netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/13] tcp: add optional usec resolution to TCP TS

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Message-ID: <CAPREpbZ8p-uEEot=temVGHd5QuDnuJhj7sARM+A6hv22TfkU5Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:29:15 -0400
From: Kevin Yang <yyd@...gle.com>
To: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>, Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>, 
	Van Jacobson <vanj@...gle.com>, Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/13] tcp: add optional usec resolution to TCP TS

Thanks Eric, this nice feature has been beneficial to Google for so
many years and is finally happening upstream :)

Acked-by: Kevin Yang <yyd@...gle.com>


On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 12:20 PM Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
<soheil@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 12:11 PM Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 5:57 AM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > As discussed in various public places in 2016, Google adopted
> > > usec resolution in RFC 7323 TS values, at Van Jacobson suggestion.
> > >
> > > Goals were :
> > >
> > > 1) better observability of delays in networking stacks/fabrics.
> > >
> > > 2) better disambiguation of events based on TSval/ecr values.
> > >
> > > 3) building block for congestion control modules needing usec resolution.
> > >
> > > Back then we implemented a schem based on private SYN options
> > > to safely negotiate the feature.
> > >
> > > For upstream submission, we chose to use a much simpler route
> > > attribute because this feature is probably going to be used
> > > in private networks.
> > >
> > > ip route add 10/8 ... features tcp_usec_ts
> > >
> > > References:
> > >
> > > https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/97/slides/slides-97-tcpm-tcp-options-for-low-latency-00.pdf
> > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-tcpm-low-latency-opt/
> > >
> > > First two patches are fixing old minor bugs and might be taken
> > > by stable teams (thanks to appropriate Fixes: tags)
> >
> > Huge thanks to Eric for making this happen for real :-) an immediate
> > benefit is enabling TCP timestamp based undos (Eifel) for short RTT
> > transactions. This allows datacenter TCP to use more aggressive
> > timeout w/o worrying too much of spurious timeout cwnd effect
> >
> > Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
>
> Thank you so much, Eric, for upstreaming the feature!  This is a major
> milestone.
>
> Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
>
> >
> > >
> > > Eric Dumazet (13):
> > >   chtls: fix tp->rcv_tstamp initialization
> > >   tcp: fix cookie_init_timestamp() overflows
> > >   tcp: add tcp_time_stamp_ms() helper
> > >   tcp: introduce tcp_clock_ms()
> > >   tcp: replace tcp_time_stamp_raw()
> > >   tcp: rename tcp_skb_timestamp()
> > >   tcp: move tcp_ns_to_ts() to net/ipv4/syncookies.c
> > >   tcp: rename tcp_time_stamp() to tcp_time_stamp_ts()
> > >   tcp: add tcp_rtt_tsopt_us()
> > >   tcp: add RTAX_FEATURE_TCP_USEC_TS
> > >   tcp: introduce TCP_PAWS_WRAP
> > >   tcp: add support for usec resolution in TCP TS values
> > >   tcp: add TCPI_OPT_USEC_TS
> > >
> > >  .../chelsio/inline_crypto/chtls/chtls_cm.c    |  2 +-
> > >  include/linux/tcp.h                           |  9 ++-
> > >  include/net/inet_timewait_sock.h              |  3 +-
> > >  include/net/tcp.h                             | 59 ++++++++++++++-----
> > >  include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h                | 18 +++---
> > >  include/uapi/linux/tcp.h                      |  1 +
> > >  net/ipv4/syncookies.c                         | 32 ++++++----
> > >  net/ipv4/tcp.c                                | 26 +++++---
> > >  net/ipv4/tcp_input.c                          | 52 ++++++++--------
> > >  net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c                           |  5 +-
> > >  net/ipv4/tcp_lp.c                             |  2 +-
> > >  net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c                      | 19 ++++--
> > >  net/ipv4/tcp_output.c                         | 14 +++--
> > >  net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c                          | 44 +++++++++-----
> > >  net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c                           |  5 +-
> > >  net/netfilter/nf_synproxy_core.c              |  2 +-
> > >  .../selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_synproxy_kern.c   |  4 +-
> > >  17 files changed, 193 insertions(+), 104 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.42.0.655.g421f12c284-goog
> > >