Merged to master at ad7f58d1756d..63951151462e (from, to]

You can see the entire diff with 'git diff' or at
https://github.com/brho/akaros/compare/ad7f58d1756d...63951151462e

You'll need to rebuild glibc at some point - maybe not immediately.

Barret



On 2017-07-21 at 12:06 barret rhoden <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> I spent a chunk of time fixing up our TCP stack.  Most of the changes
> are only apparent for long-lived connections with non-trivial RTTs.
> 
> You'll also want to grab the latest dropbear, which has a few changes to
> increase throughput - mostly increasing the receive window.
> 
> The major things:
> - account for TSO when growing the cwnd
> - window scale and timestamps (window scale is critical for long, fat
>   connections)
> - selective acknowledgments for retrans (also helps with loss during
>   retrans, which requires a timeout)
> - handle Silly Window Syndrome (this fixes issues with qemu's usermode
>   networking which you'd get with the new dropbear)
> 
> As a minor thing, I also added 'dmesg' (supporting -c and -C), for
> those of you using trace_print{k,f,x} or who are not looking at the
> console (ssh only).
> 
> There are a few more things I'd like to do for TCP, notably support the
> pluggable congestion avoidance algorithms, like Linux and BSD do.
> Specifically, I want to use TCP-cubic.  Maybe support ECN too.  But I'm
> running out of time to play around with networking.  =)
> 
> Barret
> 
> 
> The following changes since commit ad7f58d1756d6ecbaad00bcb95b18dc014d146c1:
> 
>   mlx4: Fix NAPI polling (2017-07-20 08:19:46 -0400)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   [email protected]:brho/akaros.git net
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 63951151462ecdc5f6e8a3de78ae454e7c25eace:
> 
>   net: tcp: Use timestamps for the RTTM (2017-07-21 11:56:27 -0400)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> View this online at:
> https://github.com/brho/akaros/compare/ad7f58d1756d...63951151462e
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Barret Rhoden (23):
>       Remove the #define exit() _exit() hack (XCC)
>       qio: Allow changing limits dynamically
>       kprof: Allow clearing the kptrace buffer
>       net: tcp: Fix cwnd and ssthresh for TSO and Reno
>       net: tcp: Adjust the transmit queue limit
>       net: tcp: Always set the retrans timer
>       net: tcp: Account for TCP options when using MSS
>       net: tcp: Fix memory leak with tcpackproc
>       net: tcp: Refactor TCP6 and 4 common code
>       net: tcp: Support TCP timestamps
>       net: tcp: Remove the Syn_received state
>       net: tcp: Advertise support for SACK
>       net: tcp: Be explicit about the max Window Scale
>       net: Add timestamps to the netlog
>       net: tcp: Track ipht and resets as their own class
>       net: tcp: Refactor in prep for SACKs
>       net: tcp: Support SACK
>       net: tcp: Avoid SWS for the receiver
>       net: tcp: Avoid SWS for the sender
>       net: tcp: Fix up the receive window
>       net: tcp: Remove the RETRAN flag
>       net: tcp: Don't scale SRTT and MDEV
>       net: tcp: Use timestamps for the RTTM
> 
>  kern/drivers/dev/kprof.c                           |   11 +
>  kern/include/ip.h                                  |    3 +-
>  kern/include/ns.h                                  |    3 +-
>  kern/kfs/bin/dmesg                                 |   14 +
>  kern/src/net/netlog.c                              |   14 +-
>  kern/src/net/tcp.c                                 | 1724 
> +++++++++++++++-----
>  kern/src/ns/qio.c                                  |   13 +-
>  .../compilers/gcc-glibc/glibc-2.19-existing.patch  |   19 +
>  user/parlib/include/parlib/vcore.h                 |   12 -
>  user/parlib/signal.c                               |    1 +
>  10 files changed, 1346 insertions(+), 468 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 kern/kfs/bin/dmesg

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