adds at least PTO ms to the
retransmission process, i.e., RTO = RTO + PTO.

Signed-off-by: Per Hurtig <per.hurtig@kau.se>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-06-12 11:05:51 -07:00
Octavian Purdila 6cc55e096f tcp: add gfp parameter to tcp_fragment
tcp_fragment can be called from process context (from tso_fragment).
Add a new gfp parameter to allow it to preserve atomic memory if
possible.

Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-06-10 22:30:58 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 776edb5931 Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next
Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - reduced/streamlined smp_mb__*() interface that allows more usecases
     and makes the existing ones less buggy, especially in rarer
     architectures

   - add rwsem implementation comments

   - bump up lockdep limits"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  rwsem: Add comments to explain the meaning of the rwsem's count field
  lockdep: Increase static allocations
  arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()
  arch,doc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,xtensa: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,x86: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,tile: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sparc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sh: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,score: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,s390: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,powerpc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,parisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,openrisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mn10300: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mips: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,metag: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m68k: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m32r: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,ia64: Convert smp_mb__*()
  ...
2014-06-03 12:57:53 -07:00
Neal Cardwell ca8a226343 tcp: make cwnd-limited checks measurement-based, and gentler
Experience with the recent e114a710aa ("tcp: fix cwnd limited
checking to improve congestion control") has shown that there are
common cases where that commit can cause cwnd to be much larger than
necessary. This leads to TSO autosizing cooking skbs that are too
large, among other things.

The main problems seemed to be:

(1) That commit attempted to predict the future behavior of the
connection by looking at the write queue (if TSO or TSQ limit
sending). That prediction sometimes overestimated future outstanding
packets.

(2) That commit always allowed cwnd to grow to twice the number of
outstanding packets (even in congestion avoidance, where this is not
needed).

This commit improves both of these, by:

(1) Switching to a measurement-based approach where we explicitly
track the largest number of packets in flight during the past window
("max_packets_out"), and remember whether we were cwnd-limited at the
moment we finished sending that flight.

(2) Only allowing cwnd to grow to twice the number of outstanding
packets ("max_packets_out") in slow start. In congestion avoidance
mode we now only allow cwnd to grow if it was fully utilized.

Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-05-22 12:04:49 -04:00
Yuchung Cheng 843f4a55e3 tcp: use tcp_v4_send_synack on first SYN-ACK
To avoid large code duplication in IPv6, we need to first simplify
the complicate SYN-ACK sending code in tcp_v4_conn_request().

To use tcp_v4(6)_send_synack() to send all SYN-ACKs, we need to
initialize the mini socket's receive window before trying to
create the child socket and/or building the SYN-ACK packet. So we move
that initialization from tcp_make_synack() to tcp_v4_conn_request()
as a new function tcp_openreq_init_req_rwin().

After this refactoring the SYN-ACK sending code is simpler and easier
to implement Fast Open for IPv6.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lee <longinus00@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-05-13 17:53:02 -04:00
Yuchung Cheng 89278c9dc9 tcp: simplify fast open cookie processing
Consolidate various cookie checking and generation code to simplify
the fast open processing. The main goal is to reduce code duplication
in tcp_v4_conn_request() for IPv6 support.

Removes two experimental sysctl flags TFO_SERVER_ALWAYS and
TFO_SERVER_COOKIE_NOT_CHKD used primarily for developmental debugging
purposes.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lee <longinus00@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-05-13 17:53:02 -04:00
David S. Miller 5f013c9bc7 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_sgdma.c
	net/netlink/af_netlink.c
	net/sched/cls_api.c
	net/sched/sch_api.c

The netlink conflict dealt with moving to netlink_capable() and
netlink_ns_capable() in the 'net' tree vs. supporting 'tc' operations
in non-init namespaces.  These were simple transformations from
netlink_capable to netlink_ns_capable.

The Altera driver conflict was simply code removal overlapping some
void pointer cast cleanups in net-next.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-05-12 13:19:14 -04:00
Eric Dumazet 249015515f tcp: remove in_flight parameter from cong_avoid() methods
Commit e114a710aa ("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 <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-05-03 19:23:07 -04:00
Eric Dumazet e114a710aa tcp: fix cwnd limited checking to improve congestion control
Yuchung discovered tcp_is_cwnd_limited() was returning false in
slow start phase even if the application filled the socket write queue.

All congestion modules take into account tcp_is_cwnd_limited()
before increasing cwnd, so this behavior limits slow start from
probing the bandwidth at full speed.

The problem is that even if write queue is full (aka we are _not_
application limited), cwnd can be under utilized if TSO should auto
defer or TCP Small queues decided to hold packets.

So the in_flight can be kept to smaller value, and we can get to the
point tcp_is_cwnd_limited() returns false.

With TCP Small Queues and FQ/pacing, this issue is more visible.

We fix this by having tcp_cwnd_validate(), which is supposed to track
such things, take into account unsent_segs, the number of segs that we
are not sending at the moment due to TSO or TSQ, but intend to send
real soon. Then when we are cwnd-limited, remember this fact while we
are processing the window of ACKs that comes back.

For example, suppose we have a brand new connection with cwnd=10; we
are in slow start, and we send a flight of 9 packets. By the time we
have received ACKs for all 9 packets we want our cwnd to be 18.
We implement this by setting tp->lsnd_pending to 9, and
considering ourselves to be cwnd-limited while cwnd is less than
twice tp->lsnd_pending (2*9 -> 18).

This makes tcp_is_cwnd_limited() more understandable, by removing
the GSO/TSO kludge, that tried to work around the issue.

Note the in_flight parameter can be removed in a followup cleanup
patch.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-05-02 17:54:35 -04:00
Eric Dumazet fc9f350106 tcp: increment retransmit counters in tlp and fast open
Both TLP and Fast Open call __tcp_retransmit_skb() instead of
tcp_retransmit_skb() to avoid changing tp->retrans_out.

This has the side effect of missing SNMP counters increments as well
as tcp_info tcpi_total_retrans updates.

Fix this by moving the stats increments of into __tcp_retransmit_skb()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-04-30 16:12:22 -04:00
Eric Dumazet 1f3279ae0c tcp: avoid retransmits of TCP packets hanging in host queues
In commit 0e280af026 ("tcp: introduce TCPSpuriousRtxHostQueues SNMP
counter") we added a logic to detect when a packet was retransmitted
while the prior clone was still in a qdisc or driver queue.

We are now confident we can do better, and catch the problem before
we fragment a TSO packet before retransmit, or in TLP path.

This patch fully exploits the logic by simply canceling the spurious
retransmit.
Original packet is in a queue and will eventually leave the host.

This helps to avoid network collapses when some events make the RTO
estimations very wrong, particularly when dealing with huge number of
sockets with synchronized blast.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-04-22 21:27:57 -04:00
Weiping Pan 86fd14ad1e tcp: make tcp_cwnd_application_limited() static
Make tcp_cwnd_application_limited() static and move it from tcp_input.c to
tcp_output.c

Signed-off-by: Weiping Pan <wpan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-04-20 18:18:56 -04:00
Peter Zijlstra 4e857c58ef arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()
Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-04-18 14:20:48 +02:00
Eric Dumazet b0270e9101 ipv4: add a sock pointer to ip_queue_xmit()
ip_queue_xmit() assumes the skb it has to transmit is attached to an
inet socket. Commit 31c70d5956 ("l2tp: keep original skb ownership")
changed l2tp to not change skb ownership and thus broke this assumption.

One fix is to add a new 'struct sock *sk' parameter to ip_queue_xmit(),
so that we do not assume skb->sk points to the socket used by l2tp
tunnel.

Fixes: 31c70d5956 ("l2tp: keep original skb ownership")
Reported-by: Zhan Jianyu <nasa4836@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Zhan Jianyu <nasa4836@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-04-15 12:58:34 -04:00
Eric Dumazet a0b8486caf tcp: tcp_make_synack() minor changes
There is no need to allocate 15 bytes in excess for a SYNACK packet,
as it contains no data, only headers.

SYNACK are always generated in softirq context, and contain a single
segment, we can use TCP_INC_STATS_BH()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-03-27 15:10:10 -04:00
Peter Pan(潘卫平) cc93fc51f3 tcp: delete unused parameter in tcp_nagle_check()
After commit d4589926d7 (tcp: refine TSO splits), tcp_nagle_check() does
not use parameter mss_now anymore.

Signed-off-by: Weiping Pan <panweiping3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-03-26 15:43:40 -04:00
David S. Miller 85dcce7a73 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/usb/r8152.c
	drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c

Both the r8152 and netback conflicts were simple overlapping
changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-03-14 22:31:55 -04:00
Eric Dumazet c3f9b01849 tcp: tcp_release_cb() should release socket ownership
Lars Persson reported following deadlock :

-000 |M:0x0:0x802B6AF8(asm) <-- arch_spin_lock
-001 |tcp_v4_rcv(skb = 0x8BD527A0) <-- sk = 0x8BE6B2A0
-002 |ip_local_deliver_finish(skb = 0x8BD527A0)
-003 |__netif_receive_skb_core(skb = 0x8BD527A0, ?)
-004 |netif_receive_skb(skb = 0x8BD527A0)
-005 |elk_poll(napi = 0x8C770500, budget = 64)
-006 |net_rx_action(?)
-007 |__do_softirq()
-008 |do_softirq()
-009 |local_bh_enable()
-010 |tcp_rcv_established(sk = 0x8BE6B2A0, skb = 0x87D3A9E0, th = 0x814EBE14, ?)
-011 |tcp_v4_do_rcv(sk = 0x8BE6B2A0, skb = 0x87D3A9E0)
-012 |tcp_delack_timer_handler(sk = 0x8BE6B2A0)
-013 |tcp_release_cb(sk = 0x8BE6B2A0)
-014 |release_sock(sk = 0x8BE6B2A0)
-015 |tcp_sendmsg(?, sk = 0x8BE6B2A0, ?, ?)
-016 |sock_sendmsg(sock = 0x8518C4C0, msg = 0x87D8DAA8, size = 4096)
-017 |kernel_sendmsg(?, ?, ?, ?, size = 4096)
-018 |smb_send_kvec()
-019 |smb_send_rqst(server = 0x87C4D400, rqst = 0x87D8DBA0)
-020 |cifs_call_async()
-021 |cifs_async_writev(wdata = 0x87FD6580)
-022 |cifs_writepages(mapping = 0x852096E4, wbc = 0x87D8DC88)
-023 |__writeback_single_inode(inode = 0x852095D0, wbc = 0x87D8DC88)
-024 |writeback_sb_inodes(sb = 0x87D6D800, wb = 0x87E4A9C0, work = 0x87D8DD88)
-025 |__writeback_inodes_wb(wb = 0x87E4A9C0, work = 0x87D8DD88)
-026 |wb_writeback(wb = 0x87E4A9C0, work = 0x87D8DD88)
-027 |wb_do_writeback(wb = 0x87E4A9C0, force_wait = 0)
-028 |bdi_writeback_workfn(work = 0x87E4A9CC)
-029 |process_one_work(worker = 0x8B045880, work = 0x87E4A9CC)
-030 |worker_thread(__worker = 0x8B045880)
-031 |kthread(_create = 0x87CADD90)
-032 |ret_from_kernel_thread(asm)

Bug occurs because __tcp_checksum_complete_user() enables BH, assuming
it is running from softirq context.

Lars trace involved a NIC without RX checksum support but other points
are problematic as well, like the prequeue stuff.

Problem is triggered by a timer, that found socket being owned by user.

tcp_release_cb() should call tcp_write_timer_handler() or
tcp_delack_timer_handler() in the appropriate context :

BH disabled and socket lock held, but 'owned' field cleared,
as if they were running from timer handlers.

Fixes: 6f458dfb40 ("tcp: improve latencies of timer triggered events")
Reported-by: Lars Persson <lars.persson@axis.com>
Tested-by: Lars Persson <lars.persson@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-03-11 16:45:59 -04:00
Eric Dumazet 431a91242d tcp: timestamp SYN+DATA messages
All skb in socket write queue should be properly timestamped.

In case of FastOpen, we special case the SYN+DATA 'message' as we
queue in socket wrote queue the two fallback skbs:

1) SYN message by itself.
2) DATA segment by itself.

We should make sure these skbs have proper timestamps.

Add a WARN_ON_ONCE() to eventually catch future violations.

Fixes: 740b0f1841 ("tcp: switch rtt estimations to usec resolution")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-03-10 16:15:54 -04:00
Eric Dumazet 2196269242 tcp: do not leak non zero tstamp in output packets
Usage of skb->tstamp should remain private to TCP stack
(only set on packets on write queue, not on cloned ones)

Otherwise, packets given to loopback interface with a non null tstamp
can confuse netif_rx() / net_timestamp_check()

Other possibility would be to clear tstamp in loopback_xmit(),
as done in skb_scrub_packet()

Fixes: 740b0f1841 ("tcp: switch rtt estimations to usec resolution")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-03-07 14:32:57 -05:00
David S. Miller f7324acd98 tcp: Use NET_ADD_STATS instead of NET_ADD_STATS_BH in tcp_event_new_data_sent()
Can be invoked from non-BH context.

Based upon a patch by Eric Dumazet.

Fixes: f19c29e3e3 ("tcp: snmp stats for Fast Open, SYN rtx, and data pkts")
Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-03-06 15:19:43 -05:00
David S. Miller 67ddc87f16 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
	drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/pcie.c
	net/ipv6/sit.c

The SIT driver conflict consists of a bug fix being done by hand
in 'net' (missing u64_stats_init()) whilst in 'net-next' a helper
was created (netdev_alloc_pcpu_stats()) which takes care of this.

The two wireless conflicts were overlapping changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-03-05 20:32:02 -05:00
Yuchung Cheng f19c29e3e3 tcp: snmp stats for Fast Open, SYN rtx, and data pkts
Add the following snmp stats:

TCPFastOpenActiveFail: Fast Open attempts (SYN/data) failed beacuse
the remote does not accept it or the attempts timed out.

TCPSynRetrans: number of SYN and SYN/ACK retransmits to break down
retransmissions into SYN, fast-retransmits, timeout retransmits, etc.

TCPOrigDataSent: number of outgoing packets with original data (excluding
retransmission but including data-in-SYN). This counter is different from
TcpOutSegs because TcpOutSegs also tracks pure ACKs. TCPOrigDataSent is
more useful to track the TCP retransmission rate.

Change TCPFastOpenActive to track only successful Fast Opens to be symmetric to
TCPFastOpenPassive.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Lawrence Brakmo <brakmo@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-03-03 15:58:03 -05:00
Yuchung Cheng c84a57113f tcp: fix bogus RTT on special retransmission
RTT may be bogus with tall loss probe (TLP) when a packet
is retransmitted and latter (s)acked without TCPCB_SACKED_RETRANS flag.

For example, TLP calls __tcp_retransmit_skb() instead of
tcp_retransmit_skb(). The skb timestamps are updated but the sacked
flag is not marked with TCPCB_SACKED_RETRANS. As a result we'll
get bogus RTT in tcp_clean_rtx_queue() or in tcp_sacktag_one() on
spurious retransmission.

The fix is to apply the sticky flag TCP_EVER_RETRANS to enforce Karn's
check on RTT sampling. However this will disable F-RTO if timeout occurs
after TLP, by resetting undo_marker in tcp_enter_loss(). We relax this
check to only if any pending retransmists are still in-flight.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-03-03 15:33:02 -05:00
Eric Dumazet 740b0f1841 tcp: switch rtt estimations to usec resolution
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 <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Larry Brakmo <brakmo@google.com>
Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-26 17:08:40 -05:00
Florian Westphal 8e165e2034 net: tcp: add mib counters to track zero window transitions
Three counters are added:
- one to track when we went from non-zero to zero window
- one to track the reverse
- one counter incremented when we want to announce zero window,
  but can't because we would shrink current window.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-26 15:23:30 -05:00
Eric Dumazet 9a9bfd032f net: tcp: use NET_INC_STATS()
While LINUX_MIB_TCPSPURIOUS_RTX_HOSTQUEUES can only be incremented
in tcp_transmit_skb() from softirq (incoming message or timer
activation), it is better to use NET_INC_STATS() instead of
NET_INC_STATS_BH() as tcp_transmit_skb() can be called from process
context.

This will avoid copy/paste confusion when/if we want to add
other SNMP counters in tcp_transmit_skb()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-26 15:19:47 -05:00
Eric Dumazet f5ddcbbb40 net-tcp: fastopen: fix high order allocations
This patch fixes two bugs in fastopen :

1) The tcp_sendmsg(...,  @size) argument was ignored.

   Code was relying on user not fooling the kernel with iovec mismatches

2) When MTU is about 64KB, tcp_send_syn_data() attempts order-5
allocations, which are likely to fail when memory gets fragmented.

Fixes: 783237e8da ("net-tcp: Fast Open client - sending SYN-data")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Tested-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-22 00:05:21 -05:00
Florian Westphal 86c1a04564 tcp: use zero-window when free_space is low
Currently the kernel tries to announce a zero window when free_space
is below the current receiver mss estimate.

When a sender is transmitting small packets and reader consumes data
slowly (or not at all), receiver might be unable to shrink the receive
win because

a) we cannot withdraw already-commited receive window, and,
b) we have to round the current rwin up to a multiple of the wscale
   factor, else we would shrink the current window.

This causes the receive buffer to fill up until the rmem limit is hit.
When this happens, we start dropping packets.

Moreover, tcp_clamp_window may continue to grow sk_rcvbuf towards rmem[2]
even if socket is not being read from.

As we cannot avoid the "current_win is rounded up to multiple of mss"
issue [we would violate a) above] at least try to prevent the receive buf
growth towards tcp_rmem[2] limit by attempting to move to zero-window
announcement when free_space becomes less than 1/16 of the current
allowed receive buffer maximum.  If tcp_rmem[2] is large, this will
increase our chances to get a zero-window announcement out in time.

Reproducer:
On server:
$ nc -l -p 12345
<suspend it: CTRL-Z>

Client:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import socket
import time

sock = socket.socket()
sock.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_TCP, socket.TCP_NODELAY, 1)
sock.connect(("192.168.4.1", 12345));
while True:
   sock.send('A' * 23)
   time.sleep(0.005)

socket buffer on server-side will grow until tcp_rmem[2] is hit,
at which point the client rexmits data until -EDTIMEOUT:

tcp_data_queue invokes tcp_try_rmem_schedule which will call
tcp_prune_queue which calls tcp_clamp_window().  And that function will
grow sk->sk_rcvbuf up until it eventually hits tcp_rmem[2].

Thanks to Eric Dumazet for running regression tests.

Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Tested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-19 16:48:06 -05:00
stephen hemminger 2045ceaed4 net: remove unnecessary return's
One of my pet coding style peeves is the practice of
adding extra return; at the end of function.
Kill several instances of this in network code.

I suppose some coccinelle wizardy could do this automatically.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-13 18:33:38 -05:00
John Ogness bf06200e73 tcp: tsq: fix nonagle handling
Commit 46d3ceabd8 ("tcp: TCP Small Queues") introduced a possible
regression for applications using TCP_NODELAY.

If TCP session is throttled because of tsq, we should consult
tp->nonagle when TX completion is done and allow us to send additional
segment, especially if this segment is not a full MSS.
Otherwise this segment is sent after an RTO.

[edumazet] : Cooked the changelog, added another fix about testing
sk_wmem_alloc twice because TX completion can happen right before
setting TSQ_THROTTLED bit.

This problem is particularly visible with recent auto corking,
but might also be triggered with low tcp_limit_output_bytes
values or NIC drivers delaying TX completion by hundred of usec,
and very low rtt.

Thomas Glanzmann for example reported an iscsi regression, caused
by tcp auto corking making this bug quite visible.

Fixes: 46d3ceabd8 ("tcp: TCP Small Queues")
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-10 15:23:39 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 4a5ab4e224 tcp: remove 1ms offset in srtt computation
TCP pacing depends on an accurate srtt estimation.

Current srtt estimation is using jiffie resolution,
and has an artificial offset of at least 1 ms, which can produce
slowdowns when FQ/pacing is used, especially in DC world,
where typical rtt is below 1 ms.

We are planning a switch to usec resolution for linux-3.15,
but in the meantime, this patch removes the 1 ms offset.

All we need is to have tp->srtt minimal value of 1 to differentiate
the case of srtt being initialized or not, not 8.

The problematic behavior was observed on a 40Gbit testbed,
where 32 concurrent netperf were reaching 12Gbps of aggregate
speed, instead of line speed.

This patch also has the effect of reporting more accurate srtt and send
rates to iproute2 ss command as in :

$ ss -i dst cca2
Netid  State      Recv-Q Send-Q          Local Address:Port
Peer Address:Port
tcp    ESTAB      0      0                10.244.129.1:56984
10.244.129.2:12865
	 cubic wscale:6,6 rto:200 rtt:0.25/0.25 ato:40 mss:1448 cwnd:10 send
463.4Mbps rcv_rtt:1 rcv_space:29200
tcp    ESTAB      0      390960           10.244.129.1:60247
10.244.129.2:50204
	 cubic wscale:6,6 rto:200 rtt:0.875/0.75 mss:1448 cwnd:73 ssthresh:51
send 966.4Mbps unacked:73 retrans:0/121 rcv_space:29200

Reported-by: Vytautas Valancius <valas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-06 21:28:06 -08:00
stephen hemminger f7e56a76ac tcp: make local functions static
The following are only used in one file:
  tcp_connect_init
  tcp_set_rto

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-29 16:34:24 -05:00
Eric Dumazet d4589926d7 tcp: refine TSO splits
While investigating performance problems on small RPC workloads,
I noticed linux TCP stack was always splitting the last TSO skb
into two parts (skbs). One being a multiple of MSS, and a small one
with the Push flag. This split is done even if TCP_NODELAY is set,
or if no small packet is in flight.

Example with request/response of 4K/4K

IP A > B: . ack 68432 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001>
IP A > B: . 65537:68433(2896) ack 69632 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001>
IP A > B: P 68433:69633(1200) ack 69632 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001>
IP B > A: . ack 68433 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6525001 6524593>
IP B > A: . 69632:72528(2896) ack 69633 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6525001 6524593>
IP B > A: P 72528:73728(1200) ack 69633 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6525001 6524593>
IP A > B: . ack 72528 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001>
IP A > B: . 69633:72529(2896) ack 73728 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001>
IP A > B: P 72529:73729(1200) ack 73728 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001>

We can avoid this split by including the Nagle tests at the right place.

Note : If some NIC had trouble sending TSO packets with a partial
last segment, we would have hit the problem in GRO/forwarding workload already.

tcp_minshall_update() is moved to tcp_output.c and is updated as we might
feed a TSO packet with a partial last segment.

This patch tremendously improves performance, as the traffic now looks
like :

IP A > B: . ack 98304 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834277 6834685>
IP A > B: P 94209:98305(4096) ack 98304 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834277 6834685>
IP B > A: . ack 98305 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834686 6834277>
IP B > A: P 98304:102400(4096) ack 98305 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834686 6834277>
IP A > B: . ack 102400 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834279 6834686>
IP A > B: P 98305:102401(4096) ack 102400 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834279 6834686>
IP B > A: . ack 102401 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834687 6834279>
IP B > A: P 102400:106496(4096) ack 102401 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834687 6834279>
IP A > B: . ack 106496 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834280 6834687>
IP A > B: P 102401:106497(4096) ack 106496 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834280 6834687>
IP B > A: . ack 106497 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834688 6834280>
IP B > A: P 106496:110592(4096) ack 106497 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834688 6834280>

Before :

lpq83:~# nstat >/dev/null;perf stat ./super_netperf 200 -t TCP_RR -H lpq84 -l 20 -- -r 4K,4K
280774

 Performance counter stats for './super_netperf 200 -t TCP_RR -H lpq84 -l 20 -- -r 4K,4K':

     205719.049006 task-clock                #    9.278 CPUs utilized
         8,449,968 context-switches          #    0.041 M/sec
         1,935,997 CPU-migrations            #    0.009 M/sec
           160,541 page-faults               #    0.780 K/sec
   548,478,722,290 cycles                    #    2.666 GHz                     [83.20%]
   455,240,670,857 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   83.00% frontend cycles idle    [83.48%]
   272,881,454,275 stalled-cycles-backend    #   49.75% backend  cycles idle    [66.73%]
   166,091,460,030 instructions              #    0.30  insns per cycle
                                             #    2.74  stalled cycles per insn [83.39%]
    29,150,229,399 branches                  #  141.699 M/sec                   [83.30%]
     1,943,814,026 branch-misses             #    6.67% of all branches         [83.32%]

      22.173517844 seconds time elapsed

lpq83:~# nstat | egrep "IpOutRequests|IpExtOutOctets"
IpOutRequests                   16851063           0.0
IpExtOutOctets                  23878580777        0.0

After patch :

lpq83:~# nstat >/dev/null;perf stat ./super_netperf 200 -t TCP_RR -H lpq84 -l 20 -- -r 4K,4K
280877

 Performance counter stats for './super_netperf 200 -t TCP_RR -H lpq84 -l 20 -- -r 4K,4K':

     107496.071918 task-clock                #    4.847 CPUs utilized
         5,635,458 context-switches          #    0.052 M/sec
         1,374,707 CPU-migrations            #    0.013 M/sec
           160,920 page-faults               #    0.001 M/sec
   281,500,010,924 cycles                    #    2.619 GHz                     [83.28%]
   228,865,069,307 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   81.30% frontend cycles idle    [83.38%]
   142,462,742,658 stalled-cycles-backend    #   50.61% backend  cycles idle    [66.81%]
    95,227,712,566 instructions              #    0.34  insns per cycle
                                             #    2.40  stalled cycles per insn [83.43%]
    16,209,868,171 branches                  #  150.795 M/sec                   [83.20%]
       874,252,952 branch-misses             #    5.39% of all branches         [83.37%]

      22.175821286 seconds time elapsed

lpq83:~# nstat | egrep "IpOutRequests|IpExtOutOctets"
IpOutRequests                   11239428           0.0
IpExtOutOctets                  23595191035        0.0

Indeed, the occupancy of tx skbs (IpExtOutOctets/IpOutRequests) is higher :
2099 instead of 1417, thus helping GRO to be more efficient when using FQ packet
scheduler.

Many thanks to Neal for review and ideas.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Cc: Van Jacobson <vanj@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Tested-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-17 15:15:25 -05:00