linux/net/ipv4/tcp_westwood.c
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   1// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
   2/*
   3 * TCP Westwood+: end-to-end bandwidth estimation for TCP
   4 *
   5 *      Angelo Dell'Aera: author of the first version of TCP Westwood+ in Linux 2.4
   6 *
   7 * Support at http://c3lab.poliba.it/index.php/Westwood
   8 * Main references in literature:
   9 *
  10 * - Mascolo S, Casetti, M. Gerla et al.
  11 *   "TCP Westwood: bandwidth estimation for TCP" Proc. ACM Mobicom 2001
  12 *
  13 * - A. Grieco, s. Mascolo
  14 *   "Performance evaluation of New Reno, Vegas, Westwood+ TCP" ACM Computer
  15 *     Comm. Review, 2004
  16 *
  17 * - A. Dell'Aera, L. Grieco, S. Mascolo.
  18 *   "Linux 2.4 Implementation of Westwood+ TCP with Rate-Halving :
  19 *    A Performance Evaluation Over the Internet" (ICC 2004), Paris, June 2004
  20 *
  21 * Westwood+ employs end-to-end bandwidth measurement to set cwnd and
  22 * ssthresh after packet loss. The probing phase is as the original Reno.
  23 */
  24
  25#include <linux/mm.h>
  26#include <linux/module.h>
  27#include <linux/skbuff.h>
  28#include <linux/inet_diag.h>
  29#include <net/tcp.h>
  30
  31/* TCP Westwood structure */
  32struct westwood {
  33        u32    bw_ns_est;        /* first bandwidth estimation..not too smoothed 8) */
  34        u32    bw_est;           /* bandwidth estimate */
  35        u32    rtt_win_sx;       /* here starts a new evaluation... */
  36        u32    bk;
  37        u32    snd_una;          /* used for evaluating the number of acked bytes */
  38        u32    cumul_ack;
  39        u32    accounted;
  40        u32    rtt;
  41        u32    rtt_min;          /* minimum observed RTT */
  42        u8     first_ack;        /* flag which infers that this is the first ack */
  43        u8     reset_rtt_min;    /* Reset RTT min to next RTT sample*/
  44};
  45
  46/* TCP Westwood functions and constants */
  47#define TCP_WESTWOOD_RTT_MIN   (HZ/20)  /* 50ms */
  48#define TCP_WESTWOOD_INIT_RTT  (20*HZ)  /* maybe too conservative?! */
  49
  50/*
  51 * @tcp_westwood_create
  52 * This function initializes fields used in TCP Westwood+,
  53 * it is called after the initial SYN, so the sequence numbers
  54 * are correct but new passive connections we have no
  55 * information about RTTmin at this time so we simply set it to
  56 * TCP_WESTWOOD_INIT_RTT. This value was chosen to be too conservative
  57 * since in this way we're sure it will be updated in a consistent
  58 * way as soon as possible. It will reasonably happen within the first
  59 * RTT period of the connection lifetime.
  60 */
  61static void tcp_westwood_init(struct sock *sk)
  62{
  63        struct westwood *w = inet_csk_ca(sk);
  64
  65        w->bk = 0;
  66        w->bw_ns_est = 0;
  67        w->bw_est = 0;
  68        w->accounted = 0;
  69        w->cumul_ack = 0;
  70        w->reset_rtt_min = 1;
  71        w->rtt_min = w->rtt = TCP_WESTWOOD_INIT_RTT;
  72        w->rtt_win_sx = tcp_jiffies32;
  73        w->snd_una = tcp_sk(sk)->snd_una;
  74        w->first_ack = 1;
  75}
  76
  77/*
  78 * @westwood_do_filter
  79 * Low-pass filter. Implemented using constant coefficients.
  80 */
  81static inline u32 westwood_do_filter(u32 a, u32 b)
  82{
  83        return ((7 * a) + b) >> 3;
  84}
  85
  86static void westwood_filter(struct westwood *w, u32 delta)
  87{
  88        /* If the filter is empty fill it with the first sample of bandwidth  */
  89        if (w->bw_ns_est == 0 && w->bw_est == 0) {
  90                w->bw_ns_est = w->bk / delta;
  91                w->bw_est = w->bw_ns_est;
  92        } else {
  93                w->bw_ns_est = westwood_do_filter(w->bw_ns_est, w->bk / delta);
  94                w->bw_est = westwood_do_filter(w->bw_est, w->bw_ns_est);
  95        }
  96}
  97
  98/*
  99 * @westwood_pkts_acked
 100 * Called after processing group of packets.
 101 * but all westwood needs is the last sample of srtt.
 102 */
 103static void tcp_westwood_pkts_acked(struct sock *sk,
 104                                    const struct ack_sample *sample)
 105{
 106        struct westwood *w = inet_csk_ca(sk);
 107
 108        if (sample->rtt_us > 0)
 109                w->rtt = usecs_to_jiffies(sample->rtt_us);
 110}
 111
 112/*
 113 * @westwood_update_window
 114 * It updates RTT evaluation window if it is the right moment to do
 115 * it. If so it calls filter for evaluating bandwidth.
 116 */
 117static void westwood_update_window(struct sock *sk)
 118{
 119        struct westwood *w = inet_csk_ca(sk);
 120        s32 delta = tcp_jiffies32 - w->rtt_win_sx;
 121
 122        /* Initialize w->snd_una with the first acked sequence number in order
 123         * to fix mismatch between tp->snd_una and w->snd_una for the first
 124         * bandwidth sample
 125         */
 126        if (w->first_ack) {
 127                w->snd_una = tcp_sk(sk)->snd_una;
 128                w->first_ack = 0;
 129        }
 130
 131        /*
 132         * See if a RTT-window has passed.
 133         * Be careful since if RTT is less than
 134         * 50ms we don't filter but we continue 'building the sample'.
 135         * This minimum limit was chosen since an estimation on small
 136         * time intervals is better to avoid...
 137         * Obviously on a LAN we reasonably will always have
 138         * right_bound = left_bound + WESTWOOD_RTT_MIN
 139         */
 140        if (w->rtt && delta > max_t(u32, w->rtt, TCP_WESTWOOD_RTT_MIN)) {
 141                westwood_filter(w, delta);
 142
 143                w->bk = 0;
 144                w->rtt_win_sx = tcp_jiffies32;
 145        }
 146}
 147
 148static inline void update_rtt_min(struct westwood *w)
 149{
 150        if (w->reset_rtt_min) {
 151                w->rtt_min = w->rtt;
 152                w->reset_rtt_min = 0;
 153        } else
 154                w->rtt_min = min(w->rtt, w->rtt_min);
 155}
 156
 157/*
 158 * @westwood_fast_bw
 159 * It is called when we are in fast path. In particular it is called when
 160 * header prediction is successful. In such case in fact update is
 161 * straight forward and doesn't need any particular care.
 162 */
 163static inline void westwood_fast_bw(struct sock *sk)
 164{
 165        const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 166        struct westwood *w = inet_csk_ca(sk);
 167
 168        westwood_update_window(sk);
 169
 170        w->bk += tp->snd_una - w->snd_una;
 171        w->snd_una = tp->snd_una;
 172        update_rtt_min(w);
 173}
 174
 175/*
 176 * @westwood_acked_count
 177 * This function evaluates cumul_ack for evaluating bk in case of
 178 * delayed or partial acks.
 179 */
 180static inline u32 westwood_acked_count(struct sock *sk)
 181{
 182        const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 183        struct westwood *w = inet_csk_ca(sk);
 184
 185        w->cumul_ack = tp->snd_una - w->snd_una;
 186
 187        /* If cumul_ack is 0 this is a dupack since it's not moving
 188         * tp->snd_una.
 189         */
 190        if (!w->cumul_ack) {
 191                w->accounted += tp->mss_cache;
 192                w->cumul_ack = tp->mss_cache;
 193        }
 194
 195        if (w->cumul_ack > tp->mss_cache) {
 196                /* Partial or delayed ack */
 197                if (w->accounted >= w->cumul_ack) {
 198                        w->accounted -= w->cumul_ack;
 199                        w->cumul_ack = tp->mss_cache;
 200                } else {
 201                        w->cumul_ack -= w->accounted;
 202                        w->accounted = 0;
 203                }
 204        }
 205
 206        w->snd_una = tp->snd_una;
 207
 208        return w->cumul_ack;
 209}
 210
 211/*
 212 * TCP Westwood
 213 * Here limit is evaluated as Bw estimation*RTTmin (for obtaining it
 214 * in packets we use mss_cache). Rttmin is guaranteed to be >= 2
 215 * so avoids ever returning 0.
 216 */
 217static u32 tcp_westwood_bw_rttmin(const struct sock *sk)
 218{
 219        const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 220        const struct westwood *w = inet_csk_ca(sk);
 221
 222        return max_t(u32, (w->bw_est * w->rtt_min) / tp->mss_cache, 2);
 223}
 224
 225static void tcp_westwood_ack(struct sock *sk, u32 ack_flags)
 226{
 227        if (ack_flags & CA_ACK_SLOWPATH) {
 228                struct westwood *w = inet_csk_ca(sk);
 229
 230                westwood_update_window(sk);
 231                w->bk += westwood_acked_count(sk);
 232
 233                update_rtt_min(w);
 234                return;
 235        }
 236
 237        westwood_fast_bw(sk);
 238}
 239
 240static void tcp_westwood_event(struct sock *sk, enum tcp_ca_event event)
 241{
 242        struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 243        struct westwood *w = inet_csk_ca(sk);
 244
 245        switch (event) {
 246        case CA_EVENT_COMPLETE_CWR:
 247                tp->snd_cwnd = tp->snd_ssthresh = tcp_westwood_bw_rttmin(sk);
 248                break;
 249        case CA_EVENT_LOSS:
 250                tp->snd_ssthresh = tcp_westwood_bw_rttmin(sk);
 251                /* Update RTT_min when next ack arrives */
 252                w->reset_rtt_min = 1;
 253                break;
 254        default:
 255                /* don't care */
 256                break;
 257        }
 258}
 259
 260/* Extract info for Tcp socket info provided via netlink. */
 261static size_t tcp_westwood_info(struct sock *sk, u32 ext, int *attr,
 262                                union tcp_cc_info *info)
 263{
 264        const struct westwood *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
 265
 266        if (ext & (1 << (INET_DIAG_VEGASINFO - 1))) {
 267                info->vegas.tcpv_enabled = 1;
 268                info->vegas.tcpv_rttcnt = 0;
 269                info->vegas.tcpv_rtt    = jiffies_to_usecs(ca->rtt);
 270                info->vegas.tcpv_minrtt = jiffies_to_usecs(ca->rtt_min);
 271
 272                *attr = INET_DIAG_VEGASINFO;
 273                return sizeof(struct tcpvegas_info);
 274        }
 275        return 0;
 276}
 277
 278static struct tcp_congestion_ops tcp_westwood __read_mostly = {
 279        .init           = tcp_westwood_init,
 280        .ssthresh       = tcp_reno_ssthresh,
 281        .cong_avoid     = tcp_reno_cong_avoid,
 282        .undo_cwnd      = tcp_reno_undo_cwnd,
 283        .cwnd_event     = tcp_westwood_event,
 284        .in_ack_event   = tcp_westwood_ack,
 285        .get_info       = tcp_westwood_info,
 286        .pkts_acked     = tcp_westwood_pkts_acked,
 287
 288        .owner          = THIS_MODULE,
 289        .name           = "westwood"
 290};
 291
 292static int __init tcp_westwood_register(void)
 293{
 294        BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct westwood) > ICSK_CA_PRIV_SIZE);
 295        return tcp_register_congestion_control(&tcp_westwood);
 296}
 297
 298static void __exit tcp_westwood_unregister(void)
 299{
 300        tcp_unregister_congestion_control(&tcp_westwood);
 301}
 302
 303module_init(tcp_westwood_register);
 304module_exit(tcp_westwood_unregister);
 305
 306MODULE_AUTHOR("Stephen Hemminger, Angelo Dell'Aera");
 307MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 308MODULE_DESCRIPTION("TCP Westwood+");
 309