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Backport TCP Fast-Open to Linux 3.4 (flame-kk) (Bug1176869) #34
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Mircea Urse <umirc3a@gmail.com>
Maintain a local hash table of TCP dynamic metrics blobs. Computed TCP metrics are no longer maintained in the route metrics. The table uses RCU and an extremely simple hash so that it has low latency and low overhead. A simple hash is legitimate because we only make metrics blobs for fully established connections. Some tweaking of the default hash table sizes, metric timeouts, and the hash chain length limit certainly could use some tweaking. But the basic design seems sound. With help from Eric Dumazet and Joe Perches. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Mircea Urse <umirc3a@gmail.com>
This patch implements the common code for both the client and server. 1. TCP Fast Open option processing. Since Fast Open does not have an option number assigned by IANA yet, it shares the experiment option code 254 by implementing draft-ietf-tcpm-experimental-options with a 16 bits magic number 0xF989. This enables global experiments without clashing the scarce(2) experimental options available for TCP. When the draft status becomes standard (maybe), the client should switch to the new option number assigned while the server supports both numbers for transistion. 2. The new sysctl tcp_fastopen 3. A place holder init function Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Mircea Urse <umirc3a@gmail.com>
With help from Eric Dumazet, add Fast Open metrics in tcp metrics cache. The basic ones are MSS and the cookies. Later patch will cache more to handle unfriendly middleboxes. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Mircea Urse <umirc3a@gmail.com>
This patch implements sending SYN-data in tcp_connect(). The data is from tcp_sendmsg() with flag MSG_FASTOPEN (implemented in a later patch). The length of the cookie in tcp_fastopen_req, init'd to 0, controls the type of the SYN. If the cookie is not cached (len==0), the host sends data-less SYN with Fast Open cookie request option to solicit a cookie from the remote. If cookie is not available (len > 0), the host sends a SYN-data with Fast Open cookie option. If cookie length is negative, the SYN will not include any Fast Open option (for fall back operations). To deal with middleboxes that may drop SYN with data or experimental TCP option, the SYN-data is only sent once. SYN retransmits do not include data or Fast Open options. The connection will fall back to regular TCP handshake. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Mircea Urse <umirc3a@gmail.com>
On receiving the SYN-ACK after SYN-data, the client needs to a) update the cached MSS and cookie (if included in SYN-ACK) b) retransmit the data not yet acknowledged by the SYN-ACK in the final ACK of the handshake. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Mircea Urse <umirc3a@gmail.com>
sendmsg() (or sendto()) with MSG_FASTOPEN is a combo of connect(2) and write(2). The application should replace connect() with it to send data in the opening SYN packet. For blocking socket, sendmsg() blocks until all the data are buffered locally and the handshake is completed like connect() call. It returns similar errno like connect() if the TCP handshake fails. For non-blocking socket, it returns the number of bytes queued (and transmitted in the SYN-data packet) if cookie is available. If cookie is not available, it transmits a data-less SYN packet with Fast Open cookie request option and returns -EINPROGRESS like connect(). Using MSG_FASTOPEN on connecting or connected socket will result in simlar errno like repeating connect() calls. Therefore the application should only use this flag on new sockets. The buffer size of sendmsg() is independent of the MSS of the connection. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Mircea Urse <umirc3a@gmail.com>
On paths with firewalls dropping SYN with data or experimental TCP options, Fast Open connections will have experience SYN timeout and bad performance. The solution is to track such incidents in the cookie cache and disables Fast Open temporarily. Since only the original SYN includes data and/or Fast Open option, the SYN-ACK has some tell-tale sign (tcp_rcv_fastopen_synack()) to detect such drops. If a path has recurring Fast Open SYN drops, Fast Open is disabled for 2^(recurring_losses) minutes starting from four minutes up to roughly one and half day. sendmsg with MSG_FASTOPEN flag will succeed but it behaves as connect() then write(). Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Mircea Urse <umirc3a@gmail.com>
In trusted networks, e.g., intranet, data-center, the client does not need to use Fast Open cookie to mitigate DoS attacks. In cookie-less mode, sendmsg() with MSG_FASTOPEN flag will send SYN-data regardless of cookie availability. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Mircea Urse <umirc3a@gmail.com>
We had some reports of crashes using TCP fastopen, and Dave Jones gave a nice stack trace pointing to the error. Issue is that tcp_get_metrics() should not be called with a NULL dst Fixes: 1fe4c48 ("net-tcp: Fast Open client - cookie cache") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Mircea Urse <umirc3a@gmail.com>
This patch fixes two bugs in fastopen : 1) The tcp_sendmsg(..., @SiZe) argument was ignored. Code was relying on user not fooling the kernel with iovec mismatches 2) When MTU is about 64KB, tcp_send_syn_data() attempts order-5 allocations, which are likely to fail when memory gets fragmented. Fixes: 783237e ("net-tcp: Fast Open client - sending SYN-data") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Tested-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Mircea Urse <umirc3a@gmail.com>
Applications have started to use Fast Open (e.g., Chrome browser has such an optional flag) and the feature has gone through several generations of kernels since 3.7 with many real network tests. It's time to enable this flag by default for applications to test more conveniently and extensively. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Mircea Urse <umirc3a@gmail.com>
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Backport the TCP fast open functionality for client side.