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1 /* DataCenter TCP (DCTCP) congestion control.
2  *
3  * http://simula.stanford.edu/~alizade/Site/DCTCP.html
4  *
5  * This is an implementation of DCTCP over Reno, an enhancement to the
6  * TCP congestion control algorithm designed for data centers. DCTCP
7  * leverages Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in the network to
8  * provide multi-bit feedback to the end hosts. DCTCP's goal is to meet
9  * the following three data center transport requirements:
10  *
11  *  - High burst tolerance (incast due to partition/aggregate)
12  *  - Low latency (short flows, queries)
13  *  - High throughput (continuous data updates, large file transfers)
14  *    with commodity shallow buffered switches
15  *
16  * The algorithm is described in detail in the following two papers:
17  *
18  * 1) Mohammad Alizadeh, Albert Greenberg, David A. Maltz, Jitendra Padhye,
19  *    Parveen Patel, Balaji Prabhakar, Sudipta Sengupta, and Murari Sridharan:
20  *      "Data Center TCP (DCTCP)", Data Center Networks session
21  *      Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, New Delhi, 2010.
22  *   http://simula.stanford.edu/~alizade/Site/DCTCP_files/dctcp-final.pdf
23  *
24  * 2) Mohammad Alizadeh, Adel Javanmard, and Balaji Prabhakar:
25  *      "Analysis of DCTCP: Stability, Convergence, and Fairness"
26  *      Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS, San Jose, 2011.
27  *   http://simula.stanford.edu/~alizade/Site/DCTCP_files/dctcp_analysis-full.pdf
28  *
29  * Initial prototype from Abdul Kabbani, Masato Yasuda and Mohammad Alizadeh.
30  *
31  * Authors:
32  *
33  *	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
34  *	Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
35  *	Glenn Judd <glenn.judd@morganstanley.com>
36  *
37  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
38  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
39  * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
40  * your option) any later version.
41  */
42 
43 #include <linux/module.h>
44 #include <linux/mm.h>
45 #include <net/tcp.h>
46 #include <linux/inet_diag.h>
47 
48 #define DCTCP_MAX_ALPHA	1024U
49 
50 struct dctcp {
51 	u32 acked_bytes_ecn;
52 	u32 acked_bytes_total;
53 	u32 prior_snd_una;
54 	u32 prior_rcv_nxt;
55 	u32 dctcp_alpha;
56 	u32 next_seq;
57 	u32 ce_state;
58 	u32 delayed_ack_reserved;
59 };
60 
61 static unsigned int dctcp_shift_g __read_mostly = 4; /* g = 1/2^4 */
62 module_param(dctcp_shift_g, uint, 0644);
63 MODULE_PARM_DESC(dctcp_shift_g, "parameter g for updating dctcp_alpha");
64 
65 static unsigned int dctcp_alpha_on_init __read_mostly = DCTCP_MAX_ALPHA;
66 module_param(dctcp_alpha_on_init, uint, 0644);
67 MODULE_PARM_DESC(dctcp_alpha_on_init, "parameter for initial alpha value");
68 
69 static unsigned int dctcp_clamp_alpha_on_loss __read_mostly;
70 module_param(dctcp_clamp_alpha_on_loss, uint, 0644);
71 MODULE_PARM_DESC(dctcp_clamp_alpha_on_loss,
72 		 "parameter for clamping alpha on loss");
73 
74 static struct tcp_congestion_ops dctcp_reno;
75 
76 static void dctcp_reset(const struct tcp_sock *tp, struct dctcp *ca)
77 {
78 	ca->next_seq = tp->snd_nxt;
79 
80 	ca->acked_bytes_ecn = 0;
81 	ca->acked_bytes_total = 0;
82 }
83 
84 static void dctcp_init(struct sock *sk)
85 {
86 	const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
87 
88 	if ((tp->ecn_flags & TCP_ECN_OK) ||
89 	    (sk->sk_state == TCP_LISTEN ||
90 	     sk->sk_state == TCP_CLOSE)) {
91 		struct dctcp *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
92 
93 		ca->prior_snd_una = tp->snd_una;
94 		ca->prior_rcv_nxt = tp->rcv_nxt;
95 
96 		ca->dctcp_alpha = min(dctcp_alpha_on_init, DCTCP_MAX_ALPHA);
97 
98 		ca->delayed_ack_reserved = 0;
99 		ca->ce_state = 0;
100 
101 		dctcp_reset(tp, ca);
102 		return;
103 	}
104 
105 	/* No ECN support? Fall back to Reno. Also need to clear
106 	 * ECT from sk since it is set during 3WHS for DCTCP.
107 	 */
108 	inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ca_ops = &dctcp_reno;
109 	INET_ECN_dontxmit(sk);
110 }
111 
112 static u32 dctcp_ssthresh(struct sock *sk)
113 {
114 	const struct dctcp *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
115 	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
116 
117 	return max(tp->snd_cwnd - ((tp->snd_cwnd * ca->dctcp_alpha) >> 11U), 2U);
118 }
119 
120 /* Minimal DCTP CE state machine:
121  *
122  * S:	0 <- last pkt was non-CE
123  *	1 <- last pkt was CE
124  */
125 
126 static void dctcp_ce_state_0_to_1(struct sock *sk)
127 {
128 	struct dctcp *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
129 	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
130 
131 	/* State has changed from CE=0 to CE=1 and delayed
132 	 * ACK has not sent yet.
133 	 */
134 	if (!ca->ce_state && ca->delayed_ack_reserved) {
135 		u32 tmp_rcv_nxt;
136 
137 		/* Save current rcv_nxt. */
138 		tmp_rcv_nxt = tp->rcv_nxt;
139 
140 		/* Generate previous ack with CE=0. */
141 		tp->ecn_flags &= ~TCP_ECN_DEMAND_CWR;
142 		tp->rcv_nxt = ca->prior_rcv_nxt;
143 
144 		tcp_send_ack(sk);
145 
146 		/* Recover current rcv_nxt. */
147 		tp->rcv_nxt = tmp_rcv_nxt;
148 	}
149 
150 	ca->prior_rcv_nxt = tp->rcv_nxt;
151 	ca->ce_state = 1;
152 
153 	tp->ecn_flags |= TCP_ECN_DEMAND_CWR;
154 }
155 
156 static void dctcp_ce_state_1_to_0(struct sock *sk)
157 {
158 	struct dctcp *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
159 	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
160 
161 	/* State has changed from CE=1 to CE=0 and delayed
162 	 * ACK has not sent yet.
163 	 */
164 	if (ca->ce_state && ca->delayed_ack_reserved) {
165 		u32 tmp_rcv_nxt;
166 
167 		/* Save current rcv_nxt. */
168 		tmp_rcv_nxt = tp->rcv_nxt;
169 
170 		/* Generate previous ack with CE=1. */
171 		tp->ecn_flags |= TCP_ECN_DEMAND_CWR;
172 		tp->rcv_nxt = ca->prior_rcv_nxt;
173 
174 		tcp_send_ack(sk);
175 
176 		/* Recover current rcv_nxt. */
177 		tp->rcv_nxt = tmp_rcv_nxt;
178 	}
179 
180 	ca->prior_rcv_nxt = tp->rcv_nxt;
181 	ca->ce_state = 0;
182 
183 	tp->ecn_flags &= ~TCP_ECN_DEMAND_CWR;
184 }
185 
186 static void dctcp_update_alpha(struct sock *sk, u32 flags)
187 {
188 	const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
189 	struct dctcp *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
190 	u32 acked_bytes = tp->snd_una - ca->prior_snd_una;
191 
192 	/* If ack did not advance snd_una, count dupack as MSS size.
193 	 * If ack did update window, do not count it at all.
194 	 */
195 	if (acked_bytes == 0 && !(flags & CA_ACK_WIN_UPDATE))
196 		acked_bytes = inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ack.rcv_mss;
197 	if (acked_bytes) {
198 		ca->acked_bytes_total += acked_bytes;
199 		ca->prior_snd_una = tp->snd_una;
200 
201 		if (flags & CA_ACK_ECE)
202 			ca->acked_bytes_ecn += acked_bytes;
203 	}
204 
205 	/* Expired RTT */
206 	if (!before(tp->snd_una, ca->next_seq)) {
207 		/* For avoiding denominator == 1. */
208 		if (ca->acked_bytes_total == 0)
209 			ca->acked_bytes_total = 1;
210 
211 		/* alpha = (1 - g) * alpha + g * F */
212 		ca->dctcp_alpha = ca->dctcp_alpha -
213 				  (ca->dctcp_alpha >> dctcp_shift_g) +
214 				  (ca->acked_bytes_ecn << (10U - dctcp_shift_g)) /
215 				  ca->acked_bytes_total;
216 
217 		if (ca->dctcp_alpha > DCTCP_MAX_ALPHA)
218 			/* Clamp dctcp_alpha to max. */
219 			ca->dctcp_alpha = DCTCP_MAX_ALPHA;
220 
221 		dctcp_reset(tp, ca);
222 	}
223 }
224 
225 static void dctcp_state(struct sock *sk, u8 new_state)
226 {
227 	if (dctcp_clamp_alpha_on_loss && new_state == TCP_CA_Loss) {
228 		struct dctcp *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
229 
230 		/* If this extension is enabled, we clamp dctcp_alpha to
231 		 * max on packet loss; the motivation is that dctcp_alpha
232 		 * is an indicator to the extend of congestion and packet
233 		 * loss is an indicator of extreme congestion; setting
234 		 * this in practice turned out to be beneficial, and
235 		 * effectively assumes total congestion which reduces the
236 		 * window by half.
237 		 */
238 		ca->dctcp_alpha = DCTCP_MAX_ALPHA;
239 	}
240 }
241 
242 static void dctcp_update_ack_reserved(struct sock *sk, enum tcp_ca_event ev)
243 {
244 	struct dctcp *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
245 
246 	switch (ev) {
247 	case CA_EVENT_DELAYED_ACK:
248 		if (!ca->delayed_ack_reserved)
249 			ca->delayed_ack_reserved = 1;
250 		break;
251 	case CA_EVENT_NON_DELAYED_ACK:
252 		if (ca->delayed_ack_reserved)
253 			ca->delayed_ack_reserved = 0;
254 		break;
255 	default:
256 		/* Don't care for the rest. */
257 		break;
258 	}
259 }
260 
261 static void dctcp_cwnd_event(struct sock *sk, enum tcp_ca_event ev)
262 {
263 	switch (ev) {
264 	case CA_EVENT_ECN_IS_CE:
265 		dctcp_ce_state_0_to_1(sk);
266 		break;
267 	case CA_EVENT_ECN_NO_CE:
268 		dctcp_ce_state_1_to_0(sk);
269 		break;
270 	case CA_EVENT_DELAYED_ACK:
271 	case CA_EVENT_NON_DELAYED_ACK:
272 		dctcp_update_ack_reserved(sk, ev);
273 		break;
274 	default:
275 		/* Don't care for the rest. */
276 		break;
277 	}
278 }
279 
280 static int dctcp_get_info(struct sock *sk, u32 ext, struct sk_buff *skb)
281 {
282 	const struct dctcp *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
283 
284 	/* Fill it also in case of VEGASINFO due to req struct limits.
285 	 * We can still correctly retrieve it later.
286 	 */
287 	if (ext & (1 << (INET_DIAG_DCTCPINFO - 1)) ||
288 	    ext & (1 << (INET_DIAG_VEGASINFO - 1))) {
289 		struct tcp_dctcp_info info;
290 
291 		memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info));
292 		if (inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ca_ops != &dctcp_reno) {
293 			info.dctcp_enabled = 1;
294 			info.dctcp_ce_state = (u16) ca->ce_state;
295 			info.dctcp_alpha = ca->dctcp_alpha;
296 			info.dctcp_ab_ecn = ca->acked_bytes_ecn;
297 			info.dctcp_ab_tot = ca->acked_bytes_total;
298 		}
299 
300 		return nla_put(skb, INET_DIAG_DCTCPINFO, sizeof(info), &info);
301 	}
302 	return 0;
303 }
304 
305 static struct tcp_congestion_ops dctcp __read_mostly = {
306 	.init		= dctcp_init,
307 	.in_ack_event   = dctcp_update_alpha,
308 	.cwnd_event	= dctcp_cwnd_event,
309 	.ssthresh	= dctcp_ssthresh,
310 	.cong_avoid	= tcp_reno_cong_avoid,
311 	.set_state	= dctcp_state,
312 	.get_info	= dctcp_get_info,
313 	.flags		= TCP_CONG_NEEDS_ECN,
314 	.owner		= THIS_MODULE,
315 	.name		= "dctcp",
316 };
317 
318 static struct tcp_congestion_ops dctcp_reno __read_mostly = {
319 	.ssthresh	= tcp_reno_ssthresh,
320 	.cong_avoid	= tcp_reno_cong_avoid,
321 	.get_info	= dctcp_get_info,
322 	.owner		= THIS_MODULE,
323 	.name		= "dctcp-reno",
324 };
325 
326 static int __init dctcp_register(void)
327 {
328 	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct dctcp) > ICSK_CA_PRIV_SIZE);
329 	return tcp_register_congestion_control(&dctcp);
330 }
331 
332 static void __exit dctcp_unregister(void)
333 {
334 	tcp_unregister_congestion_control(&dctcp);
335 }
336 
337 module_init(dctcp_register);
338 module_exit(dctcp_unregister);
339 
340 MODULE_AUTHOR("Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>");
341 MODULE_AUTHOR("Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>");
342 MODULE_AUTHOR("Glenn Judd <glenn.judd@morganstanley.com>");
343 
344 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
345 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("DataCenter TCP (DCTCP)");
346