linux/net/sched
Eric Dumazet afe4fd0624 pkt_sched: fq: Fair Queue packet scheduler
- Uses perfect flow match (not stochastic hash like SFQ/FQ_codel)
- Uses the new_flow/old_flow separation from FQ_codel
- New flows get an initial credit allowing IW10 without added delay.
- Special FIFO queue for high prio packets (no need for PRIO + FQ)
- Uses a hash table of RB trees to locate the flows at enqueue() time
- Smart on demand gc (at enqueue() time, RB tree lookup evicts old
  unused flows)
- Dynamic memory allocations.
- Designed to allow millions of concurrent flows per Qdisc.
- Small memory footprint : ~8K per Qdisc, and 104 bytes per flow.
- Single high resolution timer for throttled flows (if any).
- One RB tree to link throttled flows.
- Ability to have a max rate per flow. We might add a socket option
  to add per socket limitation.

Attempts have been made to add TCP pacing in TCP stack, but this
seems to add complex code to an already complex stack.

TCP pacing is welcomed for flows having idle times, as the cwnd
permits TCP stack to queue a possibly large number of packets.

This removes the 'slow start after idle' choice, hitting badly
large BDP flows, and applications delivering chunks of data
as video streams.

Nicely spaced packets :
Here interface is 10Gbit, but flow bottleneck is ~20Mbit

cwin is big, yet FQ avoids the typical bursts generated by TCP
(as in netperf TCP_RR -- -r 100000,100000)

15:01:23.545279 IP A > B: . 78193:81089(2896) ack 65248 win 3125 <nop,nop,timestamp 1115 11597805>
15:01:23.545394 IP B > A: . ack 81089 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597985 1115>
15:01:23.546488 IP A > B: . 81089:83985(2896) ack 65248 win 3125 <nop,nop,timestamp 1115 11597805>
15:01:23.546565 IP B > A: . ack 83985 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597986 1115>
15:01:23.547713 IP A > B: . 83985:86881(2896) ack 65248 win 3125 <nop,nop,timestamp 1115 11597805>
15:01:23.547778 IP B > A: . ack 86881 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597987 1115>
15:01:23.548911 IP A > B: . 86881:89777(2896) ack 65248 win 3125 <nop,nop,timestamp 1115 11597805>
15:01:23.548949 IP B > A: . ack 89777 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597988 1115>
15:01:23.550116 IP A > B: . 89777:92673(2896) ack 65248 win 3125 <nop,nop,timestamp 1115 11597805>
15:01:23.550182 IP B > A: . ack 92673 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597989 1115>
15:01:23.551333 IP A > B: . 92673:95569(2896) ack 65248 win 3125 <nop,nop,timestamp 1115 11597805>
15:01:23.551406 IP B > A: . ack 95569 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597991 1115>
15:01:23.552539 IP A > B: . 95569:98465(2896) ack 65248 win 3125 <nop,nop,timestamp 1115 11597805>
15:01:23.552576 IP B > A: . ack 98465 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597992 1115>
15:01:23.553756 IP A > B: . 98465:99913(1448) ack 65248 win 3125 <nop,nop,timestamp 1115 11597805>
15:01:23.554138 IP A > B: P 99913:100001(88) ack 65248 win 3125 <nop,nop,timestamp 1115 11597805>
15:01:23.554204 IP B > A: . ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597993 1115>
15:01:23.554234 IP B > A: . 65248:68144(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597993 1115>
15:01:23.555620 IP B > A: . 68144:71040(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597993 1115>
15:01:23.557005 IP B > A: . 71040:73936(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597993 1115>
15:01:23.558390 IP B > A: . 73936:76832(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597993 1115>
15:01:23.559773 IP B > A: . 76832:79728(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597993 1115>
15:01:23.561158 IP B > A: . 79728:82624(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.562543 IP B > A: . 82624:85520(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.563928 IP B > A: . 85520:88416(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.565313 IP B > A: . 88416:91312(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.566698 IP B > A: . 91312:94208(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.568083 IP B > A: . 94208:97104(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.569467 IP B > A: . 97104:100000(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.570852 IP B > A: . 100000:102896(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.572237 IP B > A: . 102896:105792(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.573639 IP B > A: . 105792:108688(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.575024 IP B > A: . 108688:111584(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.576408 IP B > A: . 111584:114480(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>
15:01:23.577793 IP B > A: . 114480:117376(2896) ack 100001 win 3668 <nop,nop,timestamp 11597994 1115>

TCP timestamps show that most packets from B were queued in the same ms
timeframe (TSval 1159799{3,4}), but FQ managed to send them right
in time to avoid a big burst.

In slow start or steady state, very few packets are throttled [1]

FQ gets a bunch of tunables as :

  limit : max number of packets on whole Qdisc (default 10000)

  flow_limit : max number of packets per flow (default 100)

  quantum : the credit per RR round (default is 2 MTU)

  initial_quantum : initial credit for new flows (default is 10 MTU)

  maxrate : max per flow rate (default : unlimited)

  buckets : number of RB trees (default : 1024) in hash table.
               (consumes 8 bytes per bucket)

  [no]pacing : disable/enable pacing (default is enable)

All of them can be changed on a live qdisc.

$ tc qd add dev eth0 root fq help
Usage: ... fq [ limit PACKETS ] [ flow_limit PACKETS ]
              [ quantum BYTES ] [ initial_quantum BYTES ]
              [ maxrate RATE  ] [ buckets NUMBER ]
              [ [no]pacing ]

$ tc -s -d qd
qdisc fq 8002: dev eth0 root refcnt 32 limit 10000p flow_limit 100p buckets 256 quantum 3028 initial_quantum 15140
 Sent 216532416 bytes 148395 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 14)
 backlog 0b 0p requeues 14
  511 flows, 511 inactive, 0 throttled
  110 gc, 0 highprio, 0 retrans, 1143 throttled, 0 flows_plimit

[1] Except if initial srtt is overestimated, as if using
cached srtt in tcp metrics. We'll provide a fix for this issue.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-29 21:38:31 -04:00
..
act_api.c rtnetlink: Remove passing of attributes into rtnl_doit functions 2013-03-22 10:31:16 -04:00
act_csum.c act_csum: fix possible use after free 2013-04-12 15:25:41 -04:00
act_gact.c pkt_sched: namespace aware act_mirred 2013-01-14 15:09:36 -05:00
act_ipt.c net_sched: act_ipt forward compat with xtables 2013-05-01 13:19:19 -04:00
act_mirred.c net: pass info struct via netdevice notifier 2013-05-28 13:11:01 -07:00
act_nat.c pkt_sched: namespace aware act_mirred 2013-01-14 15:09:36 -05:00
act_pedit.c net: Add skb_unclone() helper function. 2013-02-15 15:10:37 -05:00
act_police.c net_sched: restore "overhead xxx" handling 2013-06-02 22:22:35 -07:00
act_simple.c pkt_sched: namespace aware act_mirred 2013-01-14 15:09:36 -05:00
act_skbedit.c pkt_sched: namespace aware act_mirred 2013-01-14 15:09:36 -05:00
cls_api.c net_cls: remove duplicated include from cls_api.c 2013-04-07 17:12:01 -04:00
cls_basic.c pkt_sched: namespace aware act_mirred 2013-01-14 15:09:36 -05:00
cls_cgroup.c pkt_sched: namespace aware act_mirred 2013-01-14 15:09:36 -05:00
cls_flow.c netlink: rename ssk to sk in struct netlink_skb_params 2013-04-19 14:57:56 -04:00
cls_fw.c pkt_sched: fix error return code in fw_change_attrs() 2013-04-19 17:34:53 -04:00
cls_route.c pkt_sched: namespace aware act_mirred 2013-01-14 15:09:36 -05:00
cls_rsvp6.c
cls_rsvp.c
cls_rsvp.h pkt_sched: namespace aware act_mirred 2013-01-14 15:09:36 -05:00
cls_tcindex.c pkt_sched: namespace aware act_mirred 2013-01-14 15:09:36 -05:00
cls_u32.c pkt_sched: namespace aware act_mirred 2013-01-14 15:09:36 -05:00
em_canid.c net: em_canid: Ematch rule to match CAN frames according to their identifiers 2012-07-04 13:07:05 +02:00
em_cmp.c net_sched: cleanups 2011-01-19 23:31:12 -08:00
em_ipset.c netfilter: ipset: Introduce extensions to elements in the core 2013-04-29 20:08:54 +02:00
em_meta.c net: use a per task frag allocator 2012-09-24 16:31:37 -04:00
em_nbyte.c net_sched: cleanups 2011-01-19 23:31:12 -08:00
em_text.c net_sched: cleanups 2011-01-19 23:31:12 -08:00
em_u32.c net_sched: cleanups 2011-01-19 23:31:12 -08:00
ematch.c net: Convert net_ratelimit uses to net_<level>_ratelimited 2012-05-15 13:45:03 -04:00
Kconfig pkt_sched: fq: Fair Queue packet scheduler 2013-08-29 21:38:31 -04:00
Makefile pkt_sched: fq: Fair Queue packet scheduler 2013-08-29 21:38:31 -04:00
sch_api.c net_sched: restore "linklayer atm" handling 2013-08-15 01:43:08 -07:00
sch_atm.c net_sched: info leak in atm_tc_dump_class() 2013-07-31 15:04:19 -07:00
sch_blackhole.c
sch_cbq.c net_sched: Fix stack info leak in cbq_dump_wrr(). 2013-07-30 00:16:21 -07:00
sch_choke.c net/sched: rename random32() to prandom_u32() 2013-04-29 18:28:43 -07:00
sch_codel.c fq_codel: should use qdisc backlog as threshold 2012-05-16 15:30:26 -04:00
sch_drr.c net_sched: add 64bit rate estimators 2013-06-11 02:51:03 -07:00
sch_dsmark.c net: sched: factorize code (qdisc_drop()) 2012-05-04 11:50:05 -04:00
sch_fifo.c pkt_sched: Stop using NLA_PUT*(). 2012-04-01 18:11:37 -04:00
sch_fq_codel.c net: fq_codel: Fix off-by-one error 2013-03-29 15:32:23 -04:00
sch_fq.c pkt_sched: fq: Fair Queue packet scheduler 2013-08-29 21:38:31 -04:00
sch_generic.c net_sched: restore "linklayer atm" handling 2013-08-15 01:43:08 -07:00
sch_gred.c net_sched: gred: actually perform idling in WRED mode 2012-09-13 16:10:13 -04:00
sch_hfsc.c net_sched: add 64bit rate estimators 2013-06-11 02:51:03 -07:00
sch_htb.c net_sched: restore "linklayer atm" handling 2013-08-15 01:43:08 -07:00
sch_ingress.c net_sched: factorize qdisc stats handling 2011-01-10 16:07:54 -08:00
sch_mq.c pkt_sched: avoid requeues if possible 2012-12-12 00:16:47 -05:00
sch_mqprio.c pkt_sched: avoid requeues if possible 2012-12-12 00:16:47 -05:00
sch_multiq.c pkt_sched: Stop using NLA_PUT*(). 2012-04-01 18:11:37 -04:00
sch_netem.c netem: Introduce skb_orphan_partial() helper 2013-07-31 14:59:49 -07:00
sch_plug.c net_sched: sch_plug: plug_qdisc_ops is static 2012-02-13 16:04:40 -05:00
sch_prio.c pkt_sched: Stop using NLA_PUT*(). 2012-04-01 18:11:37 -04:00
sch_qfq.c pkt_sched: sch_qfq: remove a source of high packet delay/jitter 2013-07-18 13:02:00 -07:00
sch_red.c pkt_sched: Stop using NLA_PUT*(). 2012-04-01 18:11:37 -04:00
sch_sfb.c sch_sfb: Fix missing NULL check 2012-07-12 08:33:18 -07:00
sch_sfq.c pkt_sched: Stop using NLA_PUT*(). 2012-04-01 18:11:37 -04:00
sch_tbf.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-06-05 16:37:30 -07:00
sch_teql.c sch_teql: Convert over to dev_neigh_lookup_skb(). 2012-07-05 01:09:06 -07:00