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2011-02-02tcp: Increase the initial congestion window to 10.David S. Miller1-9/+3
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
2011-01-24net: change netdev->features to u32Michał Mirosław1-1/+1
Quoting Ben Hutchings: we presumably won't be defining features that can only be enabled on 64-bit architectures. Occurences found by `grep -r` on net/, drivers/net, include/ [ Move features and vlan_features next to each other in struct netdev, as per Eric Dumazet's suggestion -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-20TCP: increase default initial receive window.Nandita Dukkipati1-0/+3
This patch changes the default initial receive window to 10 mss (defined constant). The default window is limited to the maximum of 10*1460 and 2*mss (when mss > 1460). draft-ietf-tcpm-initcwnd-00 is a proposal to the IETF that recommends increasing TCP's initial congestion window to 10 mss or about 15KB. Leading up to this proposal were several large-scale live Internet experiments with an initial congestion window of 10 mss (IW10), where we showed that the average latency of HTTP responses improved by approximately 10%. This was accompanied by a slight increase in retransmission rate (0.5%), most of which is coming from applications opening multiple simultaneous connections. To understand the extreme worst case scenarios, and fairness issues (IW10 versus IW3), we further conducted controlled testbed experiments. We came away finding minimal negative impact even under low link bandwidths (dial-ups) and small buffers. These results are extremely encouraging to adopting IW10. However, an initial congestion window of 10 mss is useless unless a TCP receiver advertises an initial receive window of at least 10 mss. Fortunately, in the large-scale Internet experiments we found that most widely used operating systems advertised large initial receive windows of 64KB, allowing us to experiment with a wide range of initial congestion windows. Linux systems were among the few exceptions that advertised a small receive window of 6KB. The purpose of this patch is to fix this shortcoming. References: 1. A comprehensive list of all IW10 references to date. http://code.google.com/speed/protocols/tcpm-IW10.html 2. Paper describing results from large-scale Internet experiments with IW10. http://ccr.sigcomm.org/drupal/?q=node/621 3. Controlled testbed experiments under worst case scenarios and a fairness study. http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/79/slides/tcpm-0.pdf 4. Raw test data from testbed experiments (Linux senders/receivers) with initial congestion and receive windows of both 10 mss. http://research.csc.ncsu.edu/netsrv/?q=content/iw10 5. Internet-Draft. Increasing TCP's Initial Window. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tcpm-initcwnd/ Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-19net: kill unused macrosShan Wei1-2/+0
These macros never be used, so remove them. Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-16tcp: relax tcp_paws_check()Eric Dumazet1-1/+7
Some windows versions have wrong RFC1323 implementations, with SYN and SYNACKS messages containing zero tcp timestamps. We relaxed in commit fc1ad92dfc4e363 the passive connection case (Windows connects to a linux machine), but the reverse case (linux connects to a Windows machine) has an analogue problem when tsvals from windows machine are 'negative' (high order bit set) : PAWS triggers and we drops incoming messages. Fix this by making zero ts_recent value special, allowing frame to be processed. Based on a report and initial patch from Dmitiy Balakin Bugzilla reference : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24842 Reported-by: dmitriy.balakin@nicneiron.ru Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-02net: kill unused macros from head fileShan Wei1-6/+0
These macros have been defined for several years since v2.6.12-rc2(tracing by git), but never be used. So remove them. Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-01timewait_sock: Create and use getpeer op.David S. Miller1-0/+1
The only thing AF-specific about remembering the timestamp for a time-wait TCP socket is getting the peer. Abstract that behind a new timewait_sock_ops vector. Support for real IPV6 sockets is not filled in yet, but curiously this makes timewait recycling start to work for v4-mapped ipv6 sockets. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-30inet: Turn ->remember_stamp into ->get_peer in connection AF ops.David S. Miller1-1/+1
Then we can make a completely generic tcp_remember_stamp() that uses ->get_peer() as a helper, minimizing the AF specific code and minimizing the eventual code duplication when we implement the ipv6 side of TW recycling. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-10net: avoid limits overflowEric Dumazet1-3/+3
Robin Holt tried to boot a 16TB machine and found some limits were reached : sysctl_tcp_mem[2], sysctl_udp_mem[2] We can switch infrastructure to use long "instead" of "int", now atomic_long_t primitives are available for free. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Reported-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-29tcp: tcp_enter_quickack_mode can be staticstephen hemminger1-2/+0
Function only used in tcp_input.c Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-27Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6David S. Miller1-2/+16
Conflicts: drivers/net/qlcnic/qlcnic_init.c net/ipv4/ip_output.c
2010-09-15tcp: Prevent overzealous packetization by SWS logic.Alexey Kuznetsov1-2/+16
If peer uses tiny MSS (say, 75 bytes) and similarly tiny advertised window, the SWS logic will packetize to half the MSS unnecessarily. This causes problems with some embedded devices. However for large MSS devices we do want to half-MSS packetize otherwise we never get enough packets into the pipe for things like fast retransmit and recovery to work. Be careful also to handle the case where MSS > window, otherwise we'll never send until the probe timer. Reported-by: ツ Leandro Melo de Sales <leandroal@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-09Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6David S. Miller1-4/+14
Conflicts: net/mac80211/main.c
2010-08-30TCP: update initial windows according to RFC 5681Gerrit Renker1-8/+2
This updates the use of larger initial windows, as originally specified in RFC 3390, to use the newer IW values specified in RFC 5681, section 3.1. The changes made in RFC 5681 are: a) the setting now is more clearly specified in units of segments (as the comments by John Heffner emphasized, this was not very clear in RFC 3390); b) for connections with 1095 < SMSS <= 2190 there is now a change: - RFC 3390 says that IW <= 4380, - RFC 5681 says that IW = 3 * SMSS <= 6570. Since RFC 3390 is older and "only" proposed standard, whereas the newer RFC 5681 is already draft standard, it seems preferable to use the newer IW variant. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-30tcp/dccp: Consolidate common code for RFC 3390 conversionGerrit Renker1-0/+15
This patch consolidates initial-window code common to TCP and CCID-2: * TCP uses RFC 3390 in a packet-oriented manner (tcp_input.c) and * CCID-2 uses RFC 3390 in packet-oriented manner (RFC 4341). Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-25tcp: Combat per-cpu skew in orphan tests.David S. Miller1-4/+14
As reported by Anton Blanchard when we use percpu_counter_read_positive() to make our orphan socket limit checks, the check can be off by up to num_cpus_online() * batch (which is 32 by default) which on a 128 cpu machine can be as large as the default orphan limit itself. Fix this by doing the full expensive sum check if the optimized check triggers. Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
2010-07-15tcp: sizeof struct tcp_skb_cb is 44Eric Dumazet1-5/+4
Correct comment stating sizeof(struct tcp_skb_cb) is 36 or 40, since its 44 bytes, since commit 951dbc8ac714b04 ([IPV6]: Move nextheader offset to the IP6CB). Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-12inet, inet6: make tcp_sendmsg() and tcp_sendpage() through inet_sendmsg() and inet_sendpage()Changli Gao1-4/+4
a new boolean flag no_autobind is added to structure proto to avoid the autobind calls when the protocol is TCP. Then sock_rps_record_flow() is called int the TCP's sendmsg() and sendpage() pathes. Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> ---- include/net/inet_common.h | 4 ++++ include/net/sock.h | 1 + include/net/tcp.h | 8 ++++---- net/ipv4/af_inet.c | 15 +++++++++------ net/ipv4/tcp.c | 11 +++++------ net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 3 +++ net/ipv6/af_inet6.c | 8 ++++---- net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 3 +++ 8 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-12net: cleanupsChangli Gao1-137/+85
remove useless blanks. Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> ---- include/net/inet_common.h | 55 ++++------- include/net/tcp.h | 222 +++++++++++++++++----------------------------- include/net/udp.h | 38 +++---- 3 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 192 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-26syncookies: add support for ECNFlorian Westphal1-1/+1
Allows use of ECN when syncookies are in effect by encoding ecn_ok into the syn-ack tcp timestamp. While at it, remove a uneeded #ifdef CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES. With CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=nm want_cookie is ifdef'd to 0 and gcc removes the "if (0)". Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-16syncookies: check decoded options against sysctl settingsFlorian Westphal1-1/+1
Discard the ACK if we find options that do not match current sysctl settings. Previously it was possible to create a connection with sack, wscale, etc. enabled even if the feature was disabled via sysctl. Also remove an unneeded call to tcp_sack_reset() in cookie_check_timestamp: Both call sites (cookie_v4_check, cookie_v6_check) zero "struct tcp_options_received", hand it to tcp_parse_options() (which does not change tcp_opt->num_sacks/dsack) and then call cookie_check_timestamp(). Even if num_sacks/dsacks were changed, the structure is allocated on the stack and after cookie_check_timestamp returns only a few selected members are copied to the inet_request_sock. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-15tcp: unify tcp flag macrosChangli Gao1-13/+11
unify tcp flag macros: TCPHDR_FIN, TCPHDR_SYN, TCPHDR_RST, TCPHDR_PSH, TCPHDR_ACK, TCPHDR_URG, TCPHDR_ECE and TCPHDR_CWR. TCBCB_FLAG_* are replaced with the corresponding TCPHDR_*. Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> ---- include/net/tcp.h | 24 ++++++------- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 8 ++-- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 2 - net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++----------------- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c | 32 ++++++----------- net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c | 4 -- 6 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-07tcp: Fix slowness in read /proc/net/tcpTom Herbert1-1/+2
This patch address a serious performance issue in reading the TCP sockets table (/proc/net/tcp). Reading the full table is done by a number of sequential read operations. At each read operation, a seek is done to find the last socket that was previously read. This seek operation requires that the sockets in the table need to be counted up to the current file position, and to count each of these requires taking a lock for each non-empty bucket. The whole algorithm is O(n^2). The fix is to cache the last bucket value, offset within the bucket, and the file position returned by the last read operation. On the next sequential read, the bucket and offset are used to find the last read socket immediately without needing ot scan the previous buckets the table. This algorithm t read the whole table is O(n). The improvement offered by this patch is easily show by performing cat'ing /proc/net/tcp on a machine with a lot of connections. With about 182K connections in the table, I see the following: - Without patch time cat /proc/net/tcp > /dev/null real 1m56.729s user 0m0.214s sys 1m56.344s - With patch time cat /proc/net/tcp > /dev/null real 0m0.894s user 0m0.290s sys 0m0.594s Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-16Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6David S. Miller1-18/+3
Conflicts: include/linux/if_link.h
2010-05-16tcp: fix MD5 (RFC2385) supportEric Dumazet1-18/+3
TCP MD5 support uses percpu data for temporary storage. It currently disables preemption so that same storage cannot be reclaimed by another thread on same cpu. We also have to make sure a softirq handler wont try to use also same context. Various bug reports demonstrated corruptions. Fix is to disable preemption and BH. Reported-by: Bhaskar Dutta <bhaskie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-27TCP: avoid to send keepalive probes if receiving dataFlavio Leitner1-0/+8
RFC 1122 says the following: ... Keep-alive packets MUST only be sent when no data or acknowledgement packets have been received for the connection within an interval. ... The acknowledgement packet is reseting the keepalive timer but the data packet isn't. This patch fixes it by checking the timestamp of the last received data packet too when the keepalive timer expires. Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fleitner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-22tcp: fix outsegs stat for TSO segmentsTom Herbert1-0/+1
Account for TSO segments of an skb in TCP_MIB_OUTSEGS counter. Without doing this, the counter can be off by orders of magnitude from the actual number of segments sent. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-20net: sk_sleep() helperEric Dumazet1-1/+1
Define a new function to return the waitqueue of a "struct sock". static inline wait_queue_head_t *sk_sleep(struct sock *sk) { return sk->sk_sleep; } Change all read occurrences of sk_sleep by a call to this function. Needed for a future RCU conversion. sk_sleep wont be a field directly available. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-11inet: Remove unused send_check length argumentHerbert Xu1-1/+1
inet: Remove unused send_check length argument This patch removes the unused length argument from the send_check function in struct inet_connection_sock_af_ops. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Tested-by: Yinghai <yinghai.lu@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-04net: add scheduler sync hint to tcp_prequeue().Mike Galbraith1-1/+1
Decreases the odds wakee will suffer from frequent cache misses. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-18net: TCP thin dupackAndreas Petlund1-0/+1
This patch enables fast retransmissions after one dupACK for TCP if the stream is identified as thin. This will reduce latencies for thin streams that are not able to trigger fast retransmissions due to high packet interarrival time. This mechanism is only active if enabled by iocontrol or syscontrol and the stream is identified as thin. Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-18net: TCP thin linear timeoutsAndreas Petlund1-0/+4
This patch will make TCP use only linear timeouts if the stream is thin. This will help to avoid the very high latencies that thin stream suffer because of exponential backoff. This mechanism is only active if enabled by iocontrol or syscontrol and the stream is identified as thin. A maximum of 6 linear timeouts is tried before exponential backoff is resumed. Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-18net: TCP thin-stream detectionAndreas Petlund1-0/+8
Inline function to dynamically detect thin streams based on the number of packets in flight. Used to dynamically trigger thin-stream mechanisms if enabled by ioctl or sysctl. Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-16percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to netTejun Heo1-1/+1
Add __percpu sparse annotations to net. These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be in a different address space and warn if accessed without going through percpu accessors. This patch doesn't affect normal builds. The macro and type tricks around snmp stats make things a bit interesting. DEFINE/DECLARE_SNMP_STAT() macros mark the target field as __percpu and SNMP_UPD_PO_STATS() macro is updated accordingly. All snmp_mib_*() users which used to cast the argument to (void **) are updated to cast it to (void __percpu **). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-17tcp: account SYN-ACK timeouts & retransmissionsOctavian Purdila1-0/+2
Currently we don't increment SYN-ACK timeouts & retransmissions although we do increment the same stats for SYN. We seem to have lost the SYN-ACK accounting with the introduction of tcp_syn_recv_timer (commit 2248761e in the netdev-vger-cvs tree). This patch fixes this issue. In the process we also rename the v4/v6 syn/ack retransmit functions for clarity. We also add a new request_socket operations (syn_ack_timeout) so we can keep code in inet_connection_sock.c protocol agnostic. Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-23net: Add rtnetlink init_rcvwnd to set the TCP initial receive windowlaurent chavey1-1/+2
Add rtnetlink init_rcvwnd to set the TCP initial receive window size advertised by passive and active TCP connections. The current Linux TCP implementation limits the advertised TCP initial receive window to the one prescribed by slow start. For short lived TCP connections used for transaction type of traffic (i.e. http requests), bounding the advertised TCP initial receive window results in increased latency to complete the transaction. Support for setting initial congestion window is already supported using rtnetlink init_cwnd, but the feature is useless without the ability to set a larger TCP initial receive window. The rtnetlink init_rcvwnd allows increasing the TCP initial receive window, allowing TCP connection to advertise larger TCP receive window than the ones bounded by slow start. Signed-off-by: Laurent Chavey <chavey@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-23tcp: Remove check in __tcp_push_pending_framesKrishna Kumar1-7/+9
tcp_push checks tcp_send_head and calls __tcp_push_pending_frames, which again checks tcp_send_head, and this unnecessary check is done for every other caller of __tcp_push_pending_frames. Remove tcp_send_head check in __tcp_push_pending_frames and add the check to tcp_push_pending_frames. Other functions call __tcp_push_pending_frames only when tcp_send_head would evaluate to true. Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-15tcp: Revert per-route SACK/DSACK/TIMESTAMP changes.David S. Miller1-2/+1
It creates a regression, triggering badness for SYN_RECV sockets, for example: [19148.022102] Badness at net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c:293 [19148.022570] NIP: c02a0914 LR: c02a0904 CTR: 00000000 [19148.023035] REGS: eeecbd30 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (2.6.32) [19148.023496] MSR: 00029032 <EE,ME,CE,IR,DR> CR: 24002442 XER: 00000000 [19148.024012] TASK = eee9a820[1756] 'privoxy' THREAD: eeeca000 This is likely caused by the change in the 'estab' parameter passed to tcp_parse_options() when invoked by the functions in net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c But even if that is fixed, the ->conn_request() changes made in this patch series is fundamentally wrong. They try to use the listening socket's 'dst' to probe the route settings. The listening socket doesn't even have a route, and you can't get the right route (the child request one) until much later after we setup all of the state, and it must be done by hand. This stuff really isn't ready, so the best thing to do is a full revert. This reverts the following commits: f55017a93f1a74d50244b1254b9a2bd7ac9bbf7d 022c3f7d82f0f1c68018696f2f027b87b9bb45c2 1aba721eba1d84a2defce45b950272cee1e6c72a cda42ebd67ee5fdf09d7057b5a4584d36fe8a335 345cda2fd695534be5a4494f1b59da9daed33663 dc343475ed062e13fc260acccaab91d7d80fd5b2 05eaade2782fb0c90d3034fd7a7d5a16266182bb 6a2a2d6bf8581216e08be15fcb563cfd6c430e1e Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-11Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller1-1/+0
Conflicts: include/net/tcp.h
2009-12-09Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivialLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (42 commits) tree-wide: fix misspelling of "definition" in comments reiserfs: fix misspelling of "journaled" doc: Fix a typo in slub.txt. inotify: remove superfluous return code check hdlc: spelling fix in find_pvc() comment doc: fix regulator docs cut-and-pasteism mtd: Fix comment in Kconfig doc: Fix IRQ chip docs tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place drivers/ata/libata-sff.c: comment spelling fixes fix typos/grammos in Documentation/edac.txt sysctl: add missing comments fs/debugfs/inode.c: fix comment typos sgivwfb: Make use of ARRAY_SIZE. sky2: fix sky2_link_down copy/paste comment error tree-wide: fix typos "couter" -> "counter" tree-wide: fix typos "offest" -> "offset" fix kerneldoc for set_irq_msi() spidev: fix double "of of" in comment comment typo fix: sybsystem -> subsystem ...
2009-12-08tcp: Stalling connections: Move timeout calculation routineDamian Lukowski1-28/+0
This patch moves retransmits_timed_out() from include/net/tcp.h to tcp_timer.c, where it is used. Reported-by: Frederic Leroy <fredo@starox.org> Signed-off-by: Damian Lukowski <damian@tvk.rwth-aachen.de> Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-08tcp: Stalling connections: Fix timeout calculation routineDamian Lukowski1-2/+8
This patch fixes a problem in the TCP connection timeout calculation. Currently, timeout decisions are made on the basis of the current tcp_time_stamp and retrans_stamp, which is usually set at the first retransmission. However, if the retransmission fails in tcp_retransmit_skb(), retrans_stamp is not updated and remains zero. This leads to wrong decisions in retransmits_timed_out() if tcp_time_stamp is larger than the specified timeout, which is very likely. In this case, the TCP connection dies after the first attempted (and unsuccessful) retransmission. With this patch, tcp_skb_cb->when is used instead, when retrans_stamp is not available. This bug has been introduced together with retransmits_timed_out() in 2.6.32, as the number of retransmissions has been used for timeout decisions before. The corresponding commit was 6fa12c85031485dff38ce550c24f10da23b0adaa (Revert Backoff [v3]: Calculate TCP's connection close threshold as a time value.). Thanks to Ilpo Järvinen for code suggestions and Frederic Leroy for testing. Reported-by: Frederic Leroy <fredo@starox.org> Signed-off-by: Damian Lukowski <damian@tvk.rwth-aachen.de> Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-04tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the placeAndré Goddard Rosa1-1/+1
That is "success", "unknown", "through", "performance", "[re|un]mapping" , "access", "default", "reasonable", "[con]currently", "temperature" , "channel", "[un]used", "application", "example","hierarchy", "therefore" , "[over|under]flow", "contiguous", "threshold", "enough" and others. Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-12-02tcp: clear hints to avoid a stale one (nfs only affected?)Ilpo Järvinen1-0/+1
Eric Dumazet mentioned in a context of another problem: "Well, it seems NFS reuses its socket, so maybe we miss some cleaning as spotted in this old patch" I've not check under which conditions that actually happens but if true, we need to make sure we don't accidently leave stale hints behind when the write queue had to be purged (whether reusing with NFS can actually happen if purging took place is something I'm not sure of). ...At least it compiles. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-02TCPCT part 1g: Responder Cookie => InitiatorWilliam Allen Simpson1-0/+1
Parse incoming TCP_COOKIE option(s). Calculate <SYN,ACK> TCP_COOKIE option. Send optional <SYN,ACK> data. This is a significantly revised implementation of an earlier (year-old) patch that no longer applies cleanly, with permission of the original author (Adam Langley): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/102586 Requires: TCPCT part 1a: add request_values parameter for sending SYNACK TCPCT part 1b: generate Responder Cookie secret TCPCT part 1c: sysctl_tcp_cookie_size, socket option TCP_COOKIE_TRANSACTIONS TCPCT part 1d: define TCP cookie option, extend existing struct's TCPCT part 1e: implement socket option TCP_COOKIE_TRANSACTIONS TCPCT part 1f: Initiator Cookie => Responder Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-02TCPCT part 1d: define TCP cookie option, extend existing struct'sWilliam Allen Simpson1-0/+83
Data structures are carefully composed to require minimal additions. For example, the struct tcp_options_received cookie_plus variable fits between existing 16-bit and 8-bit variables, requiring no additional space (taking alignment into consideration). There are no additions to tcp_request_sock, and only 1 pointer in tcp_sock. This is a significantly revised implementation of an earlier (year-old) patch that no longer applies cleanly, with permission of the original author (Adam Langley): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/102586 The principle difference is using a TCP option to carry the cookie nonce, instead of a user configured offset in the data. This is more flexible and less subject to user configuration error. Such a cookie option has been suggested for many years, and is also useful without SYN data, allowing several related concepts to use the same extension option. "Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?)", September 9, 1996. http://www.merit.net/mail.archives/nanog/1996-09/msg00235.html "Re: what a new TCP header might look like", May 12, 1998. ftp://ftp.isi.edu/end2end/end2end-interest-1998.mail These functions will also be used in subsequent patches that implement additional features. Requires: TCPCT part 1a: add request_values parameter for sending SYNACK TCPCT part 1b: generate Responder Cookie secret TCPCT part 1c: sysctl_tcp_cookie_size, socket option TCP_COOKIE_TRANSACTIONS Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-02TCPCT part 1c: sysctl_tcp_cookie_size, socket option TCP_COOKIE_TRANSACTIONSWilliam Allen Simpson1-5/+1
Define sysctl (tcp_cookie_size) to turn on and off the cookie option default globally, instead of a compiled configuration option. Define per socket option (TCP_COOKIE_TRANSACTIONS) for setting constant data values, retrieving variable cookie values, and other facilities. Move inline tcp_clear_options() unchanged from net/tcp.h to linux/tcp.h, near its corresponding struct tcp_options_received (prior to changes). This is a straightforward re-implementation of an earlier (year-old) patch that no longer applies cleanly, with permission of the original author (Adam Langley): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/102586 These functions will also be used in subsequent patches that implement additional features. Requires: net: TCP_MSS_DEFAULT, TCP_MSS_DESIRED Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-02TCPCT part 1b: generate Responder Cookie secretWilliam Allen Simpson1-0/+8
Define (missing) hash message size for SHA1. Define hashing size constants specific to TCP cookies. Add new function: tcp_cookie_generator(). Maintain global secret values for tcp_cookie_generator(). This is a significantly revised implementation of earlier (15-year-old) Photuris [RFC-2522] code for the KA9Q cooperative multitasking platform. Linux RCU technique appears to be well-suited to this application, though neither of the circular queue items are freed. These functions will also be used in subsequent patches that implement additional features. Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-02TCPCT part 1a: add request_values parameter for sending SYNACKWilliam Allen Simpson1-1/+2
Add optional function parameters associated with sending SYNACK. These parameters are not needed after sending SYNACK, and are not used for retransmission. Avoids extending struct tcp_request_sock, and avoids allocating kernel memory. Also affects DCCP as it uses common struct request_sock_ops, but this parameter is currently reserved for future use. Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-13net: TCP_MSS_DEFAULT, TCP_MSS_DESIREDWilliam Allen Simpson1-3/+0
Define two symbols needed in both kernel and user space. Remove old (somewhat incorrect) kernel variant that wasn't used in most cases. Default should apply to both RMSS and SMSS (RFC2581). Replace numeric constants with defined symbols. Stand-alone patch, originally developed for TCPCT. Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>