xref: /openbmc/linux/net/ipv4/tcp_dctcp.c (revision be709d48)
1 /* DataCenter TCP (DCTCP) congestion control.
2  *
3  * http://simula.stanford.edu/~alizade/Site/DCTCP.html
4  *
5  * This is an implementation of DCTCP over Reno, an enhancement to the
6  * TCP congestion control algorithm designed for data centers. DCTCP
7  * leverages Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in the network to
8  * provide multi-bit feedback to the end hosts. DCTCP's goal is to meet
9  * the following three data center transport requirements:
10  *
11  *  - High burst tolerance (incast due to partition/aggregate)
12  *  - Low latency (short flows, queries)
13  *  - High throughput (continuous data updates, large file transfers)
14  *    with commodity shallow buffered switches
15  *
16  * The algorithm is described in detail in the following two papers:
17  *
18  * 1) Mohammad Alizadeh, Albert Greenberg, David A. Maltz, Jitendra Padhye,
19  *    Parveen Patel, Balaji Prabhakar, Sudipta Sengupta, and Murari Sridharan:
20  *      "Data Center TCP (DCTCP)", Data Center Networks session
21  *      Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, New Delhi, 2010.
22  *   http://simula.stanford.edu/~alizade/Site/DCTCP_files/dctcp-final.pdf
23  *
24  * 2) Mohammad Alizadeh, Adel Javanmard, and Balaji Prabhakar:
25  *      "Analysis of DCTCP: Stability, Convergence, and Fairness"
26  *      Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS, San Jose, 2011.
27  *   http://simula.stanford.edu/~alizade/Site/DCTCP_files/dctcp_analysis-full.pdf
28  *
29  * Initial prototype from Abdul Kabbani, Masato Yasuda and Mohammad Alizadeh.
30  *
31  * Authors:
32  *
33  *	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
34  *	Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
35  *	Glenn Judd <glenn.judd@morganstanley.com>
36  *
37  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
38  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
39  * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
40  * your option) any later version.
41  */
42 
43 #include <linux/module.h>
44 #include <linux/mm.h>
45 #include <net/tcp.h>
46 #include <linux/inet_diag.h>
47 #include "tcp_dctcp.h"
48 
49 #define DCTCP_MAX_ALPHA	1024U
50 
51 struct dctcp {
52 	u32 acked_bytes_ecn;
53 	u32 acked_bytes_total;
54 	u32 prior_snd_una;
55 	u32 prior_rcv_nxt;
56 	u32 dctcp_alpha;
57 	u32 next_seq;
58 	u32 ce_state;
59 	u32 loss_cwnd;
60 };
61 
62 static unsigned int dctcp_shift_g __read_mostly = 4; /* g = 1/2^4 */
63 module_param(dctcp_shift_g, uint, 0644);
64 MODULE_PARM_DESC(dctcp_shift_g, "parameter g for updating dctcp_alpha");
65 
66 static unsigned int dctcp_alpha_on_init __read_mostly = DCTCP_MAX_ALPHA;
67 module_param(dctcp_alpha_on_init, uint, 0644);
68 MODULE_PARM_DESC(dctcp_alpha_on_init, "parameter for initial alpha value");
69 
70 static unsigned int dctcp_clamp_alpha_on_loss __read_mostly;
71 module_param(dctcp_clamp_alpha_on_loss, uint, 0644);
72 MODULE_PARM_DESC(dctcp_clamp_alpha_on_loss,
73 		 "parameter for clamping alpha on loss");
74 
75 static struct tcp_congestion_ops dctcp_reno;
76 
77 static void dctcp_reset(const struct tcp_sock *tp, struct dctcp *ca)
78 {
79 	ca->next_seq = tp->snd_nxt;
80 
81 	ca->acked_bytes_ecn = 0;
82 	ca->acked_bytes_total = 0;
83 }
84 
85 static void dctcp_init(struct sock *sk)
86 {
87 	const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
88 
89 	if ((tp->ecn_flags & TCP_ECN_OK) ||
90 	    (sk->sk_state == TCP_LISTEN ||
91 	     sk->sk_state == TCP_CLOSE)) {
92 		struct dctcp *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
93 
94 		ca->prior_snd_una = tp->snd_una;
95 		ca->prior_rcv_nxt = tp->rcv_nxt;
96 
97 		ca->dctcp_alpha = min(dctcp_alpha_on_init, DCTCP_MAX_ALPHA);
98 
99 		ca->loss_cwnd = 0;
100 		ca->ce_state = 0;
101 
102 		dctcp_reset(tp, ca);
103 		return;
104 	}
105 
106 	/* No ECN support? Fall back to Reno. Also need to clear
107 	 * ECT from sk since it is set during 3WHS for DCTCP.
108 	 */
109 	inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ca_ops = &dctcp_reno;
110 	INET_ECN_dontxmit(sk);
111 }
112 
113 static u32 dctcp_ssthresh(struct sock *sk)
114 {
115 	struct dctcp *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
116 	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
117 
118 	ca->loss_cwnd = tp->snd_cwnd;
119 	return max(tp->snd_cwnd - ((tp->snd_cwnd * ca->dctcp_alpha) >> 11U), 2U);
120 }
121 
122 static void dctcp_update_alpha(struct sock *sk, u32 flags)
123 {
124 	const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
125 	struct dctcp *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
126 	u32 acked_bytes = tp->snd_una - ca->prior_snd_una;
127 
128 	/* If ack did not advance snd_una, count dupack as MSS size.
129 	 * If ack did update window, do not count it at all.
130 	 */
131 	if (acked_bytes == 0 && !(flags & CA_ACK_WIN_UPDATE))
132 		acked_bytes = inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ack.rcv_mss;
133 	if (acked_bytes) {
134 		ca->acked_bytes_total += acked_bytes;
135 		ca->prior_snd_una = tp->snd_una;
136 
137 		if (flags & CA_ACK_ECE)
138 			ca->acked_bytes_ecn += acked_bytes;
139 	}
140 
141 	/* Expired RTT */
142 	if (!before(tp->snd_una, ca->next_seq)) {
143 		u64 bytes_ecn = ca->acked_bytes_ecn;
144 		u32 alpha = ca->dctcp_alpha;
145 
146 		/* alpha = (1 - g) * alpha + g * F */
147 
148 		alpha -= min_not_zero(alpha, alpha >> dctcp_shift_g);
149 		if (bytes_ecn) {
150 			/* If dctcp_shift_g == 1, a 32bit value would overflow
151 			 * after 8 Mbytes.
152 			 */
153 			bytes_ecn <<= (10 - dctcp_shift_g);
154 			do_div(bytes_ecn, max(1U, ca->acked_bytes_total));
155 
156 			alpha = min(alpha + (u32)bytes_ecn, DCTCP_MAX_ALPHA);
157 		}
158 		/* dctcp_alpha can be read from dctcp_get_info() without
159 		 * synchro, so we ask compiler to not use dctcp_alpha
160 		 * as a temporary variable in prior operations.
161 		 */
162 		WRITE_ONCE(ca->dctcp_alpha, alpha);
163 		dctcp_reset(tp, ca);
164 	}
165 }
166 
167 static void dctcp_state(struct sock *sk, u8 new_state)
168 {
169 	if (dctcp_clamp_alpha_on_loss && new_state == TCP_CA_Loss) {
170 		struct dctcp *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
171 
172 		/* If this extension is enabled, we clamp dctcp_alpha to
173 		 * max on packet loss; the motivation is that dctcp_alpha
174 		 * is an indicator to the extend of congestion and packet
175 		 * loss is an indicator of extreme congestion; setting
176 		 * this in practice turned out to be beneficial, and
177 		 * effectively assumes total congestion which reduces the
178 		 * window by half.
179 		 */
180 		ca->dctcp_alpha = DCTCP_MAX_ALPHA;
181 	}
182 }
183 
184 static void dctcp_cwnd_event(struct sock *sk, enum tcp_ca_event ev)
185 {
186 	struct dctcp *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
187 
188 	switch (ev) {
189 	case CA_EVENT_ECN_IS_CE:
190 	case CA_EVENT_ECN_NO_CE:
191 		dctcp_ece_ack_update(sk, ev, &ca->prior_rcv_nxt, &ca->ce_state);
192 		break;
193 	default:
194 		/* Don't care for the rest. */
195 		break;
196 	}
197 }
198 
199 static size_t dctcp_get_info(struct sock *sk, u32 ext, int *attr,
200 			     union tcp_cc_info *info)
201 {
202 	const struct dctcp *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
203 
204 	/* Fill it also in case of VEGASINFO due to req struct limits.
205 	 * We can still correctly retrieve it later.
206 	 */
207 	if (ext & (1 << (INET_DIAG_DCTCPINFO - 1)) ||
208 	    ext & (1 << (INET_DIAG_VEGASINFO - 1))) {
209 		memset(&info->dctcp, 0, sizeof(info->dctcp));
210 		if (inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ca_ops != &dctcp_reno) {
211 			info->dctcp.dctcp_enabled = 1;
212 			info->dctcp.dctcp_ce_state = (u16) ca->ce_state;
213 			info->dctcp.dctcp_alpha = ca->dctcp_alpha;
214 			info->dctcp.dctcp_ab_ecn = ca->acked_bytes_ecn;
215 			info->dctcp.dctcp_ab_tot = ca->acked_bytes_total;
216 		}
217 
218 		*attr = INET_DIAG_DCTCPINFO;
219 		return sizeof(info->dctcp);
220 	}
221 	return 0;
222 }
223 
224 static u32 dctcp_cwnd_undo(struct sock *sk)
225 {
226 	const struct dctcp *ca = inet_csk_ca(sk);
227 
228 	return max(tcp_sk(sk)->snd_cwnd, ca->loss_cwnd);
229 }
230 
231 static struct tcp_congestion_ops dctcp __read_mostly = {
232 	.init		= dctcp_init,
233 	.in_ack_event   = dctcp_update_alpha,
234 	.cwnd_event	= dctcp_cwnd_event,
235 	.ssthresh	= dctcp_ssthresh,
236 	.cong_avoid	= tcp_reno_cong_avoid,
237 	.undo_cwnd	= dctcp_cwnd_undo,
238 	.set_state	= dctcp_state,
239 	.get_info	= dctcp_get_info,
240 	.flags		= TCP_CONG_NEEDS_ECN,
241 	.owner		= THIS_MODULE,
242 	.name		= "dctcp",
243 };
244 
245 static struct tcp_congestion_ops dctcp_reno __read_mostly = {
246 	.ssthresh	= tcp_reno_ssthresh,
247 	.cong_avoid	= tcp_reno_cong_avoid,
248 	.undo_cwnd	= tcp_reno_undo_cwnd,
249 	.get_info	= dctcp_get_info,
250 	.owner		= THIS_MODULE,
251 	.name		= "dctcp-reno",
252 };
253 
254 static int __init dctcp_register(void)
255 {
256 	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct dctcp) > ICSK_CA_PRIV_SIZE);
257 	return tcp_register_congestion_control(&dctcp);
258 }
259 
260 static void __exit dctcp_unregister(void)
261 {
262 	tcp_unregister_congestion_control(&dctcp);
263 }
264 
265 module_init(dctcp_register);
266 module_exit(dctcp_unregister);
267 
268 MODULE_AUTHOR("Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>");
269 MODULE_AUTHOR("Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>");
270 MODULE_AUTHOR("Glenn Judd <glenn.judd@morganstanley.com>");
271 
272 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
273 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("DataCenter TCP (DCTCP)");
274