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2013-06-20tcp: introduce a per-route knob for quick ackCong Wang
In previous discussions, I tried to find some reasonable heuristics for delayed ACK, however this seems not possible, according to Eric: "ACKS might also be delayed because of bidirectional traffic, and is more controlled by the application response time. TCP stack can not easily estimate it." "ACK can be incredibly useful to recover from losses in a short time. The vast majority of TCP sessions are small lived, and we send one ACK per received segment anyway at beginning or retransmits to let the sender smoothly increase its cwnd, so an auto-tuning facility wont help them that much." and according to David: "ACKs are the only information we have to detect loss. And, for the same reasons that TCP VEGAS is fundamentally broken, we cannot measure the pipe or some other receiver-side-visible piece of information to determine when it's "safe" to stretch ACK. And even if it's "safe", we should not do it so that losses are accurately detected and we don't spuriously retransmit. The only way to know when the bandwidth increases is to "test" it, by sending more and more packets until drops happen. That's why all successful congestion control algorithms must operate on explicited tested pieces of information. Similarly, it's not really possible to universally know if it's safe to stretch ACK or not." It still makes sense to enable or disable quick ack mode like what TCP_QUICK_ACK does. Similar to TCP_QUICK_ACK option, but for people who can't modify the source code and still wants to control TCP delayed ACK behavior. As David suggested, this should belong to per-path scope, since different pathes may want different behaviors. Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> CC: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-14bridge: Dump vlan information from a bridge portVlad Yasevich
Using the RTM_GETLINK dump the vlan filter list of a given bridge port. The information depends on setting the filter flag similar to how nic VF info is dumped. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-12bridge: notify mdb changes via netlinkCong Wang
As Stephen mentioned, we need to monitor the mdb changes in user-space, so add notifications via netlink too. Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-07bridge: export multicast database via netlinkCong Wang
V5: fix two bugs pointed out by Thomas remove seq check for now, mark it as TODO V4: remove some useless #include some coding style fix V3: drop debugging printk's update selinux perm table as well V2: drop patch 1/2, export ifindex directly Redesign netlink attributes Improve netlink seq check Handle IPv6 addr as well This patch exports bridge multicast database via netlink message type RTM_GETMDB. Similar to fdb, but currently bridge-specific. We may need to support modify multicast database too (RTM_{ADD,DEL}MDB). (Thanks to Thomas for patient reviews) Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-04ipmr/ip6mr: report origin of mfc entry into rtnl msgNicolas Dichtel
A mfc entry can be static or not (added via the mroute_sk socket). The patch reports MFC_STATIC flag into rtm_protocol by setting rtm_protocol to RTPROT_STATIC or RTPROT_MROUTED. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-04ipmr/ip6mr: advertise mfc stats via rtnetlinkNicolas Dichtel
These statistics can be checked only via /proc/net/ip_mr_cache or SIOCGETSGCNT[_IN6] and thus only for the table RT_TABLE_DEFAULT. Advertising them via rtnetlink allows to get statistics for all cache entries, whatever the table is. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-28rtnl/ipv4: use netconf msg to advertise forwarding statusNicolas Dichtel
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-28rtnl/ipv6: use netconf msg to advertise forwarding statusNicolas Dichtel
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-28rtnl: add a new type of msg to advertise protocol configurationNicolas Dichtel
A new type is added to allow userland to monitor protocol configuration, like IPv4 or IPv6. For example, monitoring the state of the forwarding status of an interface of the system. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-13UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linuxDavid Howells
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>