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Baruch Even
50bf3e224a [TCP] H-TCP: Better time accounting
Instead of estimating the time since the last congestion event, count
it directly.

Signed-off-by: Baruch Even <baruch@ev-en.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 22:23:10 -08:00
Baruch Even
0bc6d90b82 [TCP] H-TCP: Account for delayed-ACKs
Account for delayed-ACKs in H-TCP.

Delayed-ACKs cause H-TCP to be less aggressive than its design calls
for. It is especially true when the receiver is a Linux machine where
the average delayed ack is over 3 packets with values of 7 not unheard
of.

Signed-off-By: Baruch Even <baruch@ev-en.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 22:22:47 -08:00
Baruch Even
c33ad6e476 [TCP] H-TCP: Use msecs_to_jiffies
Use functions to calculate jiffies from milliseconds and not the old,
crude method of dividing HZ by a value. Ensures more accurate values
even in the face of strange HZ values.

Signed-off-By: Baruch Even <baruch@ev-en.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 22:22:20 -08:00
Baruch Even
2c74088e41 [TCP] H-TCP: Fix accounting
This fixes the accounting in H-TCP, the ccount variable is also
adjusted a few lines above this one.

This line was not supposed to be there and wasn't there in the patches
originally submitted, the four patches submitted were merged to one
and in that merge the bug was introduced.

Signed-Off-By: Baruch Even <baruch@ev-en.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-30 20:54:39 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
7faffa1c7f [TCP]: add tcp_slow_start helper
Move all the code that does linear TCP slowstart to one
inline function to ease later patch to add ABC support.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 17:07:24 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
f4805eded7 [TCP]: fix congestion window update when using TSO deferal
TCP peformance with TSO over networks with delay is awful.
On a 100Mbit link with 150ms delay, we get 4Mbits/sec with TSO and
50Mbits/sec without TSO.

The problem is with TSO, we intentionally do not keep the maximum
number of packets in flight to fill the window, we hold out to until 
we can send a MSS chunk. But, we also don't update the congestion window 
unless we have filled, as per RFC2861.

This patch replaces the check for the congestion window being full
with something smarter that accounts for TSO.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 16:53:30 -08:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
6687e988d9 [ICSK]: Move TCP congestion avoidance members to icsk
This changeset basically moves tcp_sk()->{ca_ops,ca_state,etc} to inet_csk(),
minimal renaming/moving done in this changeset to ease review.

Most of it is just changes of struct tcp_sock * to struct sock * parameters.

With this we move to a state closer to two interesting goals:

1. Generalisation of net/ipv4/tcp_diag.c, becoming inet_diag.c, being used
   for any INET transport protocol that has struct inet_hashinfo and are
   derived from struct inet_connection_sock. Keeps the userspace API, that will
   just not display DCCP sockets, while newer versions of tools can support
   DCCP.

2. INET generic transport pluggable Congestion Avoidance infrastructure, using
   the current TCP CA infrastructure with DCCP.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:56:18 -07:00
Baruch Even
a7868ea68d [TCP]: Add H-TCP congestion control module.
H-TCP is a congestion control algorithm developed at the Hamilton Institute, by
Douglas Leith and Robert Shorten. It is extending the standard Reno algorithm
with mode switching is thus a relatively simple modification.

H-TCP is defined in a layered manner as it is still a research platform. The
basic form includes the modification of beta according to the ratio of maxRTT
to min RTT and the alpha=2*factor*(1-beta) relation, where factor is dependant
on the time since last congestion.

The other layers improve convergence by adding appropriate factors to alpha.

The following patch implements the H-TCP algorithm in it's basic form.

Signed-Off-By: Baruch Even <baruch@ev-en.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 12:28:11 -07:00