tcp: refactor F-RTO

The patch series refactor the F-RTO feature (RFC4138/5682).

This is to simplify the loss recovery processing. Existing F-RTO
was developed during the experimental stage (RFC4138) and has
many experimental features.  It takes a separate code path from
the traditional timeout processing by overloading CA_Disorder
instead of using CA_Loss state. This complicates CA_Disorder state
handling because it's also used for handling dubious ACKs and undos.
While the algorithm in the RFC does not change the congestion control,
the implementation intercepts congestion control in various places
(e.g., frto_cwnd in tcp_ack()).

The new code implements newer F-RTO RFC5682 using CA_Loss processing
path.  F-RTO becomes a small extension in the timeout processing
and interfaces with congestion control and Eifel undo modules.
It lets congestion control (module) determines how many to send
independently.  F-RTO only chooses what to send in order to detect
spurious retranmission. If timeout is found spurious it invokes
existing Eifel undo algorithms like DSACK or TCP timestamp based
detection.

The first patch removes all F-RTO code except the sysctl_tcp_frto is
left for the new implementation.  Since CA_EVENT_FRTO is removed, TCP
westwood now computes ssthresh on regular timeout CA_EVENT_LOSS event.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index 7f2f17198d75..d1dcb596230e 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -272,7 +272,6 @@ extern int sysctl_tcp_app_win;
 extern int sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale;
 extern int sysctl_tcp_tw_reuse;
 extern int sysctl_tcp_frto;
-extern int sysctl_tcp_frto_response;
 extern int sysctl_tcp_low_latency;
 extern int sysctl_tcp_dma_copybreak;
 extern int sysctl_tcp_nometrics_save;
@@ -424,8 +423,6 @@ extern struct sock * tcp_check_req(struct sock *sk,struct sk_buff *skb,
                                    bool fastopen);
 extern int tcp_child_process(struct sock *parent, struct sock *child,
                              struct sk_buff *skb);
-extern bool tcp_use_frto(struct sock *sk);
-extern void tcp_enter_frto(struct sock *sk);
 extern void tcp_enter_loss(struct sock *sk, int how);
 extern void tcp_clear_retrans(struct tcp_sock *tp);
 extern void tcp_update_metrics(struct sock *sk);
@@ -756,7 +753,6 @@ enum tcp_ca_event {
         CA_EVENT_TX_START,      /* first transmit when no packets in flight */
         CA_EVENT_CWND_RESTART,  /* congestion window restart */
         CA_EVENT_COMPLETE_CWR,  /* end of congestion recovery */
-        CA_EVENT_FRTO,          /* fast recovery timeout */
         CA_EVENT_LOSS,          /* loss timeout */
         CA_EVENT_FAST_ACK,      /* in sequence ack */
         CA_EVENT_SLOW_ACK,      /* other ack */