[ Upstream commit 962fb1f651 ]
If a call receives an event (such as incoming data), the call gets placed
on the socket's queue and a thread in recvmsg can be awakened to go and
process it. Once the thread has picked up the call off of the queue,
further events will cause it to be requeued, and once the socket lock is
dropped (recvmsg uses call->user_mutex to allow the socket to be used in
parallel), a second thread can come in and its recvmsg can pop the call off
the socket queue again.
In such a case, the first thread will be receiving stuff from the call and
the second thread will be blocked on call->user_mutex. The first thread
can, at this point, process both the event that it picked call for and the
event that the second thread picked the call for and may see the call
terminate - in which case the call will be "released", decoupling the call
from the user call ID assigned to it (RXRPC_USER_CALL_ID in the control
message).
The first thread will return okay, but then the second thread will wake up
holding the user_mutex and, if it sees that the call has been released by
the first thread, it will BUG thusly:
kernel BUG at net/rxrpc/recvmsg.c:474!
Fix this by just dequeuing the call and ignoring it if it is seen to be
already released. We can't tell userspace about it anyway as the user call
ID has become stale.
Fixes: 248f219cb8 ("rxrpc: Rewrite the data and ack handling code")
Reported-by: Junvyyang, Tencent Zhuque Lab <zhuque@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@auristor.com>
cc: LePremierHomme <kwqcheii@proton.me>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717074350.3767366-3-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit 4241a702e0 ]
The rxrpc_connection attend queue is never used because conn::attend_link
is never initialised and so is always NULL'd out and thus always appears to
be busy. This requires the following fix:
(1) Fix this the attend queue problem by initialising conn::attend_link.
And, consequently, two further fixes for things masked by the above bug:
(2) Fix rxrpc_input_conn_event() to handle being invoked with a NULL
sk_buff pointer - something that can now happen with the above change.
(3) Fix the RXRPC_SKB_MARK_SERVICE_CONN_SECURED message to carry a pointer
to the connection and a ref on it.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: f2cce89a07 ("rxrpc: Implement a mechanism to send an event notification to a connection")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250203110307.7265-3-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit 0e56ebde24 ]
Fix the handling of a connection abort that we've received. Though the
abort is at the connection level, it needs propagating to the calls on that
connection. Whilst the propagation bit is performed, the calls aren't then
woken up to go and process their termination, and as no further input is
forthcoming, they just hang.
Also add some tracing for the logging of connection aborts.
Fixes: 248f219cb8 ("rxrpc: Rewrite the data and ack handling code")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241204074710.990092-3-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
If a call gets aborted (e.g. because kafs saw a signal) between it being
queued for connection and the I/O thread picking up the call, the abort
will be prioritised over the connection and it will be removed from
local->new_client_calls by rxrpc_disconnect_client_call() without a lock
being held. This may cause other calls on the list to disappear if a race
occurs.
Fix this by taking the client_call_lock when removing a call from whatever
list its ->wait_link happens to be on.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Reported-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
Fixes: 9d35d880e0 ("rxrpc: Move client call connection to the I/O thread")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/726660.1730898202@warthog.procyon.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Fix the counting of new acks and nacks when parsing a packet - something
that is used in congestion control.
As the code stands, it merely notes if there are any nacks whereas what we
really should do is compare the previous SACK table to the new one,
assuming we get two successive ACK packets with nacks in them. However, we
really don't want to do that if we can avoid it as the tables might not
correspond directly as one may be shifted from the other - something that
will only get harder to deal with once extended ACK tables come into full
use (with a capacity of up to 8192).
Instead, count the number of nacks shifted out of the old SACK, the number
of nacks retained in the portion still active and the number of new acks
and nacks in the new table then calculate what we need.
Note this ends up a bit of an estimate as the Rx protocol allows acks to be
withdrawn by the receiver and packets requested to be retransmitted.
Fixes: d57a3a1516 ("rxrpc: Save last ACK's SACK table rather than marking txbufs")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Change rxrpc's API such that:
(1) A new function, rxrpc_kernel_lookup_peer(), is provided to look up an
rxrpc_peer record for a remote address and a corresponding function,
rxrpc_kernel_put_peer(), is provided to dispose of it again.
(2) When setting up a call, the rxrpc_peer object used during a call is
now passed in rather than being set up by rxrpc_connect_call(). For
afs, this meenat passing it to rxrpc_kernel_begin_call() rather than
the full address (the service ID then has to be passed in as a
separate parameter).
(3) A new function, rxrpc_kernel_remote_addr(), is added so that afs can
get a pointer to the transport address for display purposed, and
another, rxrpc_kernel_remote_srx(), to gain a pointer to the full
rxrpc address.
(4) The function to retrieve the RTT from a call, rxrpc_kernel_get_srtt(),
is then altered to take a peer. This now returns the RTT or -1 if
there are insufficient samples.
(5) Rename rxrpc_kernel_get_peer() to rxrpc_kernel_call_get_peer().
(6) Provide a new function, rxrpc_kernel_get_peer(), to get a ref on a
peer the caller already has.
This allows the afs filesystem to pin the rxrpc_peer records that it is
using, allowing faster lookups and pointer comparisons rather than
comparing sockaddr_rxrpc contents. It also makes it easier to get hold of
the RTT. The following changes are made to afs:
(1) The addr_list struct's addrs[] elements now hold a peer struct pointer
and a service ID rather than a sockaddr_rxrpc.
(2) When displaying the transport address, rxrpc_kernel_remote_addr() is
used.
(3) The port arg is removed from afs_alloc_addrlist() since it's always
overridden.
(4) afs_merge_fs_addr4() and afs_merge_fs_addr6() do peer lookup and may
now return an error that must be handled.
(5) afs_find_server() now takes a peer pointer to specify the address.
(6) afs_find_server(), afs_compare_fs_alists() and afs_merge_fs_addr[46]{}
now do peer pointer comparison rather than address comparison.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Fix RTT determination to be able to use any type of ACK as the response
from which RTT can be calculated provided its ack.serial is non-zero and
matches the serial number of an outgoing DATA or ACK packet. This
shouldn't be limited to REQUESTED-type ACKs as these can have other types
substituted for them for things like duplicate or out-of-order packets.
Fixes: 4700c4d80b ("rxrpc: Fix loss of RTT samples due to interposed ACK")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix three cases of overproduction of wakeups:
(1) rxrpc_input_split_jumbo() conditionally notifies the app that there's
data for recvmsg() to collect if it queues some data - and then its
only caller, rxrpc_input_data(), goes and wakes up recvmsg() anyway.
Fix the rxrpc_input_data() to only do the wakeup in failure cases.
(2) If a DATA packet is received for a call by the I/O thread whilst
recvmsg() is busy draining the call's rx queue in the app thread, the
call will left on the recvmsg() queue for recvmsg() to pick up, even
though there isn't any data on it.
This can cause an unexpected recvmsg() with a 0 return and no MSG_EOR
set after the reply has been posted to a service call.
Fix this by discarding pending calls from the recvmsg() queue that
don't need servicing yet.
(3) Not-yet-completed calls get requeued after having data read from them,
even if they have no data to read.
Fix this by only requeuing them if they have data waiting on them; if
they don't, the I/O thread will requeue them when data arrives or they
fail.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3386149.1676497685@warthog.procyon.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Change the rx_packet tracepoint to display the securityIndex from the
packet header instead of displaying the type in numeric form. There's no
need for the latter, as the display of the type in symbolic form will fall
back automatically to displaying the hex value if no symbol is available.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Now that general ACK transmission is done from the same thread as incoming
DATA packet wrangling, there's no possibility that the SACK table will be
being updated by the latter whilst the former is trying to copy it to an
ACK.
This means that we can safely rotate the SACK table whilst updating it
without having to take a lock, rather than keeping all the bits inside it
in fixed place and copying and then rotating it in the transmitter.
Therefore, simplify SACK handing by keeping track of starting point in the
ring and rotate slots down as we consume them.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
call->ackr_window doesn't need to be atomic as ACK generation and ACK
transmission are now done in the same thread, so drop the atomic64 handling
and split it into two separate members.
Similarly, call->ackr_nr_unacked doesn't need to be atomic now either.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
When doing a call that has a single transmitted data packet and a massive
amount of received data packets, we only ping for one RTT sample, which
means we don't get a good reading on it.
Fix this by converting occasional IDLE ACKs into PING ACKs to elicit a
response.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Shrink the tabulation in the rxrpc trace header a bit to allow for fields
with long type names that have been removed.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Work around checkpatch warnings in the rxrpc trace header by removing
whitespace before ')' on lines defining the trace record struct.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Move the connection setup of client calls to the I/O thread so that a whole
load of locking and barrierage can be eliminated. This necessitates the
app thread waiting for connection to complete before it can begin
encrypting data.
This also completes the fix for a race that exists between call connection
and call disconnection whereby the data transmission code adds the call to
the peer error distribution list after the call has been disconnected (say
by the rxrpc socket getting closed).
The fix is to complete the process of moving call connection, data
transmission and call disconnection into the I/O thread and thus forcibly
serialising them.
Note that the issue may predate the overhaul to an I/O thread model that
were included in the merge window for v6.2, but the timing is very much
changed by the change given below.
Fixes: cf37b59875 ("rxrpc: Move DATA transmission into call processor work item")
Reported-by: syzbot+c22650d2844392afdcfd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Use the information now stored in struct rxrpc_call to configure the
connection bundle and thence the connection, rather than using the
rxrpc_conn_parameters struct.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Offload the completion of the challenge/response cycle on a service
connection to the I/O thread. After the RESPONSE packet has been
successfully decrypted and verified by the work queue, offloading the
changing of the call states to the I/O thread makes iteration over the
conn's channel list simpler.
Do this by marking the RESPONSE skbuff and putting it onto the receive
queue for the I/O thread to collect. We put it on the front of the queue
as we've already received the packet for it.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Tidy up the abort generation infrastructure in the following ways:
(1) Create an enum and string mapping table to list the reasons an abort
might be generated in tracing.
(2) Replace the 3-char string with the values from (1) in the places that
use that to log the abort source. This gets rid of a memcpy() in the
tracepoint.
(3) Subsume the rxrpc_rx_eproto tracepoint with the rxrpc_abort tracepoint
and use values from (1) to indicate the trace reason.
(4) Always make a call to an abort function at the point of the abort
rather than stashing the values into variables and using goto to get
to a place where it reported. The C optimiser will collapse the calls
together as appropriate. The abort functions return a value that can
be returned directly if appropriate.
Note that this extends into afs also at the points where that generates an
abort. To aid with this, the afs sources need to #define
RXRPC_TRACE_ONLY_DEFINE_ENUMS before including the rxrpc tracing header
because they don't have access to the rxrpc internal structures that some
of the tracepoints make use of.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Clean up connection abort, using the connection state_lock to gate access
to change that state, and use an rxrpc_call_completion value to indicate
the difference between local and remote aborts as these can be pasted
directly into the call state.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Provide a means by which an event notification can be sent to a connection
through such that the I/O thread can pick it up and handle it rather than
doing it in a separate workqueue.
This is then used to move the deferred final ACK of a call into the I/O
thread rather than a separate work queue as part of the drive to do all
transmission from the I/O thread.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Only perform call disconnection in the I/O thread to reduce the locking
requirement.
This is the first part of a fix for a race that exists between call
connection and call disconnection whereby the data transmission code adds
the call to the peer error distribution list after the call has been
disconnected (say by the rxrpc socket getting closed).
The fix is to complete the process of moving call connection, data
transmission and call disconnection into the I/O thread and thus forcibly
serialising them.
Note that the issue may predate the overhaul to an I/O thread model that
were included in the merge window for v6.2, but the timing is very much
changed by the change given below.
Fixes: cf37b59875 ("rxrpc: Move DATA transmission into call processor work item")
Reported-by: syzbot+c22650d2844392afdcfd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Only set the abort call completion state in the I/O thread and only
transmit ABORT packets from there. rxrpc_abort_call() can then be made to
actually send the packet.
Further, ABORT packets should only be sent if the call has been exposed to
the network (ie. at least one attempted DATA transmission has occurred for
it).
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Make the local endpoint and it's I/O thread hold a reference on a connected
call until that call is disconnected. Without this, we're reliant on
either the AF_RXRPC socket to hold a ref (which is dropped when the call is
released) or a queued work item to hold a ref (the work item is being
replaced with the I/O thread).
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
At the end of rxrpc_recvmsg(), if a call is found, the call is put and then
a trace line is emitted referencing that call in a couple of places - but
the call may have been deallocated by the time those traces happen.
Fix this by stashing the call debug_id in a variable and passing that to
the tracepoint rather than the call pointer.
Fixes: 849979051c ("rxrpc: Add a tracepoint to follow what recvmsg does")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
For ACKs generated inside the I/O thread, transmit the ACK at the point of
generation. Where the ACK is generated outside of the I/O thread, it's
offloaded to the I/O thread to transmit it.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Add a tracepoint to log when a cwnd reset occurs due to lack of
transmission on a call.
Add stat counters to count transmission underflows (ie. when we have tx
window space, but sendmsg doesn't manage to keep up), cwnd resets and
transmission failures.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Move the functions from the call->processor and local->processor work items
into the domain of the I/O thread.
The call event processor, now called from the I/O thread, then takes over
the job of cranking the call state machine, processing incoming packets and
transmitting DATA, ACK and ABORT packets. In a future patch,
rxrpc_send_ACK() will transmit the ACK on the spot rather than queuing it
for later transmission.
The call event processor becomes purely received-skb driven. It only
transmits things in response to events. We use "pokes" to queue a dummy
skb to make it do things like start/resume transmitting data. Timer expiry
also results in pokes.
The connection event processor, becomes similar, though crypto events, such
as dealing with CHALLENGE and RESPONSE packets is offloaded to a work item
to avoid doing crypto in the I/O thread.
The local event processor is removed and VERSION response packets are
generated directly from the packet parser. Similarly, ABORTs generated in
response to protocol errors will be transmitted immediately rather than
being pushed onto a queue for later transmission.
Changes:
========
ver #2)
- Fix a couple of introduced lock context imbalances.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
A received skbuff needs a ref when it gets put on a call data queue or conn
packet queue, and rxrpc_input_packet() and co. jump through a lot of hoops
to avoid double-dropping the skbuff ref so that we can avoid getting a ref
when we queue the packet.
Change this so that the skbuff ref is unconditionally dropped by the caller
of rxrpc_input_packet(). An additional ref is then taken on the packet if
it is pushed onto a queue.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Move DATA transmission into the call processor work item. In a future
patch, this will be called from the I/O thread rather than being itsown
work item.
This will allow DATA transmission to be driven directly by incoming ACKs,
pokes and timers as those are processed.
The Tx queue is also split: The queue of packets prepared by sendmsg is now
places in call->tx_sendmsg and the packet dispatcher decants the packets
into call->tx_buffer as space becomes available in the transmission
window. This allows sendmsg to run ahead of the available space to try and
prevent an underflow in transmission.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Copy client call parameters into rxrpc_call earlier so that that can be
used to convey them to the connection code - which can then be offloaded to
the I/O thread.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Provide a means by which an event notification can be sent to a call such
that the I/O thread can process it rather than it being done in a separate
workqueue. This will allow a lot of locking to be removed.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Currently, rxrpc gives the connection's work item a ref on the connection
when it queues it - and this is called from the timer expiration function.
The problem comes when queue_work() fails (ie. the work item is already
queued): the timer routine must put the ref - but this may cause the
cleanup code to run.
This has the unfortunate effect that the cleanup code may then be run in
softirq context - which means that any spinlocks it might need to touch
have to be guarded to disable softirqs (ie. they need a "_bh" suffix).
(1) Don't give a ref to the work item.
(2) Simplify handling of service connections by adding a separate active
count so that the refcount isn't also used for this.
(3) Connection destruction for both client and service connections can
then be cleaned up by putting rxrpc_put_connection() out of line and
making a tidy progression through the destruction code (offloaded to a
workqueue if put from softirq or processor function context). The RCU
part of the cleanup then only deals with the freeing at the end.
(4) Make rxrpc_queue_conn() return immediately if it sees the active count
is -1 rather then queuing the connection.
(5) Make sure that the cleanup routine waits for the work item to
complete.
(6) Stash the rxrpc_net pointer in the conn struct so that the rcu free
routine can use it, even if the local endpoint has been freed.
Unfortunately, neither the timer nor the work item can simply get around
the problem by just using refcount_inc_not_zero() as the waits would still
have to be done, and there would still be the possibility of having to put
the ref in the expiration function.
Note the connection work item is mostly going to go away with the main
event work being transferred to the I/O thread, so the wait in (6) will
become obsolete.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Currently, rxrpc gives the call timer a ref on the call when it starts it
and this is passed along to the workqueue by the timer expiration function.
The problem comes when queue_work() fails (ie. the work item is already
queued): the timer routine must put the ref - but this may cause the
cleanup code to run.
This has the unfortunate effect that the cleanup code may then be run in
softirq context - which means that any spinlocks it might need to touch
have to be guarded to disable softirqs (ie. they need a "_bh" suffix).
Fix this by:
(1) Don't give a ref to the timer.
(2) Making the expiration function not do anything if the refcount is 0.
Note that this is more of an optimisation.
(3) Make sure that the cleanup routine waits for timer to complete.
However, this has a consequence that timer cannot give a ref to the work
item. Therefore the following fixes are also necessary:
(4) Don't give a ref to the work item.
(5) Make the work item return asap if it sees the ref count is 0.
(6) Make sure that the cleanup routine waits for the work item to
complete.
Unfortunately, neither the timer nor the work item can simply get around
the problem by just using refcount_inc_not_zero() as the waits would still
have to be done, and there would still be the possibility of having to put
the ref in the expiration function.
Note the call work item is going to go away with the work being transferred
to the I/O thread, so the wait in (6) will become obsolete.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
rxrpc has a problem in its congestion management in that it saves the
congestion window size (cwnd) from one call to another, but if this is 0 at
the time is saved, then the next call may not actually manage to ever
transmit anything.
To this end:
(1) Don't save cwnd between calls, but rather reset back down to the
initial cwnd and re-enter slow-start if data transmission is idle for
more than an RTT.
(2) Preserve ssthresh instead, as that is a handy estimate of pipe
capacity. Knowing roughly when to stop slow start and enter
congestion avoidance can reduce the tendency to overshoot and drop
larger amounts of packets when probing.
In future, cwind growth also needs to be constrained when the window isn't
being filled due to being application limited.
Reported-by: Simon Wilkinson <sxw@auristor.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Improve the tracking of which packets need to be transmitted by saving the
last ACK packet that we receive that has a populated soft-ACK table rather
than marking packets. Then we can step through the soft-ACK table and look
at the packets we've transmitted beyond that to determine which packets we
might want to retransmit.
We also look at the highest serial number that has been acked to try and
guess which packets we've transmitted the peer is likely to have seen. If
necessary, we send a ping to retrieve that number.
One downside that might be a problem is that we can't then compare the
previous acked/unacked state so easily in rxrpc_input_soft_acks() - which
is a potential problem for the slow-start algorithm.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
