From 1a21e49a8d60f588c1276f765198b14d5688a778 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerrit Renker Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 00:02:12 -0200 Subject: [DCCP] ccid3: Finer-grained resolution of sending rates This patch * resolves a bug where packets smaller than 32/64 bytes resulted in sending rates of 0 * supports all sending rates from 1/64 bytes/second up to 4Gbyte/second * simplifies the present overflow problems in calculations Current sending rate X and the cached value X_recv of the receiver-estimated sending rate are both scaled by 64 (2^6) in order to * cope with low sending rates (minimally 1 byte/second) * allow upgrading to use a packets-per-second implementation of CCID 3 * avoid calculation errors due to integer arithmetic cut-off The patch implements a revised strategy from http://www.mail-archive.com/dccp@vger.kernel.org/msg01040.html The only difference with regard to that strategy is that t_ipi is already used in the calculation of the nofeedback timeout, which saves one division. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker Acked-by: Ian McDonald Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- include/linux/tfrc.h | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/tfrc.h') diff --git a/include/linux/tfrc.h b/include/linux/tfrc.h index 31a9b25276fe..8a8462b4a4dd 100644 --- a/include/linux/tfrc.h +++ b/include/linux/tfrc.h @@ -37,10 +37,14 @@ struct tfrc_rx_info { * @tfrctx_p: current loss event rate (5.4) * @tfrctx_rto: estimate of RTO, equals 4*RTT (4.3) * @tfrctx_ipi: inter-packet interval (4.6) + * + * Note: X and X_recv are both maintained in units of 64 * bytes/second. This + * enables a finer resolution of sending rates and avoids problems with + * integer arithmetic; u32 is not sufficient as scaling consumes 6 bits. */ struct tfrc_tx_info { - __u32 tfrctx_x; - __u32 tfrctx_x_recv; + __u64 tfrctx_x; + __u64 tfrctx_x_recv; __u32 tfrctx_x_calc; __u32 tfrctx_rtt; __u32 tfrctx_p; -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b