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Date:      Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:41:55 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@FreeBSD.org>
To:        cvs-src-old@freebsd.org
Subject:   cvs commit: src UPDATING src/sys/conf files src/sys/netinet cc.h tcp_input.c tcp_output.c tcp_sack.c tcp_subr.c tcp_timer.c tcp_usrreq.c tcp_var.h src/sys/netinet/cc cc.c cc_module.h cc_newreno.c src/sys/sys param.h
Message-ID:  <201011120643.oAC6hixf091818@repoman.freebsd.org>

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lstewart    2010-11-12 06:41:55 UTC

  FreeBSD src repository

  Modified files:
    .                    UPDATING 
    sys/conf             files 
    sys/netinet          tcp_input.c tcp_output.c tcp_sack.c 
                         tcp_subr.c tcp_timer.c tcp_usrreq.c 
                         tcp_var.h 
    sys/sys              param.h 
  Added files:
    sys/netinet          cc.h 
    sys/netinet/cc       cc.c cc_module.h cc_newreno.c 
  Log:
  SVN rev 215166 on 2010-11-12 06:41:55Z by lstewart
  
  This commit marks the first formal contribution of the "Five New TCP Congestion
  Control Algorithms for FreeBSD" FreeBSD Foundation funded project. More details
  about the project are available at: http://caia.swin.edu.au/freebsd/5cc/
  
  - Add a KPI and supporting infrastructure to allow modular congestion control
    algorithms to be used in the net stack. Algorithms can maintain per-connection
    state if required, and connections maintain their own algorithm pointer, which
    allows different connections to concurrently use different algorithms. The
    TCP_CONGESTION socket option can be used with getsockopt()/setsockopt() to
    programmatically query or change the congestion control algorithm respectively
    from within an application at runtime.
  
  - Integrate the framework with the TCP stack in as least intrusive a manner as
    possible. Care was also taken to develop the framework in a way that should
    allow integration with other congestion aware transport protocols (e.g. SCTP)
    in the future. The hope is that we will one day be able to share a single set
    of congestion control algorithm modules between all congestion aware transport
    protocols.
  
  - Introduce a new congestion recovery (TF_CONGRECOVERY) state into the TCP stack
    and use it to decouple the meaning of recovery from a congestion event and
    recovery from packet loss (TF_FASTRECOVERY) a la RFC2581. ECN and delay based
    congestion control protocols don't generally need to recover from packet loss
    and need a different way to note a congestion recovery episode within the
    stack.
  
  - Remove the net.inet.tcp.newreno sysctl, which simplifies some portions of code
    and ensures the stack always uses the appropriate mechanisms for recovering
    from packet loss during a congestion recovery episode.
  
  - Extract the NewReno congestion control algorithm from the TCP stack and
    massage it into module form. NewReno is always built into the kernel and will
    remain the default algorithm for the forseeable future. Implementations of
    additional different algorithms will become available in the near future.
  
  - Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900025 and note in UPDATING that rebuilding code
    that relies on the size of "struct tcpcb" is required.
  
  Many thanks go to the Cisco University Research Program Fund at Community
  Foundation Silicon Valley and the FreeBSD Foundation. Their support of our work
  at the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures, Swinburne University of
  Technology is greatly appreciated.
  
  In collaboration with:  David Hayes <dahayes at swin edu au> and
                          Grenville Armitage <garmitage at swin edu au>
  Sponsored by:   Cisco URP, FreeBSD Foundation
  Reviewed by:    rpaulo
  Tested by:      David Hayes (and many others over the years)
  MFC after:      3 months
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.670     +7 -0      src/UPDATING
  1.1543    +2 -0      src/sys/conf/files
  1.1       +161 -0    src/sys/netinet/cc.h (new)
  1.1       +340 -0    src/sys/netinet/cc/cc.c (new)
  1.1       +70 -0     src/sys/netinet/cc/cc_module.h (new)
  1.1       +231 -0    src/sys/netinet/cc/cc_newreno.c (new)
  1.420     +254 -232  src/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c
  1.173     +16 -8     src/sys/netinet/tcp_output.c
  1.55      +1 -1      src/sys/netinet/tcp_sack.c
  1.366     +31 -2     src/sys/netinet/tcp_subr.c
  1.116     +11 -38    src/sys/netinet/tcp_timer.c
  1.197     +61 -1     src/sys/netinet/tcp_usrreq.c
  1.191     +24 -6     src/sys/netinet/tcp_var.h
  1.465     +1 -1      src/sys/sys/param.h



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