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28 #include <sys/param.h>
29 #include <sys/systm.h>
30 #include <sys/kernel.h>
31 #include <sys/protosw.h>
32 #include <sys/mcache.h>
33 #include <sys/sysctl.h>
35 #include <net/route.h>
36 #include <netinet/in.h>
37 #include <netinet/in_systm.h>
38 #include <netinet/ip.h>
41 #include <netinet/ip6.h>
43 #include <netinet/ip_var.h>
44 #include <netinet/tcp.h>
45 #include <netinet/tcp_fsm.h>
46 #include <netinet/tcp_timer.h>
47 #include <netinet/tcp_var.h>
48 #include <netinet/tcpip.h>
49 #include <netinet/tcp_cc.h>
51 #include <libkern/OSAtomic.h>
53 /* This file implements an alternate TCP congestion control algorithm
54 * for background transport developed by LEDBAT working group at IETF and
55 * described in draft: draft-ietf-ledbat-congestion-02
58 int tcp_ledbat_init(struct tcpcb
*tp
);
59 int tcp_ledbat_cleanup(struct tcpcb
*tp
);
60 void tcp_ledbat_cwnd_init(struct tcpcb
*tp
);
61 void tcp_ledbat_congestion_avd(struct tcpcb
*tp
, struct tcphdr
*th
);
62 void tcp_ledbat_ack_rcvd(struct tcpcb
*tp
, struct tcphdr
*th
);
63 void tcp_ledbat_pre_fr(struct tcpcb
*tp
);
64 void tcp_ledbat_post_fr(struct tcpcb
*tp
, struct tcphdr
*th
);
65 void tcp_ledbat_after_idle(struct tcpcb
*tp
);
66 void tcp_ledbat_after_timeout(struct tcpcb
*tp
);
67 int tcp_ledbat_delay_ack(struct tcpcb
*tp
, struct tcphdr
*th
);
68 void tcp_ledbat_switch_cc(struct tcpcb
*tp
, uint16_t old_cc_index
);
70 struct tcp_cc_algo tcp_cc_ledbat
= {
72 .init
= tcp_ledbat_init
,
73 .cleanup
= tcp_ledbat_cleanup
,
74 .cwnd_init
= tcp_ledbat_cwnd_init
,
75 .congestion_avd
= tcp_ledbat_congestion_avd
,
76 .ack_rcvd
= tcp_ledbat_ack_rcvd
,
77 .pre_fr
= tcp_ledbat_pre_fr
,
78 .post_fr
= tcp_ledbat_post_fr
,
79 .after_idle
= tcp_ledbat_after_idle
,
80 .after_timeout
= tcp_ledbat_after_timeout
,
81 .delay_ack
= tcp_ledbat_delay_ack
,
82 .switch_to
= tcp_ledbat_switch_cc
85 /* Target queuing delay in milliseconds. This includes the processing
86 * and scheduling delay on both of the end-hosts. A LEDBAT sender tries
87 * to keep queuing delay below this limit. When the queuing delay
88 * goes above this limit, a LEDBAT sender will start reducing the
91 * The LEDBAT draft says that target queue delay MUST be 100 ms for
94 int target_qdelay
= 100;
95 SYSCTL_INT(_net_inet_tcp
, OID_AUTO
, bg_target_qdelay
, CTLFLAG_RW
| CTLFLAG_LOCKED
,
96 &target_qdelay
, 100, "Target queuing delay");
98 /* Allowed increase and tether are used to place an upper bound on
99 * congestion window based on the amount of data that is outstanding.
100 * This will limit the congestion window when the amount of data in
101 * flight is little because the application is writing to the socket
102 * intermittently and is preventing the connection from becoming idle .
104 * max_allowed_cwnd = allowed_increase + (tether * flight_size)
105 * cwnd = min(cwnd, max_allowed_cwnd)
107 * 'Allowed_increase' parameter is set to 8. If the flight size is zero, then
108 * we want the congestion window to be at least 8 packets to reduce the
109 * delay induced by delayed ack. This helps when the receiver is acking
110 * more than 2 packets at a time (stretching acks for better performance).
112 * 'Tether' is also set to 2. We do not want this to limit the growth of cwnd
115 int allowed_increase
= 8;
116 SYSCTL_INT(_net_inet_tcp
, OID_AUTO
, bg_allowed_increase
, CTLFLAG_RW
| CTLFLAG_LOCKED
,
117 &allowed_increase
, 1, "Additive constant used to calculate max allowed congestion window");
119 /* Left shift for cwnd to get tether value of 2 */
120 int tether_shift
= 1;
121 SYSCTL_INT(_net_inet_tcp
, OID_AUTO
, bg_tether_shift
, CTLFLAG_RW
| CTLFLAG_LOCKED
,
122 &tether_shift
, 1, "Tether shift for max allowed congestion window");
124 /* Start with an initial window of 2. This will help to get more accurate
125 * minimum RTT measurement in the beginning. It will help to probe
126 * the path slowly and will not add to the existing delay if the path is
127 * already congested. Using 2 packets will reduce the delay induced by delayed-ack.
129 uint32_t bg_ss_fltsz
= 2;
130 SYSCTL_INT(_net_inet_tcp
, OID_AUTO
, bg_ss_fltsz
, CTLFLAG_RW
| CTLFLAG_LOCKED
,
131 &bg_ss_fltsz
, 2, "Initial congestion window for background transport");
133 extern int rtt_samples_per_slot
;
135 static void update_cwnd(struct tcpcb
*tp
, uint32_t incr
) {
136 uint32_t max_allowed_cwnd
= 0, flight_size
= 0;
139 base_rtt
= get_base_rtt(tp
);
141 /* If we do not have a good RTT measurement yet, increment
142 * congestion window by the default value.
144 if (base_rtt
== 0 || tp
->t_rttcur
== 0) {
145 tp
->snd_cwnd
+= incr
;
149 if (tp
->t_rttcur
<= (base_rtt
+ target_qdelay
)) {
151 * Delay decreased or remained the same, we can increase
152 * the congestion window according to RFC 3465.
154 * Move background slow-start threshold to current
155 * congestion window so that the next time (after some idle
156 * period), we can attempt to do slow-start till here if there
157 * is no increase in rtt
159 if (tp
->bg_ssthresh
< tp
->snd_cwnd
)
160 tp
->bg_ssthresh
= tp
->snd_cwnd
;
161 tp
->snd_cwnd
+= incr
;
164 /* In response to an increase in rtt, reduce the congestion
165 * window by one-eighth. This will help to yield immediately
166 * to a competing stream.
170 redwin
= tp
->snd_cwnd
>> 3;
171 tp
->snd_cwnd
-= redwin
;
172 if (tp
->snd_cwnd
< bg_ss_fltsz
* tp
->t_maxseg
)
173 tp
->snd_cwnd
= bg_ss_fltsz
* tp
->t_maxseg
;
175 /* Lower background slow-start threshold so that the connection
176 * will go into congestion avoidance phase
178 if (tp
->bg_ssthresh
> tp
->snd_cwnd
)
179 tp
->bg_ssthresh
= tp
->snd_cwnd
;
182 /* Calculate the outstanding flight size and restrict the
183 * congestion window to a factor of flight size.
185 flight_size
= tp
->snd_max
- tp
->snd_una
;
187 max_allowed_cwnd
= (allowed_increase
* tp
->t_maxseg
)
188 + (flight_size
<< tether_shift
);
189 tp
->snd_cwnd
= min(tp
->snd_cwnd
, max_allowed_cwnd
);
193 int tcp_ledbat_init(struct tcpcb
*tp
) {
195 OSIncrementAtomic((volatile SInt32
*)&tcp_cc_ledbat
.num_sockets
);
199 int tcp_ledbat_cleanup(struct tcpcb
*tp
) {
201 OSDecrementAtomic((volatile SInt32
*)&tcp_cc_ledbat
.num_sockets
);
205 /* Initialize the congestion window for a connection
210 tcp_ledbat_cwnd_init(struct tcpcb
*tp
) {
211 tp
->snd_cwnd
= tp
->t_maxseg
* bg_ss_fltsz
;
212 tp
->bg_ssthresh
= tp
->snd_ssthresh
;
215 /* Function to handle an in-sequence ack which is fast-path processing
216 * of an in sequence ack in tcp_input function (called as header prediction).
217 * This gets called only during congestion avoidance phase.
220 tcp_ledbat_congestion_avd(struct tcpcb
*tp
, struct tcphdr
*th
) {
224 acked
= BYTES_ACKED(th
, tp
);
225 tp
->t_bytes_acked
+= acked
;
226 if (tp
->t_bytes_acked
> tp
->snd_cwnd
) {
227 tp
->t_bytes_acked
-= tp
->snd_cwnd
;
231 if (tp
->snd_cwnd
< tp
->snd_wnd
&& incr
> 0) {
232 update_cwnd(tp
, incr
);
235 /* Function to process an ack.
238 tcp_ledbat_ack_rcvd(struct tcpcb
*tp
, struct tcphdr
*th
) {
240 * RFC 3465 - Appropriate Byte Counting.
242 * If the window is currently less than ssthresh,
243 * open the window by the number of bytes ACKed by
244 * the last ACK, however clamp the window increase
245 * to an upper limit "L".
247 * In congestion avoidance phase, open the window by
248 * one segment each time "bytes_acked" grows to be
249 * greater than or equal to the congestion window.
252 u_int cw
= tp
->snd_cwnd
;
253 u_int incr
= tp
->t_maxseg
;
256 acked
= BYTES_ACKED(th
, tp
);
257 tp
->t_bytes_acked
+= acked
;
258 if (cw
>= tp
->bg_ssthresh
) {
259 /* congestion-avoidance */
260 if (tp
->t_bytes_acked
< cw
) {
261 /* No need to increase yet. */
266 * If the user explicitly enables RFC3465
267 * use 2*SMSS for the "L" param. Otherwise
268 * use the more conservative 1*SMSS.
270 * (See RFC 3465 2.3 Choosing the Limit)
274 abc_lim
= (tcp_do_rfc3465_lim2
&&
275 tp
->snd_nxt
== tp
->snd_max
) ? incr
* 2 : incr
;
277 incr
= lmin(acked
, abc_lim
);
279 if (tp
->t_bytes_acked
>= cw
)
280 tp
->t_bytes_acked
-= cw
;
282 update_cwnd(tp
, incr
);
286 tcp_ledbat_pre_fr(struct tcpcb
*tp
) {
289 win
= min(tp
->snd_wnd
, tp
->snd_cwnd
) /
293 tp
->snd_ssthresh
= win
* tp
->t_maxseg
;
294 if (tp
->bg_ssthresh
> tp
->snd_ssthresh
)
295 tp
->bg_ssthresh
= tp
->snd_ssthresh
;
297 tcp_cc_resize_sndbuf(tp
);
301 tcp_ledbat_post_fr(struct tcpcb
*tp
, struct tcphdr
*th
) {
304 ss
= tp
->snd_max
- th
->th_ack
;
307 * Complete ack. Inflate the congestion window to
308 * ssthresh and exit fast recovery.
310 * Window inflation should have left us with approx.
311 * snd_ssthresh outstanding data. But in case we
312 * would be inclined to send a burst, better to do
313 * it via the slow start mechanism.
315 * If the flight size is zero, then make congestion
316 * window to be worth at least 2 segments to avoid
317 * delayed acknowledgement (draft-ietf-tcpm-rfc3782-bis-05).
319 if (ss
< (int32_t)tp
->snd_ssthresh
)
320 tp
->snd_cwnd
= max(ss
, tp
->t_maxseg
) + tp
->t_maxseg
;
322 tp
->snd_cwnd
= tp
->snd_ssthresh
;
323 tp
->t_bytes_acked
= 0;
327 * Function to handle connections that have been idle for
328 * some time. Slow start to get ack "clock" running again.
329 * Clear base history after idle time.
332 tcp_ledbat_after_idle(struct tcpcb
*tp
) {
334 /* Reset the congestion window */
335 tp
->snd_cwnd
= tp
->t_maxseg
* bg_ss_fltsz
;
338 /* Function to change the congestion window when the retransmit
339 * timer fires. The behavior is the same as that for best-effort
340 * TCP, reduce congestion window to one segment and start probing
341 * the link using "slow start". The slow start threshold is set
342 * to half of the current window. Lower the background slow start
346 tcp_ledbat_after_timeout(struct tcpcb
*tp
) {
347 if (tp
->t_state
>= TCPS_ESTABLISHED
) {
348 u_int win
= min(tp
->snd_wnd
, tp
->snd_cwnd
) / 2 / tp
->t_maxseg
;
351 tp
->snd_ssthresh
= win
* tp
->t_maxseg
;
353 if (tp
->bg_ssthresh
> tp
->snd_ssthresh
)
354 tp
->bg_ssthresh
= tp
->snd_ssthresh
;
356 tp
->snd_cwnd
= tp
->t_maxseg
;
357 tcp_cc_resize_sndbuf(tp
);
362 * Indicate whether this ack should be delayed.
363 * We can delay the ack if:
364 * - our last ack wasn't a 0-sized window.
365 * - the peer hasn't sent us a TH_PUSH data packet: if he did, take this
366 * as a clue that we need to ACK without any delay. This helps higher
367 * level protocols who won't send us more data even if the window is
368 * open because their last "segment" hasn't been ACKed
369 * Otherwise the receiver will ack every other full-sized segment or when the
370 * delayed ack timer fires. This will help to generate better rtt estimates for
371 * the other end if it is a ledbat sender.
376 tcp_ledbat_delay_ack(struct tcpcb
*tp
, struct tcphdr
*th
) {
377 if ((tp
->t_flags
& TF_RXWIN0SENT
) == 0 &&
378 (th
->th_flags
& TH_PUSH
) == 0 && (tp
->t_unacksegs
== 1))
383 /* Change a connection to use ledbat. First, lower bg_ssthresh value
387 tcp_ledbat_switch_cc(struct tcpcb
*tp
, uint16_t old_cc_index
) {
388 #pragma unused(old_cc_index)
391 if (tp
->bg_ssthresh
== 0 || tp
->bg_ssthresh
> tp
->snd_ssthresh
)
392 tp
->bg_ssthresh
= tp
->snd_ssthresh
;
394 cwnd
= min(tp
->snd_wnd
, tp
->snd_cwnd
);
396 if (tp
->snd_cwnd
> tp
->bg_ssthresh
)
397 cwnd
= cwnd
/ tp
->t_maxseg
;
399 cwnd
= cwnd
/ 2 / tp
->t_maxseg
;
401 if (cwnd
< bg_ss_fltsz
)
404 tp
->snd_cwnd
= cwnd
* tp
->t_maxseg
;
405 tp
->t_bytes_acked
= 0;
407 OSIncrementAtomic((volatile SInt32
*)&tcp_cc_ledbat
.num_sockets
);