linux/net/ipv4/tcp_rate.c
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   1#include <net/tcp.h>
   2
   3/* The bandwidth estimator estimates the rate at which the network
   4 * can currently deliver outbound data packets for this flow. At a high
   5 * level, it operates by taking a delivery rate sample for each ACK.
   6 *
   7 * A rate sample records the rate at which the network delivered packets
   8 * for this flow, calculated over the time interval between the transmission
   9 * of a data packet and the acknowledgment of that packet.
  10 *
  11 * Specifically, over the interval between each transmit and corresponding ACK,
  12 * the estimator generates a delivery rate sample. Typically it uses the rate
  13 * at which packets were acknowledged. However, the approach of using only the
  14 * acknowledgment rate faces a challenge under the prevalent ACK decimation or
  15 * compression: packets can temporarily appear to be delivered much quicker
  16 * than the bottleneck rate. Since it is physically impossible to do that in a
  17 * sustained fashion, when the estimator notices that the ACK rate is faster
  18 * than the transmit rate, it uses the latter:
  19 *
  20 *    send_rate = #pkts_delivered/(last_snd_time - first_snd_time)
  21 *    ack_rate  = #pkts_delivered/(last_ack_time - first_ack_time)
  22 *    bw = min(send_rate, ack_rate)
  23 *
  24 * Notice the estimator essentially estimates the goodput, not always the
  25 * network bottleneck link rate when the sending or receiving is limited by
  26 * other factors like applications or receiver window limits.  The estimator
  27 * deliberately avoids using the inter-packet spacing approach because that
  28 * approach requires a large number of samples and sophisticated filtering.
  29 *
  30 * TCP flows can often be application-limited in request/response workloads.
  31 * The estimator marks a bandwidth sample as application-limited if there
  32 * was some moment during the sampled window of packets when there was no data
  33 * ready to send in the write queue.
  34 */
  35
  36/* Snapshot the current delivery information in the skb, to generate
  37 * a rate sample later when the skb is (s)acked in tcp_rate_skb_delivered().
  38 */
  39void tcp_rate_skb_sent(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
  40{
  41        struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
  42
  43         /* In general we need to start delivery rate samples from the
  44          * time we received the most recent ACK, to ensure we include
  45          * the full time the network needs to deliver all in-flight
  46          * packets. If there are no packets in flight yet, then we
  47          * know that any ACKs after now indicate that the network was
  48          * able to deliver those packets completely in the sampling
  49          * interval between now and the next ACK.
  50          *
  51          * Note that we use packets_out instead of tcp_packets_in_flight(tp)
  52          * because the latter is a guess based on RTO and loss-marking
  53          * heuristics. We don't want spurious RTOs or loss markings to cause
  54          * a spuriously small time interval, causing a spuriously high
  55          * bandwidth estimate.
  56          */
  57        if (!tp->packets_out) {
  58                tp->first_tx_mstamp  = skb->skb_mstamp;
  59                tp->delivered_mstamp = skb->skb_mstamp;
  60        }
  61
  62        TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tx.first_tx_mstamp     = tp->first_tx_mstamp;
  63        TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tx.delivered_mstamp    = tp->delivered_mstamp;
  64        TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tx.delivered           = tp->delivered;
  65        TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tx.is_app_limited      = tp->app_limited ? 1 : 0;
  66}
  67
  68/* When an skb is sacked or acked, we fill in the rate sample with the (prior)
  69 * delivery information when the skb was last transmitted.
  70 *
  71 * If an ACK (s)acks multiple skbs (e.g., stretched-acks), this function is
  72 * called multiple times. We favor the information from the most recently
  73 * sent skb, i.e., the skb with the highest prior_delivered count.
  74 */
  75void tcp_rate_skb_delivered(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
  76                            struct rate_sample *rs)
  77{
  78        struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
  79        struct tcp_skb_cb *scb = TCP_SKB_CB(skb);
  80
  81        if (!scb->tx.delivered_mstamp.v64)
  82                return;
  83
  84        if (!rs->prior_delivered ||
  85            after(scb->tx.delivered, rs->prior_delivered)) {
  86                rs->prior_delivered  = scb->tx.delivered;
  87                rs->prior_mstamp     = scb->tx.delivered_mstamp;
  88                rs->is_app_limited   = scb->tx.is_app_limited;
  89                rs->is_retrans       = scb->sacked & TCPCB_RETRANS;
  90
  91                /* Find the duration of the "send phase" of this window: */
  92                rs->interval_us      = skb_mstamp_us_delta(
  93                                                &skb->skb_mstamp,
  94                                                &scb->tx.first_tx_mstamp);
  95
  96                /* Record send time of most recently ACKed packet: */
  97                tp->first_tx_mstamp  = skb->skb_mstamp;
  98        }
  99        /* Mark off the skb delivered once it's sacked to avoid being
 100         * used again when it's cumulatively acked. For acked packets
 101         * we don't need to reset since it'll be freed soon.
 102         */
 103        if (scb->sacked & TCPCB_SACKED_ACKED)
 104                scb->tx.delivered_mstamp.v64 = 0;
 105}
 106
 107/* Update the connection delivery information and generate a rate sample. */
 108void tcp_rate_gen(struct sock *sk, u32 delivered, u32 lost,
 109                  struct skb_mstamp *now, struct rate_sample *rs)
 110{
 111        struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 112        u32 snd_us, ack_us;
 113
 114        /* Clear app limited if bubble is acked and gone. */
 115        if (tp->app_limited && after(tp->delivered, tp->app_limited))
 116                tp->app_limited = 0;
 117
 118        /* TODO: there are multiple places throughout tcp_ack() to get
 119         * current time. Refactor the code using a new "tcp_acktag_state"
 120         * to carry current time, flags, stats like "tcp_sacktag_state".
 121         */
 122        if (delivered)
 123                tp->delivered_mstamp = *now;
 124
 125        rs->acked_sacked = delivered;   /* freshly ACKed or SACKed */
 126        rs->losses = lost;              /* freshly marked lost */
 127        /* Return an invalid sample if no timing information is available. */
 128        if (!rs->prior_mstamp.v64) {
 129                rs->delivered = -1;
 130                rs->interval_us = -1;
 131                return;
 132        }
 133        rs->delivered   = tp->delivered - rs->prior_delivered;
 134
 135        /* Model sending data and receiving ACKs as separate pipeline phases
 136         * for a window. Usually the ACK phase is longer, but with ACK
 137         * compression the send phase can be longer. To be safe we use the
 138         * longer phase.
 139         */
 140        snd_us = rs->interval_us;                               /* send phase */
 141        ack_us = skb_mstamp_us_delta(now, &rs->prior_mstamp);   /* ack phase */
 142        rs->interval_us = max(snd_us, ack_us);
 143
 144        /* Normally we expect interval_us >= min-rtt.
 145         * Note that rate may still be over-estimated when a spuriously
 146         * retransmistted skb was first (s)acked because "interval_us"
 147         * is under-estimated (up to an RTT). However continuously
 148         * measuring the delivery rate during loss recovery is crucial
 149         * for connections suffer heavy or prolonged losses.
 150         */
 151        if (unlikely(rs->interval_us < tcp_min_rtt(tp))) {
 152                if (!rs->is_retrans)
 153                        pr_debug("tcp rate: %ld %d %u %u %u\n",
 154                                 rs->interval_us, rs->delivered,
 155                                 inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ca_state,
 156                                 tp->rx_opt.sack_ok, tcp_min_rtt(tp));
 157                rs->interval_us = -1;
 158                return;
 159        }
 160
 161        /* Record the last non-app-limited or the highest app-limited bw */
 162        if (!rs->is_app_limited ||
 163            ((u64)rs->delivered * tp->rate_interval_us >=
 164             (u64)tp->rate_delivered * rs->interval_us)) {
 165                tp->rate_delivered = rs->delivered;
 166                tp->rate_interval_us = rs->interval_us;
 167                tp->rate_app_limited = rs->is_app_limited;
 168        }
 169}
 170
 171/* If a gap is detected between sends, mark the socket application-limited. */
 172void tcp_rate_check_app_limited(struct sock *sk)
 173{
 174        struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 175
 176        if (/* We have less than one packet to send. */
 177            tp->write_seq - tp->snd_nxt < tp->mss_cache &&
 178            /* Nothing in sending host's qdisc queues or NIC tx queue. */
 179            sk_wmem_alloc_get(sk) < SKB_TRUESIZE(1) &&
 180            /* We are not limited by CWND. */
 181            tcp_packets_in_flight(tp) < tp->snd_cwnd &&
 182            /* All lost packets have been retransmitted. */
 183            tp->lost_out <= tp->retrans_out)
 184                tp->app_limited =
 185                        (tp->delivered + tcp_packets_in_flight(tp)) ? : 1;
 186}
 187