xref: /kernel/linux/linux-5.10/net/ipv4/tcp_rate.c (revision 8c2ecf20)
1// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2#include <net/tcp.h>
3
4/* The bandwidth estimator estimates the rate at which the network
5 * can currently deliver outbound data packets for this flow. At a high
6 * level, it operates by taking a delivery rate sample for each ACK.
7 *
8 * A rate sample records the rate at which the network delivered packets
9 * for this flow, calculated over the time interval between the transmission
10 * of a data packet and the acknowledgment of that packet.
11 *
12 * Specifically, over the interval between each transmit and corresponding ACK,
13 * the estimator generates a delivery rate sample. Typically it uses the rate
14 * at which packets were acknowledged. However, the approach of using only the
15 * acknowledgment rate faces a challenge under the prevalent ACK decimation or
16 * compression: packets can temporarily appear to be delivered much quicker
17 * than the bottleneck rate. Since it is physically impossible to do that in a
18 * sustained fashion, when the estimator notices that the ACK rate is faster
19 * than the transmit rate, it uses the latter:
20 *
21 *    send_rate = #pkts_delivered/(last_snd_time - first_snd_time)
22 *    ack_rate  = #pkts_delivered/(last_ack_time - first_ack_time)
23 *    bw = min(send_rate, ack_rate)
24 *
25 * Notice the estimator essentially estimates the goodput, not always the
26 * network bottleneck link rate when the sending or receiving is limited by
27 * other factors like applications or receiver window limits.  The estimator
28 * deliberately avoids using the inter-packet spacing approach because that
29 * approach requires a large number of samples and sophisticated filtering.
30 *
31 * TCP flows can often be application-limited in request/response workloads.
32 * The estimator marks a bandwidth sample as application-limited if there
33 * was some moment during the sampled window of packets when there was no data
34 * ready to send in the write queue.
35 */
36
37/* Snapshot the current delivery information in the skb, to generate
38 * a rate sample later when the skb is (s)acked in tcp_rate_skb_delivered().
39 */
40void tcp_rate_skb_sent(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
41{
42	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
43
44	 /* In general we need to start delivery rate samples from the
45	  * time we received the most recent ACK, to ensure we include
46	  * the full time the network needs to deliver all in-flight
47	  * packets. If there are no packets in flight yet, then we
48	  * know that any ACKs after now indicate that the network was
49	  * able to deliver those packets completely in the sampling
50	  * interval between now and the next ACK.
51	  *
52	  * Note that we use packets_out instead of tcp_packets_in_flight(tp)
53	  * because the latter is a guess based on RTO and loss-marking
54	  * heuristics. We don't want spurious RTOs or loss markings to cause
55	  * a spuriously small time interval, causing a spuriously high
56	  * bandwidth estimate.
57	  */
58	if (!tp->packets_out) {
59		u64 tstamp_us = tcp_skb_timestamp_us(skb);
60
61		tp->first_tx_mstamp  = tstamp_us;
62		tp->delivered_mstamp = tstamp_us;
63	}
64
65	TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tx.first_tx_mstamp	= tp->first_tx_mstamp;
66	TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tx.delivered_mstamp	= tp->delivered_mstamp;
67	TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tx.delivered		= tp->delivered;
68	TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tx.is_app_limited	= tp->app_limited ? 1 : 0;
69}
70
71/* When an skb is sacked or acked, we fill in the rate sample with the (prior)
72 * delivery information when the skb was last transmitted.
73 *
74 * If an ACK (s)acks multiple skbs (e.g., stretched-acks), this function is
75 * called multiple times. We favor the information from the most recently
76 * sent skb, i.e., the skb with the most recently sent time and the highest
77 * sequence.
78 */
79void tcp_rate_skb_delivered(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
80			    struct rate_sample *rs)
81{
82	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
83	struct tcp_skb_cb *scb = TCP_SKB_CB(skb);
84	u64 tx_tstamp;
85
86	if (!scb->tx.delivered_mstamp)
87		return;
88
89	tx_tstamp = tcp_skb_timestamp_us(skb);
90	if (!rs->prior_delivered ||
91	    tcp_skb_sent_after(tx_tstamp, tp->first_tx_mstamp,
92			       scb->end_seq, rs->last_end_seq)) {
93		rs->prior_delivered  = scb->tx.delivered;
94		rs->prior_mstamp     = scb->tx.delivered_mstamp;
95		rs->is_app_limited   = scb->tx.is_app_limited;
96		rs->is_retrans	     = scb->sacked & TCPCB_RETRANS;
97		rs->last_end_seq     = scb->end_seq;
98
99		/* Record send time of most recently ACKed packet: */
100		tp->first_tx_mstamp  = tx_tstamp;
101		/* Find the duration of the "send phase" of this window: */
102		rs->interval_us = tcp_stamp_us_delta(tp->first_tx_mstamp,
103						     scb->tx.first_tx_mstamp);
104
105	}
106	/* Mark off the skb delivered once it's sacked to avoid being
107	 * used again when it's cumulatively acked. For acked packets
108	 * we don't need to reset since it'll be freed soon.
109	 */
110	if (scb->sacked & TCPCB_SACKED_ACKED)
111		scb->tx.delivered_mstamp = 0;
112}
113
114/* Update the connection delivery information and generate a rate sample. */
115void tcp_rate_gen(struct sock *sk, u32 delivered, u32 lost,
116		  bool is_sack_reneg, struct rate_sample *rs)
117{
118	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
119	u32 snd_us, ack_us;
120
121	/* Clear app limited if bubble is acked and gone. */
122	if (tp->app_limited && after(tp->delivered, tp->app_limited))
123		tp->app_limited = 0;
124
125	/* TODO: there are multiple places throughout tcp_ack() to get
126	 * current time. Refactor the code using a new "tcp_acktag_state"
127	 * to carry current time, flags, stats like "tcp_sacktag_state".
128	 */
129	if (delivered)
130		tp->delivered_mstamp = tp->tcp_mstamp;
131
132	rs->acked_sacked = delivered;	/* freshly ACKed or SACKed */
133	rs->losses = lost;		/* freshly marked lost */
134	/* Return an invalid sample if no timing information is available or
135	 * in recovery from loss with SACK reneging. Rate samples taken during
136	 * a SACK reneging event may overestimate bw by including packets that
137	 * were SACKed before the reneg.
138	 */
139	if (!rs->prior_mstamp || is_sack_reneg) {
140		rs->delivered = -1;
141		rs->interval_us = -1;
142		return;
143	}
144	rs->delivered   = tp->delivered - rs->prior_delivered;
145
146	/* Model sending data and receiving ACKs as separate pipeline phases
147	 * for a window. Usually the ACK phase is longer, but with ACK
148	 * compression the send phase can be longer. To be safe we use the
149	 * longer phase.
150	 */
151	snd_us = rs->interval_us;				/* send phase */
152	ack_us = tcp_stamp_us_delta(tp->tcp_mstamp,
153				    rs->prior_mstamp); /* ack phase */
154	rs->interval_us = max(snd_us, ack_us);
155
156	/* Record both segment send and ack receive intervals */
157	rs->snd_interval_us = snd_us;
158	rs->rcv_interval_us = ack_us;
159
160	/* Normally we expect interval_us >= min-rtt.
161	 * Note that rate may still be over-estimated when a spuriously
162	 * retransmistted skb was first (s)acked because "interval_us"
163	 * is under-estimated (up to an RTT). However continuously
164	 * measuring the delivery rate during loss recovery is crucial
165	 * for connections suffer heavy or prolonged losses.
166	 */
167	if (unlikely(rs->interval_us < tcp_min_rtt(tp))) {
168		if (!rs->is_retrans)
169			pr_debug("tcp rate: %ld %d %u %u %u\n",
170				 rs->interval_us, rs->delivered,
171				 inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ca_state,
172				 tp->rx_opt.sack_ok, tcp_min_rtt(tp));
173		rs->interval_us = -1;
174		return;
175	}
176
177	/* Record the last non-app-limited or the highest app-limited bw */
178	if (!rs->is_app_limited ||
179	    ((u64)rs->delivered * tp->rate_interval_us >=
180	     (u64)tp->rate_delivered * rs->interval_us)) {
181		tp->rate_delivered = rs->delivered;
182		tp->rate_interval_us = rs->interval_us;
183		tp->rate_app_limited = rs->is_app_limited;
184	}
185}
186
187/* If a gap is detected between sends, mark the socket application-limited. */
188void tcp_rate_check_app_limited(struct sock *sk)
189{
190	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
191
192	if (/* We have less than one packet to send. */
193	    tp->write_seq - tp->snd_nxt < tp->mss_cache &&
194	    /* Nothing in sending host's qdisc queues or NIC tx queue. */
195	    sk_wmem_alloc_get(sk) < SKB_TRUESIZE(1) &&
196	    /* We are not limited by CWND. */
197	    tcp_packets_in_flight(tp) < tp->snd_cwnd &&
198	    /* All lost packets have been retransmitted. */
199	    tp->lost_out <= tp->retrans_out)
200		tp->app_limited =
201			(tp->delivered + tcp_packets_in_flight(tp)) ? : 1;
202}
203EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tcp_rate_check_app_limited);
204