linux/net/ipv4/tcp_westwood.c
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   1/*
   2 * TCP Westwood+: end-to-end bandwidth estimation for TCP
   3 *
   4 *      Angelo Dell'Aera: author of the first version of TCP Westwood+ in Linux 2.4
   5 *
   6 * Support at http://c3lab.poliba.it/index.php/Westwood
   7 * Main references in literature:
   8 *
   9 * - Mascolo S, Casetti, M. Gerla et al.
  10 *   "TCP Westwood: bandwidth estimation for TCP" Proc. ACM Mobicom 2001
  11 *
  12 * - A. Grieco, s. Mascolo
  13 *   "Performance evaluation of New Reno, Vegas, Westwood+ TCP" ACM Computer
  14 *     Comm. Review, 2004
  15 *
  16 * - A. Dell'Aera, L. Grieco, S. Mascolo.
  17 *   "Linux 2.4 Implementation of Westwood+ TCP with Rate-Halving :
  18 *    A Performance Evaluation Over the Internet" (ICC 2004), Paris, June 2004
  19 *
  20 * Westwood+ employs end-to-end bandwidth measurement to set cwnd and
  21 * ssthresh after packet loss. The probing phase is as the original Reno.
  22 */
  23
  24#include <linux/mm.h>
  25#include <linux/module.h>
  26#include <linux/skbuff.h>
  27#include <linux/inet_diag.h>
  28#include <net/tcp.h>
  29
  30/* TCP Westwood structure */
  31struct westwood {
  32        u32    bw_ns_est;        /* first bandwidth estimation..not too smoothed 8) */
  33        u32    bw_est;           /* bandwidth estimate */
  34        u32    rtt_win_sx;       /* here starts a new evaluation... */
  35        u32    bk;
  36        u32    snd_una;          /* used for evaluating the number of acked bytes */
  37        u32    cumul_ack;
  38        u32    accounted;
  39        u32    rtt;
  40        u32    rtt_min;          /* minimum observed RTT */
  41        u8     first_ack;        /* flag which infers that this is the first ack */
  42        u8     reset_rtt_min;    /* Reset RTT min to next RTT sample*/
  43};
  44
  45/* TCP Westwood functions and constants */
  46#define TCP_WESTWOOD_RTT_MIN   (HZ/20)  /* 50ms */
  47#define TCP_WESTWOOD_INIT_RTT  (20*HZ)  /* maybe too conservative?! */
  48
  49/*
  50 * @tcp_westwood_create
  51 * This function initializes fields used in TCP Westwood+,
  52 * it is called after the initial SYN, so the sequence numbers
  53 * are correct but new passive connections we have no
  54 * information about RTTmin at this time so we simply set it to
  55 * TCP_WESTWOOD_INIT_RTT. This value was chosen to be too conservative
  56 * since in this way we're sure it will be updated in a consistent
  57 * way as soon as possible. It will reasonably happen within the first
  58 * RTT period of the connection lifetime.
  59 */
  60static void tcp_westwood_init(struct sock *sk)
  61{
  62        struct westwood *w = inet_csk_ca(sk);
  63
  64        w->bk = 0;
  65        w->bw_ns_est = 0;
  66        w->bw_est = 0;
  67        w->accounted = 0;
  68        w->cumul_ack = 0;
  69        w->reset_rtt_min = 1;
  70        w->rtt_min = w->rtt = TCP_WESTWOOD_INIT_RTT;
  71        w->rtt_win_sx = tcp_time_stamp;
  72        w->snd_una = tcp_sk(sk)->snd_una;
  73        w->first_ack = 1;
  74}
  75
  76/*
  77 * @westwood_do_filter
  78 * Low-pass filter. Implemented using constant coefficients.
  79 */
  80static inline u32 westwood_do_filter(u32 a, u32 b)
  81{
  82        return ((7 * a) + b) >> 3;
  83}
  84
  85static void westwood_filter(struct westwood *w, u32 delta)
  86{
  87        /* If the filter is empty fill it with the first sample of bandwidth  */
  88        if (w->bw_ns_est == 0 && w->bw_est == 0) {
  89                w->bw_ns_est = w->bk / delta;
  90                w->bw_est = w->bw_ns_est;
  91        } else {
  92                w->bw_ns_est = westwood_do_filter(w->bw_ns_est, w->bk / delta);
  93                w->bw_est = westwood_do_filter(w->bw_est, w->bw_ns_est);
  94        }
  95}
  96
  97/*
  98 * @westwood_pkts_acked
  99 * Called after processing group of packets.
 100 * but all westwood needs is the last sample of srtt.
 101 */
 102static void tcp_westwood_pkts_acked(struct sock *sk, u32 cnt, s32 rtt)
 103{
 104        struct westwood *w = inet_csk_ca(sk);
 105
 106        if (rtt > 0)
 107                w->rtt = usecs_to_jiffies(rtt);
 108}
 109
 110/*
 111 * @westwood_update_window
 112 * It updates RTT evaluation window if it is the right moment to do
 113 * it. If so it calls filter for evaluating bandwidth.
 114 */
 115static void westwood_update_window(struct sock *sk)
 116{
 117        struct westwood *w = inet_csk_ca(sk);
 118        s32 delta = tcp_time_stamp - w->rtt_win_sx;
 119
 120        /* Initialize w->snd_una with the first acked sequence number in order
 121         * to fix mismatch between tp->snd_una and w->snd_una for the first
 122         * bandwidth sample
 123         */
 124        if (w->first_ack) {
 125                w->snd_una = tcp_sk(sk)->snd_una;
 126                w->first_ack = 0;
 127        }
 128
 129        /*
 130         * See if a RTT-window has passed.
 131         * Be careful since if RTT is less than
 132         * 50ms we don't filter but we continue 'building the sample'.
 133         * This minimum limit was chosen since an estimation on small
 134         * time intervals is better to avoid...
 135         * Obviously on a LAN we reasonably will always have
 136         * right_bound = left_bound + WESTWOOD_RTT_MIN
 137         */
 138        if (w->rtt && delta > max_t(u32, w->rtt, TCP_WESTWOOD_RTT_MIN)) {
 139                westwood_filter(w, delta);
 140
 141                w->bk = 0;
 142                w->rtt_win_sx = tcp_time_stamp;
 143        }
 144}
 145
 146static inline void update_rtt_min(struct westwood *w)
 147{
 148        if (w->reset_rtt_min) {
 149                w->rtt_min = w->rtt;
 150                w->reset_rtt_min = 0;
 151        } else
 152                w->rtt_min = min(w->rtt, w->rtt_min);
 153}
 154
 155/*
 156 * @westwood_fast_bw
 157 * It is called when we are in fast path. In particular it is called when
 158 * header prediction is successful. In such case in fact update is
 159 * straight forward and doesn't need any particular care.
 160 */
 161static inline void westwood_fast_bw(struct sock *sk)
 162{
 163        const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 164        struct westwood *w = inet_csk_ca(sk);
 165
 166        westwood_update_window(sk);
 167
 168        w->bk += tp->snd_una - w->snd_una;
 169        w->snd_una = tp->snd_una;
 170        update_rtt_min(w);
 171}
 172
 173/*
 174 * @westwood_acked_count
 175 * This function evaluates cumul_ack for evaluating bk in case of
 176 * delayed or partial acks.
 177 */
 178static inline u32 westwood_acked_count(struct sock *sk)
 179{
 180        const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 181        struct westwood *w = inet_csk_ca(sk);
 182
 183        w->cumul_ack = tp->snd_una - w->snd_una;
 184
 185        /* If cumul_ack is 0 this is a dupack since it's not moving
 186         * tp->snd_una.
 187         */
 188        if (!w->cumul_ack) {
 189                w->accounted += tp->mss_cache;
 190                w->cumul_ack = tp->mss_cache;
 191        }
 192
 193        if (w->cumul_ack > tp->mss_cache) {
 194                /* Partial or delayed ack */
 195                if (w->accounted >= w->cumul_ack) {
 196                        w->accounted -= w->cumul_ack;
 197                        w->cumul_ack = tp->mss_cache;
 198                } else {
 199                        w->cumul_ack -= w->accounted;
 200                        w->accounted = 0;
 201                }
 202        }
 203
 204        w->snd_una = tp->snd_una;
 205
 206        return w->cumul_ack;
 207}
 208
 209/*
 210 * TCP Westwood
 211 * Here limit is evaluated as Bw estimation*RTTmin (for obtaining it
 212 * in packets we use mss_cache). Rttmin is guaranteed to be >= 2
 213 * so avoids ever returning 0.
 214 */
 215static u32 tcp_westwood_bw_rttmin(const struct sock *sk)
 216{
 217        const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 218        const struct westwood *w = inet_csk_ca(sk);
 219
 220        return max_t(u32, (w->bw_est * w->rtt_min) / tp->mss_cache, 2);
 221}
 222
 223static void tcp_westwood_ack(struct sock *sk, u32 ack_flags)
 224{
 225        if (ack_flags & CA_ACK_SLOWPATH) {
 226                struct westwood *w = inet_csk_ca(sk);
 227
 228                westwood_update_window(sk);
 229                w->bk += westwood_acked_count(sk);
 230
 231                update_rtt_min(w);
 232                return;
 233        }
 234
 235        westwood_fast_bw(sk);
 236}
 237
 238static void tcp_westwood_event(struct sock *sk, enum tcp_ca_event event)
 239{
 240        struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 241        struct westwood *w = inet_csk_ca(sk);
 242
 243        switch (event) {
 244        case CA_EVENT_COMPLETE_CWR:
 245                tp->snd_cwnd = tp->snd_ssthresh = tcp_westwood_bw_rttmin(sk);
 246                break;
 247        case CA_EVENT_LOSS:
 248                tp->snd_ssthresh = tcp_westwood_bw_rttmin(sk);
 249                /* Update RTT_min when next ack arrives */
 250                w->reset_rtt_min = 1;
 251                break;
 252        default:
 253                /* don't care */
 254                break;
 255        }
 256}
 257
 258/* Extract info for Tcp socket info provided via netlink. */
 259static size_t tcp_westwood_info(struct sock *sk, u32 ext, int *attr,
 260                                union tcp_cc_info *info)
 261{
 262        const struct westwood *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
 263
 264        if (ext & (1 << (INET_DIAG_VEGASINFO - 1))) {
 265                info->vegas.tcpv_enabled = 1;
 266                info->vegas.tcpv_rttcnt = 0;
 267                info->vegas.tcpv_rtt    = jiffies_to_usecs(ca->rtt),
 268                info->vegas.tcpv_minrtt = jiffies_to_usecs(ca->rtt_min),
 269
 270                *attr = INET_DIAG_VEGASINFO;
 271                return sizeof(struct tcpvegas_info);
 272        }
 273        return 0;
 274}
 275
 276static struct tcp_congestion_ops tcp_westwood __read_mostly = {
 277        .init           = tcp_westwood_init,
 278        .ssthresh       = tcp_reno_ssthresh,
 279        .cong_avoid     = tcp_reno_cong_avoid,
 280        .cwnd_event     = tcp_westwood_event,
 281        .in_ack_event   = tcp_westwood_ack,
 282        .get_info       = tcp_westwood_info,
 283        .pkts_acked     = tcp_westwood_pkts_acked,
 284
 285        .owner          = THIS_MODULE,
 286        .name           = "westwood"
 287};
 288
 289static int __init tcp_westwood_register(void)
 290{
 291        BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct westwood) > ICSK_CA_PRIV_SIZE);
 292        return tcp_register_congestion_control(&tcp_westwood);
 293}
 294
 295static void __exit tcp_westwood_unregister(void)
 296{
 297        tcp_unregister_congestion_control(&tcp_westwood);
 298}
 299
 300module_init(tcp_westwood_register);
 301module_exit(tcp_westwood_unregister);
 302
 303MODULE_AUTHOR("Stephen Hemminger, Angelo Dell'Aera");
 304MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 305MODULE_DESCRIPTION("TCP Westwood+");
 306