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2012-05-23Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial updates from Jiri Kosina: "As usual, it's mostly typo fixes, redundant code elimination and some documentation updates." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (57 commits) edac, mips: don't change code that has been removed in edac/mips tree xtensa: Change mail addresses of Hannes Weiner and Oskar Schirmer lib: Change mail address of Oskar Schirmer net: Change mail address of Oskar Schirmer arm/m68k: Change mail address of Sebastian Hess i2c: Change mail address of Oskar Schirmer net: Fix tcp_build_and_update_options comment in struct tcp_sock atomic64_32.h: fix parameter naming mismatch Kconfig: replace "--- help ---" with "---help---" c2port: fix bogus Kconfig "default no" edac: Fix spelling errors. qla1280: Remove redundant NULL check before release_firmware() call remoteproc: remove redundant NULL check before release_firmware() qla2xxx: Remove redundant NULL check before release_firmware() call. aic94xx: Get rid of redundant NULL check before release_firmware() call tehuti: delete redundant NULL check before release_firmware() qlogic: get rid of a redundant test for NULL before call to release_firmware() bna: remove redundant NULL test before release_firmware() tg3: remove redundant NULL test before release_firmware() call typhoon: get rid of redundant conditional before all to release_firmware() ...
2012-05-09net: Fix tcp_build_and_update_options comment in struct tcp_sockKyle McMartin1-1/+1
Noticed this comment didn't get updated when tcp_build_and_update_options was refactored. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-05-03tcp: early retransmit: delayed fast retransmitYuchung Cheng1-1/+2
Implementing the advanced early retransmit (sysctl_tcp_early_retrans==2). Delays the fast retransmit by an interval of RTT/4. We borrow the RTO timer to implement the delay. If we receive another ACK or send a new packet, the timer is cancelled and restored to original RTO value offset by time elapsed. When the delayed-ER timer fires, we enter fast recovery and perform fast retransmit. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-03tcp: early retransmitYuchung Cheng1-0/+1
This patch implements RFC 5827 early retransmit (ER) for TCP. It reduces DUPACK threshold (dupthresh) if outstanding packets are less than 4 to recover losses by fast recovery instead of timeout. While the algorithm is simple, small but frequent network reordering makes this feature dangerous: the connection repeatedly enter false recovery and degrade performance. Therefore we implement a mitigation suggested in the appendix of the RFC that delays entering fast recovery by a small interval, i.e., RTT/4. Currently ER is conservative and is disabled for the rest of the connection after the first reordering event. A large scale web server experiment on the performance impact of ER is summarized in section 6 of the paper "Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP”, IMC 2011. http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2011/docs/p155.pdf Note that Linux has a similar feature called THIN_DUPACK. The differences are THIN_DUPACK do not mitigate reorderings and is only used after slow start. Currently ER is disabled if THIN_DUPACK is enabled. I would be happy to merge THIN_DUPACK feature with ER if people think it's a good idea. ER is enabled by sysctl_tcp_early_retrans: 0: Disables ER 1: Reduce dupthresh to packets_out - 1 when outstanding packets < 4. 2: (Default) reduce dupthresh like mode 1. In addition, delay entering fast recovery by RTT/4. Note: mode 2 is implemented in the third part of this patch series. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-26tcp repair: Fix unaligned access when repairing options (v2)Pavel Emelyanov1-0/+5
Don't pick __u8/__u16 values directly from raw pointers, but instead use an array of structures of code:value pairs. This is OK, since the buffer we take options from is not an skb memory, but a user-to-kernel one. For those options which don't require any value now, require this to be zero (for potential future extension of this API). v2: Changed tcp_repair_opt to use two __u32-s as spotted by David Laight. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-21tcp: Repair connection-time negotiated parametersPavel Emelyanov1-0/+1
There are options, which are set up on a socket while performing TCP handshake. Need to resurrect them on a socket while repairing. A new sockoption accepts a buffer and parses it. The buffer should be CODE:VALUE sequence of bytes, where CODE is standard option code and VALUE is the respective value. Only 4 options should be handled on repaired socket. To read 3 out of 4 of these options the TCP_INFO sockoption can be used. An ability to get the last one (the mss_clamp) was added by the previous patch. Now the restore. Three of these options -- timestamp_ok, mss_clamp and snd_wscale -- are just restored on a coket. The sack_ok flags has 2 issues. First, whether or not to do sacks at all. This flag is just read and set back. No other sack info is saved or restored, since according to the standart and the code dropping all sack-ed segments is OK, the sender will resubmit them again, so after the repair we will probably experience a pause in connection. Next, the fack bit. It's just set back on a socket if the respective sysctl is set. No collected stats about packets flow is preserved. As far as I see (plz, correct me if I'm wrong) the fack-based congestion algorithm survives dropping all of the stats and repairs itself eventually, probably losing the performance for that period. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-21tcp: Initial repair modePavel Emelyanov1-1/+13
This includes (according the the previous description): * TCP_REPAIR sockoption This one just puts the socket in/out of the repair mode. Allowed for CAP_NET_ADMIN and for closed/establised sockets only. When repair mode is turned off and the socket happens to be in the established state the window probe is sent to the peer to 'unlock' the connection. * TCP_REPAIR_QUEUE sockoption This one sets the queue which we're about to repair. The 'no-queue' is set by default. * TCP_QUEUE_SEQ socoption Sets the write_seq/rcv_nxt of a selected repaired queue. Allowed for TCP_CLOSE-d sockets only. When the socket changes its state the other seq-s are changed by the kernel according to the protocol rules (most of the existing code is actually reused). * Ability to forcibly bind a socket to a port The sk->sk_reuse is set to SK_FORCE_REUSE. * Immediate connect modification The connect syscall initializes the connection, then directly jumps to the code which finalizes it. * Silent close modification The close just aborts the connection (similar to SO_LINGER with 0 time) but without sending any FIN/RST-s to peer. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-03-02Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller1-1/+2
Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c Conflicts in the statistics regression bug fix from 'net', but happily Matt Carlson originally posted the fix against 'net-next' so I used that to resolve this. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-02-29tcp: fix comment for tp->highest_sackNeal Cardwell1-1/+2
There was an off-by-one error in the comments describing the highest_sack field in struct tcp_sock. The comments previously claimed that it was the "start sequence of the highest skb with SACKed bit". This commit fixes the comments to note that it is the "start sequence of the skb just *after* the highest skb with SACKed bit". Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-02-01tcp: md5: protects md5sig_info with RCUEric Dumazet1-1/+1
This patch makes sure we use appropriate memory barriers before publishing tp->md5sig_info, allowing tcp_md5_do_lookup() being used from tcp_v4_send_reset() without holding socket lock (upcoming patch from Shawn Lu) Note we also need to respect rcu grace period before its freeing, since we can free socket without this grace period thanks to SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Shawn Lu <shawn.lu@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-31tcp: md5: rcu conversionEric Dumazet1-2/+1
In order to be able to support proper RST messages for TCP MD5 flows, we need to allow access to MD5 keys without locking listener socket. This conversion is a nice cleanup, and shrinks size of timewait sockets by 80 bytes. IPv6 code reuses generic code found in IPv4 instead of duplicating it. Control path uses GFP_KERNEL allocations instead of GFP_ATOMIC. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Shawn Lu <shawn.lu@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-21tcp: Replace constants with #define macrosVijay Subramanian1-0/+5
to record the state of SACK/FACK and DSACK for better readability and maintenance. Signed-off-by: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-03tcp: report ECN_SEEN in tcp_infoEric Dumazet1-1/+2
Allows ss command (iproute2) to display "ecnseen" if at least one packet with ECT(0) or ECT(1) or ECN was received by this socket. "ecn" means ECN was negotiated at session establishment (TCP level) "ecnseen" means we received at least one packet with ECT fields set (IP level) ss -i ... ESTAB 0 0 192.168.20.110:22 192.168.20.144:38016 ino:5950 sk:f178e400 mem:(r0,w0,f0,t0) ts sack ecn ecnseen bic wscale:7,8 rto:210 rtt:12.5/7.5 cwnd:10 send 9.3Mbps rcv_space:14480 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-08-25Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP.Nandita Dukkipati1-0/+4
This patch implements Proportional Rate Reduction (PRR) for TCP. PRR is an algorithm that determines TCP's sending rate in fast recovery. PRR avoids excessive window reductions and aims for the actual congestion window size at the end of recovery to be as close as possible to the window determined by the congestion control algorithm. PRR also improves accuracy of the amount of data sent during loss recovery. The patch implements the recommended flavor of PRR called PRR-SSRB (Proportional rate reduction with slow start reduction bound) and replaces the existing rate halving algorithm. PRR improves upon the existing Linux fast recovery under a number of conditions including: 1) burst losses where the losses implicitly reduce the amount of outstanding data (pipe) below the ssthresh value selected by the congestion control algorithm and, 2) losses near the end of short flows where application runs out of data to send. As an example, with the existing rate halving implementation a single loss event can cause a connection carrying short Web transactions to go into the slow start mode after the recovery. This is because during recovery Linux pulls the congestion window down to packets_in_flight+1 on every ACK. A short Web response often runs out of new data to send and its pipe reduces to zero by the end of recovery when all its packets are drained from the network. Subsequent HTTP responses using the same connection will have to slow start to raise cwnd to ssthresh. PRR on the other hand aims for the cwnd to be as close as possible to ssthresh by the end of recovery. A description of PRR and a discussion of its performance can be found at the following links: - IETF Draft: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mathis-tcpm-proportional-rate-reduction-01 - IETF Slides: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/80/slides/tcpm-6.pdf http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/81/slides/tcpm-2.pdf - Paper to appear in Internet Measurements Conference (IMC) 2011: Improving TCP Loss Recovery Nandita Dukkipati, Matt Mathis, Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-09tcp: RFC2988bis + taking RTT sample from 3WHS for the passive open sideJerry Chu1-0/+1
This patch lowers the default initRTO from 3secs to 1sec per RFC2988bis. It falls back to 3secs if the SYN or SYN-ACK packet has been retransmitted, AND the TCP timestamp option is not on. It also adds support to take RTT sample during 3WHS on the passive open side, just like its active open counterpart, and uses it, if valid, to seed the initRTO for the data transmission phase. The patch also resets ssthresh to its initial default at the beginning of the data transmission phase, and reduces cwnd to 1 if there has been MORE THAN ONE retransmission during 3WHS per RFC5681. Signed-off-by: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-31tcp: Add TCP_USER_TIMEOUT socket option.Jerry Chu1-0/+1
This patch provides a "user timeout" support as described in RFC793. The socket option is also needed for the the local half of RFC5482 "TCP User Timeout Option". TCP_USER_TIMEOUT is a TCP level socket option that takes an unsigned int, when > 0, to specify the maximum amount of time in ms that transmitted data may remain unacknowledged before TCP will forcefully close the corresponding connection and return ETIMEDOUT to the application. If 0 is given, TCP will continue to use the system default. Increasing the user timeouts allows a TCP connection to survive extended periods without end-to-end connectivity. Decreasing the user timeouts allows applications to "fail fast" if so desired. Otherwise it may take upto 20 minutes with the current system defaults in a normal WAN environment. The socket option can be made during any state of a TCP connection, but is only effective during the synchronized states of a connection (ESTABLISHED, FIN-WAIT-1, FIN-WAIT-2, CLOSE-WAIT, CLOSING, or LAST-ACK). Moreover, when used with the TCP keepalive (SO_KEEPALIVE) option, TCP_USER_TIMEOUT will overtake keepalive to determine when to close a connection due to keepalive failure. The option does not change in anyway when TCP retransmits a packet, nor when a keepalive probe will be sent. This option, like many others, will be inherited by an acceptor from its listener. Signed-off-by: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-19net: TCP thin dupackAndreas Petlund1-1/+3
This patch enables fast retransmissions after one dupACK for TCP if the stream is identified as thin. This will reduce latencies for thin streams that are not able to trigger fast retransmissions due to high packet interarrival time. This mechanism is only active if enabled by iocontrol or syscontrol and the stream is identified as thin. Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-19net: TCP thin linear timeoutsAndreas Petlund1-1/+4
This patch will make TCP use only linear timeouts if the stream is thin. This will help to avoid the very high latencies that thin stream suffer because of exponential backoff. This mechanism is only active if enabled by iocontrol or syscontrol and the stream is identified as thin. A maximum of 6 linear timeouts is tried before exponential backoff is resumed. Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-03TCPCT part 1d: define TCP cookie option, extend existing struct'sWilliam Allen Simpson1-6/+23
Data structures are carefully composed to require minimal additions. For example, the struct tcp_options_received cookie_plus variable fits between existing 16-bit and 8-bit variables, requiring no additional space (taking alignment into consideration). There are no additions to tcp_request_sock, and only 1 pointer in tcp_sock. This is a significantly revised implementation of an earlier (year-old) patch that no longer applies cleanly, with permission of the original author (Adam Langley): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/102586 The principle difference is using a TCP option to carry the cookie nonce, instead of a user configured offset in the data. This is more flexible and less subject to user configuration error. Such a cookie option has been suggested for many years, and is also useful without SYN data, allowing several related concepts to use the same extension option. "Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?)", September 9, 1996. http://www.merit.net/mail.archives/nanog/1996-09/msg00235.html "Re: what a new TCP header might look like", May 12, 1998. ftp://ftp.isi.edu/end2end/end2end-interest-1998.mail These functions will also be used in subsequent patches that implement additional features. Requires: TCPCT part 1a: add request_values parameter for sending SYNACK TCPCT part 1b: generate Responder Cookie secret TCPCT part 1c: sysctl_tcp_cookie_size, socket option TCP_COOKIE_TRANSACTIONS Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-03TCPCT part 1c: sysctl_tcp_cookie_size, socket option TCP_COOKIE_TRANSACTIONSWilliam Allen Simpson1-1/+32
Define sysctl (tcp_cookie_size) to turn on and off the cookie option default globally, instead of a compiled configuration option. Define per socket option (TCP_COOKIE_TRANSACTIONS) for setting constant data values, retrieving variable cookie values, and other facilities. Move inline tcp_clear_options() unchanged from net/tcp.h to linux/tcp.h, near its corresponding struct tcp_options_received (prior to changes). This is a straightforward re-implementation of an earlier (year-old) patch that no longer applies cleanly, with permission of the original author (Adam Langley): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/102586 These functions will also be used in subsequent patches that implement additional features. Requires: net: TCP_MSS_DEFAULT, TCP_MSS_DESIRED Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-14net: TCP_MSS_DEFAULT, TCP_MSS_DESIREDWilliam Allen Simpson1-0/+6
Define two symbols needed in both kernel and user space. Remove old (somewhat incorrect) kernel variant that wasn't used in most cases. Default should apply to both RMSS and SMSS (RFC2581). Replace numeric constants with defined symbols. Stand-alone patch, originally developed for TCPCT. Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-04net: cleanup include/linuxEric Dumazet1-4/+2
This cleanup patch puts struct/union/enum opening braces, in first line to ease grep games. struct something { becomes : struct something { Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-02tcp: MD5 operations should be constStephen Hemminger1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-20syncookies: remove last_synq_overflow from struct tcp_sockFlorian Westphal1-3/+1
last_synq_overflow eats 4 or 8 bytes in struct tcp_sock, even though it is only used when a listening sockets syn queue is full. We can (ab)use rx_opt.ts_recent_stamp to store the same information; it is not used otherwise as long as a socket is in listen state. Move linger2 around to avoid splitting struct mtu_probe across cacheline boundary on 32 bit arches. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-16tcp: cache result of earlier divides when mss-aligning thingsIlpo Järvinen1-0/+1
The results is very unlikely change every so often so we hardly need to divide again after doing that once for a connection. Yet, if divide still becomes necessary we detect that and do the right thing and again settle for non-divide state. Takes the u16 space which was previously taken by the plain xmit_size_goal. This should take care part of the tso vs non-tso difference we found earlier. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-16tcp: simplify tcp_current_mssIlpo Järvinen1-1/+0
There's very little need for most of the callsites to get tp->xmit_goal_size updated. That will cost us divide as is, so slice the function in two. Also, the only users of the tp->xmit_goal_size are directly behind tcp_current_mss(), so there's no need to store that variable into tcp_sock at all! The drop of xmit_goal_size currently leaves 16-bit hole and some reorganization would again be necessary to change that (but I'm aiming to fill that hole with u16 xmit_goal_size_segs to cache the results of the remaining divide to get that tso on regression). Bring xmit_goal_size parts into tcp.c Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02tcp: kill eff_sacks "cache", the sole user can calculate itselfIlpo Järvinen1-1/+0
Also fixes insignificant bug that would cause sending of stale SACK block (would occur in some corner cases). Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-15net: replace __constant_{endian} uses in net headersHarvey Harrison1-10/+10
Base versions handle constant folding now. For headers exposed to userspace, we must only expose the __ prefixed versions. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-08tcp: kill pointless urg_modeIlpo Järvinen1-5/+4
It all started from me noticing that this urgent check in tcp_clean_rtx_queue is unnecessarily inside the loop. Then I took a longer look to it and found out that the users of urg_mode can trivially do without, well almost, there was one gotcha. Bonus: those funny people who use urg with >= 2^31 write_seq - snd_una could now rejoice too (that's the only purpose for the between being there, otherwise a simple compare would have done the thing). Not that I assume that the rest of the tcp code happily lives with such mind-boggling numbers :-). Alas, it turned out to be impossible to set wmem to such numbers anyway, yes I really tried a big sendfile after setting some wmem but nothing happened :-). ...Tcp_wmem is int and so is sk_sndbuf... So I hacked a bit variable to long and found out that it seems to work... :-) Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-21tcp: reorganize retransmit code loopsIlpo Järvinen1-1/+0
Both loops are quite similar, so they can be combined with little effort. As a result, forward_skb_hint becomes obsolete as well. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-21tcp: convert retransmit_cnt_hint to seqnoIlpo Järvinen1-1/+1
Main benefit in this is that we can then freely point the retransmit_skb_hint to anywhere we want to because there's no longer need to know what would be the count changes involve, and since this is really used only as a terminator, unnecessary work is one time walk at most, and if some retransmissions are necessary after that point later on, the walk is not full waste of time anyway. Since retransmit_high must be kept valid, all lost markers must ensure that. Now I also have learned how those "holes" in the rexmittable skbs can appear, mtu probe does them. So I removed the misleading comment as well. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-19tcp: Remove redundant checks when setting eff_sacksAdam Langley1-0/+6
Remove redundant checks when setting eff_sacks and make the number of SACKs a compile time constant. Now that the options code knows how many SACK blocks can fit in the header, we don't need to have the SACK code guessing at it. Signed-off-by: Adam Langley <agl@imperialviolet.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-14Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller1-7/+0
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/smc911x.c
2008-06-13tcp: Revert 'process defer accept as established' changes.David S. Miller1-7/+0
This reverts two changesets, ec3c0982a2dd1e671bad8e9d26c28dcba0039d87 ("[TCP]: TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT updates - process as established") and the follow-on bug fix 9ae27e0adbf471c7a6b80102e38e1d5a346b3b38 ("tcp: Fix slab corruption with ipv6 and tcp6fuzz"). This change causes several problems, first reported by Ingo Molnar as a distcc-over-loopback regression where connections were getting stuck. Ilpo Järvinen first spotted the locking problems. The new function added by this code, tcp_defer_accept_check(), only has the child socket locked, yet it is modifying state of the parent listening socket. Fixing that is non-trivial at best, because we can't simply just grab the parent listening socket lock at this point, because it would create an ABBA deadlock. The normal ordering is parent listening socket --> child socket, but this code path would require the reverse lock ordering. Next is a problem noticed by Vitaliy Gusev, he noted: ---------------------------------------- >--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c >+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c >@@ -481,6 +481,11 @@ static void tcp_keepalive_timer (unsigned long data) > goto death; > } > >+ if (tp->defer_tcp_accept.request && sk->sk_state == TCP_ESTABLISHED) { >+ tcp_send_active_reset(sk, GFP_ATOMIC); >+ goto death; Here socket sk is not attached to listening socket's request queue. tcp_done() will not call inet_csk_destroy_sock() (and tcp_v4_destroy_sock() which should release this sk) as socket is not DEAD. Therefore socket sk will be lost for freeing. ---------------------------------------- Finally, Alexey Kuznetsov argues that there might not even be any real value or advantage to these new semantics even if we fix all of the bugs: ---------------------------------------- Hiding from accept() sockets with only out-of-order data only is the only thing which is impossible with old approach. Is this really so valuable? My opinion: no, this is nothing but a new loophole to consume memory without control. ---------------------------------------- So revert this thing for now. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-29tcp: Reorganize tcp_sock to fill 64-bit holes & improve localityIlpo Järvinen1-25/+25
I tried to group recovery related fields nearby (non-CA_Open related variables, to be more accurate) so that one to three cachelines would not be necessary in CA_Open. These are now contiguously deployed: struct sk_buff_head out_of_order_queue; /* 1968 80 */ /* --- cacheline 32 boundary (2048 bytes) --- */ struct tcp_sack_block duplicate_sack[1]; /* 2048 8 */ struct tcp_sack_block selective_acks[4]; /* 2056 32 */ struct tcp_sack_block recv_sack_cache[4]; /* 2088 32 */ /* --- cacheline 33 boundary (2112 bytes) was 8 bytes ago --- */ struct sk_buff * highest_sack; /* 2120 8 */ int lost_cnt_hint; /* 2128 4 */ int retransmit_cnt_hint; /* 2132 4 */ u32 lost_retrans_low; /* 2136 4 */ u8 reordering; /* 2140 1 */ u8 keepalive_probes; /* 2141 1 */ /* XXX 2 bytes hole, try to pack */ u32 prior_ssthresh; /* 2144 4 */ u32 high_seq; /* 2148 4 */ u32 retrans_stamp; /* 2152 4 */ u32 undo_marker; /* 2156 4 */ int undo_retrans; /* 2160 4 */ u32 total_retrans; /* 2164 4 */ ...and they're then followed by URG slowpath & keepalive related variables. Head of the out_of_order_queue always needed for empty checks, if that's empty (and TCP is in CA_Open), following ~200 bytes (in 64-bit) shouldn't be necessary for anything. If only OFO queue exists but TCP is in CA_Open, selective_acks (and possibly duplicate_sack) are necessary besides the out_of_order_queue but the rest of the block again shouldn't be (ie., the other direction had losses). As the cacheline boundaries depend on many factors in the preceeding stuff, trying to align considering them doesn't make too much sense. Commented one ordering hazard. There are number of low utilized u8/16s that could be combined get 2 bytes less in total so that the hole could be made to vanish (includes at least ecn_flags, urg_data, urg_mode, frto_counter, nonagle). Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-22tcp: Make prior_ssthresh a u32Ilpo Järvinen1-1/+1
If previous window was above representable values of u16, strange things will happen if undo with the truncated value is called for. Alternatively, this could be fixed by some max trickery but that would limit undoing high-speed undos. Adds 16-bit hole but there isn't anything to fill it with. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-22[TCP]: TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT updates - process as establishedPatrick McManus1-0/+7
Change TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT implementation so that it transitions a connection to ESTABLISHED after handshake is complete instead of leaving it in SYN-RECV until some data arrvies. Place connection in accept queue when first data packet arrives from slow path. Benefits: - established connection is now reset if it never makes it to the accept queue - diagnostic state of established matches with the packet traces showing completed handshake - TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT timeouts are expressed in seconds and can now be enforced with reasonable accuracy instead of rounding up to next exponential back-off of syn-ack retry. Signed-off-by: Patrick McManus <mcmanus@ducksong.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-29[TCP]: Rewrite SACK block processing & sack_recv_cache useIlpo Järvinen1-3/+0
Key points of this patch are: - In case new SACK information is advance only type, no skb processing below previously discovered highest point is done - Optimize cases below highest point too since there's no need to always go up to highest point (which is very likely still present in that SACK), this is not entirely true though because I'm dropping the fastpath_skb_hint which could previously optimize those cases even better. Whether that's significant, I'm not too sure. Currently it will provide skipping by walking. Combined with RB-tree, all skipping would become fast too regardless of window size (can be done incrementally later). Previously a number of cases in TCP SACK processing fails to take advantage of costly stored information in sack_recv_cache, most importantly, expected events such as cumulative ACK and new hole ACKs. Processing on such ACKs result in rather long walks building up latencies (which easily gets nasty when window is huge). Those latencies are often completely unnecessary compared with the amount of _new_ information received, usually for cumulative ACK there's no new information at all, yet TCP walks whole queue unnecessary potentially taking a number of costly cache misses on the way, etc.! Since the inclusion of highest_sack, there's a lot information that is very likely redundant (SACK fastpath hint stuff, fackets_out, highest_sack), though there's no ultimate guarantee that they'll remain the same whole the time (in all unearthly scenarios). Take advantage of this knowledge here and drop fastpath hint and use direct access to highest SACKed skb as a replacement. Effectively "special cased" fastpath is dropped. This change adds some complexity to introduce better coveraged "fastpath", though the added complexity should make TCP behave more cache friendly. The current ACK's SACK blocks are compared against each cached block individially and only ranges that are new are then scanned by the high constant walk. For other parts of write queue, even when in previously known part of the SACK blocks, a faster skip function is used (if necessary at all). In addition, whenever possible, TCP fast-forwards to highest_sack skb that was made available by an earlier patch. In typical case, no other things but this fast-forward and mandatory markings after that occur making the access pattern quite similar to the former fastpath "special case". DSACKs are special case that must always be walked. The local to recv_sack_cache copying could be more intelligent w.r.t DSACKs which are likely to be there only once but that is left to a separate patch. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-29[TCP]: Earlier SACK block verification & simplify access to themIlpo Järvinen1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-29[TCP]: Convert highest_sack to sk_buff to allow direct accessIlpo Järvinen1-2/+4
It is going to replace the sack fastpath hint quite soon... :-) Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15[TCP]: Make snd_cwnd_cnt 32-bitIlpo Järvinen1-1/+1
Very little point of having 32-bit snd_cnwd if this is not 32-bit as well, as a number of snd_cwnd incrementation formulas assume that snd_cwnd_cnt can be at least as large as snd_cwnd. Whether 32-bit is useful was discussed when e0ef57cc56c3c96 was made: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=117218144409825&w=2 Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-12[TCP]: Limit processing lost_retrans loop to work-to-do casesIlpo Järvinen1-0/+2
This addition of lost_retrans_low to tcp_sock might be unnecessary, it's not clear how often lost_retrans worker is executed when there wasn't work to do. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-11[TCP]: Comment fastpath_cnt_hint off-by-one trapIlpo Järvinen1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-11[TCP]: Update comment about highest_sack validityIlpo Järvinen1-1/+2
This stale info came from the original idea, which proved to be unnecessarily complex, sacked_out > 0 is easy to do and that when it's going to be needed anyway (it _can_ be valid also when sacked_out == 0 but there's not going to be a guarantee about it for now). Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-11[TCP]: Tighten tcp_sock's belt, drop left_outIlpo Järvinen1-1/+0
It is easily calculable when needed and user are not that many after all. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-11[TCP]: Access to highest_sack obsoletes forward_cnt_hintIlpo Järvinen1-1/+0
In addition, added a reference about the purpose of the loop. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-11[TCP]: Add highest_sack seqno, points to globally highest SACKIlpo Järvinen1-0/+2
It is guaranteed to be valid only when !tp->sacked_out. In most cases this seqno is available in the last ACK but there is no guarantee for that. The new fast recovery loss marking algorithm needs this as entry point. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_transport_header(skb)Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-1/+1
For the places where we need a pointer to the transport header, it is still legal to touch skb->h.raw directly if just adding to, subtracting from or setting it to another layer header. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26[SK_BUFF]: Introduce tcp_hdr(), remove skb->h.thArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-2/+7
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26[TCP]: Introduce tcp_hdrlen() and tcp_optlen()Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-0/+10
The ip_hdrlen() buddy, created to reduce the number of skb->h.th-> uses and to avoid the longer, open coded equivalent. Ditched a no-op in bnx2 in the process. I wonder if we should have a BUG_ON(skb->h.th->doff < 5) in tcp_optlen()... Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>