linux/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas.c
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   1/*
   2 * TCP Vegas congestion control
   3 *
   4 * This is based on the congestion detection/avoidance scheme described in
   5 *    Lawrence S. Brakmo and Larry L. Peterson.
   6 *    "TCP Vegas: End to end congestion avoidance on a global internet."
   7 *    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, 13(8):1465--1480,
   8 *    October 1995. Available from:
   9 *      ftp://ftp.cs.arizona.edu/xkernel/Papers/jsac.ps
  10 *
  11 * See http://www.cs.arizona.edu/xkernel/ for their implementation.
  12 * The main aspects that distinguish this implementation from the
  13 * Arizona Vegas implementation are:
  14 *   o We do not change the loss detection or recovery mechanisms of
  15 *     Linux in any way. Linux already recovers from losses quite well,
  16 *     using fine-grained timers, NewReno, and FACK.
  17 *   o To avoid the performance penalty imposed by increasing cwnd
  18 *     only every-other RTT during slow start, we increase during
  19 *     every RTT during slow start, just like Reno.
  20 *   o Largely to allow continuous cwnd growth during slow start,
  21 *     we use the rate at which ACKs come back as the "actual"
  22 *     rate, rather than the rate at which data is sent.
  23 *   o To speed convergence to the right rate, we set the cwnd
  24 *     to achieve the right ("actual") rate when we exit slow start.
  25 *   o To filter out the noise caused by delayed ACKs, we use the
  26 *     minimum RTT sample observed during the last RTT to calculate
  27 *     the actual rate.
  28 *   o When the sender re-starts from idle, it waits until it has
  29 *     received ACKs for an entire flight of new data before making
  30 *     a cwnd adjustment decision. The original Vegas implementation
  31 *     assumed senders never went idle.
  32 */
  33
  34#include <linux/mm.h>
  35#include <linux/module.h>
  36#include <linux/skbuff.h>
  37#include <linux/inet_diag.h>
  38
  39#include <net/tcp.h>
  40
  41#include "tcp_vegas.h"
  42
  43/* Default values of the Vegas variables, in fixed-point representation
  44 * with V_PARAM_SHIFT bits to the right of the binary point.
  45 */
  46#define V_PARAM_SHIFT 1
  47static int alpha = 2<<V_PARAM_SHIFT;
  48static int beta  = 4<<V_PARAM_SHIFT;
  49static int gamma = 1<<V_PARAM_SHIFT;
  50
  51module_param(alpha, int, 0644);
  52MODULE_PARM_DESC(alpha, "lower bound of packets in network (scale by 2)");
  53module_param(beta, int, 0644);
  54MODULE_PARM_DESC(beta, "upper bound of packets in network (scale by 2)");
  55module_param(gamma, int, 0644);
  56MODULE_PARM_DESC(gamma, "limit on increase (scale by 2)");
  57
  58
  59/* There are several situations when we must "re-start" Vegas:
  60 *
  61 *  o when a connection is established
  62 *  o after an RTO
  63 *  o after fast recovery
  64 *  o when we send a packet and there is no outstanding
  65 *    unacknowledged data (restarting an idle connection)
  66 *
  67 * In these circumstances we cannot do a Vegas calculation at the
  68 * end of the first RTT, because any calculation we do is using
  69 * stale info -- both the saved cwnd and congestion feedback are
  70 * stale.
  71 *
  72 * Instead we must wait until the completion of an RTT during
  73 * which we actually receive ACKs.
  74 */
  75static void vegas_enable(struct sock *sk)
  76{
  77        const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
  78        struct vegas *vegas = inet_csk_ca(sk);
  79
  80        /* Begin taking Vegas samples next time we send something. */
  81        vegas->doing_vegas_now = 1;
  82
  83        /* Set the beginning of the next send window. */
  84        vegas->beg_snd_nxt = tp->snd_nxt;
  85
  86        vegas->cntRTT = 0;
  87        vegas->minRTT = 0x7fffffff;
  88}
  89
  90/* Stop taking Vegas samples for now. */
  91static inline void vegas_disable(struct sock *sk)
  92{
  93        struct vegas *vegas = inet_csk_ca(sk);
  94
  95        vegas->doing_vegas_now = 0;
  96}
  97
  98void tcp_vegas_init(struct sock *sk)
  99{
 100        struct vegas *vegas = inet_csk_ca(sk);
 101
 102        vegas->baseRTT = 0x7fffffff;
 103        vegas_enable(sk);
 104}
 105EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tcp_vegas_init);
 106
 107/* Do RTT sampling needed for Vegas.
 108 * Basically we:
 109 *   o min-filter RTT samples from within an RTT to get the current
 110 *     propagation delay + queuing delay (we are min-filtering to try to
 111 *     avoid the effects of delayed ACKs)
 112 *   o min-filter RTT samples from a much longer window (forever for now)
 113 *     to find the propagation delay (baseRTT)
 114 */
 115void tcp_vegas_pkts_acked(struct sock *sk, u32 cnt, s32 rtt_us)
 116{
 117        struct vegas *vegas = inet_csk_ca(sk);
 118        u32 vrtt;
 119
 120        if (rtt_us < 0)
 121                return;
 122
 123        /* Never allow zero rtt or baseRTT */
 124        vrtt = rtt_us + 1;
 125
 126        /* Filter to find propagation delay: */
 127        if (vrtt < vegas->baseRTT)
 128                vegas->baseRTT = vrtt;
 129
 130        /* Find the min RTT during the last RTT to find
 131         * the current prop. delay + queuing delay:
 132         */
 133        vegas->minRTT = min(vegas->minRTT, vrtt);
 134        vegas->cntRTT++;
 135}
 136EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tcp_vegas_pkts_acked);
 137
 138void tcp_vegas_state(struct sock *sk, u8 ca_state)
 139{
 140
 141        if (ca_state == TCP_CA_Open)
 142                vegas_enable(sk);
 143        else
 144                vegas_disable(sk);
 145}
 146EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tcp_vegas_state);
 147
 148/*
 149 * If the connection is idle and we are restarting,
 150 * then we don't want to do any Vegas calculations
 151 * until we get fresh RTT samples.  So when we
 152 * restart, we reset our Vegas state to a clean
 153 * slate. After we get acks for this flight of
 154 * packets, _then_ we can make Vegas calculations
 155 * again.
 156 */
 157void tcp_vegas_cwnd_event(struct sock *sk, enum tcp_ca_event event)
 158{
 159        if (event == CA_EVENT_CWND_RESTART ||
 160            event == CA_EVENT_TX_START)
 161                tcp_vegas_init(sk);
 162}
 163EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tcp_vegas_cwnd_event);
 164
 165static void tcp_vegas_cong_avoid(struct sock *sk, u32 ack,
 166                                 u32 in_flight, int flag)
 167{
 168        struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 169        struct vegas *vegas = inet_csk_ca(sk);
 170
 171        if (!vegas->doing_vegas_now)
 172                return tcp_reno_cong_avoid(sk, ack, in_flight, flag);
 173
 174        /* The key players are v_beg_snd_una and v_beg_snd_nxt.
 175         *
 176         * These are so named because they represent the approximate values
 177         * of snd_una and snd_nxt at the beginning of the current RTT. More
 178         * precisely, they represent the amount of data sent during the RTT.
 179         * At the end of the RTT, when we receive an ACK for v_beg_snd_nxt,
 180         * we will calculate that (v_beg_snd_nxt - v_beg_snd_una) outstanding
 181         * bytes of data have been ACKed during the course of the RTT, giving
 182         * an "actual" rate of:
 183         *
 184         *     (v_beg_snd_nxt - v_beg_snd_una) / (rtt duration)
 185         *
 186         * Unfortunately, v_beg_snd_una is not exactly equal to snd_una,
 187         * because delayed ACKs can cover more than one segment, so they
 188         * don't line up nicely with the boundaries of RTTs.
 189         *
 190         * Another unfortunate fact of life is that delayed ACKs delay the
 191         * advance of the left edge of our send window, so that the number
 192         * of bytes we send in an RTT is often less than our cwnd will allow.
 193         * So we keep track of our cwnd separately, in v_beg_snd_cwnd.
 194         */
 195
 196        if (after(ack, vegas->beg_snd_nxt)) {
 197                /* Do the Vegas once-per-RTT cwnd adjustment. */
 198                u32 old_wnd, old_snd_cwnd;
 199
 200
 201                /* Here old_wnd is essentially the window of data that was
 202                 * sent during the previous RTT, and has all
 203                 * been acknowledged in the course of the RTT that ended
 204                 * with the ACK we just received. Likewise, old_snd_cwnd
 205                 * is the cwnd during the previous RTT.
 206                 */
 207                old_wnd = (vegas->beg_snd_nxt - vegas->beg_snd_una) /
 208                        tp->mss_cache;
 209                old_snd_cwnd = vegas->beg_snd_cwnd;
 210
 211                /* Save the extent of the current window so we can use this
 212                 * at the end of the next RTT.
 213                 */
 214                vegas->beg_snd_una  = vegas->beg_snd_nxt;
 215                vegas->beg_snd_nxt  = tp->snd_nxt;
 216                vegas->beg_snd_cwnd = tp->snd_cwnd;
 217
 218                /* We do the Vegas calculations only if we got enough RTT
 219                 * samples that we can be reasonably sure that we got
 220                 * at least one RTT sample that wasn't from a delayed ACK.
 221                 * If we only had 2 samples total,
 222                 * then that means we're getting only 1 ACK per RTT, which
 223                 * means they're almost certainly delayed ACKs.
 224                 * If  we have 3 samples, we should be OK.
 225                 */
 226
 227                if (vegas->cntRTT <= 2) {
 228                        /* We don't have enough RTT samples to do the Vegas
 229                         * calculation, so we'll behave like Reno.
 230                         */
 231                        tcp_reno_cong_avoid(sk, ack, in_flight, flag);
 232                } else {
 233                        u32 rtt, target_cwnd, diff;
 234
 235                        /* We have enough RTT samples, so, using the Vegas
 236                         * algorithm, we determine if we should increase or
 237                         * decrease cwnd, and by how much.
 238                         */
 239
 240                        /* Pluck out the RTT we are using for the Vegas
 241                         * calculations. This is the min RTT seen during the
 242                         * last RTT. Taking the min filters out the effects
 243                         * of delayed ACKs, at the cost of noticing congestion
 244                         * a bit later.
 245                         */
 246                        rtt = vegas->minRTT;
 247
 248                        /* Calculate the cwnd we should have, if we weren't
 249                         * going too fast.
 250                         *
 251                         * This is:
 252                         *     (actual rate in segments) * baseRTT
 253                         * We keep it as a fixed point number with
 254                         * V_PARAM_SHIFT bits to the right of the binary point.
 255                         */
 256                        target_cwnd = ((old_wnd * vegas->baseRTT)
 257                                       << V_PARAM_SHIFT) / rtt;
 258
 259                        /* Calculate the difference between the window we had,
 260                         * and the window we would like to have. This quantity
 261                         * is the "Diff" from the Arizona Vegas papers.
 262                         *
 263                         * Again, this is a fixed point number with
 264                         * V_PARAM_SHIFT bits to the right of the binary
 265                         * point.
 266                         */
 267                        diff = (old_wnd << V_PARAM_SHIFT) - target_cwnd;
 268
 269                        if (diff > gamma && tp->snd_ssthresh > 2 ) {
 270                                /* Going too fast. Time to slow down
 271                                 * and switch to congestion avoidance.
 272                                 */
 273                                tp->snd_ssthresh = 2;
 274
 275                                /* Set cwnd to match the actual rate
 276                                 * exactly:
 277                                 *   cwnd = (actual rate) * baseRTT
 278                                 * Then we add 1 because the integer
 279                                 * truncation robs us of full link
 280                                 * utilization.
 281                                 */
 282                                tp->snd_cwnd = min(tp->snd_cwnd,
 283                                                   (target_cwnd >>
 284                                                    V_PARAM_SHIFT)+1);
 285
 286                        } else if (tp->snd_cwnd <= tp->snd_ssthresh) {
 287                                /* Slow start.  */
 288                                tcp_slow_start(tp);
 289                        } else {
 290                                /* Congestion avoidance. */
 291                                u32 next_snd_cwnd;
 292
 293                                /* Figure out where we would like cwnd
 294                                 * to be.
 295                                 */
 296                                if (diff > beta) {
 297                                        /* The old window was too fast, so
 298                                         * we slow down.
 299                                         */
 300                                        next_snd_cwnd = old_snd_cwnd - 1;
 301                                } else if (diff < alpha) {
 302                                        /* We don't have enough extra packets
 303                                         * in the network, so speed up.
 304                                         */
 305                                        next_snd_cwnd = old_snd_cwnd + 1;
 306                                } else {
 307                                        /* Sending just as fast as we
 308                                         * should be.
 309                                         */
 310                                        next_snd_cwnd = old_snd_cwnd;
 311                                }
 312
 313                                /* Adjust cwnd upward or downward, toward the
 314                                 * desired value.
 315                                 */
 316                                if (next_snd_cwnd > tp->snd_cwnd)
 317                                        tp->snd_cwnd++;
 318                                else if (next_snd_cwnd < tp->snd_cwnd)
 319                                        tp->snd_cwnd--;
 320                        }
 321
 322                        if (tp->snd_cwnd < 2)
 323                                tp->snd_cwnd = 2;
 324                        else if (tp->snd_cwnd > tp->snd_cwnd_clamp)
 325                                tp->snd_cwnd = tp->snd_cwnd_clamp;
 326                }
 327
 328                /* Wipe the slate clean for the next RTT. */
 329                vegas->cntRTT = 0;
 330                vegas->minRTT = 0x7fffffff;
 331        }
 332        /* Use normal slow start */
 333        else if (tp->snd_cwnd <= tp->snd_ssthresh)
 334                tcp_slow_start(tp);
 335
 336}
 337
 338/* Extract info for Tcp socket info provided via netlink. */
 339void tcp_vegas_get_info(struct sock *sk, u32 ext, struct sk_buff *skb)
 340{
 341        const struct vegas *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
 342        if (ext & (1 << (INET_DIAG_VEGASINFO - 1))) {
 343                struct tcpvegas_info info = {
 344                        .tcpv_enabled = ca->doing_vegas_now,
 345                        .tcpv_rttcnt = ca->cntRTT,
 346                        .tcpv_rtt = ca->baseRTT,
 347                        .tcpv_minrtt = ca->minRTT,
 348                };
 349
 350                nla_put(skb, INET_DIAG_VEGASINFO, sizeof(info), &info);
 351        }
 352}
 353EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tcp_vegas_get_info);
 354
 355static struct tcp_congestion_ops tcp_vegas = {
 356        .flags          = TCP_CONG_RTT_STAMP,
 357        .init           = tcp_vegas_init,
 358        .ssthresh       = tcp_reno_ssthresh,
 359        .cong_avoid     = tcp_vegas_cong_avoid,
 360        .min_cwnd       = tcp_reno_min_cwnd,
 361        .pkts_acked     = tcp_vegas_pkts_acked,
 362        .set_state      = tcp_vegas_state,
 363        .cwnd_event     = tcp_vegas_cwnd_event,
 364        .get_info       = tcp_vegas_get_info,
 365
 366        .owner          = THIS_MODULE,
 367        .name           = "vegas",
 368};
 369
 370static int __init tcp_vegas_register(void)
 371{
 372        BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct vegas) > ICSK_CA_PRIV_SIZE);
 373        tcp_register_congestion_control(&tcp_vegas);
 374        return 0;
 375}
 376
 377static void __exit tcp_vegas_unregister(void)
 378{
 379        tcp_unregister_congestion_control(&tcp_vegas);
 380}
 381
 382module_init(tcp_vegas_register);
 383module_exit(tcp_vegas_unregister);
 384
 385MODULE_AUTHOR("Stephen Hemminger");
 386MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 387MODULE_DESCRIPTION("TCP Vegas");
 388