linux-stable/net
Ilpo Järvinen 85cc391c0e [TCP]: non-FACK SACK follows conservative SACK loss recovery
Many assumptions that are true when no reordering or other
strange events happen are not a part of the RFC3517. FACK
implementation is based on such assumptions. Previously (before
the rewrite) the non-FACK SACK was basically doing fast rexmit
and then it times out all skbs when first cumulative ACK arrives,
which cannot really be called SACK based recovery :-).

RFC3517 SACK disables these things:
- Per SKB timeouts & head timeout entry to recovery
- Marking at least one skb while in recovery (RFC3517 does this
  only for the fast retransmission but not for the other skbs
  when cumulative ACKs arrive in the recovery)
- Sacktag's loss detection flavors B and C (see comment before
  tcp_sacktag_write_queue)

This does not implement the "last resort" rule 3 of NextSeg, which
allows retransmissions also when not enough SACK blocks have yet
arrived above a segment for IsLost to return true [RFC3517].

The implementation differs from RFC3517 in these points:
- Rate-halving is used instead of FlightSize / 2
- Instead of using dupACKs to trigger the recovery, the number
  of SACK blocks is used as FACK does with SACK blocks+holes
  (which provides more accurate number). It seems that the
  difference can affect negatively only if the receiver does not
  generate SACK blocks at all even though it claimed to be
  SACK-capable.
- Dupthresh is not a constant one. Dynamical adjustments include
  both holes and sacked segments (equal to what FACK has) due to
  complexity involved in determining the number sacked blocks
  between highest_sack and the reordered segment. Thus it's will
  be an over-estimate.

Implementation note:

tcp_clean_rtx_queue doesn't need a lost_cnt tweak because head
skb at that point cannot be SACKED_ACKED (nor would such
situation last for long enough to cause problems).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:03 -08:00
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9p 9p: add missing end-of-options record for trans_fd 2007-11-06 08:02:53 -06:00
802 [NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer 2008-01-28 14:53:35 -08:00
8021q [VLAN]: nested VLAN: fix lockdep's recursive locking warning 2008-01-10 22:38:31 -08:00
appletalk [NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer 2008-01-28 14:53:35 -08:00
atm [NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer 2008-01-28 14:53:35 -08:00
ax25 [NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer 2008-01-28 14:53:35 -08:00
bluetooth [NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer 2008-01-28 14:53:35 -08:00
bridge [NETFILTER]: Introduce NF_INET_ hook values 2008-01-28 14:53:55 -08:00
core [NET]: Move sock_valbool_flag to socket.c 2008-01-28 14:54:00 -08:00
dccp [NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer 2008-01-28 14:53:35 -08:00
decnet [NET]: Eliminate duplicate copies of dst_discard 2008-01-28 14:53:37 -08:00
econet [NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer 2008-01-28 14:53:35 -08:00
ethernet [NET]: Validate device addr prior to interface-up 2007-10-23 21:27:50 -07:00
ieee80211 [NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer 2008-01-28 14:53:35 -08:00
ipv4 [TCP]: non-FACK SACK follows conservative SACK loss recovery 2008-01-28 14:54:03 -08:00
ipv6 [IPV6] ADDRCONF: Support RFC3484 configurable address selection policy table. 2008-01-28 14:53:58 -08:00
ipx [IPX]: Use existing sock refcnt debugging infrastructure 2007-11-10 21:39:26 -08:00
irda [NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer 2008-01-28 14:53:35 -08:00
iucv [NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer 2008-01-28 14:53:35 -08:00
key [AF_KEY]: Fix skb leak on pfkey_send_migrate() error 2008-01-20 20:31:45 -08:00
lapb [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h 2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
llc [NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer 2008-01-28 14:53:35 -08:00
mac80211 [NET]: Move Qdisc_class_ops and Qdisc_ops in appropriate sections. 2008-01-28 14:53:58 -08:00
netfilter [NETFILTER]: Introduce NF_INET_ hook values 2008-01-28 14:53:55 -08:00
netlabel [NETLABEL]: Spelling fixes 2007-12-20 14:03:11 -08:00
netlink [NET]: Move unneeded data to initdata section. 2007-11-13 03:23:50 -08:00
netrom [NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer 2008-01-28 14:53:35 -08:00
packet [AF_PACKET]: Fix minor code duplication 2007-11-12 21:05:20 -08:00
rfkill rfkill: call rfkill_led_trigger_unregister() on error 2008-01-20 20:31:36 -08:00
rose [NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer 2008-01-28 14:53:35 -08:00
rxrpc [AF_RXRPC]: Add a missing goto 2007-12-07 04:31:47 -08:00
sched [NET]: Move Qdisc_class_ops and Qdisc_ops in appropriate sections. 2008-01-28 14:53:58 -08:00
sctp [NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer 2008-01-28 14:53:35 -08:00
sunrpc [NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer 2008-01-28 14:53:35 -08:00
tipc [NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer 2008-01-28 14:53:35 -08:00
unix [UNIX]: EOF on non-blocking SOCK_SEQPACKET 2007-11-29 23:19:23 +11:00
wanrouter [NET]: Make /proc/net per network namespace 2007-10-10 16:49:06 -07:00
wireless [WIRELESS] WEXT: Fix userspace corruption on 64-bit. 2007-11-20 03:29:53 -08:00
x25 [NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer 2008-01-28 14:53:35 -08:00
xfrm [IPSEC]: Kill afinfo->nf_post_routing 2008-01-28 14:53:55 -08:00
compat.c [NETFILTER]: Introduce NF_INET_ hook values 2008-01-28 14:53:55 -08:00
Kconfig [NET]: Add network namespace clone & unshare support. 2007-10-10 16:52:46 -07:00
Makefile 9p: Reorganization of 9p file system code 2007-07-14 15:13:40 -05:00
nonet.c
socket.c [NET]: Use sockfd_lookup_light in the rest of the net/socket.c 2008-01-28 14:54:00 -08:00
sysctl_net.c
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