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Message-ID: <0a5c7897-ed95-4198-9896-ddae64335083@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:10:08 +0200
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 10/15] tcp: accecn: AccECN option send control

On 4/22/25 5:35 PM, chia-yu.chang@...ia-bell-labs.com wrote:
> From: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@...nel.org>
> 
> Instead of sending the option in every ACK, limit sending to
> those ACKs where the option is necessary:
> - Handshake
> - "Change-triggered ACK" + the ACK following it. The
>   2nd ACK is necessary to unambiguously indicate which
>   of the ECN byte counters in increasing. The first
>   ACK has two counters increasing due to the ecnfield
>   edge.
> - ACKs with CE to allow CEP delta validations to take
>   advantage of the option.
> - Force option to be sent every at least once per 2^22
>   bytes. The check is done using the bit edges of the
>   byte counters (avoids need for extra variables).
> - AccECN option beacon to send a few times per RTT even if
>   nothing in the ECN state requires that. The default is 3
>   times per RTT, and its period can be set via
>   sysctl_tcp_ecn_option_beacon.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@...nel.org>
> Co-developed-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@...ia-bell-labs.com>
> Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@...ia-bell-labs.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/tcp.h        |  3 +++
>  include/net/netns/ipv4.h   |  1 +
>  include/net/tcp.h          |  1 +
>  net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c |  9 ++++++++
>  net/ipv4/tcp.c             |  5 ++++-
>  net/ipv4/tcp_input.c       | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c        |  1 +
>  net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c   |  2 ++
>  net/ipv4/tcp_output.c      | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  9 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/tcp.h b/include/linux/tcp.h
> index 0e032d9631ac..acb0727855f8 100644
> --- a/include/linux/tcp.h
> +++ b/include/linux/tcp.h
> @@ -309,8 +309,11 @@ struct tcp_sock {
>  	u8	received_ce_pending:4, /* Not yet transmit cnt of received_ce */
>  		unused2:4;
>  	u8	accecn_minlen:2,/* Minimum length of AccECN option sent */
> +		prev_ecnfield:2,/* ECN bits from the previous segment */
> +		accecn_opt_demand:2,/* Demand AccECN option for n next ACKs */
>  		est_ecnfield:2;/* ECN field for AccECN delivered estimates */
>  	u32	app_limited;	/* limited until "delivered" reaches this val */
> +	u64	accecn_opt_tstamp;	/* Last AccECN option sent timestamp */

AFAICS this field is only access in the tx path, while this chunk belong
to the tcp_sock_write_txrx group.

> @@ -740,6 +740,15 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_net_table[] = {
>  		.extra1		= SYSCTL_ZERO,
>  		.extra2		= SYSCTL_TWO,
>  	},
> +	{
> +		.procname	= "tcp_ecn_option_beacon",
> +		.data		= &init_net.ipv4.sysctl_tcp_ecn_option_beacon,
> +		.maxlen		= sizeof(u8),
> +		.mode		= 0644,
> +		.proc_handler	= proc_dou8vec_minmax,
> +		.extra1		= SYSCTL_ZERO,
> +		.extra2		= SYSCTL_FOUR,

The number of new sysctl is concerning high, and I don't see any
documentation update yet.

> @@ -6291,9 +6294,36 @@ void tcp_ecn_received_counters(struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb,
>  
>  		if (payload_len > 0) {
>  			u8 minlen = tcp_ecnfield_to_accecn_optfield(ecnfield);
> +			u32 oldbytes = tp->received_ecn_bytes[ecnfield - 1];
> +
>  			tp->received_ecn_bytes[ecnfield - 1] += payload_len;
>  			tp->accecn_minlen = max_t(u8, tp->accecn_minlen,
>  						  minlen);
> +
> +			/* Demand AccECN option at least every 2^22 bytes to
> +			 * avoid overflowing the ECN byte counters.
> +			 */
> +			if ((tp->received_ecn_bytes[ecnfield - 1] ^ oldbytes) &
> +			    ~((1 << 22) - 1)) {
> +				u8 opt_demand = max_t(u8, 1,
> +						      tp->accecn_opt_demand);
> +
> +				tp->accecn_opt_demand = opt_demand;
> +			}

I guess this explains the u32 values for such counters. Some comments in
the previous patch could be useful.

> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
> index 3f3e285fc973..2e95dad66fe3 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
> @@ -3451,6 +3451,7 @@ static int __net_init tcp_sk_init(struct net *net)
>  {
>  	net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_ecn = 2;
>  	net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_ecn_option = 2;
> +	net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_ecn_option_beacon = 3;
>  	net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_ecn_fallback = 1;

Human readable macros instead of magic numbers could help.

> @@ -1237,13 +1253,18 @@ static unsigned int tcp_established_options(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb
>  
>  	if (tcp_ecn_mode_accecn(tp) &&
>  	    sock_net(sk)->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_ecn_option) {
> -		int saving = opts->num_sack_blocks > 0 ? 2 : 0;
> -		int remaining = MAX_TCP_OPTION_SPACE - size;
> -
> -		opts->ecn_bytes = tp->received_ecn_bytes;
> -		size += tcp_options_fit_accecn(opts, tp->accecn_minlen,
> -					       remaining,
> -					       saving);
> +		if (sock_net(sk)->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_ecn_option >= 2 ||
> +		    tp->accecn_opt_demand ||
> +		    tcp_accecn_option_beacon_check(sk)) {

Why a nested if here and just not expanding the existing one?

/P


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