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# 259065 07-Dec-2013 gjb

- Copy stable/10 (r259064) to releng/10.0 as part of the
10.0-RELEASE cycle.
- Update __FreeBSD_version [1]
- Set branch name to -RC1

[1] 10.0-CURRENT __FreeBSD_version value ended at '55', so
start releng/10.0 at '100' so the branch is started with
a value ending in zero.

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

# 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


# 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


# 218167 01-Feb-2011 lstewart

Algorithm modules can define their own private congestion signal types in the
top 8 bits of the 32 bit signal bit field space for internal use. These private
signals should not be leaked outside of a module.

Given that many algorithm modules use the NewReno hook functions to simplify
their implementation, the obvious place such a leak would show up is in the
NewReno cong_signal hook function.

- Show the full number of significant bits in the signal type definitions in
<netinet/cc.h>.

- Add a bitmask to simplify figuring out if a given signal is in the private or
public bit range.

- Add a sanity check in newreno_cong_signal() to ensure private signals are not
being leaked into the hook function.

Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Discussed with: David Hayes <dahayes at swin edu au>
MFC after: 1 week
X-MFC with: r215166


# 215395 16-Nov-2010 lstewart

Make the CC framework more VIMAGE friendly by adding the machinery to allow
vnets to select their own default CC algorithm independent of each other and the
base system. If the base system or a vnet has set a default which gets unloaded,
we reset that netstack's default to NewReno.

Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Tested by: Mikolaj Golub <to.my.trociny at gmail com>
Reviewed by: bz (briefly)
MFC after: 3 months


# 215377 16-Nov-2010 lstewart

cc_init() should only be run once on system boot, but with VIMAGE kernels it
runs on boot and each time a vnet jail is created. Running cc_init() multiple
times results in a panic when attempting to initialise the cc_list lock again,
and so r215166 effectively broke the use of vnet jails.

Switch to using a SYSINIT to run cc_init() on boot. CC algorithm modules loaded
on boot register in the same SI_SUB_PROTO_IFATTACHDOMAIN category as is used in
this patch, so cc_init() is run at SI_ORDER_FIRST to ensure the framework is
initialised before module registration is attempted.

Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Reported and tested by: Mikolaj Golub <to.my.trociny at gmail com>
MFC after: 11 weeks
X-MFC with: r215166


# 215166 12-Nov-2010 lstewart

This commit marks the first formal contribution of the "Five New TCP Congestion
Control Algorithms for FreeBSD" FreeBSD Foundation funded project. More details
about the project are available at: http://caia.swin.edu.au/freebsd/5cc/

- Add a KPI and supporting infrastructure to allow modular congestion control
algorithms to be used in the net stack. Algorithms can maintain per-connection
state if required, and connections maintain their own algorithm pointer, which
allows different connections to concurrently use different algorithms. The
TCP_CONGESTION socket option can be used with getsockopt()/setsockopt() to
programmatically query or change the congestion control algorithm respectively
from within an application at runtime.

- Integrate the framework with the TCP stack in as least intrusive a manner as
possible. Care was also taken to develop the framework in a way that should
allow integration with other congestion aware transport protocols (e.g. SCTP)
in the future. The hope is that we will one day be able to share a single set
of congestion control algorithm modules between all congestion aware transport
protocols.

- Introduce a new congestion recovery (TF_CONGRECOVERY) state into the TCP stack
and use it to decouple the meaning of recovery from a congestion event and
recovery from packet loss (TF_FASTRECOVERY) a la RFC2581. ECN and delay based
congestion control protocols don't generally need to recover from packet loss
and need a different way to note a congestion recovery episode within the
stack.

- Remove the net.inet.tcp.newreno sysctl, which simplifies some portions of code
and ensures the stack always uses the appropriate mechanisms for recovering
from packet loss during a congestion recovery episode.

- Extract the NewReno congestion control algorithm from the TCP stack and
massage it into module form. NewReno is always built into the kernel and will
remain the default algorithm for the forseeable future. Implementations of
additional different algorithms will become available in the near future.

- Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900025 and note in UPDATING that rebuilding code
that relies on the size of "struct tcpcb" is required.

Many thanks go to the Cisco University Research Program Fund at Community
Foundation Silicon Valley and the FreeBSD Foundation. Their support of our work
at the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures, Swinburne University of
Technology is greatly appreciated.

In collaboration with: David Hayes <dahayes at swin edu au> and
Grenville Armitage <garmitage at swin edu au>
Sponsored by: Cisco URP, FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: rpaulo
Tested by: David Hayes (and many others over the years)
MFC after: 3 months