linux/net/ipv4/proc.c, branch v4.5

net: track success and failure of TCP PMTU probing

2015-07-22T05:36:33Z

Track success and failure of TCP PMTU probing. Signed-off-by: Rick Jones Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: add TCPWinProbe and TCPKeepAlive SNMP counters

2015-05-09T20:42:32Z

Diagnosing problems related to Window Probes has been hard because we lack a counter. TCPWinProbe counts the number of ACK packets a sender has to send at regular intervals to make sure a reverse ACK packet opening back a window had not been lost. TCPKeepAlive counts the number of ACK packets sent to keep TCP flows alive (SO_KEEPALIVE) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Acked-by: Nandita Dukkipati Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp/dccp: get rid of central timewait timer

2015-04-13T20:40:05Z

Using a timer wheel for timewait sockets was nice ~15 years ago when memory was expensive and machines had a single processor. This does not scale, code is ugly and source of huge latencies (Typically 30 ms have been seen, cpus spinning on death_lock spinlock.) We can afford to use an extra 64 bytes per timewait sock and spread timewait load to all cpus to have better behavior. Tested: On following test, /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tw_recycle is set to 1 on the target (lpaa24) Before patch : lpaa23:~# ./super_netperf 200 -H lpaa24 -t TCP_CC -l 60 -- -p0,0 419594 lpaa23:~# ./super_netperf 200 -H lpaa24 -t TCP_CC -l 60 -- -p0,0 437171 While test is running, we can observe 25 or even 33 ms latencies. lpaa24:~# ping -c 1000 -i 0.02 -qn lpaa23 ... 1000 packets transmitted, 1000 received, 0% packet loss, time 20601ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.020/0.217/25.771/1.535 ms, pipe 2 lpaa24:~# ping -c 1000 -i 0.02 -qn lpaa23 ... 1000 packets transmitted, 1000 received, 0% packet loss, time 20702ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.019/0.183/33.761/1.441 ms, pipe 2 After patch : About 90% increase of throughput : lpaa23:~# ./super_netperf 200 -H lpaa24 -t TCP_CC -l 60 -- -p0,0 810442 lpaa23:~# ./super_netperf 200 -H lpaa24 -t TCP_CC -l 60 -- -p0,0 800992 And latencies are kept to minimal values during this load, even if network utilization is 90% higher : lpaa24:~# ping -c 1000 -i 0.02 -qn lpaa23 ... 1000 packets transmitted, 1000 received, 0% packet loss, time 19991ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.023/0.064/0.360/0.042 ms Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: helpers to mitigate ACK loops by rate-limiting out-of-window dupacks

2015-02-08T09:03:12Z

Helpers for mitigating ACK loops by rate-limiting dupacks sent in response to incoming out-of-window packets. This patch includes: - rate-limiting logic - sysctl to control how often we allow dupacks to out-of-window packets - SNMP counter for cases where we rate-limited our dupack sending The rate-limiting logic in this patch decides to not send dupacks in response to out-of-window segments if (a) they are SYNs or pure ACKs and (b) the remote endpoint is sending them faster than the configured rate limit. We rate-limit our responses rather than blocking them entirely or resetting the connection, because legitimate connections can rely on dupacks in response to some out-of-window segments. For example, zero window probes are typically sent with a sequence number that is below the current window, and ZWPs thus expect to thus elicit a dupack in response. We allow dupacks in response to TCP segments with data, because these may be spurious retransmissions for which the remote endpoint wants to receive DSACKs. This is safe because segments with data can't realistically be part of ACK loops, which by their nature consist of each side sending pure/data-less ACKs to each other. The dupack interval is controlled by a new sysctl knob, tcp_invalid_ratelimit, given in milliseconds, in case an administrator needs to dial this upward in the face of a high-rate DoS attack. The name and units are chosen to be analogous to the existing analogous knob for ICMP, icmp_ratelimit. The default value for tcp_invalid_ratelimit is 500ms, which allows at most one such dupack per 500ms. This is chosen to be 2x faster than the 1-second minimum RTO interval allowed by RFC 6298 (section 2, rule 2.4). We allow the extra 2x factor because network delay variations can cause packets sent at 1 second intervals to be compressed and arrive much closer. Reported-by: Avery Fay Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp_cubic: add SNMP counters to track how effective is Hystart

2014-12-09T19:58:23Z

When deploying FQ pacing, one thing we noticed is that CUBIC Hystart triggers too soon. Having SNMP counters to have an idea of how often the various Hystart methods trigger is useful prior to any modifications. This patch adds SNMP counters tracking, how many time "ack train" or "Delay" based Hystart triggers, and cumulative sum of cwnd at the time Hystart decided to end SS (Slow Start) myhost:~# nstat -a | grep Hystart TcpExtTCPHystartTrainDetect 9 0.0 TcpExtTCPHystartTrainCwnd 20650 0.0 TcpExtTCPHystartDelayDetect 10 0.0 TcpExtTCPHystartDelayCwnd 360 0.0 -> Train detection was triggered 9 times, and average cwnd was 20650/9=2294, Delay detection was triggered 10 times and average cwnd was 36 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

udp: Increment UDP_MIB_IGNOREDMULTI for arriving unmatched multicasts

2014-11-07T20:45:50Z

As NIC multicast filtering isn't perfect, and some platforms are quite content to spew broadcasts, we should not trigger an event for skb:kfree_skb when we do not have a match for such an incoming datagram. We do though want to avoid sweeping the matter under the rug entirely, so increment a suitable statistic. This incorporates feedback from David L. Stevens, Karl Neiss and Eric Dumazet. V3 - use bool per David Miller Signed-off-by: Rick Jones Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: use seq_puts instead of seq_printf where possible

2014-11-04T20:09:52Z

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

inet: frag: don't account number of fragment queues

2014-07-28T05:34:36Z

The 'nqueues' counter is protected by the lru list lock, once thats removed this needs to be converted to atomic counter. Given this isn't used for anything except for reporting it to userspace via /proc, just remove it. We still report the memory currently used by fragment reassembly queues. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: clean up snmp stats code

2014-05-07T20:06:05Z

commit 8f0ea0fe3a036a47767f9c80e (snmp: reduce percpu needs by 50%) reduced snmp array size to 1, so technically it doesn't have to be an array any more. What's more, after the following commit: commit 933393f58fef9963eac61db8093689544e29a600 Date: Thu Dec 22 11:58:51 2011 -0600 percpu: Remove irqsafe_cpu_xxx variants We simply say that regular this_cpu use must be safe regardless of preemption and interrupt state. That has no material change for x86 and s390 implementations of this_cpu operations. However, arches that do not provide their own implementation for this_cpu operations will now get code generated that disables interrupts instead of preemption. probably no arch wants to have SNMP_ARRAY_SZ == 2. At least after almost 3 years, no one complains. So, just convert the array to a single pointer and remove snmp_mib_init() and snmp_mib_free() as well. Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: snmp stats for Fast Open, SYN rtx, and data pkts

2014-03-03T20:58:03Z

Add the following snmp stats: TCPFastOpenActiveFail: Fast Open attempts (SYN/data) failed beacuse the remote does not accept it or the attempts timed out. TCPSynRetrans: number of SYN and SYN/ACK retransmits to break down retransmissions into SYN, fast-retransmits, timeout retransmits, etc. TCPOrigDataSent: number of outgoing packets with original data (excluding retransmission but including data-in-SYN). This counter is different from TcpOutSegs because TcpOutSegs also tracks pure ACKs. TCPOrigDataSent is more useful to track the TCP retransmission rate. Change TCPFastOpenActive to track only successful Fast Opens to be symmetric to TCPFastOpenPassive. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati Signed-off-by: Lawrence Brakmo Signed-off-by: David S. Miller