This patchset adds support for propagating congestion notifications (cn)
to TCP from cgroup inet skb egress BPF programs.
Current cgroup skb BPF programs cannot trigger TCP congestion window
reductions, even when they drop a packet. This patch-set adds support
for cgroup skb BPF programs to send congestion notifications in the
return value when the packets are TCP packets. Rather than the
current 1 for keeping the packet and 0 for dropping it, they can
now return:
NET_XMIT_SUCCESS (0) - continue with packet output
NET_XMIT_DROP (1) - drop packet and do cn
NET_XMIT_CN (2) - continue with packet output and do cn
-EPERM - drop packet
There is also support for setting the probe timer to a small value,
specified by a sysctl, when a packet is dropped when calling
queue_xmit in __tcp_transmit_skb and there are no other packets in
transit.
In addition, HBM programs are modified to collect and return more
statistics.
The use of congestion notifications improves the performance of HBM when
using Cubic. Without congestion notifications, Cubic will not decrease its
cwnd and HBM will need to drop a large percentage of the packets.
Smaller probe timers improve the performance of Cubic and DCTCP when the
rates are small enough that there are times when HBM cannot send a packet
per RTT in order to mainting the bandwidth limit.
The following results are obtained for rate limits of 1Gbps and 200Mbps,
between two servers using netperf, and only one flow. We also show how
reducing the max delayed ACK timer can improve the performance when
using Cubic.
A following patch will add support for fq's Earliest Departure Time (EDT).
The command used was:
./do_hbm_test.sh -l -D --stats -N -r=<rate> [--no_cn] [dctcp] \
-s=<server running netserver>
where:
<rate> is 1000 or 200
--no_cn specifies no cwr notifications
dctcp use of dctcp
Cubic DCTCP
Lim,Prob,DA Mbps cwnd cred drops Mbps cwnd cred drops
------------ ---- ---- ---- ----- ---- ---- ---- -----
1G, 0,40 35 462 -320 67% 995 1 -212 0.05%
1G, 0,40,cn 349 3 -229 0.15 995 1 -212 0.05
1G, 0, 5,cn 941 2 -189 0.13 995 1 -212 0.05
200M, 0,40,cn 50 3 -152 0.34 31 3 -203 0.50
200M, 0, 5,cn 43 2 -202 0.48 33 3 -199 0.50
200M,20, 5,cn 199 2 -209 0.38 199 1 -214 0.30
Notes:
--no_cn has no effect with DCTCP
Lim = rate limit
Prob = Probe timer
DA = maximum delay ack timer
cred = credit in packets
drops = % packets dropped
brakmo (7):
bpf: Create BPF_PROG_CGROUP_INET_EGRESS_RUN_ARRAY
bpf: cgroup inet skb programs can return 0 to 3
bpf: Update __cgroup_bpf_run_filter_skb with cn
bpf: Update BPF_CGROUP_RUN_PROG_INET_EGRESS calls
bpf: sysctl for probe_on_drop
bpf: Add cn support to hbm_out_kern.c
bpf: Add more stats to HBM
include/linux/bpf.h | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/filter.h | 3 +-
include/net/netns/ipv4.h | 1 +
kernel/bpf/cgroup.c | 25 ++++++++++++---
kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 12 +++++++
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 16 +++++++--
net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 39 ++++++++++++----------
net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | 10 ++++++
net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 1 +
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 18 +++++++++--
net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 22 +++++++------
samples/bpf/do_hbm_test.sh | 10 ++++--
samples/bpf/hbm.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
samples/bpf/hbm.h | 9 +++++-
samples/bpf/hbm_kern.h | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
samples/bpf/hbm_out_kern.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++--------
16 files changed, 321 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)
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2.17.1
