UDP checksums are optional, hence pktgen has been omitting them in
favour of performance. The optional flag UDPCSUM enables UDP
checksumming. If the output device supports hardware checksumming
the skb is prepared and marked CHECKSUM_PARTIAL, otherwise the
checksum is generated in software.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is useful for other VSOCK transport implemented outside the
net/vmw_vsock/ directory to use these headers.
Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Darren Hart says:
====================
Add support for the MinnowBoard in the pch_gbe driver. This was
originally sent to LKML as part of the MinnowBoard support series. That
is now partially merged and this version of the patch has been isolated
from those changes and is now completely self-contained.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The default RX_QLEN()/TX_QLEN() didn't consider super speed
USB device, so only max 4 URBs are scheduled at the same time
for tx/rx, then USB3 NIC can't perform very well.
With this patch, both rx and tx thoughput are increased more than
100Mbps when doing iperf test on ax88179_178a USB 3.0 NIC.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch centralizes computing of max rx/tx qlen, because:
- RX_QLEN()/TX_QLEN() is called in hot path
- computing depends on device's usb speed, now we have ls/fs, hs, ss,
so more checks need to be involved
- in fact, max rx/tx qlen should not only depend on device USB
speed, but also depend on ethernet link speed, so we need to
consider that in future.
- if SG support is done, max tx qlen may need change too
Generally, hard_mtu and rx_urb_size are changed in bind(), reset()
and link_reset() callback, and change mtu network operation, this
patches introduces the API of usbnet_update_max_qlen(), and calls
it in above path.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Inspired by commit f09e2249c4 (macvtap: restore
vlan header on user read). This patch adds hardware vlan tx support for
tuntap. This is done by copying vlan header directly into userspace in
tun_put_user() instead of doing it through __vlan_put_tag() in
dev_hard_start_xmit(). This eliminates one unnecessary memmove() in
vlan_insert_tag() for 802.1ad and 802.1q traffic.
pktgen test shows about 20% improvement for 802.1q traffic:
Before:
662149pps 317Mb/sec (317831520bps) errors: 0
After:
801033pps 384Mb/sec (384495840bps) errors: 0
Cc: Basil Gor <basil.gor@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch consolidates the SCTP checksum calculation code from various
places to a single new function, sctp_compute_cksum(skb, offset).
Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joe@wand.net.nz>
Reviewed-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
For small packets we can simplify xmit processing
by linearizing buffers with the header:
most packets seem to have enough head room
we can use for this purpose.
Since existing hypervisors require that header
is the first s/g element, we need a feature bit
for this.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This started out with fixing a sparse warning, then I realized that
the wrapper function bond_netpoll_info could just be removed
by rolling it into the enable code.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This started out with fixing a sparse warning, then I realized that
the wrapper function team_netpoll_info could just be collapsed away
by rolling it into the enable code.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This started out with fixing a sparse warning, then I realized that
the wrapper function br_netpoll_info could just be collapsed away
by rolling it into the enable code.
Also, eliminate unnecessary goto's
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We have BOND_MODE_ROUNDROBIN pre-defined as 0, and it's the lowest
mode number.
Use it to check the arg lower bound instead of magic number 0 in
bond_mode_name.
Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The MinnowBoard uses an AR803x PHY with the PCH GBE which requires
special handling. Use the MinnowBoard PCI Subsystem ID to detect this
and add a pci_device_id.driver_data structure and functions to handle
platform setup.
The AR803x does not implement the RGMII 2ns TX clock delay in the trace
routing nor via strapping. Add a detection method for the board and the
PHY and enable the TX clock delay via the registers.
This PHY will hibernate without link for 10 seconds. Ensure the PHY is
awake for probe and then disable hibernation. A future improvement would
be to convert pch_gbe to using PHYLIB and making sure we can wake the
PHY at the necessary times rather than permanently disabling it.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Waskiewicz <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
devm_ioremap_resource does sanity checks on the given resource. No need to
duplicate this in the driver.
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Avoid using magic numbers when we have perfectly good defines just lying
around.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Waskiewicz <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
No users outside net/core/dev.c.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Idea of this patch is to add optional limitation of number of
unsent bytes in TCP sockets, to reduce usage of kernel memory.
TCP receiver might announce a big window, and TCP sender autotuning
might allow a large amount of bytes in write queue, but this has little
performance impact if a large part of this buffering is wasted :
Write queue needs to be large only to deal with large BDP, not
necessarily to cope with scheduling delays (incoming ACKS make room
for the application to queue more bytes)
For most workloads, using a value of 128 KB or less is OK to give
applications enough time to react to POLLOUT events in time
(or being awaken in a blocking sendmsg())
This patch adds two ways to set the limit :
1) Per socket option TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT
2) A sysctl (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat) for sockets
not using TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option (or setting a zero value)
Default value being UINT_MAX (0xFFFFFFFF), meaning this has no effect.
This changes poll()/select()/epoll() to report POLLOUT
only if number of unsent bytes is below tp->nosent_lowat
Note this might increase number of sendmsg()/sendfile() calls
when using non blocking sockets,
and increase number of context switches for blocking sockets.
Note this is not related to SO_SNDLOWAT (as SO_SNDLOWAT is
defined as :
Specify the minimum number of bytes in the buffer until
the socket layer will pass the data to the protocol)
Tested:
netperf sessions, and watching /proc/net/protocols "memory" column for TCP
With 200 concurrent netperf -t TCP_STREAM sessions, amount of kernel memory
used by TCP buffers shrinks by ~55 % (20567 pages instead of 45458)
lpq83:~# echo -1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
lpq83:~# (super_netperf 200 -t TCP_STREAM -H remote -l 90 &); sleep 60 ; grep TCP /proc/net/protocols
TCPv6 1880 2 45458 no 208 yes ipv6 y y y y y y y y y y y y y n y y y y y
TCP 1696 508 45458 no 208 yes kernel y y y y y y y y y y y y y n y y y y y
lpq83:~# echo 131072 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
lpq83:~# (super_netperf 200 -t TCP_STREAM -H remote -l 90 &); sleep 60 ; grep TCP /proc/net/protocols
TCPv6 1880 2 20567 no 208 yes ipv6 y y y y y y y y y y y y y n y y y y y
TCP 1696 508 20567 no 208 yes kernel y y y y y y y y y y y y y n y y y y y
Using 128KB has no bad effect on the throughput or cpu usage
of a single flow, although there is an increase of context switches.
A bonus is that we hold socket lock for a shorter amount
of time and should improve latencies of ACK processing.
lpq83:~# echo -1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
lpq83:~# perf stat -e context-switches ./netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t omni -l 20 -c -i10,3
OMNI Send TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : +/-2.500% @ 99% conf.
Local Remote Local Elapsed Throughput Throughput Local Local Remote Remote Local Remote Service
Send Socket Recv Socket Send Time Units CPU CPU CPU CPU Service Service Demand
Size Size Size (sec) Util Util Util Util Demand Demand Units
Final Final % Method % Method
1651584 6291456 16384 20.00 17447.90 10^6bits/s 3.13 S -1.00 U 0.353 -1.000 usec/KB
Performance counter stats for './netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t omni -l 20 -c -i10,3':
412,514 context-switches
200.034645535 seconds time elapsed
lpq83:~# echo 131072 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
lpq83:~# perf stat -e context-switches ./netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t omni -l 20 -c -i10,3
OMNI Send TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : +/-2.500% @ 99% conf.
Local Remote Local Elapsed Throughput Throughput Local Local Remote Remote Local Remote Service
Send Socket Recv Socket Send Time Units CPU CPU CPU CPU Service Service Demand
Size Size Size (sec) Util Util Util Util Demand Demand Units
Final Final % Method % Method
1593240 6291456 16384 20.00 17321.16 10^6bits/s 3.35 S -1.00 U 0.381 -1.000 usec/KB
Performance counter stats for './netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t omni -l 20 -c -i10,3':
2,675,818 context-switches
200.029651391 seconds time elapsed
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-By: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Several call sites use the hardcoded following condition :
sk_stream_wspace(sk) >= sk_stream_min_wspace(sk)
Lets use a helper because TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT support will change this
condition for TCP sockets.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
After this file has moved to the uapi section, we also need to update
this in the maintainers file.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The SCTP mailing list address to send patches or questions
to is linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org and not
lksctp-developers@lists.sourceforge.net anymore. Therefore,
update all occurences.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add support to show CPSW hardware statistics to user via ethtool
so user can find if there were any error reported by hardware or
the system is over loaded duing high data rate transfer.
Signed-off-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The error is found by the checkpatch.pl tools.
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We need rtnl protection while reading slave_cnt and updating
the .fail_over_mac, and it also follows the logic "don't change
anything slave-related without rtnl". :)
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c:1302: ERROR: else should follow close brace '}'
net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c:1314: ERROR: else should follow close brace '}'
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The slave_xxx_netpoll will call synchronize_rcu_bh(),
so the function may schedule and sleep, it should't be
called under spinlocks.
bond_netpoll_setup() and bond_netpoll_cleanup() are always
protected by rtnl lock, it is no need to take the read lock,
as the slave list couldn't be changed outside rtnl lock.
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch moves all enic ethtool hooks from enic_main.c to a new file
enic_ethtool.c
Signed-off-by: Neel Patel <neepatel@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Benvenuti <benve@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishank Trivedi <nistrive@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch gets rid of the following warning:
net/9p/trans_rdma.c:594:12: warning: ‘rdma_cancelled’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
static int rdma_cancelled(struct p9_client *client, struct p9_req_t *req)
The rdma_cancelled function is not called anywhere in the kernel
Signed-off-by: Andi Shyti <andi@etezian.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sathya Perla says:
====================
The following patches are mostly for providing MAC
filtering ability for VFs. Pls apply. Thanks!
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently the UC-list is being deleted from the HW MAC table, but the primary
MAC is not.
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
On SH-R and Lancer-R, GET_MAC_LIST cmd is better supported
(instead of NTWK_MAC_QUERY cmd) to query provisioned MAC addresses.
Similiarly, (on SH-R and Lancer-R) SET_MAC_LIST must be used by the PF to
provision a permanent MAC addresses to the VF.
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The code to configure the permanent MAC in be_setup() has become quite
complicated, with different FW cmds being used for BEx, SH-R and Lancer.
Simplify the logic by moving some of this complexity to be_cmds.c. This
makes the code in be_setup() a little more readable.
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
For BE3 VFs, the permanent MAC is added by its PF. The VF can retrieve its
pmac_id only via the IFACE_CREATE cmd. This is not true for Lancer and SH-R
VFs which get the pmac_id by issuing a ADD_IFACE_MAC cmd. So, use this
hack only for BE3 VFs.
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In the current design VFs were not allowed to program MAC/VLAN filters.
Only the PF driver was allowed to configure/provision MAC and transparent
VLANs to a VF. Change this to support MAC/VLAN filtering on a VF by a VM.
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently, the VFs by default don't have the privilege to modify MAC address.
This will change in a subsequent fix wherein VFs will have the ability to
modify MAC/VLAN filters.
Fix be_mac_addr_set() logic to support MAC address modification on a
privileged VF too.
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is a copy of support for r8a7778/9 with the .rmiimode mode bit
of struct sh_eth_cpu_data set.
Also update R8A7779 to R8A777x.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This register is prsent on the r8a7790 SoC.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The "int addrlen" in fib6_add_1 is rebundant, as we can get it from
parameter "struct in6_addr *addr" once we modified its type.
And also fix some coding style issues in fib6_add_1
Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Seting rt->rt6i_nsiblings to zero is rebundant, because above memset
zeroed the rest of rt excluding the first dst memember.
Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
GRE tunnel and IPIP tunnel already switched to the new
ip tunnel code, VTI tunnel can use it too.
Cc: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Saurabh Mohan <saurabh.mohan@vyatta.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch changes the prototpye of the ip6_mr_forward() method to return void
instead of int.
The ip6_mr_forward() method always returns 0; moreover, the return value of this
method is not checked anywhere.
Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch changes the prototpye of the ip_mr_forward() method to return void
instead of int.
The ip_mr_forward() method always returns 0; moreover, the return value of this
method is not checked anywhere.
Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jiri Pirko says:
====================
The middle patch adjusts core infrastructure so the bonding code can be
generalized and reused by team.
v1->v2: using msecs_to_jiffies() as suggested by Eric
Jiri Pirko (3):
team: add peer notification
net: convert resend IGMP to notifier event
team: add support for sending multicast rejoins
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Similar to what is implemented in bonding. User is able to ask team
driver to send IGMP rejoins in case port is enabled or disabled. Using
previously introduced netdev notifier.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Until now, bond_resend_igmp_join_requests() looks for vlans attached to
bonding device, bridge where bonding act as port manually. It does not
care of other scenarios, like stacked bonds or team device above. Make
this more generic and use netdev notifier to propagate the event to
upper devices and to actually call ip_mc_rejoin_groups().
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Acked-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When port is enabled or disabled, allow to notify peers by unsolicitated
NAs or gratuitous ARPs. Disabled by default.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add support for iproute2 command 'bridge fdb replace ...'.
The rtnletlink call back function ndo_fdb_add will be called
with the NLM_F_REPLACE flag set.
Simply return -EOPNOTSUP.
Resubmitted because net-next was closed last week.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add support to replace an existing entry found in the
vxlan fdb database. The entry in question is identified
by its unicast mac address and the destination information
is changed. If the entry is not found, it is added in the
forwarding database. This is similar to changing an entry
in the neighbour table.
Multicast mac addresses can not be changed with the replace
option.
This is useful for virtual machine migration when the
destination of a target virtual machine changes. The replace
feature can be used instead of delete followed by add.
Resubmitted because net-next was closed last week.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Yuchung Cheng says:
====================
This patch series improve RTT sampling in three ways:
1. Sample RTT during fast recovery and reordering events.
2. Favor ack-based RTT to timestamps because of broken TS ECR fields
3. Consolidate the RTT measurement logic.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If RTT is not available because Karn's check has failed or no
new packet is acked, use the RTT measured from SACK to estimate
the RTO. The sender can continue to estimate the RTO during loss
recovery or reordering event upon receiving non-partial ACKs.
This also changes when the RTO is re-armed. Previously it is
only re-armed when some data is cummulatively acknowledged (i.e.,
SND.UNA advances), but now it is re-armed whenever RTT estimator
is updated. This feature is particularly useful to reduce spurious
timeout for buffer bloat including cellular carriers [1], and
RTT estimation on reordering events.
[1] "An In-depth Study of LTE: Effect of Network Protocol and
Application Behavior on Performance", In Proc. of SIGCOMM 2013
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Take RTT sample if an ACK selectively acks some sequences that
have never been retransmitted. The Karn's algorithm does not apply
even if that ACK (s)acks other retransmitted sequences, because it
must been generated by an original but perhaps out-of-order packet.
There is no ambiguity. In case when multiple blocks are newly
sacked because of ACK losses the earliest block is used to
measure RTT, similar to cummulative ACKs.
Such RTT samples allow the sender to estimate the RTO during loss
recovery and packet reordering events. It is still useful even with
TCP timestamps. That's because during these events the SND.UNA may
not advance preventing RTT samples from TS ECR (thus the FLAG_ACKED
check before calling tcp_ack_update_rtt()). Therefore this new
RTT source is complementary to existing ACK and TS RTT mechanisms.
This patch does not update the RTO. It is done in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
