linux/net/ipv4
Doug Leith 8d3a564da3 tcp: tcp_vegas cong avoid fix
This patch addresses a book-keeping issue in tcp_vegas.c.  At present
tcp_vegas does separate book-keeping of cwnd based on packet sequence
numbers.  A mismatch can develop between this book-keeping and
tp->snd_cwnd due, for example, to delayed acks acking multiple
packets.  When vegas transitions to reno operation (e.g. following
loss), then this mismatch leads to incorrect behaviour (akin to a cwnd
backoff).  This seems mostly to affect operation at low cwnds where
delayed acking can lead to a significant fraction of cwnd being
covered by a single ack, leading to the book-keeping mismatch.  This
patch modifies the congestion avoidance update to avoid the need for
separate book-keeping while leaving vegas congestion avoidance
functionally unchanged.  A secondary advantage of this modification is
that the use of fixed-point (via V_PARAM_SHIFT) and 64 bit arithmetic
is no longer necessary, simplifying the code.

Some example test measurements with the patched code (confirming no functional
change in the congestion avoidance algorithm) can be seen at:

http://www.hamilton.ie/doug/vegaspatch/

Signed-off-by: Doug Leith <doug.leith@nuim.ie>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-09 00:13:04 -08:00
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netfilter netfilter: snmp nat leaks memory in case of failure 2008-10-20 03:33:24 -07:00
af_inet.c TPROXY: supply a struct flowi->flags argument in inet_sk_rebuild_header() 2008-11-20 01:08:06 -08:00
ah4.c
arp.c netfilter: replace old NF_ARP calls with NFPROTO_ARP 2008-10-20 03:34:51 -07:00
cipso_ipv4.c cipso: unsigned buf_len cannot be negative 2008-10-29 15:55:53 -04:00
datagram.c mib: add net to IP_INC_STATS_BH 2008-07-16 20:20:11 -07:00
devinet.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-10-17 08:58:52 -07:00
esp4.c ipsec: Interfamily IPSec BEET 2008-08-06 02:39:30 -07:00
fib_frontend.c netns: add namespace parameter to rt_cache_flush 2008-07-05 19:00:44 -07:00
fib_hash.c netns: add namespace parameter to rt_cache_flush 2008-07-05 19:00:44 -07:00
fib_lookup.h
fib_rules.c net: add fib_rules_ops to flush_cache method 2008-07-05 19:01:28 -07:00
fib_semantics.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-06-13 20:52:39 -07:00
fib_trie.c proc: consolidate per-net single-release callers 2008-07-18 04:07:44 -07:00
icmp.c net: Rationalise email address: Network Specific Parts 2008-10-13 19:01:08 -07:00
igmp.c net: Rationalise email address: Network Specific Parts 2008-10-13 19:01:08 -07:00
inet_connection_sock.c inet: cleanup of local_port_range 2008-10-08 14:18:04 -07:00
inet_diag.c net: Remove CONFIG_KMOD from net/ (towards removing CONFIG_KMOD entirely) 2008-10-16 15:24:51 -07:00
inet_fragment.c net: convert BUG_TRAP to generic WARN_ON 2008-07-25 21:43:18 -07:00
inet_hashtables.c net: convert BUG_TRAP to generic WARN_ON 2008-07-25 21:43:18 -07:00
inet_lro.c net/inet_lro: remove setting skb->ip_summed when not LRO-able 2008-06-27 20:09:00 -07:00
inet_timewait_sock.c ipv4: Implement IP_TRANSPARENT socket option 2008-10-01 07:30:02 -07:00
inetpeer.c net: remove CVS keywords 2008-06-11 21:00:38 -07:00
ip_forward.c mib: add net to IP_INC_STATS_BH 2008-07-16 20:20:11 -07:00
ip_fragment.c net: Rationalise email address: Network Specific Parts 2008-10-13 19:01:08 -07:00
ip_gre.c gre: Initialise rtnl_link tunnel parameters properly 2008-10-11 12:20:15 -07:00
ip_input.c net: shy netns_ok check 2008-11-12 23:23:51 -08:00
ip_options.c cipso: Add support for native local labeling and fixup mapping names 2008-10-10 10:16:34 -04:00
ip_output.c ipv4: Make Netfilter's ip_route_me_harder() non-local address compatible 2008-10-01 07:44:42 -07:00
ip_sockglue.c ipv4: Implement IP_TRANSPARENT socket option 2008-10-01 07:30:02 -07:00
ipcomp.c ipcomp: Fix warnings after ipcomp consolidation. 2008-07-27 03:59:24 -07:00
ipconfig.c netns: Use net_eq() to compare net-namespaces for optimization. 2008-07-19 22:34:43 -07:00
ipip.c net: Rationalise email address: Network Specific Parts 2008-10-13 19:01:08 -07:00
ipmr.c net: fix ip_mr_init() error path 2008-11-19 14:07:41 -08:00
Kconfig IPVS: Move IPVS to net/netfilter/ipvs 2008-10-07 08:38:24 +11:00
Makefile IPVS: Move IPVS to net/netfilter/ipvs 2008-10-07 08:38:24 +11:00
netfilter.c netfilter: netns: fix {ip,6}_route_me_harder() in netns 2008-10-08 11:35:03 +02:00
proc.c net: fix /proc/net/snmp as memory corruptor 2008-11-10 21:43:08 -08:00
protocol.c net: remove CVS keywords 2008-06-11 21:00:38 -07:00
raw.c mib: add net to IP_INC_STATS 2008-07-16 20:19:49 -07:00
route.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-10-17 08:58:52 -07:00
syncookies.c tcp: Port redirection support for TCP 2008-10-01 07:46:49 -07:00
sysctl_net_ipv4.c sysctl: simplify ->strategy 2008-10-16 11:21:47 -07:00
tcp_bic.c
tcp_cong.c net: Remove CONFIG_KMOD from net/ (towards removing CONFIG_KMOD entirely) 2008-10-16 15:24:51 -07:00
tcp_cubic.c
tcp_diag.c net: remove CVS keywords 2008-06-11 21:00:38 -07:00
tcp_highspeed.c
tcp_htcp.c tcp_htcp: last_cong bug fix 2008-11-12 01:41:09 -08:00
tcp_hybla.c tcp: Fix tcp_hybla zero congestion window growth with small rho and large cwnd. 2008-10-07 15:58:17 -07:00
tcp_illinois.c
tcp_input.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-10-08 14:56:41 -07:00
tcp_ipv4.c tcpv[46]: fix md5 pseudoheader address field ordering 2008-10-09 14:37:47 -07:00
tcp_lp.c
tcp_minisocks.c tcp: kill pointless urg_mode 2008-10-07 14:43:06 -07:00
tcp_output.c tcp: make urg+gso work for real this time 2008-12-03 21:24:48 -08:00
tcp_probe.c tcp: correct kcalloc usage 2008-07-10 16:51:32 -07:00
tcp_scalable.c
tcp_timer.c net: wrap sk->sk_backlog_rcv() 2008-10-07 14:18:42 -07:00
tcp_vegas.c tcp: tcp_vegas cong avoid fix 2008-12-09 00:13:04 -08:00
tcp_vegas.h
tcp_veno.c
tcp_westwood.c
tcp_yeah.c
tcp.c tcp: Fix recvmsg MSG_PEEK influence of blocking behavior. 2008-11-05 03:36:01 -08:00
tunnel4.c
udp_impl.h net: change proto destroy method to return void 2008-06-14 17:04:49 -07:00
udp.c TPROXY: fill struct flowi->flags in udp_sendmsg() 2008-11-20 01:07:24 -08:00
udplite.c mib: put udplite statistics on struct net 2008-07-18 04:03:45 -07:00
xfrm4_input.c
xfrm4_mode_beet.c ipsec: Interfamily IPSec BEET 2008-08-06 02:39:30 -07:00
xfrm4_mode_transport.c
xfrm4_mode_tunnel.c xfrm: fix fragmentation for ipv4 xfrm tunnel 2008-06-17 16:38:23 -07:00
xfrm4_output.c
xfrm4_policy.c
xfrm4_state.c xfrm: Have af-specific init_tempsel() initialize family field of temporary selector 2008-11-04 14:49:19 -08:00
xfrm4_tunnel.c