In the original design slow start is only used to raise cwnd
when cwnd is stricly below ssthresh. It makes little sense
to slow start when cwnd == ssthresh: especially
when hystart has set ssthresh in the initial ramp, or after
recovery when cwnd resets to ssthresh. Not doing so will
also help reduce the buffer bloat slightly.
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CAIA Delay-Gradient (CDG) is a TCP congestion control that modifies
the TCP sender in order to [1]:
o Use the delay gradient as a congestion signal.
o Back off with an average probability that is independent of the RTT.
o Coexist with flows that use loss-based congestion control, i.e.,
flows that are unresponsive to the delay signal.
o Tolerate packet loss unrelated to congestion. (Disabled by default.)
Its FreeBSD implementation was presented for the ICCRG in July 2012;
slides are available at http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/84/iccrg.html
Running the experiment scenarios in [1] suggests that our implementation
achieves more goodput compared with FreeBSD 10.0 senders, although it also
causes more queueing delay for a given backoff factor.
The loss tolerance heuristic is disabled by default due to safety concerns
for its use in the Internet [2, p. 45-46].
We use a variant of the Hybrid Slow start algorithm in tcp_cubic to reduce
the probability of slow start overshoot.
[1] D.A. Hayes and G. Armitage. "Revisiting TCP congestion control using
delay gradients." In Networking 2011, pages 328-341. Springer, 2011.
[2] K.K. Jonassen. "Implementing CAIA Delay-Gradient in Linux."
MSc thesis. Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, 2015.
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: David Hayes <davihay@ifi.uio.no>
Cc: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no>
Cc: Dave Taht <dave.taht@bufferbloat.net>
Cc: Nicolas Kuhn <nicolas.kuhn@telecom-bretagne.eu>
Signed-off-by: Kenneth Klette Jonassen <kennetkl@ifi.uio.no>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
