Merge branch 'tcp-plb'

Mubashir Adnan Qureshi says:

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net: Add PLB functionality to TCP

This patch series adds PLB (Protective Load Balancing) to TCP and hooks
it up to DCTCP. PLB is disabled by default and can be enabled using
relevant sysctls and support from underlying CC.

PLB (Protective Load Balancing) is a host based mechanism for load
balancing across switch links. It leverages congestion signals(e.g. ECN)
from transport layer to randomly change the path of the connection
experiencing congestion. PLB changes the path of the connection by
changing the outgoing IPv6 flow label for IPv6 connections (implemented
in Linux by calling sk_rethink_txhash()). Because of this implementation
mechanism, PLB can currently only work for IPv6 traffic. For more
information, see the SIGCOMM 2022 paper:
  https://doi.org/10.1145/3544216.3544226
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index 14d45661a84d..6b814e788f00 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -2140,6 +2140,34 @@ extern void tcp_rack_advance(struct tcp_sock *tp, u8 sacked, u32 end_seq,
 extern void tcp_rack_reo_timeout(struct sock *sk);
 extern void tcp_rack_update_reo_wnd(struct sock *sk, struct rate_sample *rs);
 
+/* tcp_plb.c */
+
+/*
+ * Scaling factor for fractions in PLB. For example, tcp_plb_update_state
+ * expects cong_ratio which represents fraction of traffic that experienced
+ * congestion over a single RTT. In order to avoid floating point operations,
+ * this fraction should be mapped to (1 << TCP_PLB_SCALE) and passed in.
+ */
+#define TCP_PLB_SCALE 8
+
+/* State for PLB (Protective Load Balancing) for a single TCP connection. */
+struct tcp_plb_state {
+	u8	consec_cong_rounds:5, /* consecutive congested rounds */
+		unused:3;
+	u32	pause_until; /* jiffies32 when PLB can resume rerouting */
+};
+
+static inline void tcp_plb_init(const struct sock *sk,
+				struct tcp_plb_state *plb)
+{
+	plb->consec_cong_rounds = 0;
+	plb->pause_until = 0;
+}
+void tcp_plb_update_state(const struct sock *sk, struct tcp_plb_state *plb,
+			  const int cong_ratio);
+void tcp_plb_check_rehash(struct sock *sk, struct tcp_plb_state *plb);
+void tcp_plb_update_state_upon_rto(struct sock *sk, struct tcp_plb_state *plb);
+
 /* At how many usecs into the future should the RTO fire? */
 static inline s64 tcp_rto_delta_us(const struct sock *sk)
 {