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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2014-02-26 14:02:48 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-02-26 17:08:40 -0500
commit740b0f1841f6e39085b711d41db9ffb07198682b (patch)
tree7befd549fc20c51bff4c79790ad4520fcc0e324e /net/ipv4/tcp_vegas.c
parent363ec392352e55c61ce2799c3f15f89f9429bba7 (diff)
downloadlinux-740b0f1841f6e39085b711d41db9ffb07198682b.tar.gz
tcp: switch rtt estimations to usec resolution
Upcoming congestion controls for TCP require usec resolution for RTT
estimations. Millisecond resolution is simply not enough these days.

FQ/pacing in DC environments also require this change for finer control
and removal of bimodal behavior due to the current hack in
tcp_update_pacing_rate() for 'small rtt'

TCP_CONG_RTT_STAMP is no longer needed.

As Julian Anastasov pointed out, we need to keep user compatibility :
tcp_metrics used to export RTT and RTTVAR in msec resolution,
so we added RTT_US and RTTVAR_US. An iproute2 patch is needed
to use the new attributes if provided by the kernel.

In this example ss command displays a srtt of 32 usecs (10Gbit link)

lpk51:~# ./ss -i dst lpk52
Netid  State      Recv-Q Send-Q   Local Address:Port       Peer
Address:Port
tcp    ESTAB      0      1         10.246.11.51:42959
10.246.11.52:64614
         cubic wscale:6,6 rto:201 rtt:0.032/0.001 ato:40 mss:1448
cwnd:10 send
3620.0Mbps pacing_rate 7240.0Mbps unacked:1 rcv_rtt:993 rcv_space:29559

Updated iproute2 ip command displays :

lpk51:~# ./ip tcp_metrics | grep 10.246.11.52
10.246.11.52 age 561.914sec cwnd 10 rtt 274us rttvar 213us source
10.246.11.51

Old binary displays :

lpk51:~# ip tcp_metrics | grep 10.246.11.52
10.246.11.52 age 561.914sec cwnd 10 rtt 250us rttvar 125us source
10.246.11.51

With help from Julian Anastasov, Stephen Hemminger and Yuchung Cheng

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Larry Brakmo <brakmo@google.com>
Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp_vegas.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_vegas.c1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas.c
index a022c17c9cf1..48539fff6357 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas.c
@@ -306,7 +306,6 @@ void tcp_vegas_get_info(struct sock *sk, u32 ext, struct sk_buff *skb)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tcp_vegas_get_info);
 
 static struct tcp_congestion_ops tcp_vegas __read_mostly = {
-	.flags		= TCP_CONG_RTT_STAMP,
 	.init		= tcp_vegas_init,
 	.ssthresh	= tcp_reno_ssthresh,
 	.cong_avoid	= tcp_vegas_cong_avoid,