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A congestion control algorithm can make a call to the BPF socket_ops program to request the base RTT. The base RTT can be congestion control dependent and is meant to represent a congestion threshold such that RTTs above it indicate congestion. This is especially useful for flows within a DC where the base RTT is easy to obtain. Being provided a base RTT solves a basic problem in RTT based congestion avoidance algorithms (such as Vegas, NV and BBR). Although it is easy to get the base RTT when the network is not congested, it is very diffcult to do when it is very congested. Newer connections get an inflated value of the base RTT leading to unfariness (newer flows with a larger base RTT get more bandwidth). As a result, RTT based congestion avoidance algorithms tend to update their base RTTs to improve fairness. In very congested networks this can lead to base RTT inflation, reducing the ability of these RTT based congestion control algorithms to prevent congestion. Note that in my experiments with TCP-NV, the base RTT provided can be much larger than the actual hardware RTT. For example, experimenting with hosts within a rack where the hardware RTT is 16-20us, I've used base RTTs up to 150us. The effect of using a larger base RTT is that the congestion avoidance algorithm will allow more queueing. When there are only a few flows the main effect is larger measured RTTs and RPC latencies due to the increased queueing. When there are a lot of flows, a larger base RTT can lead to more congestion and more packet drops. For this case, where the hardware RTT is 20us, a base RTT of 80us produces good results. This patch only introduces BPF_SOCK_OPS_BASE_RTT, a later patch in this set adds support for using it in TCP-NV. Further study and testing is needed before support can be added to other delay based congestion avoidance algorithms. Signed-off-by: Lawrence Brakmo <brakmo@fb.com> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.