tipc: introduce variable window congestion control

We introduce a simple variable window congestion control for links.
The algorithm is inspired by the Reno algorithm, covering both 'slow
start', 'congestion avoidance', and 'fast recovery' modes.

- We introduce hard lower and upper window limits per link, still
  different and configurable per bearer type.

- We introduce a 'slow start theshold' variable, initially set to
  the maximum window size.

- We let a link start at the minimum congestion window, i.e. in slow
  start mode, and then let is grow rapidly (+1 per rceived ACK) until
  it reaches the slow start threshold and enters congestion avoidance
  mode.

- In congestion avoidance mode we increment the congestion window for
  each window-size number of acked packets, up to a possible maximum
  equal to the configured maximum window.

- For each non-duplicate NACK received, we drop back to fast recovery
  mode, by setting the both the slow start threshold to and the
  congestion window to (current_congestion_window / 2).

- If the timeout handler finds that the transmit queue has not moved
  since the previous timeout, it drops the link back to slow start
  and forces a probe containing the last sent sequence number to the
  sent to the peer, so that this can discover the stale situation.

This change does in reality have effect only on unicast ethernet
transport, as we have seen that there is no room whatsoever for
increasing the window max size for the UDP bearer.
For now, we also choose to keep the limits for the broadcast link
unchanged and equal.

This algorithm seems to give a 50-100% throughput improvement for
messages larger than MTU.

Suggested-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/net/tipc/bcast.c b/net/tipc/bcast.c
index 55aeba681cf4..42e01e9cf893 100644
--- a/net/tipc/bcast.c
+++ b/net/tipc/bcast.c
@@ -562,18 +562,18 @@ int tipc_bclink_reset_stats(struct net *net)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int tipc_bc_link_set_queue_limits(struct net *net, u32 limit)
+static int tipc_bc_link_set_queue_limits(struct net *net, u32 max_win)
 {
 	struct tipc_link *l = tipc_bc_sndlink(net);
 
 	if (!l)
 		return -ENOPROTOOPT;
-	if (limit < BCLINK_WIN_MIN)
-		limit = BCLINK_WIN_MIN;
-	if (limit > TIPC_MAX_LINK_WIN)
+	if (max_win < BCLINK_WIN_MIN)
+		max_win = BCLINK_WIN_MIN;
+	if (max_win > TIPC_MAX_LINK_WIN)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	tipc_bcast_lock(net);
-	tipc_link_set_queue_limits(l, limit);
+	tipc_link_set_queue_limits(l, BCLINK_WIN_MIN, max_win);
 	tipc_bcast_unlock(net);
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -683,6 +683,7 @@ int tipc_bcast_init(struct net *net)
 	if (!tipc_link_bc_create(net, 0, 0,
 				 FB_MTU,
 				 BCLINK_WIN_DEFAULT,
+				 BCLINK_WIN_DEFAULT,
 				 0,
 				 &bb->inputq,
 				 NULL,