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 --- include/linux/tcp.h | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/tcp.h') diff --git a/include/linux/tcp.h b/include/linux/tcp.h index 4ad0706d40eb..239946868142 100644 --- a/include/linux/tcp.h +++ b/include/linux/tcp.h @@ -201,10 +201,10 @@ struct tcp_sock { u32 tlp_high_seq; /* snd_nxt at the time of TLP retransmit. */ /* RTT measurement */ - u32 srtt; /* smoothed round trip time << 3 */ - u32 mdev; /* medium deviation */ - u32 mdev_max; /* maximal mdev for the last rtt period */ - u32 rttvar; /* smoothed mdev_max */ + u32 srtt_us; /* smoothed round trip time << 3 in usecs */ + u32 mdev_us; /* medium deviation */ + u32 mdev_max_us; /* maximal mdev for the last rtt period */ + u32 rttvar_us; /* smoothed mdev_max */ u32 rtt_seq; /* sequence number to update rttvar */ u32 packets_out; /* Packets which are "in flight" */ -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151