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authorStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>2006-10-25 23:04:12 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2006-10-25 23:04:12 -0700
commit22119240b1c8f64eebb6ffb368c927b2f8be4136 (patch)
tree0cdd861c612941b11ff24d4726cda11fb3e785b1 /net/ipv4
parent291b58d663862c3d42d2e8092f8b0dd3f15a94f8 (diff)
downloadlinux-22119240b1c8f64eebb6ffb368c927b2f8be4136.tar.gz
[TCP] cubic: scaling error
Doug Leith observed a discrepancy between the version of CUBIC described
in the papers and the version in 2.6.18. A math error related to scaling
causes Cubic to grow too slowly.

Patch is from "Sangtae Ha" <sha2@ncsu.edu>. I validated that
it does fix the problems.

See the following to show behavior over 500ms 100 Mbit link.

Sender (2.6.19-rc3) ---  Bridge (2.6.18-rt7) ------- Receiver (2.6.19-rc3)
                    1G      [netem]           100M

	http://developer.osdl.org/shemminger/tcp/2.6.19-rc3/cubic-orig.png
	http://developer.osdl.org/shemminger/tcp/2.6.19-rc3/cubic-fix.png

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c
index a60ef38d75c6..6ad184802266 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ static inline void bictcp_update(struct bictcp *ca, u32 cwnd)
          */
 
 	/* change the unit from HZ to bictcp_HZ */
-        t = ((tcp_time_stamp + ca->delay_min - ca->epoch_start)
+        t = ((tcp_time_stamp + (ca->delay_min>>3) - ca->epoch_start)
 	     << BICTCP_HZ) / HZ;
 
         if (t < ca->bic_K)		/* t - K */
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ static inline void measure_delay(struct sock *sk)
 	    (s32)(tcp_time_stamp - ca->epoch_start) < HZ)
 		return;
 
-	delay = tcp_time_stamp - tp->rx_opt.rcv_tsecr;
+	delay = (tcp_time_stamp - tp->rx_opt.rcv_tsecr)<<3;
 	if (delay == 0)
 		delay = 1;
 
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ static int __init cubictcp_register(void)
 
 	beta_scale = 8*(BICTCP_BETA_SCALE+beta)/ 3 / (BICTCP_BETA_SCALE - beta);
 
-	cube_rtt_scale = (bic_scale << 3) / 10;	/* 1024*c/rtt */
+	cube_rtt_scale = (bic_scale * 10);	/* 1024*c/rtt */
 
 	/* calculate the "K" for (wmax-cwnd) = c/rtt * K^3
 	 *  so K = cubic_root( (wmax-cwnd)*rtt/c )