I've seen several attempts recently made to do quick failover of sctp transports by reducing various retransmit timers and counters. While its possible to implement a faster failover on multihomed sctp associations, its not particularly robust, in that it can lead to unneeded retransmits, as well as false connection failures due to intermittent latency on a network. Instead, lets implement the new ietf quick failover draft found here: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nishida-tsvwg-sctp-failover-05 This will let the sctp stack identify transports that have had a small number of errors, and avoid using them quickly until their reliability can be re-established. I've tested this out on two virt guests connected via multiple isolated virt networks and believe its in compliance with the above draft and works well. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com> CC: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> CC: linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org CC: joe@perches.com Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use of "unsigned int" is preferred to bare "unsigned" in net tree. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When checking whether a DATA chunk fits into the estimated rwnd a full sizeof(struct sk_buff) is added to the needed chunk size. This quickly exhausts the available rwnd space and leads to packets being sent which are much below the PMTU limit. This can lead to much worse performance. The reason for this behaviour was to avoid putting too much memory pressure on the receiver. The concept is not completely irational because a Linux receiver does in fact clone an skb for each DATA chunk delivered. However, Linux also reserves half the available socket buffer space for data structures therefore usage of it is already accounted for. When proposing to change this the last time it was noted that this behaviour was introduced to solve a performance issue caused by rwnd overusage in combination with small DATA chunks. Trying to reproduce this I found that with the sk_buff overhead removed, the performance would improve significantly unless socket buffer limits are increased. The following numbers have been gathered using a patched iperf supporting SCTP over a live 1 Gbit ethernet network. The -l option was used to limit DATA chunk sizes. The numbers listed are based on the average of 3 test runs each. Default values have been used for sk_(r|w)mem. Chunk Size Unpatched No Overhead ------------------------------------- 4 15.2 Kbit [!] 12.2 Mbit [!] 8 35.8 Kbit [!] 26.0 Mbit [!] 16 95.5 Kbit [!] 54.4 Mbit [!] 32 106.7 Mbit 102.3 Mbit 64 189.2 Mbit 188.3 Mbit 128 331.2 Mbit 334.8 Mbit 256 537.7 Mbit 536.0 Mbit 512 766.9 Mbit 766.6 Mbit 1024 810.1 Mbit 808.6 Mbit Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch fixes BUG that the ASCONF receiver transmits DATA chunks to the newly added UNCONFIRMED destination. Signed-off-by: Michio Honda <micchie@sfc.wide.ad.jp> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Conflicts: net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c
When initiating a graceful shutdown while having data chunks on the retransmission queue with a peer which is in zero window mode the shutdown is never completed because the retransmission error count is reset periodically by the following two rules: - Do not timeout association while doing zero window probe. - Reset overall error count when a heartbeat request has been acknowledged. The graceful shutdown will wait for all outstanding TSN to be acknowledged before sending the SHUTDOWN request. This never happens due to the peer's zero window not acknowledging the continuously retransmitted data chunks. Although the error counter is incremented for each failed retransmission, the receiving of the SACK announcing the zero window clears the error count again immediately. Also heartbeat requests continue to be sent periodically. The peer acknowledges these requests causing the error counter to be reset as well. This patch changes behaviour to only reset the overall error counter for the above rules while not in shutdown. After reaching the maximum number of retransmission attempts, the T5 shutdown guard timer is scheduled to give the receiver some additional time to recover. The timer is stopped as soon as the receiver acknowledges any data. The issue can be easily reproduced by establishing a sctp association over the loopback device, constantly queueing data at the sender while not reading any at the receiver. Wait for the window to reach zero, then initiate a shutdown by killing both processes simultaneously. The association will never be freed and the chunks on the retransmission queue will be retransmitted indefinitely. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org> Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In this case, the SCTP association transmits an ASCONF packet including addition of the new IP address and deletion of the old address. This patch implements this functionality. In this case, the ASCONF chunk is added to the beginning of the queue, because the other chunks cannot be transmitted in this state. Signed-off-by: Michio Honda <micchie@sfc.wide.ad.jp> Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Acked-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If there is still data waiting to retransmit and remain in retransmit queue, while doing the next retransmit, if the chunk is abandoned, we should move it to abandoned list. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
SCTP does not SCTP_STATE_EMPTY and we can never be in that state. Remove useless code. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When we have have to remove a transport due to ASCONF, we move the data to a new active path. This can trigger CACC algorithm to not mark that data as missing when SACKs arrive. This is because the transport passed to the CACC algorithm is the one this data is sitting on, not the one it was sent on (that one may be gone). So, by sending the original transport (even if it's NULL), we may start marking data as missing. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>