tcp: introduce a per-route knob for quick ack
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PATCH v3 1/1 tcp: introduce a per-route knob for quick ack
From: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
In previous discussions, I tried to find some reasonable heuristics for delayed ACK, however this seems not possible, according to Eric:
"ACKS might also be delayed because of bidirectional traffic, and is more controlled by the application response time. TCP stack can not easily estimate it."
"ACK can be incredibly useful to recover from losses in a short time.
The vast majority of TCP sessions are small lived, and we send one ACK per received segment anyway at beginning or retransmits to let the sender smoothly increase its cwnd, so an auto-tuning facility wont help them that much."
and according to David:
"ACKs are the only information we have to detect loss.
And, for the same reasons that TCP VEGAS is fundamentally broken, we cannot measure the pipe or some other receiver-side-visible piece of information to determine when it's "safe" to stretch ACK.
And even if it's "safe", we should not do it so that losses are accurately detected and we don't spuriously retransmit.
The only way to know when the bandwidth increases is to "test" it, by sending more and more packets until drops happen. That's why all successful congestion control algorithms must operate on explicited tested pieces of information.
Similarly, it's not really possible to universally know if it's safe to stretch ACK or not."
It still makes sense to enable or disable quick ack mode like what TCP_QUICK_ACK does.
Similar to TCP_QUICK_ACK option, but for people who can't modify the source code and still wants to control
TCP delayed ACK behavior. As David suggested, this should belong to per-path scope, since different pathes may want different behaviors.
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v3: check return value of __sk_dst_get()
v2: improve changelog
include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h | 2 ++ net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 5 ++++- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 6 ++++-- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h +2 -0
@@ -386,6 +386,8 @@ enum {#define RTAX_RTO_MIN RTAX_RTO_MIN RTAX_INITRWND,#define RTAX_INITRWND RTAX_INITRWND + RTAX_QUICKACK, +#define RTAX_QUICKACK RTAX_QUICKACK __RTAX_MAX };
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +4 -1
@@ -3717,6 +3717,7 @@ void tcp_reset(struct sock *sk)static void tcp_fin (struct sock *sk) {struct tcp_sock *tp =tcp_sk (sk); +const struct dst_entry *dst;inet_csk_schedule_ack (sk);
@@ -3728,7 +3729,9 @@ static void tcp_fin(struct sock *sk)case TCP_ESTABLISHED :/* Move to CLOSE_WAIT */ tcp_set_state (sk,TCP_CLOSE_WAIT ); -inet_csk (sk)->icsk_ack.pingpong =1 ; + dst =__sk_dst_get (sk); +if (!dst || !dst_metric (dst,RTAX_QUICKACK )) +inet_csk (sk)->icsk_ack.pingpong =1 ;break ;case TCP_CLOSE_WAIT :
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +4 -2
@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ static void tcp_event_data_sent(struct tcp_sock *tp, {struct inet_connection_sock *icsk =inet_csk (sk);const u32 now = tcp_time_stamp; +const struct dst_entry *dst =__sk_dst_get (sk);if (sysctl_tcp_slow_start_after_idle && (!tp->packets_out && (s32)(now - tp->lsndtime) > icsk->icsk_rto))
@@ -170,8 +171,9 @@ static void tcp_event_data_sent(struct tcp_sock *tp,/* If it is a reply for ato after last received * packet, enter pingpong mode. */ -if ((u32)(now - icsk->icsk_ack.lrcvtime) < icsk->icsk_ack.ato) - icsk->icsk_ack.pingpong =1 ; +if ((u32)(now - icsk->icsk_ack.lrcvtime) < icsk->icsk_ack.ato && + (!dst || !dst_metric (dst,RTAX_QUICKACK ))) + icsk->icsk_ack.pingpong =1 ; }/* Account for an ACK we sent. */
PATCH 1/1 add quickack option to ip route
From: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
This patch adds quickack option to enable/disable TCP quick ack mode for per-route.
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include/linux/rtnetlink.h +2 -0
@@ -386,6 +386,8 @@ enum {#define RTAX_RTO_MIN RTAX_RTO_MIN RTAX_INITRWND,#define RTAX_INITRWND RTAX_INITRWND + RTAX_QUICKACK, +#define RTAX_QUICKACK RTAX_QUICKACK __RTAX_MAX };
ip/iproute.c +11 -0
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ static const char *mx_names[RTAX_MAX+1] = { [RTAX_FEATURES] = "features", [RTAX_RTO_MIN] = "rto_min", [RTAX_INITRWND] = "initrwnd", + [RTAX_QUICKACK] = "quickack", };static void usage (void ) __attribute__((noreturn));
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@ static void usage(void)fprintf (stderr," [ window NUMBER] [ cwnd NUMBER ] [ initcwnd NUMBER ]\n" );fprintf (stderr," [ ssthresh NUMBER ] [ realms REALM ] [ src ADDRESS ]\n" );fprintf (stderr," [ rto_min TIME ] [ hoplimit NUMBER ] [ initrwnd NUMBER ]\n" ); +fprintf (stderr," [ quickack BOOL ]\n" );fprintf (stderr,"TYPE := [ unicast | local | broadcast | multicast | throw |\n" );fprintf (stderr," unreachable | prohibit | blackhole | nat ]\n" );fprintf (stderr,"TABLE_ID := [ local | main | default | all | NUMBER ]\n" );
@@ -86,6 +88,7 @@ static void usage(void)fprintf (stderr,"NHFLAGS := [ onlink | pervasive ]\n" );fprintf (stderr,"RTPROTO := [ kernel | boot | static | NUMBER ]\n" );fprintf (stderr,"TIME := NUMBER[s|ms]\n" ); +fprintf (stderr,"BOOL := [1|0]\n" );exit (-1 ); }
@@ -885,6 +888,14 @@ static int iproute_modify(int cmd, unsigned flags, int argc, char **argv)if (get_unsigned (&win, *argv,0 ))invarg ("\"initrwnd\" value is invalid\n" , *argv);rta_addattr32 (mxrta,sizeof (mxbuf),RTAX_INITRWND , win); + }else if (matches (*argv,"quickack" ) ==0 ) { +unsigned quickack; +NEXT_ARG (); +if (get_unsigned (&quickack, *argv,0 )) +invarg ("\"quickack\" value is invalid\n" , *argv); +if (quickack !=1 && quickack !=0 ) +invarg ("\"quickack\" value should be 0 or 1\n" , *argv); +rta_addattr32 (mxrta,sizeof (mxbuf),RTAX_QUICKACK , quickack); }else if (matches (*argv,"rttvar" ) ==0 ) {unsigned win;NEXT_ARG ();
man/man8/ip-route.8.in +6 -0
@@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ replace " } " .IR NUMBER " ] [ " .B initrwnd .IR NUMBER " ]" +.B quickack +.IR BOOL " ]" .ti -8 .IR TYPE " := [ "
@@ -401,6 +403,10 @@ Actual window size is this value multiplied by the MSS of the connection. The default value is zero, meaning to use Slow Start value. .TP +.BI quickack " BOOL " "(3.11+ only)" +Enable or disable quick ack for connections to this destination. + +.TP .BI advmss " NUMBER " "(2.3.15+ only)" the MSS ('Maximal Segment Size') to advertise to these destinations when establishing TCP connections. If it is not given,
Re: [Patch iproute2] add quickack option to ip route
Quoted 10 lines · On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 09:39:19 +0800 Cong Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
This patch adds quickack option to enable/disable TCP quick ack mode for per-route.
Cc Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>Cc "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>Cc Thomas Graf <[email protected]>Signed-off-by Cong Wang <[email protected]>
I am still waiting until RTAX_QUICKACK is accepted into net-next to apply to net-next-3.10 branch of iproute
Re: [Patch iproute2] add quickack option to ip route
Quoted 8 lines · Stephen Hemminger
Quoted 5 lines · On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 09:39:19 +0800 Cong Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
This patch adds quickack option to enable/disable TCP quick ack mode for per-route.
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Cc Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>Cc "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>Cc Thomas Graf <[email protected]>Signed-off-by Cong Wang <[email protected]>I am still waiting until
RTAX_QUICKACKis accepted into net-next to apply to net-next-3.10 branch of iproute
The kernel patch was already merged into Linus tree, so could you apply it now? Do I need to resend it?
Thanks!
From: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 09:39:18 +0800
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From: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
In previous discussions, I tried to find some reasonable heuristics for delayed ACK, however this seems not possible, according to Eric:
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and according to David:
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It still makes sense to enable or disable quick ack mode like what
TCP_QUICK_ACKdoes.Similar to
TCP_QUICK_ACKoption, but for people who can't modify the source code and still wants to control
TCP delayed ACK behavior. As David suggested, this should belong to per-path scope, since different pathes may want different behaviors.Signed-off-by Cong Wang <[email protected]>
Applied.