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Gerrit Renker
63b3a73bb8 dccp ccid-3: Remove ugly RTT-sampling history lookup
This removes the RTT-sampling function tfrc_tx_hist_rtt(), since

 1. it suffered from complex passing of return values (the return value both
    indicated successful lookup while the value doubled as RTT sample);

 2. when for some odd reason the sample value equalled 0, this triggered a bug
    warning about "bogus Ack", due to the ambiguity of the return value;

 3. on a passive host which has not sent anything the TX history is empty and
    thus will lead to unwanted "bogus Ack" warnings such as
    ccid3_hc_tx_packet_recv: server(e7b7d518): DATAACK with bogus ACK-28197148
    ccid3_hc_tx_packet_recv: server(e7b7d518): DATAACK with bogus ACK-26641606.

The fix is to replace the implicit encoding by performing the steps manually.					       

Furthermore, the "bogus Ack" warning has been removed, since it can actually be
triggered due to several reasons (network reordering, old packet, (3) above),
hence it is not very useful.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:34 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
de6f2b59e5 dccp ccid-3: Bug fix for the inter-packet scheduling algorithm
This fixes a subtle bug in the calculation of the inter-packet gap and shows
that t_delta, as it is currently used, is not needed. And hence replaced.

The algorithm from RFC 3448, 4.6 below continually computes a send time t_nom,
which is initialised with the current time t_now; t_gran = 1E6 / HZ specifies
the scheduling granularity, s the packet size, and X the sending rate:

  t_distance = t_nom - t_now;		// in microseconds
  t_delta    = min(t_ipi, t_gran) / 2;	// `delta' parameter in microseconds

  if (t_distance >= t_delta) {
	reschedule after (t_distance / 1000) milliseconds;
  } else {
  	t_ipi  = s / X;			// inter-packet interval in usec
	t_nom += t_ipi;			// compute the next send time
	send packet now;
  }


1) Description of the bug
-------------------------
Rescheduling requires a conversion into milliseconds, due to this call chain:

 * ccid3_hc_tx_send_packet() returns a timeout in milliseconds,
 * this value is converted by msecs_to_jiffies() in dccp_write_xmit(),
 * and finally used as jiffy-expires-value for sk_reset_timer().

The highest jiffy resolution with HZ=1000 is 1 millisecond, so using a higher
granularity does not make much sense here.

As a consequence, values of t_distance < 1000 are truncated to 0. This issue 
has so far been resolved by using instead

  if (t_distance >= t_delta + 1000)
	reschedule after (t_distance / 1000) milliseconds;

The bug is in artificially inflating t_delta to t_delta' = t_delta + 1000. This
is unnecessarily large, a more adequate value is t_delta' = max(t_delta, 1000).


2) Consequences of using the corrected t_delta'
-----------------------------------------------
Since t_delta <= t_gran/2 = 10^6/(2*HZ), we have t_delta <= 1000 as long as
HZ >= 500. This means that t_delta' = max(1000, t_delta) is constant at 1000.

On the other hand, when using a coarse HZ value of HZ < 500, we have three
sub-cases that can all be reduced to using another constant of t_gran/2.

 (a) The first case arises when t_ipi > t_gran. Here t_delta' is the constant
     t_delta' = max(1000, t_gran/2) = t_gran/2.

 (b) If t_ipi <= 2000 < t_gran = 10^6/HZ usec, then t_delta = t_ipi/2 <= 1000,
     so that t_delta' = max(1000, t_delta) = 1000 < t_gran/2. 

 (c) If 2000 < t_ipi <= t_gran, we have t_delta' = max(t_delta, 1000) = t_ipi/2.

In the second and third cases we have delay values less than t_gran/2, which is
in the order of less than or equal to half a jiffy. 

How these are treated depends on how fractions of a jiffy are handled: they
are either always rounded down to 0, or always rounded up to 1 jiffy (assuming
non-zero values). In both cases the error is on average in the order of 50%.

Thus we are not increasing the error when in the second/third case we replace
a value less than t_gran/2 with 0, by setting t_delta' to the constant t_gran/2.


3) Summary
----------
Fixing (1) and considering (2), the patch replaces t_delta with a constant,
whose value depends on CONFIG_HZ, changing the above algorithm to:
 
  if (t_distance >= t_delta')
	reschedule after (t_distance / 1000) milliseconds;

where t_delta' = 10^6/(2*HZ) if HZ < 500, and t_delta' = 1000 otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:33 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
b2e317f4b5 dccp ccid-3: No more CCID control blocks in LISTEN state
The CCIDs are activated as last of the features, at the end of the handshake,
were the LISTEN state of the master socket is inherited into the server
state of the child socket. Thus, the only states visible to CCIDs now are
OPEN/PARTOPEN, and the closing states.

This allows to remove tests which were previously necessary to protect
against referencing a socket in the listening state (in CCID3), but which
now have become redundant.

As a further byproduct of enabling the CCIDs only after the connection has been
fully established, several typecast-initialisations of ccid3_hc_{rx,tx}_sock
can now be eliminated:
 * the CCID is loaded, so it is not necessary to test if it is NULL,
 * if it is possible to load a CCID and leave the private area NULL, then this
    is a bug, which should crash loudly - and earlier,
 * the test for state==OPEN || state==PARTOPEN now reduces only to the closing
   phase (e.g. when the node has received an unexpected Reset).		  

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:33 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
842d1ef14f dccp ccid-3: Remove ccid3hc{tx,rx}_ prefixes
This patch does the same for CCID-3 as the previous patch for CCID-2:

        s#ccid3hctx_##g;
        s#ccid3hcrx_##g;

plus manual editing to retain consistency.

Please note: expanded the fields of the `struct tfrc_tx_info' in the hc_tx_sock,
since using short #define identifiers is not a good idea. The only place where
this embedded struct was used is ccid3_hc_tx_getsockopt().

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:33 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
1fb8750960 dccp ccid-2: Remove ccid2hc{tx,rx}_ prefixes
This patch fixes two problems caused by the ubiquitous long "hctx->ccid2htx_"
and "hcrx->ccid2hcrx_" prefixes:
 * code becomes hard to read;
 * multiple-line statements are almost inevitable even for simple expressions;
The prefixes are not really necessary (compare with "struct tcp_sock").

There had been previous discussion of this on dccp@vger, but so far this was
not followed up (most people agreed that the prefixes are too long). 

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Leandro Melo de Sales <leandroal@gmail.com>
2008-09-04 07:45:33 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
88ddac513a dccp: Special case of the MPS for client-PARTOPEN with DataAcks
To increase robustness, it is necessary to resend Confirm feature-negotiation
options, even though the RFC does not mandate it. But feature negotiation
options can take (much) more room than the options on common DataAck packets.

Instead of reducing the MPS always for a case which only applies to the three
messages send during initial handshake, this patch devises a special case:

   if the payload length of the DataAck in PARTOPEN is too large, an Ack is sent
   to carry the options, and the feature-negotiation list is then flushed.

   This means that the server gets two Acks for one Response. If both Acks get
   lost, it is probably better to restart the connection anyway and devising yet
   another special-case does not seem worth the extra complexity.

The patch (over-)estimates the expected overhead to be 32*4 bytes -- commonly
seen values were 20-90 bytes for initial feature-negotiation options. 

It uses sizeof(u32) to mean "aligned units of 4 bytes". For consistency,
another use of sizeof is modified.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:33 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
55ebe3ab2d dccp: Leave headroom for options when calculating the MPS
The Maximum Packet Size (MPS) is of interest for applications which want
to transfer data, so it is only relevant to the data transfer phase of a
connection (unless one wants to send data on the DCCP-Request, but that is
not considered here).

The strategy chosen to deal with this requirement is to leave room for only 
such options that may appear on data packets.

A special consideration applies to Ack Vectors: this is purely guesswork,
since these can have any length between 3 and 1020 bytes. The strategy
chosen here is to subtract a configurable minimum, the value of 16 bytes
(2 bytes for type/length plus 14 Ack Vector cells) has been found by 
experimentatation. If people experience this as too much or too little,
this could later be turned into a Kconfig option.	

There are currently no CCID-specific header options which may appear on data
packets, hence it is not necessary to define a corresponding CCID field.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:33 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
2faae5587f dccp ccid-2: Use feature-negotiation to report Ack Ratio changes
This uses the new feature-negotiation framework to signal Ack Ratio changes,
as required by RFC 4341, sec. 6.1.2.

This raises some problems for CCID-2 since it can at the moment not cope
gracefully with Ack Ratio of e.g. 2. A FIXME has thus been added which
reverts to the existing policy of bypassing the Ack Ratio sysctl.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:32 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
4861a35443 dccp: Support for exchanging of NN options in established state
This patch provides support for the reception of NN options in (PART)OPEN state. 

It is a combination of change_recv() and confirm_recv(), specifically geared
towards receiving the `fast-path' NN options.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:32 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
624a965a93 dccp: Support for the exchange of NN options in established state
In contrast to static feature negotiation at the begin of a connection, which
establishes the capabilities of both endpoints, this patch introduces support
for dynamic exchange of feature negotiation options.

Such a dynamic exchange is necessary in at least two cases:
 * CCID-2's Ack Ratio (RFC 4341, 6.1.2) which changes during the connection;
 * Sequence Window values that, as per RFC 4340, 7.5.2, should be sent "as
   as the connection progresses".

Both are NN (non-negotiable) features. Hence dynamic feature "negotiation" is
distinguished from static/pre-connection negotiation by the following:
 * no new capabilities are negotiated (those that matter for the connection
   are negotiated prior to setting up the connection, comparable to SIP);
 * features must be understood by each endpoint: as per RFC 4340, 6.4, 
   Sequence Window is "Req'd" and Ack Ratio must be understood when CCID-2
   is used as per the note underneath Table 4.

These characteristics are reflected in the implementation:
 * only NN options can be exchanged after connection setup;
 * NN options are activated directly after validating them. The rationale is
   that a peer must accept every valid NN value (RFC 4340, 6.3.2), hence it
   will either accept the value and send a "Confirm R", or it will send an
   empty Confirm (which will reset the connection according to FN rules). 
 * An Ack is scheduled directly after activation to accelerate communicating
   the update to the peer.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:32 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
76f738a795 dccp: Debugging functions for feature negotiation
Since all feature-negotiation processing now takes place in feat.c, functions
for producing verbose debugging output are concentrated there.

New functions to print out values, entry records, and options are provided,
and also a macro is defined to not always have the function name in the
output line.

Thanks a lot to Wei Yongjun and Giuseppe Galeota for help with errors in an
earlier revision of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:32 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
0a4822679d dccp: Initialisation and type-checking of feature sysctls
This patch takes care of initialising and type-checking sysctls related to
feature negotiation. Type checking is important since some of the sysctls
now directly act on the feature-negotiation process.

The sysctls are initialised with the known default values for each feature.
For the type-checking the value constraints from RFC 4340 are used:

 * Sequence Window uses the specified Wmin=32, the maximum is ulong (4 bytes),
   tested and confirmed that it works up to 4294967295 - for Gbps speed;
 * Ack Ratio is between 0 .. 0xffff (2-byte unsigned integer);
 * CCIDs are between 0 .. 255;
 * request_retries, retries1, retries2 also between 0..255 for good measure;
 * tx_qlen is checked to be non-negative;
 * sync_ratelimit remains as before.

Further changes:
----------------
Performed s@sysctl_dccp_feat@sysctl_dccp@g since the sysctls are now in feat.c.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:32 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
51c7d4fa26 dccp: Implement both feature-local and feature-remote Sequence Window feature
This adds full support for local/remote Sequence Window feature, from which the 
  * sequence-number-validity (W) and 
  * acknowledgment-number-validity (W') windows 
derive as specified in RFC 4340, 7.5.3. 

Specifically, the following changes are introduced:
  * integrated new socket fields into dccp_sk;
  * updated the update_gsr/gss routines with regard to these fields;
  * updated handler code: the Sequence Window feature is located at the TX side,
    so the local feature is meant if the handler-rx flag is false;
  * the initialisation of `rcv_wnd' in reqsk is removed, since
    - rcv_wnd is not used by the code anywhere;
    - sequence number checks are not done in the LISTEN state (cf. 7.5.3);
    - dccp_check_req checks the Ack number validity more rigorously;
  * the `struct dccp_minisock' became empty and is now removed.

Until the handshake completes with activating negotiated values, the local/remote
Sequence-Window values are undefined and thus can not reliably be estimated.
This issue is addressed in a separate patch.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:32 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
09856c1089 dccp: Auto-load (when supported) CCID plugins for negotiation
This adds auto-loading of CCIDs (when module loading is enabled) 
for the purpose of feature negotiation. 

The problem with loading the CCIDs at the end of feature negotiation is
that this would happen in software interrupt context. Besides, if the host
advertises CCIDs during negotiation, it should have them ready to use, in
case an agreeing peer wants to use it for the connection.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:31 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
5d3dac267a dccp: Initialisation framework for feature negotiation
This initialises feature negotiation from two tables, which are initialised
from sysctls. 

As a novel feature, specifics of the implementation (e.g. currently short
seqnos and ECN are not supported) are advertised for robustness.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:31 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
b235dc4abb dccp ccid-2: Phase out the use of boolean Ack Vector sysctl
This removes the use of the sysctl and the minisock variable for the Send Ack
Vector feature, which is now handled fully dynamically via feature negotiation;
i.e. when CCID2 is enabled, Ack Vectors are automatically enabled (as per
RFC 4341, 4.).

Using a sysctl in parallel to this implementation would open the door to
crashes, since much of the code relies on tests of the boolean minisock /
sysctl variable. Thus, this patch replaces all tests of type

	if (dccp_msk(sk)->dccpms_send_ack_vector)
		/* ... */
with
	if (dp->dccps_hc_rx_ackvec != NULL)
		/* ... */

The dccps_hc_rx_ackvec is allocated by the dccp_hdlr_ackvec() when feature
negotiation concluded that Ack Vectors are to be used on the half-connection.
Otherwise, it is NULL (due to dccp_init_sock/dccp_create_openreq_child),
so that the test is a valid one.

The activation handler for Ack Vectors is called as soon as the feature
negotiation has concluded at the
 * server when the Ack marking the transition RESPOND => OPEN arrives;
 * client after it has sent its ACK, marking the transition REQUEST => PARTOPEN.

Adding the sequence number of the Response packet to the Ack Vector has been 
removed, since
 (a) connection establishment implies that the Response has been received;
 (b) the CCIDs only look at packets received in the (PART)OPEN state, i.e.
     this entry will always be ignored;
 (c) it can not be used for anything useful - to detect loss for instance, only
     packets received after the loss can serve as pseudo-dupacks.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:31 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
68e074bfce dccp: Remove manual influence on NDP Count feature
Updating the NDP count feature is handled automatically now:
 * for CCID-2 it is disabled, since the code does not use NDP counts;
 * for CCID-3 it is enabled, as NDP counts are used to determine loss lengths.

Allowing the user to change NDP values leads to unpredictable and failing
behaviour, since it is then possible to disable NDP counts even when they
are needed (e.g. in CCID-3).

This means that only those user settings are sensible that agree with the
values for Send NDP Count implied by the choice of CCID. But those settings
are already activated by the feature negotiation (CCID dependency tracking),
hence this form of support is redundant.

At startup the initialisation of the NDP count feature is with the default
value of 0, which is done implicitly by the zeroing-out of the socket when
it is allocated. If the choice of CCID or feature negotiation enables NDP
count, this will then be updated via the NDP activation handler.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:31 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
78673e24df dccp: Remove obsolete parts of the old CCID interface
The TX/RX CCIDs of the minisock are now redundant: similar to the Ack Vector
case, their value equals initially that of the sysctl, but at the end of
feature negotiation may be something different.

The old interface removed by this patch thus has been replaced by the newer
interface to dynamically query the currently loaded CCIDs earlier in this
patch set.

Also removed the constructors for the TX CCID and the RX CCID, since the
switch rx/non-rx is done by the handler in minisocks.c (and the handler is
the only place in the code where CCIDs are loaded).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:31 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
23479cbfd3 dccp: Clean up old feature-negotiation infrastructure
The code removed by this patch is no longer referenced or used, the added
lines update documentation and copyrights.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:30 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
c49b22729f dccp: Integration of dynamic feature activation - part 3 (client side)
This integrates feature-activation in the client, with these details:

 1. When dccp_parse_options() fails, the reset code is already set, request_sent
    _state_process() currently overrides this with `Packet Error', which is not
    intended - so changed to use the reset code set in dccp_parse_options();

 2. There was a FIXME to change the error code when dccp_ackvec_add() fails.
    I have looked this up and found that: 
    * the check whether ackno < ISN is already made earlier,
    * this Response is likely the 1st packet with an Ackno that the client gets,
    * so when dccp_ackvec_add() fails, the reason is likely not a packet error.

 3. When feature negotiation fails, the socket should be marked as not usable,
    so that the application is notified that an error occurs. This is achieved
    by a new label, which uses an error code of `Aborted' and which sets the
    socket state to CLOSED, as well as sk_err.

 4. Avoids parsing the Ack twice in Respond state by not doing option processing
    again in dccp_rcv_respond_partopen_state_process (as option processing has
    already been done on the request_sock in dccp_check_req).    

Since this addresses congestion-control initialisation, a corresponding
FIXME has been removed.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:30 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
e70cacb90d dccp: Integration of dynamic feature activation - part 2 (server side)
This patch integrates the activation of features at the end of negotiation
into the server-side code.

Note: 
  In dccp_create_openreq_child the request_sock argument is no longer constant,
  since dccp_activate_values() uses the feature-negotiation list on dreq to sort
  out the initialisation values for the different features of the child socket;
  and purges this queue after use (but the `req' argument to openreq_child
  can and does still remain constant).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:30 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
3a53a9adfa dccp: Integration of dynamic feature activation - part 1 (socket setup)
This first patch out of three replaces the hardcoded default settings with
initialisation code for the dynamic feature negotiation.

Note on retransmitting Confirm options:
---------------------------------------
This patch also defers flushing the client feature-negotiation queue,
due to the following considerations.

As long as the client is in PARTOPEN, it needs to retransmit the Confirm
options for the Change options received on the DCCP-Response from the server.

Otherwise, if the packet containing the Confirm options gets dropped in the 
network, the connection aborts due to undefined feature negotiation state.

Thanks to Leandro Melo de Sales who reported a bug in an earlier revision
of the patch set, resulting from not retransmitting the Confirm options.

The patch now ensures that the client feature-negotiation queue is flushed only
when entering the OPEN state. Since confirmed Change options are removed as
soon as they are confirmed (in the DCCP-Response), this ensures that Confirm
options are retransmitted.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:30 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
c926c6aed3 dccp: Feature activation handlers
This patch provides the post-processing of feature negotiation state, after
the negotiation has completed.

To this purpose, handlers are used and added to the dccp_feat_table. Each
handler is passed a boolean flag whether the RX or TX side of the feature
is meant.

Several handlers are provided already, new handlers can easily be added.

The initialisation is now fully dynamic, i.e. CCIDs are activated only
after the feature negotiation. The integration of this dynamic activation
is done in the subsequent patches.

Thanks to Wei Yongjun for pointing out the necessity of skipping over empty
Confirm options while copying the negotiated feature values.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:30 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
d2150b7bff dccp: Processing Confirm options
Analogous to the previous patch, this adds code to interpret incoming Confirm
feature-negotiation options. Both functions operate on the feature-negotiation
list of either the request_sock (server) or the dccp_sock (client).

Thanks to Wei Yongjun for pointing out that it is overly restrictive to check
the entire list of confirmed SP values.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:29 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
5a146b97d5 dccp: Process incoming Change feature-negotiation options
This adds/replaces code for processing incoming ChangeL/R options.
The main difference is that:
 * mandatory FN options are now interpreted inside the function
  (there are too many individual cases to do this externally);
 * the function returns an appropriate Reset code or 0,
   which is then used to fill in the data for the Reset packet.

Old code, which is no longer used or referenced, has been removed.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:29 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
c664d4f4e2 dccp: Preference list reconciliation
This provides two functions to
 * reconcile preference lists (with appropriate return codes) and
 * reorder the preference list if successful reconciliation changed the
   preferred value.

The patch also removes the old code for processing SP/NN Change options, since
new code to process these is mostly there already; related references have been
commented out.

The code for processing Change options follows in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:29 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
f8a644c07e dccp: Integrate feature-negotiation insertion code
The patch implements insertion of feature negotiation at the server (listening
and request socket) and the client (connecting socket).

In dccp_insert_options(), several statements have been grouped together now
to achieve (I hope) better efficiency by reducing the number of tests each
packet has to go through:
 - Ack Vectors are sent if the packet is neither a Data or a Request packet;
 - a previous issue is corrected - feature negotiation options are allowed
   on DataAck packets (5.8).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:29 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
0ef118a017 dccp: Insert feature-negotiation options into skb
This patch replaces the earlier insertion routine from options.c, so that
code specific to feature negotiation can remain in feat.c. This is possible
by calling a function already existing in options.c.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:29 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
cf9ddf73b9 dccp: Header option insertion routine for feature-negotiation
The patch extends existing code:
 * Confirm options divide into the confirmed value plus an optional preference
   list for SP values. Previously only the preference list was echoed for SP
   values, now the confirmed value is added as per RFC 4340, 6.1;
 * length and sanity checks are added to avoid illegal memory (or NULL) access.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:29 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
d0440ee6f6 dccp: Support for Mandatory options
Support for Mandatory options is provided by this patch, which will
be used by subsequent feature-negotiation patches.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2008-09-04 07:45:28 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
b9aaac1c53 dccp: Increase the scope of variable-length htonl/ntohl functions
This extends the scope of two available functions, encode|decode_value_var,
to work up to 6 (8) bytes, to match maximum requirements in the RFC.

These functions are going to be used both by general option processing and 
feature negotiation code, hence declarations have been put into feat.h.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2008-09-04 07:45:28 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
c8041e264b dccp: API to query the current TX/RX CCID
This provides function to query the current TX/RX CCID dynamically, without
reliance on the minisock value, using dynamic information available in the
currently loaded CCID module.

This query function is then used to 
 (a) provide the getsockopt part for getting/setting CCIDs via sockopts;
 (b) replace the current test for "which CCID is in use" in probe.c.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:28 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
fade756f18 dccp: Set per-connection CCIDs via socket options
With this patch, TX/RX CCIDs can now be changed on a per-connection basis, which
overrides the defaults set by the global sysctl variables for TX/RX CCIDs.

To make full use of this facility, the remaining patches of this patch set are
needed, which track dependencies and activate negotiated feature values.

Note on the maximum number of CCIDs that can be registered:
-----------------------------------------------------------
The maximum number of CCIDs that can be registered on the socket is constrained
by the space in a Confirm/Change feature negotiation option. 

The space in these in turn depends on the size of header options as defined
in RFC 4340, 5.8. Since this is a recurring constant, it has been moved from
ackvec.h into linux/dccp.h, clarifying its purpose.

Relative to this size, the maximum number of CCID identifiers that can be 
present in a Confirm option (which always consumes 1 byte more than a Change
option, cf. 6.1) is 2 bytes less than the maximum TLV size: one for the
CCID-feature-type and one for the selected value.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:28 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
73bbe095bb dccp: Tidy up setsockopt calls
This splits the setsockopt calls into two groups, depending on whether an
integer argument (val) is required and whether routines being called do
their own locking.

Some options (such as setting the CCID) use u8 rather than int, so that for
these the test with regard to integer-sizeof can not be used.

The second switch-case statement now only has those statements which need
locking and which make use of `val'.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
2008-09-04 07:45:28 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
17c30b40ed dccp: Deprecate Ack Ratio sysctl
This patch deprecates the Ack Ratio sysctl, since
 * Ack Ratio is entirely ignored by CCID-3 and CCID-4,
 * Ack Ratio currently doesn't work in CCID-2 (i.e. is always set to 1);
 * even if it would work in CCID-2, there is no point for a user to change it:
   - Ack Ratio is constrained by cwnd (RFC 4341, 6.1.2),
   - if Ack Ratio > cwnd, the system resorts to spurious RTO timeouts 
     (since waiting for Acks which will never arrive in this window),
   - cwnd is not a user-configurable value.	

The only reasonable place for Ack Ratio is to print it for debugging. It is
planned to do this later on, as part of e.g. dccp_probe.

With this patch Ack Ratio is now under full control of feature negotiation:
 * Ack Ratio is resolved as a dependency of the selected CCID;
 * if the chosen CCID supports it (i.e. CCID == CCID-2), Ack Ratio is set to
   the default of 2, following RFC 4340, 11.3 - "New connections start with Ack
   Ratio 2 for both endpoints";
 * what happens then is part of another patch set, since it concerns the 
   dynamic update of Ack Ratio while the connection is in full flight.

Thanks to Tomasz Grobelny for discussion leading up to this patch.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2008-09-04 07:45:28 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
20f41eee82 dccp: Feature negotiation for minimum-checksum-coverage
This provides feature negotiation for server minimum checksum coverage
which so far has been missing.

Since sender/receiver coverage values range only from 0...15, their
type has also been reduced in size from u16 to u4.

Feature-negotiation options are now generated for both sender and receiver
coverage, i.e. when the peer has `forgotten' to enable partial coverage
then feature negotiation will automatically enable (negotiate) the partial
coverage value for this connection.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:27 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
668144f7b4 dccp: Deprecate old setsockopt framework
The previous setsockopt interface, which passed socket options via struct 
dccp_so_feat, is complicated/difficult to use. Continuing to support it leads to
ugly code since the old approach did not distinguish between NN and SP values.

This patch removes the old setsockopt interface and replaces it with two new
functions to register NN/SP values for feature negotiation. These are 
essentially wrappers around the internal __feat_register functions, with 
checking added to avoid
 * wrong usage (type);
 * changing values while the connection is in progress.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:27 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
d4c8741c43 dccp: Mechanism to resolve CCID dependencies
This adds a hook to resolve features whose value depends on the choice of
CCID. It is done at the server since it can only be done after the CCID
values have been negotiated; i.e. the client will add its CCID preference
list on the Change options sent in the Request, which will be reconciled
with the local preference list of the server.

The concept is documented on 
http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/dccp/notes/feature_negotiation/\
				implementation_notes.html#ccid_dependencies

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:27 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
093e1f46cf dccp: Resolve dependencies of features on choice of CCID
This provides a missing link in the code chain, as several features implicitly
depend and/or rely on the choice of CCID. Most notably, this is the Send Ack Vector
feature, but also Ack Ratio and Send Loss Event Rate (also taken care of).

For Send Ack Vector, the situation is as follows:
 * since CCID2 mandates the use of Ack Vectors, there is no point in allowing 
   endpoints which use CCID2 to disable Ack Vector features such a connection;

 * a peer with a TX CCID of CCID2 will always expect Ack Vectors, and a peer
   with a RX CCID of CCID2 must always send Ack Vectors (RFC 4341, sec. 4);

 * for all other CCIDs, the use of (Send) Ack Vector is optional and thus
   negotiable. However, this implies that the code negotiating the use of Ack
   Vectors also supports it (i.e. is able to supply and to either parse or
   ignore received Ack Vectors). Since this is not the case (CCID-3 has no Ack
   Vector support), the use of Ack Vectors is here disabled, with a comment
   in the source code.

An analogous consideration arises for the Send Loss Event Rate feature,
since the CCID-3 implementation does not support the loss interval options
of RFC 4342. To make such use explicit, corresponding feature-negotiation
options are inserted which signal the use of the loss event rate option,
as it is used by the CCID3 code.

Lastly, the values of the Ack Ratio feature are matched to the choice of CCID.

The patch implements this as a function which is called after the user has
made all other registrations for changing default values of features.

The table is variable-length, the reserved (and hence for feature-negotiation
invalid, confirmed by considering section 19.4 of RFC 4340) feature number `0'
is used to mark the end of the table.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:27 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
71bb49596b dccp: Query supported CCIDs
This provides a data structure to record which CCIDs are locally supported
and three accessor functions:
 - a test function for internal use which is used to validate CCID requests
   made by the user;
 - a copy function so that the list can be used for feature-negotiation;   
 - documented getsockopt() support so that the user can query capabilities.

The data structure is a table which is filled in at compile-time with the
list of available CCIDs (which in turn depends on the Kconfig choices).

Using the copy function for cloning the list of supported CCIDs is useful for
feature negotiation, since the negotiation is now with the full list of available
CCIDs (e.g. {2, 3}) instead of the default value {2}. This means negotiation 
will not fail if the peer requests to use CCID3 instead of CCID2. 

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:27 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
86349c8d9c dccp: Registration routines for changing feature values
Two registration routines, for SP and NN features, are provided by this patch,
replacing a previous routine which was used for both feature types.

These are internal-only routines and therefore start with `__feat_register'.

It further exports the known limits of Sequence Window and Ack Ratio as symbolic
constants.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:27 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
5591d28628 dccp: Limit feature negotiation to connection setup phase
This patch starts the new implementation of feature negotiation:
 1. Although it is theoretically possible to perform feature negotiation at any
    time (and RFC 4340 supports this), in practice this is prohibitively complex,
    as it requires to put traffic on hold for each new negotiation.
 2. As a byproduct of restricting feature negotiation to connection setup, the
    feature-negotiation retransmit timer is no longer required. This part is now
    mapped onto the protocol-level retransmission.
    Details indicating why timers are no longer needed can be found on
    http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/dccp/notes/feature_negotiation/\
	                                      implementation_notes.html

This patch disables anytime negotiation, subsequent patches work out full
feature negotiation support for connection setup.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:27 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
702083839b dccp: Cleanup routines for feature negotiation
This inserts the required de-allocation routines for memory allocated by 
feature negotiation in the socket destructors, replacing dccp_feat_clean()
in one instance.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:26 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
828755cee0 dccp: Per-socket initialisation of feature negotiation
This provides feature-negotiation initialisation for both DCCP sockets and
DCCP request_sockets, to support feature negotiation during connection setup.

It also resolves a FIXME regarding the congestion control initialisation.

Thanks to Wei Yongjun for help with the IPv6 side of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:26 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
3001fc0569 dccp: List management for new feature negotiation
This adds list fields and list management functions for the new feature
negotiation implementation. The new code is kept in parallel to the old
code, until removed at the end of the patch set.

Thanks to Arnaldo for suggestions to improve the code.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:26 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
b4eec20637 dccp: Implement lookup table for feature-negotiation information
A lookup table for feature-negotiation information, extracted from RFC 4340/42,
is provided by this patch. All currently known features can be found in this 
table, along with their feature location, their default value, and type.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:26 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
5c7c9451f1 dccp: Basic data structure for feature negotiation
This patch prepares for the new and extended feature-negotiation routines.

The following feature-negotiation data structures are provided:
	* a container for the various (SP or NN) values,
	* symbolic state names to track feature states,
	* an entry struct which holds all current information together,
	* elementary functions to fill in and process these structures.

Entry structs are arranged as FIFO for the following reason: RFC 4340 specifies
that if multiple options of the same type are present, they are processed in the
order of their appearance in the packet; which means that this order needs to be
preserved in the local data structure (the later insertion code also respects
this order).

The struct list_head has been chosen for the following reasons: the most 
frequent operations are
 * add new entry at tail (when receiving Change or setting socket options);
 * delete entry (when Confirm has been received);
 * deep copy of entire list (cloning from listening socket onto request socket).

The NN value has been set to 64 bit, which is a currently sufficient upper limit
(Sequence Window feature has 48 bit).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:26 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
959fd992f0 dccp ccid-3: Replace lazy BUG_ON with condition
The BUG_ON(w_tot == 0) only holds if there is no more than 1 loss interval in
the loss history. If there is only a single loss interval, the calc_i_mean()
routine need in fact not be called (RFC 3448, 6.3.1). 

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:25 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
432649916b dccp: Toggle debug output without module unloading
This sets the sysfs permissions so that root can toggle the `debug'
parameter available for nearly every DCCP module. This is useful 
since there are various module inter-dependencies. The debug flag
can now be toggled at runtime using

  echo 1 > /sys/module/dccp/parameters/dccp_debug
  echo 1 > /sys/module/dccp_ccid2/parameters/ccid2_debug
  echo 1 > /sys/module/dccp_ccid3/parameters/ccid3_debug
  echo 1 > /sys/module/dccp_tfrc_lib/parameters/tfrc_debug

The last is not very useful yet, since no code at the moment calls
the tfrc_debug() macro.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:25 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
48816322ad dccp: Empty the write queue when disconnecting
dccp_disconnect() can be called due to several reasons:

 1. when the connection setup failed (inet_stream_connect());
 2. when shutting down (inet_shutdown(), inet_csk_listen_stop());
 3. when aborting the connection (dccp_close() with 0 linger time).

In case (1) the write queue is empty. This patch empties the write queue,
if in case (2) or (3) it was not yet empty.

This avoids triggering the write-queue BUG_TRAP in sk_stream_kill_queues()
later on.

It also seems natural to do: when breaking an association, to delete all
packets that were originally intended for the soon-disconnected end (compare
with call to tcp_write_queue_purge in tcp_disconnect()).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:25 +02:00