user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/tcp.h, branch v4.0

tcp: mitigate ACK loops for connections as tcp_timewait_sock

2015-02-08T09:03:13Z

Ensure that in state FIN_WAIT2 or TIME_WAIT, where the connection is represented by a tcp_timewait_sock, we rate limit dupacks in response to incoming packets (a) with TCP timestamps that fail PAWS checks, or (b) with sequence numbers that are out of the acceptable window. We do not send a dupack in response to out-of-window packets if it has been less than sysctl_tcp_invalid_ratelimit (default 500ms) since we last sent a dupack in response to an out-of-window packet. Reported-by: Avery Fay Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: mitigate ACK loops for connections as tcp_sock

2015-02-08T09:03:12Z

Ensure that in state ESTABLISHED, where the connection is represented by a tcp_sock, we rate limit dupacks in response to incoming packets (a) with TCP timestamps that fail PAWS checks, or (b) with sequence numbers or ACK numbers that are out of the acceptable window. We do not send a dupack in response to out-of-window packets if it has been less than sysctl_tcp_invalid_ratelimit (default 500ms) since we last sent a dupack in response to an out-of-window packet. There is already a similar (although global) rate-limiting mechanism for "challenge ACKs". When deciding whether to send a challence ACK, we first consult the new per-connection rate limit, and then the global rate limit. Reported-by: Avery Fay Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: mitigate ACK loops for connections as tcp_request_sock

2015-02-08T09:03:12Z

In the SYN_RECV state, where the TCP connection is represented by tcp_request_sock, we now rate-limit SYNACKs in response to a client's retransmitted SYNs: we do not send a SYNACK in response to client SYN if it has been less than sysctl_tcp_invalid_ratelimit (default 500ms) since we last sent a SYNACK in response to a client's retransmitted SYN. This allows the vast majority of legitimate client connections to proceed unimpeded, even for the most aggressive platforms, iOS and MacOS, which actually retransmit SYNs 1-second intervals for several times in a row. They use SYN RTO timeouts following the progression: 1,1,1,1,1,2,4,8,16,32. Reported-by: Avery Fay Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'for-davem-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2014-12-10T18:17:23Z

More iov_iter work for the networking from Al Viro. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: refine TSO autosizing

2014-12-09T21:39:22Z

Commit 95bd09eb2750 ("tcp: TSO packets automatic sizing") tried to control TSO size, but did this at the wrong place (sendmsg() time) At sendmsg() time, we might have a pessimistic view of flow rate, and we end up building very small skbs (with 2 MSS per skb). This is bad because : - It sends small TSO packets even in Slow Start where rate quickly increases. - It tends to make socket write queue very big, increasing tcp_ack() processing time, but also increasing memory needs, not necessarily accounted for, as fast clones overhead is currently ignored. - Lower GRO efficiency and more ACK packets. Servers with a lot of small lived connections suffer from this. Lets instead fill skbs as much as possible (64KB of payload), but split them at xmit time, when we have a precise idea of the flow rate. skb split is actually quite efficient. Patch looks bigger than necessary, because TCP Small Queue decision now has to take place after the eventual split. As Neal suggested, introduce a new tcp_tso_autosize() helper, so that tcp_tso_should_defer() can be synchronized on same goal. Rename tp->xmit_size_goal_segs to tp->gso_segs, as this variable contains number of mss that we can put in GSO packet, and is not related to the autosizing goal anymore. Tested: 40 ms rtt link nstat >/dev/null netperf -H remote -l -2000000 -- -s 1000000 nstat | egrep "IpInReceives|IpOutRequests|TcpOutSegs|IpExtOutOctets" Before patch : Recv Send Send Socket Socket Message Elapsed Size Size Size Time Throughput bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/s 87380 2000000 2000000 0.36 44.22 IpInReceives 600 0.0 IpOutRequests 599 0.0 TcpOutSegs 1397 0.0 IpExtOutOctets 2033249 0.0 After patch : Recv Send Send Socket Socket Message Elapsed Size Size Size Time Throughput bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec 87380 2000000 2000000 0.36 44.27 IpInReceives 221 0.0 IpOutRequests 232 0.0 TcpOutSegs 1397 0.0 IpExtOutOctets 2013953 0.0 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

switch tcp_sock->ucopy from iovec (ucopy.iov) to msghdr (ucopy.msg)

2014-12-09T21:28:22Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

tcp: allow for bigger reordering level

2014-10-29T19:05:15Z

While testing upcoming Yaogong patch (converting out of order queue into an RB tree), I hit the max reordering level of linux TCP stack. Reordering level was limited to 127 for no good reason, and some network setups [1] can easily reach this limit and get limited throughput. Allow a new max limit of 300, and add a sysctl to allow admins to even allow bigger (or lower) values if needed. [1] Aggregation of links, per packet load balancing, fabrics not doing deep packet inspections, alternative TCP congestion modules... Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Yaogong Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2014-10-09T01:40:54Z

Pull networking updates from David Miller: "Most notable changes in here: 1) By far the biggest accomplishment, thanks to a large range of contributors, is the addition of multi-send for transmit. This is the result of discussions back in Chicago, and the hard work of several individuals. Now, when the ->ndo_start_xmit() method of a driver sees skb->xmit_more as true, it can choose to defer the doorbell telling the driver to start processing the new TX queue entires. skb->xmit_more means that the generic networking is guaranteed to call the driver immediately with another SKB to send. There is logic added to the qdisc layer to dequeue multiple packets at a time, and the handling mis-predicted offloads in software is now done with no locks held. Finally, pktgen is extended to have a "burst" parameter that can be used to test a multi-send implementation. Several drivers have xmit_more support: i40e, igb, ixgbe, mlx4, virtio_net Adding support is almost trivial, so export more drivers to support this optimization soon. I want to thank, in no particular or implied order, Jesper Dangaard Brouer, Eric Dumazet, Alexander Duyck, Tom Herbert, Jamal Hadi Salim, John Fastabend, Florian Westphal, Daniel Borkmann, David Tat, Hannes Frederic Sowa, and Rusty Russell. 2) PTP and timestamping support in bnx2x, from Michal Kalderon. 3) Allow adjusting the rx_copybreak threshold for a driver via ethtool, and add rx_copybreak support to enic driver. From Govindarajulu Varadarajan. 4) Significant enhancements to the generic PHY layer and the bcm7xxx driver in particular (EEE support, auto power down, etc.) from Florian Fainelli. 5) Allow raw buffers to be used for flow dissection, allowing drivers to determine the optimal "linear pull" size for devices that DMA into pools of pages. The objective is to get exactly the necessary amount of headers into the linear SKB area pre-pulled, but no more. The new interface drivers use is eth_get_headlen(). From WANG Cong, with driver conversions (several had their own by-hand duplicated implementations) by Alexander Duyck and Eric Dumazet. 6) Support checksumming more smoothly and efficiently for encapsulations, and add "foo over UDP" facility. From Tom Herbert. 7) Add Broadcom SF2 switch driver to DSA layer, from Florian Fainelli. 8) eBPF now can load programs via a system call and has an extensive testsuite. Alexei Starovoitov and Daniel Borkmann. 9) Major overhaul of the packet scheduler to use RCU in several major areas such as the classifiers and rate estimators. From John Fastabend. 10) Add driver for Intel FM10000 Ethernet Switch, from Alexander Duyck. 11) Rearrange TCP_SKB_CB() to reduce cache line misses, from Eric Dumazet. 12) Add Datacenter TCP congestion control algorithm support, From Florian Westphal. 13) Reorganize sk_buff so that __copy_skb_header() is significantly faster. From Eric Dumazet" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1558 commits) netlabel: directly return netlbl_unlabel_genl_init() net: add netdev_txq_bql_{enqueue, complete}_prefetchw() helpers net: description of dma_cookie cause make xmldocs warning cxgb4: clean up a type issue cxgb4: potential shift wrapping bug i40e: skb->xmit_more support net: fs_enet: Add NAPI TX net: fs_enet: Remove non NAPI RX r8169:add support for RTL8168EP net_sched: copy exts->type in tcf_exts_change() wimax: convert printk to pr_foo() af_unix: remove 0 assignment on static ipv6: Do not warn for informational ICMP messages, regardless of type. Update Intel Ethernet Driver maintainers list bridge: Save frag_max_size between PRE_ROUTING and POST_ROUTING tipc: fix bug in multicast congestion handling net: better IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE support net/mlx4_en: remove NETDEV_TX_BUSY 3c59x: fix bad split of cpu_to_le32(pci_map_single()) net: bcmgenet: fix Tx ring priority programming ...

Merge tag 'dmaengine-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/dmaengine

2014-10-08T00:39:25Z

Pull dmaengine updates from Dan Williams: "Even though this has fixes marked for -stable, given the size and the needed conflict resolutions this is 3.18-rc1/merge-window material. These patches have been languishing in my tree for a long while. The fact that I do not have the time to do proper/prompt maintenance of this tree is a primary factor in the decision to step down as dmaengine maintainer. That and the fact that the bulk of drivers/dma/ activity is going through Vinod these days. The net_dma removal has not been in -next. It has developed simple conflicts against mainline and net-next (for-3.18). Continuing thanks to Vinod for staying on top of drivers/dma/. Summary: 1/ Step down as dmaengine maintainer see commit 08223d80df38 "dmaengine maintainer update" 2/ Removal of net_dma, as it has been marked 'broken' since 3.13 (commit 77873803363c "net_dma: mark broken"), without reports of performance regression. 3/ Miscellaneous fixes" * tag 'dmaengine-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/dmaengine: net: make tcp_cleanup_rbuf private net_dma: revert 'copied_early' net_dma: simple removal dmaengine maintainer update dmatest: prevent memory leakage on error path in thread ioat: Use time_before_jiffies() dmaengine: fix xor sources continuation dma: mv_xor: Rename __mv_xor_slot_cleanup() to mv_xor_slot_cleanup() dma: mv_xor: Remove all callers of mv_xor_slot_cleanup() dma: mv_xor: Remove unneeded mv_xor_clean_completed_slots() call ioat: Use pci_enable_msix_exact() instead of pci_enable_msix() drivers: dma: Include appropriate header file in dca.c drivers: dma: Mark functions as static in dma_v3.c dma: mv_xor: Add DMA API error checks ioat/dca: Use dev_is_pci() to check whether it is pci device

net_dma: simple removal

2014-09-28T14:05:16Z

Per commit "77873803363c net_dma: mark broken" net_dma is no longer used and there is no plan to fix it. This is the mechanical removal of bits in CONFIG_NET_DMA ifdef guards. Reverting the remainder of the net_dma induced changes is deferred to subsequent patches. Marked for stable due to Roman's report of a memory leak in dma_pin_iovec_pages(): https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/3/177 Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: Vinod Koul Cc: David Whipple Cc: Alexander Duyck Cc: Reported-by: Roman Gushchin Acked-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Dan Williams