linux/net/dccp
Gerrit Renker 113ced1f52 dccp ccid-2: Perform congestion-window validation
CCID-2's cwnd increases like TCP during slow-start, which has implications for
 * the local Sequence Window value (should be > cwnd),
 * the Ack Ratio value.
Hence an exponential growth, if it does not reflect the actual network
conditions, can quickly lead to instability.

This patch adds congestion-window validation (RFC2861) to CCID-2:
 * cwnd is constrained if the sender is application limited;
 * cwnd is reduced after a long idle period, as suggested in the '90 paper
   by Van Jacobson, in RFC 2581 (sec. 4.1);
 * cwnd is never reduced below the RFC 3390 initial window.

As marked in the comments, the code is actually almost a direct copy of the
TCP congestion-window-validation algorithms. By continuing this work, it may
in future be possible to use the TCP code (not possible at the moment).

The mechanism can be turned off using a module parameter. Sampling of the
currently-used window (moving-maximum) is however done constantly; this is
used to determine the expected window, which can be exploited to regulate
DCCP's Sequence Window value.

This patch also sets slow-start-after-idle (RFC 4341, 5.1), i.e. it behaves like
TCP when net.ipv4.tcp_slow_start_after_idle = 1.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2011-07-04 12:37:49 -06:00
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ccids dccp ccid-2: Perform congestion-window validation 2011-07-04 12:37:49 -06:00
ackvec.c dccp ccid-2: whitespace fix-up 2010-11-18 09:37:07 -08:00
ackvec.h dccp ccid-2: Separate option parsing from CCID processing 2010-11-15 07:12:01 +01:00
ccid.c dccp: cosmetics of info message 2011-07-04 12:37:13 -06:00
ccid.h dccp: Return-value convention of hc_tx_send_packet() 2010-10-28 10:27:00 -07:00
dccp.h dccp: fix bug in updating the GSR 2011-01-07 12:22:43 +01:00
diag.c dccp_diag: LISTEN sockets don't have CCIDs 2008-12-17 16:08:01 -08:00
feat.c dccp: Kill dead code and add static markers. 2010-10-06 23:12:07 -07:00
feat.h dccp: Kill dead code and add static markers. 2010-10-06 23:12:07 -07:00
input.c dccp: Clean up slow-path input processing 2011-07-04 12:36:33 -06:00
ipv4.c ipv4: Make caller provide flowi4 key to inet_csk_route_req(). 2011-05-18 18:32:03 -04:00
ipv6.c inet: add RCU protection to inet->opt 2011-04-28 13:16:35 -07:00
ipv6.h
Kconfig Docs/Kconfig: Update: osdl.org -> linuxfoundation.org 2010-11-15 23:50:13 +01:00
Makefile dccp: Policy-based packet dequeueing infrastructure 2010-12-07 13:47:12 +01:00
minisocks.c dccp: fix the adjustments to AWL and SWL 2010-10-12 06:57:40 +02:00
options.c dccp: handle invalid feature options length 2011-05-06 13:05:50 -07:00
output.c dccp: combine the functionality of enqeueing and cloning 2011-07-04 12:36:47 -06:00
probe.c llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
proto.c dccp qpolicy: Parameter checking of cmsg qpolicy parameters 2010-12-07 13:47:12 +01:00
qpolicy.c dccp qpolicy: Parameter checking of cmsg qpolicy parameters 2010-12-07 13:47:12 +01:00
sysctl.c dccp: make upper bound for seq_window consistent on 32/64 bit 2011-01-07 12:22:44 +01:00
timer.c dccp: Refine the wait-for-ccid mechanism 2010-10-28 10:27:01 -07:00