Commit 835b3f0c authored by Daniele Lacamera's avatar Daniele Lacamera Committed by David S. Miller

[TCP]: Add TCP Hybla congestion control module.

TCP Hybla congestion avoidance.

- "In heterogeneous networks, TCP connections that incorporate a
terrestrial or satellite radio link are greatly disadvantaged with
respect to entirely wired connections, because of their longer round
trip times (RTTs). To cope with this problem, a new TCP proposal, the
TCP Hybla, is presented and discussed in the paper[1]. It stems from an
analytical evaluation of the congestion window dynamics in the TCP
standard versions (Tahoe, Reno, NewReno), which suggests the necessary
modifications to remove the performance dependence on RTT.[...]"[1]

[1]: Carlo Caini, Rosario Firrincieli, "TCP Hybla: a TCP enhancement for
heterogeneous networks",
International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking
Volume 22, Issue 5 , Pages 547 - 566. September 2004.

Signed-off-by: Daniele Lacamera (root at danielinux.net)net
Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent a628d29b
......@@ -478,6 +478,16 @@ config TCP_CONG_HSTCP
increase the congestion window by when an ACK is received.
For more detail see http://www.icir.org/floyd/hstcp.html
config TCP_CONG_HYBLA
tristate "TCP-Hybla congestion control algorithm"
depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
default n
---help---
TCP-Hybla is a sender-side only change that eliminates penalization of
long-RTT, large-bandwidth connections, like when satellite legs are
involved, expecially when sharing a common bottleneck with normal
terrestrial connections.
endmenu
source "net/ipv4/ipvs/Kconfig"
......
......@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED) += multipath.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC) += tcp_bic.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD) += tcp_westwood.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TCP_CONG_HSTCP) += tcp_highspeed.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TCP_CONG_HYBLA) += tcp_hybla.o
obj-$(CONFIG_XFRM) += xfrm4_policy.o xfrm4_state.o xfrm4_input.o \
xfrm4_output.o
/*
* TCP HYBLA
*
* TCP-HYBLA Congestion control algorithm, based on:
* C.Caini, R.Firrincieli, "TCP-Hybla: A TCP Enhancement
* for Heterogeneous Networks",
* International Journal on satellite Communications,
* September 2004
* Daniele Lacamera
* root at danielinux.net
*/
#include <linux/config.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <net/tcp.h>
/* Tcp Hybla structure. */
struct hybla {
u8 hybla_en;
u32 snd_cwnd_cents; /* Keeps increment values when it is <1, <<7 */
u32 rho; /* Rho parameter, integer part */
u32 rho2; /* Rho * Rho, integer part */
u32 rho_3ls; /* Rho parameter, <<3 */
u32 rho2_7ls; /* Rho^2, <<7 */
u32 minrtt; /* Minimum smoothed round trip time value seen */
};
/* Hybla reference round trip time (default= 1/40 sec = 25 ms),
expressed in jiffies */
static int rtt0 = 25;
module_param(rtt0, int, 0644);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(rtt0, "reference rout trip time (ms)");
/* This is called to refresh values for hybla parameters */
static inline void hybla_recalc_param (struct tcp_sock *tp)
{
struct hybla *ca = tcp_ca(tp);
ca->rho_3ls = max_t(u32, tp->srtt / msecs_to_jiffies(rtt0), 8);
ca->rho = ca->rho_3ls >> 3;
ca->rho2_7ls = (ca->rho_3ls * ca->rho_3ls) << 1;
ca->rho2 = ca->rho2_7ls >>7;
}
static void hybla_init(struct tcp_sock *tp)
{
struct hybla *ca = tcp_ca(tp);
ca->rho = 0;
ca->rho2 = 0;
ca->rho_3ls = 0;
ca->rho2_7ls = 0;
ca->snd_cwnd_cents = 0;
ca->hybla_en = 1;
tp->snd_cwnd = 2;
tp->snd_cwnd_clamp = 65535;
/* 1st Rho measurement based on initial srtt */
hybla_recalc_param(tp);
/* set minimum rtt as this is the 1st ever seen */
ca->minrtt = tp->srtt;
tp->snd_cwnd = ca->rho;
}
static void hybla_state(struct tcp_sock *tp, u8 ca_state)
{
struct hybla *ca = tcp_ca(tp);
ca->hybla_en = (ca_state == TCP_CA_Open);
}
static inline u32 hybla_fraction(u32 odds)
{
static const u32 fractions[] = {
128, 139, 152, 165, 181, 197, 215, 234,
};
return (odds < ARRAY_SIZE(fractions)) ? fractions[odds] : 128;
}
/* TCP Hybla main routine.
* This is the algorithm behavior:
* o Recalc Hybla parameters if min_rtt has changed
* o Give cwnd a new value based on the model proposed
* o remember increments <1
*/
static void hybla_cong_avoid(struct tcp_sock *tp, u32 ack, u32 rtt,
u32 in_flight, int flag)
{
struct hybla *ca = tcp_ca(tp);
u32 increment, odd, rho_fractions;
int is_slowstart = 0;
/* Recalculate rho only if this srtt is the lowest */
if (tp->srtt < ca->minrtt){
hybla_recalc_param(tp);
ca->minrtt = tp->srtt;
}
if (!ca->hybla_en)
return tcp_reno_cong_avoid(tp, ack, rtt, in_flight, flag);
if (in_flight < tp->snd_cwnd)
return;
if (ca->rho == 0)
hybla_recalc_param(tp);
rho_fractions = ca->rho_3ls - (ca->rho << 3);
if (tp->snd_cwnd < tp->snd_ssthresh) {
/*
* slow start
* INC = 2^RHO - 1
* This is done by splitting the rho parameter
* into 2 parts: an integer part and a fraction part.
* Inrement<<7 is estimated by doing:
* [2^(int+fract)]<<7
* that is equal to:
* (2^int) * [(2^fract) <<7]
* 2^int is straightly computed as 1<<int,
* while we will use hybla_slowstart_fraction_increment() to
* calculate 2^fract in a <<7 value.
*/
is_slowstart = 1;
increment = ((1 << ca->rho) * hybla_fraction(rho_fractions))
- 128;
} else {
/*
* congestion avoidance
* INC = RHO^2 / W
* as long as increment is estimated as (rho<<7)/window
* it already is <<7 and we can easily count its fractions.
*/
increment = ca->rho2_7ls / tp->snd_cwnd;
if (increment < 128)
tp->snd_cwnd_cnt++;
}
odd = increment % 128;
tp->snd_cwnd += increment >> 7;
ca->snd_cwnd_cents += odd;
/* check when fractions goes >=128 and increase cwnd by 1. */
while(ca->snd_cwnd_cents >= 128) {
tp->snd_cwnd++;
ca->snd_cwnd_cents -= 128;
tp->snd_cwnd_cnt = 0;
}
/* clamp down slowstart cwnd to ssthresh value. */
if (is_slowstart)
tp->snd_cwnd = min(tp->snd_cwnd, tp->snd_ssthresh);
tp->snd_cwnd = min_t(u32, tp->snd_cwnd, tp->snd_cwnd_clamp);
}
static struct tcp_congestion_ops tcp_hybla = {
.init = hybla_init,
.ssthresh = tcp_reno_ssthresh,
.min_cwnd = tcp_reno_min_cwnd,
.cong_avoid = hybla_cong_avoid,
.set_state = hybla_state,
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.name = "hybla"
};
static int __init hybla_register(void)
{
BUG_ON(sizeof(struct hybla) > TCP_CA_PRIV_SIZE);
return tcp_register_congestion_control(&tcp_hybla);
}
static void __exit hybla_unregister(void)
{
tcp_unregister_congestion_control(&tcp_hybla);
}
module_init(hybla_register);
module_exit(hybla_unregister);
MODULE_AUTHOR("Daniele Lacamera");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("TCP Hybla");
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