History log of /freebsd-10-stable/sys/netinet/khelp/
Revision Date Author Comments
256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


239346 17-Aug-2012 lstewart

The TCP PAWS fix for kernels with fast tick rates (r231767) changed the TCP
timestamp related stack variables to reference ms directly instead of ticks.
The h_ertt(4) Khelp module relies on TCP timestamp information in order to
calculate its enhanced RTT estimates, but was not updated as part of r231767.

Consequently, h_ertt has not been calculating correct RTT estimates since
r231767 was comitted, which in turn broke all delay-based congestion control
algorithms because they rely on the h_ertt RTT estimates.

Fix the breakage by switching h_ertt to use tcp_ts_getticks() in place of all
previous uses of the ticks variable. This ensures all timestamp related
variables in h_ertt use the same units as the TCP stack and therefore results in
meaningful comparisons and RTT estimate calculations.

Reported & tested by: Naeem Khademi (naeemk at ifi uio no)
Discussed with: bz
MFC after: 3 days


220560 12-Apr-2011 lstewart

Use the full and proper company name for Swinburne University of Technology
throughout the source tree.

Requested by: Grenville Armitage, Director of CAIA at Swinburne University of
Technology
MFC after: 3 days


217806 24-Jan-2011 lstewart

Import the ERTT (Enhanced Round Trip Time) Khelp module. ERTT uses the
Khelp/Hhook KPIs to hook into the TCP stack and maintain a per-connection, low
noise estimate of the instantaneous RTT. ERTT's implementation is robust even in
the face of delayed acknowledgements and/or TSO being in use for a connection.

A high quality, low noise RTT estimate is a requirement for applications such as
delay-based congestion control, for which we will be importing some algorithm
implementations shortly.

In collaboration with: David Hayes <dahayes at swin edu au> and
Grenville Armitage <garmitage at swin edu au>
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: bz and others along the way
MFC after: 3 months