linux/include
Yuchung Cheng c0402760f5 tcp: new CC hook to set sending rate with rate_sample in any CA state
This commit introduces an optional new "omnipotent" hook,
cong_control(), for congestion control modules. The cong_control()
function is called at the end of processing an ACK (i.e., after
updating sequence numbers, the SACK scoreboard, and loss
detection). At that moment we have precise delivery rate information
the congestion control module can use to control the sending behavior
(using cwnd, TSO skb size, and pacing rate) in any CA state.

This function can also be used by a congestion control that prefers
not to use the default cwnd reduction approach (i.e., the PRR
algorithm) during CA_Recovery to control the cwnd and sending rate
during loss recovery.

We take advantage of the fact that recent changes defer the
retransmission or transmission of new data (e.g. by F-RTO) in recovery
until the new tcp_cong_control() function is run.

With this commit, we only run tcp_update_pacing_rate() if the
congestion control is not using this new API. New congestion controls
which use the new API do not want the TCP stack to run the default
pacing rate calculation and overwrite whatever pacing rate they have
chosen at initialization time.

Signed-off-by: Van Jacobson <vanj@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-09-21 00:23:01 -04:00
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acpi treewide: replace obsolete _refok by __ref 2016-08-02 17:31:41 -04:00
asm-generic mm/usercopy: get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS 2016-08-30 10:10:21 -07:00
clocksource
crypto A number of improvements for the /dev/random driver; the most 2016-07-27 15:11:55 -07:00
drm Merge branch 'drm-next-4.8' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux into drm-next 2016-08-08 16:45:33 +10:00
dt-bindings ARM: DT updates for v4.8 2016-08-01 18:37:45 -04:00
keys
kvm KVM/ARM Changes for v4.8 - Take 2 2016-08-04 13:59:56 +02:00
linux tcp: export data delivery rate 2016-09-21 00:23:00 -04:00
math-emu
media dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs 2016-08-04 08:50:07 -04:00
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misc
net tcp: new CC hook to set sending rate with rate_sample in any CA state 2016-09-21 00:23:01 -04:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma IB/core: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its implementation 2016-08-23 12:40:13 -04:00
rxrpc rxrpc: Rewrite the data and ack handling code 2016-09-08 11:10:12 +01:00
scsi Merge remote-tracking branch 'mkp-scsi/4.8/scsi-fixes' into fixes 2016-08-19 07:41:12 -07:00
soc ARM: SoC driver updates for v4.8 2016-08-01 18:36:01 -04:00
sound Merge tag 'drm-for-v4.8' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2016-08-01 21:44:08 -04:00
target
trace rxrpc: Improve skb tracing 2016-09-17 11:24:04 +01:00
uapi tcp: export data delivery rate 2016-09-21 00:23:00 -04:00
video
xen xen: change the type of xen_vcpu_id to uint32_t 2016-08-24 18:17:27 +01:00
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