On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Ilpo Järvinen <[email protected]> > > This change implements Accurate ECN without negotiation and > AccECN Option (that will be added by later changes). Based on > AccECN specifications: > https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-28.txt > > Accurate ECN allows feeding back the number of CE (congestion > experienced) marks accurately to the sender in contrast to > RFC3168 ECN that can only signal one marks-seen-yes/no per RTT. > Congestion control algorithms can take advantage of the accurate > ECN information to fine-tune their congestion response to avoid > drastic rate reduction when only mild congestion is encountered. > > With Accurate ECN, tp->received_ce (r.cep in AccECN spec) keeps > track of how many segments have arrived with a CE mark. Accurate > ECN uses ACE field (ECE, CWR, AE) to communicate the value back > to the sender which updates tp->delivered_ce (s.cep) based on the > feedback. This signalling channel is lossy when ACE field overflow > occurs. > > Conservative strategy is selected here to deal with the ACE > overflow, however, some strategies using the AccECN option later > in the overall patchset mitigate against false overflows detected. > > The ACE field values on the wire are offset by > TCP_ACCECN_CEP_INIT_OFFSET. Delivered_ce/received_ce count the > real CE marks rather than forcing all downstream users to adapt > to the wire offset. > > This patch uses the first 1-byte hole and the last 4-byte hole of > the tcp_sock_write_txrx for 'received_ce_pending' and 'received_ce'. > Also, the group size of tcp_sock_write_txrx is increased from > 91 + 4 to 95 + 4 due to the new u32 received_ce member. Below are > the trimmed pahole outcomes before and after this patch. >
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <[email protected]> > Co-developed-by: Olivier Tilmans <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Olivier Tilmans <[email protected]> > Co-developed-by: Chia-Yu Chang <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <[email protected]> > > --- > v9: > - Use tcp_data_ecn_check() to set TCP_ECN_SEE flag only for RFC3168 ECN > - Add comments about setting TCP_ECN_SEEN flag for RFC3168 and Accruate ECN Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
