From 740b0f1841f6e39085b711d41db9ffb07198682b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 14:02:48 -0800 Subject: tcp: switch rtt estimations to usec resolution Upcoming congestion controls for TCP require usec resolution for RTT estimations. Millisecond resolution is simply not enough these days. FQ/pacing in DC environments also require this change for finer control and removal of bimodal behavior due to the current hack in tcp_update_pacing_rate() for 'small rtt' TCP_CONG_RTT_STAMP is no longer needed. As Julian Anastasov pointed out, we need to keep user compatibility : tcp_metrics used to export RTT and RTTVAR in msec resolution, so we added RTT_US and RTTVAR_US. An iproute2 patch is needed to use the new attributes if provided by the kernel. In this example ss command displays a srtt of 32 usecs (10Gbit link) lpk51:~# ./ss -i dst lpk52 Netid State Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port Peer Address:Port tcp ESTAB 0 1 10.246.11.51:42959 10.246.11.52:64614 cubic wscale:6,6 rto:201 rtt:0.032/0.001 ato:40 mss:1448 cwnd:10 send 3620.0Mbps pacing_rate 7240.0Mbps unacked:1 rcv_rtt:993 rcv_space:29559 Updated iproute2 ip command displays : lpk51:~# ./ip tcp_metrics | grep 10.246.11.52 10.246.11.52 age 561.914sec cwnd 10 rtt 274us rttvar 213us source 10.246.11.51 Old binary displays : lpk51:~# ip tcp_metrics | grep 10.246.11.52 10.246.11.52 age 561.914sec cwnd 10 rtt 250us rttvar 125us source 10.246.11.51 With help from Julian Anastasov, Stephen Hemminger and Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Yuchung Cheng Cc: Larry Brakmo Cc: Julian Anastasov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c') diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c index 828e4c3ffbaf..8bf224516ba2 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c @@ -476,10 +476,6 @@ static int __init cubictcp_register(void) /* divide by bic_scale and by constant Srtt (100ms) */ do_div(cube_factor, bic_scale * 10); - /* hystart needs ms clock resolution */ - if (hystart && HZ < 1000) - cubictcp.flags |= TCP_CONG_RTT_STAMP; - return tcp_register_congestion_control(&cubictcp); } -- cgit