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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 09:47:41 -0400
From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>,
Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
Lawrence Brakmo <brakmo@...com>,
Abdul Kabbani <akabbani@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] dctcp: more accurate tracking of packets delivery
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 8:55 AM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> After commit e21db6f69a95 ("tcp: track total bytes delivered with ECN CE marks")
> core TCP stack does a very good job tracking ECN signals.
>
> The "sender's best estimate of CE information" Yuchung mentioned in his
> patch is indeed the best we can do.
>
> DCTCP can use tp->delivered_ce and tp->delivered to not duplicate the logic,
> and use the existing best estimate.
>
> This solves some problems, since current DCTCP logic does not deal with losses
> and/or GRO or ack aggregation very well.
>
> This also removes a dubious use of inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ack.rcv_mss
> (this should have been tp->mss_cache), and a 64 bit divide.
>
> Finally, we can see that the DCTCP logic, calling dctcp_update_alpha() for
> every ACK could be done differently, calling it only once per RTT.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
> Cc: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
> Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
> Cc: Lawrence Brakmo <brakmo@...com>
> Cc: Abdul Kabbani <akabbani@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
Thank you! Nice idea!
> ---
> net/ipv4/tcp_dctcp.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++---------------------------
> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_dctcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_dctcp.c
> index 359da68d7c0628360d5f1b727c878f678e28d39a..477cb4aa456c11c70185a982cbadafba857d3619 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_dctcp.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_dctcp.c
> @@ -49,9 +49,8 @@
> #define DCTCP_MAX_ALPHA 1024U
>
> struct dctcp {
> - u32 acked_bytes_ecn;
> - u32 acked_bytes_total;
> - u32 prior_snd_una;
> + u32 old_delivered;
> + u32 old_delivered_ce;
> u32 prior_rcv_nxt;
> u32 dctcp_alpha;
> u32 next_seq;
> @@ -73,8 +72,8 @@ static void dctcp_reset(const struct tcp_sock *tp, struct dctcp *ca)
> {
> ca->next_seq = tp->snd_nxt;
>
> - ca->acked_bytes_ecn = 0;
> - ca->acked_bytes_total = 0;
> + ca->old_delivered = tp->delivered;
> + ca->old_delivered_ce = tp->delivered_ce;
> }
>
> static void dctcp_init(struct sock *sk)
> @@ -86,7 +85,6 @@ static void dctcp_init(struct sock *sk)
> sk->sk_state == TCP_CLOSE)) {
> struct dctcp *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
>
> - ca->prior_snd_una = tp->snd_una;
> ca->prior_rcv_nxt = tp->rcv_nxt;
>
> ca->dctcp_alpha = min(dctcp_alpha_on_init, DCTCP_MAX_ALPHA);
> @@ -118,37 +116,25 @@ static void dctcp_update_alpha(struct sock *sk, u32 flags)
> {
> const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
> struct dctcp *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
> - u32 acked_bytes = tp->snd_una - ca->prior_snd_una;
> -
> - /* If ack did not advance snd_una, count dupack as MSS size.
> - * If ack did update window, do not count it at all.
> - */
> - if (acked_bytes == 0 && !(flags & CA_ACK_WIN_UPDATE))
> - acked_bytes = inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ack.rcv_mss;
> - if (acked_bytes) {
> - ca->acked_bytes_total += acked_bytes;
> - ca->prior_snd_una = tp->snd_una;
> -
> - if (flags & CA_ACK_ECE)
> - ca->acked_bytes_ecn += acked_bytes;
> - }
>
> /* Expired RTT */
> if (!before(tp->snd_una, ca->next_seq)) {
> - u64 bytes_ecn = ca->acked_bytes_ecn;
> + u32 delivered_ce = tp->delivered_ce - ca->old_delivered_ce;
> u32 alpha = ca->dctcp_alpha;
>
> /* alpha = (1 - g) * alpha + g * F */
>
> alpha -= min_not_zero(alpha, alpha >> dctcp_shift_g);
> - if (bytes_ecn) {
> + if (delivered_ce) {
> + u32 delivered = tp->delivered - ca->old_delivered;
> +
> /* If dctcp_shift_g == 1, a 32bit value would overflow
> - * after 8 Mbytes.
> + * after 8 M packets.
> */
> - bytes_ecn <<= (10 - dctcp_shift_g);
> - do_div(bytes_ecn, max(1U, ca->acked_bytes_total));
> + delivered_ce <<= (10 - dctcp_shift_g);
> + delivered_ce /= max(1U, delivered);
>
> - alpha = min(alpha + (u32)bytes_ecn, DCTCP_MAX_ALPHA);
> + alpha = min(alpha + delivered_ce, DCTCP_MAX_ALPHA);
> }
> /* dctcp_alpha can be read from dctcp_get_info() without
> * synchro, so we ask compiler to not use dctcp_alpha
> @@ -200,6 +186,7 @@ static size_t dctcp_get_info(struct sock *sk, u32 ext, int *attr,
> union tcp_cc_info *info)
> {
> const struct dctcp *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
> + const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
>
> /* Fill it also in case of VEGASINFO due to req struct limits.
> * We can still correctly retrieve it later.
> @@ -211,8 +198,10 @@ static size_t dctcp_get_info(struct sock *sk, u32 ext, int *attr,
> info->dctcp.dctcp_enabled = 1;
> info->dctcp.dctcp_ce_state = (u16) ca->ce_state;
> info->dctcp.dctcp_alpha = ca->dctcp_alpha;
> - info->dctcp.dctcp_ab_ecn = ca->acked_bytes_ecn;
> - info->dctcp.dctcp_ab_tot = ca->acked_bytes_total;
> + info->dctcp.dctcp_ab_ecn = tp->mss_cache *
> + (tp->delivered_ce - ca->old_delivered_ce);
> + info->dctcp.dctcp_ab_tot = tp->mss_cache *
> + (tp->delivered - ca->old_delivered);
> }
>
> *attr = INET_DIAG_DCTCPINFO;
> --
> 2.21.0.392.gf8f6787159e-goog
>
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