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2006-12-11[DCCP] ccid3: Fixup some type conversions related to rttsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Spotted by David Miller when compiling on sparc64, I reproduced it here on parisc64, that are the only platforms to define __kernel_suseconds_t as an 'int', all the others, x86_64 and x86 included typedef it as a 'long', but from the definition of suseconds_t it should just be an 'int' on platforms where it is >= 32bits, it would not require all the castings from suseconds_t to (int) when printking variables of this type, that are not needed on parisc64 and sparc64. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-11[DCCP] ccid3: BUG-FIX - conversion errorsGerrit Renker
This fixes conversion errors which arose by not properly type-casting from u32 to __u64. Fixed by explicitly casting each type which is not __u64, or by performing operation after assignment. The patch further adds missing debug information to track the current value of X_recv. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-11[DCCP] ccid3: Reorder packet history source fileGerrit Renker
No code change at all. This reorders the source file to follow the same order as the corresponding header file. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-11[DCCP] ccid3: Reorder packet history header fileGerrit Renker
No code change at all. To make the header file easier to read, the following ordering is established among the declarations: * hist_new * hist_delete * hist_entry_new * hist_head * hist_find_entry * hist_add_entry * hist_entry_delete * hist_purge Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-11[DCCP] ccid3: Make debug output consistentGerrit Renker
This patch does not alter any algorithm, just the debug message format: * s#%s, sk=%p#%s(%p)#g * when a statename is present, it now uses %s(%p, state=%s) * when only function entry is debugged, it adds an `- entry' Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-11[DCCP] ccid3: Perform history operations only after packet has been sentGerrit Renker
This migrates all packet history operations into the routine ccid3_hc_tx_packet_sent, thereby removing synchronization problems that occur when, as before, the operations are spread over multiple routines. The following minor simplifications are also applied: * several simplifications now follow from this change - several tests are now no longer required * removal of one unnecessary variable (dp) Justification: Currently packet history operations span two different routines, one of which is likely to pass through several iterations of sleeping and awakening. The first routine, ccid3_hc_tx_send_packet, allocates an entry and sets a few fields. The remaining fields are filled in when the second routine (which is not within a sleeping context), ccid3_hc_tx_packet_sent, is called. This has several strong drawbacks: * it is not necessary to split history operations - all fields can be filled in by the second routine * the first routine is called multiple times, until a packet can be sent, and sleeps meanwhile - this causes a lot of difficulties with regard to keeping the list consistent * since both routines do not have a producer-consumer like synchronization, it is very difficult to maintain data across calls to these routines * the fact that the routines are called in different contexts (sleeping, not sleeping) adds further problems Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-11[DCCP] ccid3: TX history - remove unused fieldGerrit Renker
This removes the `dccphtx_ccval' field since it is nowhere used in the code and in fact not necessary for the accounting. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-11[DCCP] ccid3: Shift window counter computationGerrit Renker
This puts the window counter computation [RFC 4342, 8.1] into a separate function which is called whenever a new packet is ready for immediate transmission in ccid3_hc_tx_send_packet. Justification: The window counter update was previously computed after the packet was sent. This has two drawbacks, both fixed by this patch: 1) re-compute another timestamp almost directly after the packet was sent (expensive), 2) the CCVal for the window counter is needed at the instant the packet is sent. Further details: The initialisation of the window counter is left in the state NO_SENT, as before. The algorithm will do nothing if either RTT is initialised to 0 (which is ok) or if the RTT value remains below 4 microseconds (which is almost pathological). Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-11[DCCP] ccid3: Sanity-check RTT samplesGerrit Renker
CCID3 performance depends much on the accuracy of RTT samples. If RTT samples grow too large, performance can be catastrophically poor. To limit the amount of possible damage in such cases, the patch * introduces an upper limit which identifies a maximum `sane' RTT value; * uses a macro to enforce this upper limit. Using a macro was given preference, since it is necessary to identify the calling function in the warning message. Since exceeding this threshold identifies a critical condition, DCCP_CRIT is used and not DCCP_WARN. Many thanks to Ian McDonald for collaboration on this issue. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-11[DCCP] ccid3: Initialise RTT valuesGerrit Renker
In both the sender and the receiver it is possible that the stored RTT value is accessed before an actual RTT estimate has been computed. This patch * initialises the sender RTT to 0 - the sender always accesses the RTT in ccid3_hc_tx_packet_sent - the RTT is further needed for the window counter algorithm * replaces the receiver initialisation of 5msec with 0 - which has the same effect and removes an `XXX' - the RTT value is needed in ccid3_hc_rx_packet_recv as rtt_prev Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-11[DCCP] ccid: Deprecate ccid_hc_tx_insert_optionsGerrit Renker
The function ccid3_hc_tx_insert_options only does a redundant no-op, as the operation DCCP_SKB_CB(skb)->dccpd_ccval = hctx->ccid3hctx_last_win_count; is already performed _unconditionally_ in ccid3_hc_tx_send_packet. Since there is further no current need for this function, it is removed entirely. Since furthermore, there is actually no present need for the entire interface function ccid_hc_tx_insert_options, it was decided to remove it also, to clean up the interface. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-11[DCCP]: Warn when discarding packet due to internal errorsGerrit Renker
This adds a (debug) warning message which is triggered whenever a packet is discarded due to send failure. It also adds a conditional, so that an interruption during dccp_wait_for_ccid is not treated as a `BUG': the rationale is that interruptions are external, whereas bug warnings are concerned with the internals. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-11[DCCP]: Only deliver to the CCID rx side in chargeGerrit Renker
This is an optimisation to reduce CPU load. The received feedback is now only directed to the active CCID component, without requiring processing also by the inactive one. As a consequence, a similar test in ccid3.c is now redundant and is also removed. Justification: Currently DCCP works as a unidirectional service, i.e. a listening server is not at the same time a connecting client. As far as I can see, several modifications are necessary until that becomes possible. At the present time, received feedback is both fed to the rx/tx CCID modules. In unidirectional service, only one of these is active at any one time. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-11[DCCP]: Simplify TFRC calculationGerrit Renker
In migrating towards using the newer functions scaled_div/scaled_div32 for TFRC computations mapped from floating-point onto integer arithmetic, this completes the last stage of modifications. In particular, the overflow case for computing X_calc is circumvented by * breaking the computation into two stages * the first stage, res = (s*1E6)/R, cannot overflow due to use of u64 * in the second stage, res = (res*1E6)/f, overflow on u32 is avoided due to (i) returning UINT_MAX in this case (which is logically appropriate) and (ii) issuing a warning message into the system log (since very likely there is a problem somewhere else with the parameters) Lastly, all such scaling operations are now exported into tfrc.h, since actually this form of scaled computation is specific to TFRC and not to CCID3. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-11[DCCP]: Debug timeval operationsGerrit Renker
Problem: Most target types in the CCID3 code are u32, so subtle conversion errors can occur if signed time calculations yield negative results: the original values are lost in the conversion to unsigned, calculation errors go undetected. This patch therefore * sets all critical time types from unsigned to suseconds_t * avoids comparison between signed/unsigned via type-casting * provides ample warning messages in case time calculations are negative These warning messages can be removed at a later stage when the code has undergone more testing. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-11[DCCP] ccid3: Simplify calculation for reverse lookup of pGerrit Renker
This simplifies the calculation of a value p for a given fval when the first loss interval is computed (RFC 3448, 6.3.1). It makes use of the two new functions scaled_div/scaled_div32 to provide overflow protection. Additionally, protection against divide-by-zero is extended - in this case the function will return the maximally possible value of p=100%. Background: The maximum fval, f(100%), is approximately 244, i.e. the scaled value of fval should never exceed 244E6, which fits easily into u32. The problem is the scaling by 10^6, since additionally R(TT) is in microseconds. This is resolved by breaking the division into two stages: the first stage computes fval=(s*10^6)/R, stores that into u64; the second stage computes fval = (fval*10^6)/X_recv and complains if overflow is reached for u32. This case is safe since the TFRC reverse-lookup routine then returns p=100%. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-11[DCCP] ccid3: Replace scaled division operationsGerrit Renker
This replaces the remaining uses of usecs_div with scaled_div32, which internally uses 64bit division and produces a warning on overflow. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-11[DCCP] ccid3: Finer-grained resolution of sending ratesGerrit Renker
This patch * resolves a bug where packets smaller than 32/64 bytes resulted in sending rates of 0 * supports all sending rates from 1/64 bytes/second up to 4Gbyte/second * simplifies the present overflow problems in calculations Current sending rate X and the cached value X_recv of the receiver-estimated sending rate are both scaled by 64 (2^6) in order to * cope with low sending rates (minimally 1 byte/second) * allow upgrading to use a packets-per-second implementation of CCID 3 * avoid calculation errors due to integer arithmetic cut-off The patch implements a revised strategy from http://www.mail-archive.com/dccp@vger.kernel.org/msg01040.html The only difference with regard to that strategy is that t_ipi is already used in the calculation of the nofeedback timeout, which saves one division. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-11[DCCP] ccid3: Fix two bugs in sending rate computationGerrit Renker
This fixes 1) a bug in the recomputation of the sending rate by the nofeedback timer when no feedback at all has so far been sent by the receiver: min_t was used instead of max_t, which is wrong (cf. RFC 3448, p. 10); 2) an error in the computation of larger initial windows: instead of min(... max()) (cf. RFC 4342, 5.), the code had used max(... max()). Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-11[DCCP] ccid3: Two optimisations for sending rate recomputationGerrit Renker
This performs two optimisations for the recomputation of the sending rate. 1) Currently the target sending rate X_calc is recalculated whenever a) the nofeedback timer expires, or b) a feedback packet is received. In the (a) case, recomputing X_calc is redundant, since * the parameters p and RTT do not change in between the reception of feedback packets; * the parameter X_recv is either modified from received feedback or via the nofeedback timer; * a test (`p == 0') in the nofeedback timer avoids using a stale/undefined value of X_calc if p was previously 0. 2) The nofeedback timer now only recomputes a timestamp when p == 0. This is according to step (4) of [RFC 3448, 4.3] and avoids unnecessarily determining a timestamp. A debug statement about not updating X is also removed - it helps very little in debugging and just clutters the logs. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-11[DCCP] ccid3: Check against too large pGerrit Renker
This patch follows a suggestion by Ian McDonald and ensures that in the current code the value of p can not exceed 100%. Such a value is illegal and would consequently cause a bug condition in tfrc_calc_x(). The receiver case is also tested, and a warning message is added. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-11[DCCP]: Remove timeo from output.cIan McDonald
It simplifies waiting for the CCID module to signal that a packet is ready to be sent. Other simplifications flow on from this such as removing constants. As a result of this EAGAIN is not returned any more by dccp_wait_for_ccid (which would otherwise lead to unnecessarily discarding the packet in dccp_write_xmit). Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-07[PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_tChristoph Lameter
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache. The patch was generated using the following script: #!/bin/sh # # Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources. # set -e for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do quilt add $file sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$ mv /tmp/$$ $file quilt refresh done The script was run like this sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache" Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_ATOMICChristoph Lameter
SLAB_ATOMIC is an alias of GFP_ATOMIC Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-05Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Howells
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c include/linux/libata.h Futher merge of Linus's head and compilation fixups. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-05Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Howells
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c drivers/usb/core/hub.h drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c net/core/netpoll.c Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-03[DCCP] tfrc: Binary search for reverse TFRC lookupGerrit Renker
This replaces the linear search algorithm for reverse lookup with binary search. It has the advantage of better scalability: O(log2(N)) instead of O(N). This means that the average number of iterations is reduced from 250 (linear search if each value appears equally likely) down to at most 9. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-03[DCCP] ccid3: Deprecate TFRC_SMALLEST_PGerrit Renker
This patch deprecates the existing use of an arbitrary value TFRC_SMALLEST_P for low-threshold values of p. This avoids masking low-resolution errors. Instead, the code now checks against real boundaries (implemented by preceding patch) and provides warnings whenever a real value falls below the threshold. If such messages are observed, it is a better solution to take this as an indication that the lookup table needs to be re-engineered. Changelog: ---------- This patch * makes handling all TFRC resolution errors local to the TFRC library * removes unnecessary test whether X_calc is 'infinity' due to p==0 -- this condition is already caught by tfrc_calc_x() * removes setting ccid3hctx_p = TFRC_SMALLEST_P in ccid3_hc_tx_packet_recv since this is now done by the TFRC library * updates BUG_ON test in ccid3_hc_tx_no_feedback_timer to take into account that p now is either 0 (and then X_calc is irrelevant), or it is > 0; since the handling of TFRC_SMALLEST_P is now taken care of in the tfrc library Justification: -------------- The TFRC code uses a lookup table which has a bounded resolution. The lowest possible value of the loss event rate `p' which can be resolved is currently 0.0001. Substituting this lower threshold for p when p is less than 0.0001 results in a huge, exponentially-growing error. The error can be computed by the following formula: (f(0.0001) - f(p))/f(p) * 100 for p < 0.0001 Currently the solution is to use an (arbitrary) value TFRC_SMALLEST_P = 40 * 1E-6 = 0.00004 and to consider all values below this value as `virtually zero'. Due to the exponentially growing resolution error, this is not a good idea, since it hides the fact that the table can not resolve practically occurring cases. Already at p == TFRC_SMALLEST_P, the error is as high as 58.19%! Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-03[DCCP] tfrc: Identify TFRC table limits and simplify codeGerrit Renker
This * adds documentation about the lowest resolution that is possible within the bounds of the current lookup table * defines a constant TFRC_SMALLEST_P which defines this resolution * issues a warning if a given value of p is below resolution * combines two previously adjacent if-blocks of nearly identical structure into one This patch does not change the algorithm as such. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-03[DCCP] tfrc: Add protection against invalid parameters to TFRC routinesGerrit Renker
1) For the forward X_calc lookup, it * protects effectively against RTT=0 (this case is possible), by returning the maximal lookup value instead of just setting it to 1 * reformulates the array-bounds exceeded condition: this only happens if p is greater than 1E6 (due to the scaling) * the case of negative indices can now with certainty be excluded, since documentation shows that the formulas are within bounds * additional protection against p = 0 (would give divide-by-zero) 2) For the reverse lookup, it warns against * protects against exceeding array bounds * now returns 0 if f(p) = 0, due to function definition * warns about minimal resolution error and returns the smallest table value instead of p=0 [this would mask congestion conditions] Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-03[DCCP] tfrc: Fix small error in reverse lookup of p for given f(p)Gerrit Renker
This fixes the following small error in tfrc_calc_x_reverse_lookup. 1) The table is generated by the following equations: lookup[index][0] = g((index+1) * 1000000/TFRC_CALC_X_ARRSIZE); lookup[index][1] = g((index+1) * TFRC_CALC_X_SPLIT/TFRC_CALC_X_ARRSIZE); where g(q) is 1E6 * f(q/1E6) 2) The reverse lookup assigns an entry in lookup[index][small] 3) This index needs to match the above, i.e. * if small=0 then p = (index + 1) * 1000000/TFRC_CALC_X_ARRSIZE * if small=1 then p = (index+1) * TFRC_CALC_X_SPLIT/TFRC_CALC_X_ARRSIZE These are exactly the changes that the patch makes; previously the code did not conform to the way the lookup table was generated (this difference resulted in a mean error of about 1.12%). Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-03[DCCP] tfrc: Document boundaries and limits of the TFRC lookup tableGerrit Renker
This adds documentation for the TCP Reno throughput equation which is at the heart of the TFRC sending rate / loss rate calculations. It spells out precisely how the values were determined and what they mean. The equations were derived through reverse engineering and found to be fully accurate (verified using test programs). This patch does not change any code. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-03[DCCP] ccid3: Fix warning message about illegal ACKGerrit Renker
This avoids a (harmless) warning message being printed at the DCCP server (the receiver of a DCCP half connection). Incoming packets are both directed to * ccid_hc_rx_packet_recv() for the server half * ccid_hc_tx_packet_recv() for the client half The message gets printed since on a server the client half is currently not sending data packets. This is resolved for the moment by checking the DCCP-role first. In future times (bidirectional DCCP connections), this test may have to be more sophisticated. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-03[DCCP] ccid3: Fix bug in calculation of send rateGerrit Renker
The main object of this patch is the following bug: ==> In ccid3_hc_tx_packet_recv, the parameters p and X_recv were updated _after_ the send rate was calculated. This is clearly an error and is resolved by re-ordering statements. In addition, * r_sample is converted from u32 to long to check whether the time difference was negative (it would otherwise be converted to a large u32 value) * protection against RTT=0 (this is possible) is provided in a further patch * t_elapsed is also converted to long, to match the type of r_sample * adds a a more debugging information regarding current send rates * various trivial comment/documentation updates Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-03[DCCP]: Fix BUG in retransmission delay calculationGerrit Renker
This bug resulted in ccid3_hc_tx_send_packet returning negative delay values, which in turn triggered silently dequeueing packets in dccp_write_xmit. As a result, only a few out of the submitted packets made it at all onto the network. Occasionally, when dccp_wait_for_ccid was involved, this also triggered a bug warning since ccid3_hc_tx_send_packet returned a negative value (which in reality was a negative delay value). The cause for this bug lies in the comparison if (delay >= hctx->ccid3hctx_delta) return delay / 1000L; The type of `delay' is `long', that of ccid3hctx_delta is `u32'. When comparing negative long values against u32 values, the test returned `true' whenever delay was smaller than 0 (meaning the packet was overdue to send). The fix is by casting, subtracting, and then testing the difference with regard to 0. This has been tested and shown to work. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-03[DCCP]: Use higher RTO default for CCID3Gerrit Renker
The TFRC nofeedback timer normally expires after the maximum of 4 RTTs and twice the current send interval (RFC 3448, 4.3). On LANs with a small RTT this can mean a high processing load and reduced performance, since then the nofeedback timer is triggered very frequently. This patch provides a configuration option to set the bound for the nofeedback timer, using as default 100 milliseconds. By setting the configuration option to 0, strict RFC 3448 behaviour can be enforced for the nofeedback timer. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02[DCCP]: Use `unsigned' for packet lengthsGerrit Renker
This patch implements a suggestion by Ian McDonald and 1) Avoids tests against negative packet lengths by using unsigned int for packet payload lengths in the CCID send_packet()/packet_sent() routines 2) As a consequence, it removes an now unnecessary test with regard to `len > 0' in ccid3_hc_tx_packet_sent: that condition is always true, since * negative packet lengths are avoided * ccid3_hc_tx_send_packet flags an error whenever the payload length is 0. As a consequence, ccid3_hc_tx_packet_sent is never called as all errors returned by ccid_hc_tx_send_packet are caught in dccp_write_xmit 3) Removes the third argument of ccid_hc_tx_send_packet (the `len' parameter), since it is currently always set to skb->len. The code is updated with regard to this parameter change. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02[DCCP] ccid3: Larger initial windowsGerrit Renker
This implements the larger-initial-windows feature for CCID 3, as described in section 5 of RFC 4342. When the first feedback packet arrives, the sender can send up to 2..4 packets per RTT, instead of just one. The patch further * reduces the number of timestamping calls by passing the timestamp value (which is computed in one of the calling functions anyway) as argument * renames one constant with a very long name into one which is shorter and resembles the one in RFC 3448 (t_mbi) * simplifies some of the min_t/max_t cases where both `x', `y' have the same type Commiter note: renamed TFRC_t_mbi to TFRC_T_MBI, to follow Linux coding style. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02[DCCP]: Make {set,get}sockopt(DCCP_SOCKOPT_PACKET_SIZE) return 0Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
To reflect the fact that this now is of no effect, not making apps stop working, just be warned in the system log. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02[DCCP]: Tidy up unused structuresGerrit Renker
This removes and cleans up unused variables and structures which have become unnecessary following the introduction of the EWMA patch to automatically track the CCID 3 receiver/sender packet sizes `s'. It deprecates the PACKET_SIZE socket option by returning an error code and printing a deprecation warning if an application tries to read or write this socket option. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02[DCCP] ccid3: Track RX/TX packet size `s' using moving-averageGerrit Renker
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2006-12-02[DCCP] ccid3: Set NoFeedback Timeout according to RFC 3448Gerrit Renker
This corrects the setting of the nofeedback timer with regard to RFC 3448 - previously it was not set to max(4*R, 2*s/X) as specified. Using the maximum of 1 second as upper bound (as it was done before) can have detrimental effects, especially if R is small. Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02[DCCP]: Remove allocation of sysctl numbersGerrit Renker
This is in response to a request sent earlier by Eric W. Biederman and replaces all sysctl numbers for net.dccp.default with CTL_UNNUMBERED. It has been tested to compile and to work. Commiter note: I've removed the use of CTL_UNNUMBERED, not setting .ctl_name sets it to 0, that is the what CTL_UNNUMBERED is, reason is to avoid unneeded source code cluttering. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02[DCCP] ccid3: Consolidate handling of t_RTOGerrit Renker
This patch * removes setting t_RTO in ccid3_hc_tx_init (per [RFC 3448, 4.2], t_RTO is undefined until feedback has been received); * makes some trivial changes (updates of comments); * performs a small optimisation by exploiting that the feedback timeout uses the value of t_ipi. The way it is done is safe, because the timeouts appear after the changes to t_ipi, ensuring that up-to-date values are used; * in ccid3_hc_tx_packet_recv, moves the t_rto statement closer to the calculation of the next_tmout. This makes the code clearer to read and is also safe, since t_rto is not updated until the next call of ccid3_hc_tx_packet_recv, and is not read by the functions called via ccid_wait_for_ccid(); * removes a `max' statement in sk_reset_timer, this is not needed since the timeout value is always greater than 1E6 microseconds. * adds `XXX'es to highlight that currently the nofeedback timer is set in a non-standard way Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02[DCCP] ccid3: Consistently update t_nom, t_ipi, t_deltaGerrit Renker
This patch: * consolidates updating of parameters (t_nom, t_ipi, t_delta) which need to be updated at the same time, since they are inter-dependent * removes two inline functions which are no longer needed as a result of the above consolidation * resolves a FIXME regarding the re-calculation of t_ipi within the nofeedback timer, in the state where no feedback has previously been received * ties updating these parameters to updating the sending rate X, exploiting that all three parameters in turn depend on X; and using a small optimisation which can reduce the number of required instructions: only update the three parameters when X really changes Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02[DCCP] ccid3: Consolidate timer resetsGerrit Renker
This patch concerns updating the value of the nofeedback timer when no feedback has been received so far. Since in this case the value of R is still undefined according to [RFC 3448, 4.2], we can not perform step (3) of [RFC 3448, 4.3]. A clarification is provided in [RFC 4342, sec. 5], which states that in these cases the nofeedback timer (still) expires "after two seconds". Many thanks to Ian McDonald for pointing this out and providing the clarification. The patch * implements [RFC 4342, sec. 5] with regard to the above case * consolidates handling timer restart by - adding an appropriate jump label and - initialising the timeout value Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02[DCCP] ccid3: Resolve small FIXMEGerrit Renker
This considers the case - ACK received while no packet has been sent so far. Resolved by printing a (rate-limited) warning message. Further removes an unnecessary BUG_ON in ccid3_hc_tx_packet_recv, received feedback on a terminating connection is simply ignored. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02[DCCP] ccid3: Remove redundant statements in ccid3_hc_tx_packet_sentGerrit Renker
This patch removes a switch statement which is redundant since, * nothing is done in states TFRC_SSTATE_NO_SENT/TFRC_SSTATE_NO_FBACK * it is impossible that the function is called in the state TFRC_SSTATE_TERM, since --the function is called, in dccp_write_xmit, after ccid3_hc_tx_send_packet --if ccid3_hc_tx_send_packet is called in state TFRC_SSTATE_TERM, it returns -EINVAL, which means that ccid3_hc_tx_packet_sent will not be called (compare dccp_write_xmit) --> therefore, this case is logically impossible * the remaining state is TFRC_SSTATE_FBACK which conditionally updates t_ipi, t_nom, and t_delta. This is a no-op, since --t_ipi only changes when feedback is received --however, when feedback arrives via ccid3_hc_tx_packet_recv, there is an identical code block which performs the same set of operations --performing the same set of operations again in ccid3_hc_tx_packet_sent therefore does not change anything, since between the time of receiving the last feedback (and therefore update of t_ipi, t_nom, and t_delta), the value of t_ipi has not changed --since t_ipi has not changed, the values of t_delta and t_nom also do not change, they depend fully on t_ipi Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02[DCCP] ccid3: Avoid congestion control on zero-sized data packetsGerrit Renker
This resolves an `XXX' in ccid3_hc_tx_send_packet(). The function is only called on Data and DataAck packets and returns a negative result on zero-sized messages. This is a reasonable policy since CCID 3 is a congestion-control module and congestion control on zero-sized Data(Ack) packets is in a way pathological. The patch uses a more suitable error code for this case, it returns the Posix.1 code `EBADMSG' ("Not a data message") instead of `ENOTCONN'. As a result of ignoring zero-sized packets, a the condition for a warning "First packet is data" in ccid3_hc_tx_packet_sent is always satisfied; this message has been removed since it will always be printed. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02[DCCP] ccid3: Simplify control flow of ccid3_hc_tx_send_packetGerrit Renker
This makes some logically equivalent simplifications, by replacing rc - values plus goto's with direct return statements. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>