tcp: switch rtt estimations to usec resolution

Upcoming congestion controls for TCP require usec resolution for RTT
estimations. Millisecond resolution is simply not enough these days.

FQ/pacing in DC environments also require this change for finer control
and removal of bimodal behavior due to the current hack in
tcp_update_pacing_rate() for 'small rtt'

TCP_CONG_RTT_STAMP is no longer needed.

As Julian Anastasov pointed out, we need to keep user compatibility :
tcp_metrics used to export RTT and RTTVAR in msec resolution,
so we added RTT_US and RTTVAR_US. An iproute2 patch is needed
to use the new attributes if provided by the kernel.

In this example ss command displays a srtt of 32 usecs (10Gbit link)

lpk51:~# ./ss -i dst lpk52
Netid  State      Recv-Q Send-Q   Local Address:Port       Peer
Address:Port
tcp    ESTAB      0      1         10.246.11.51:42959
10.246.11.52:64614
         cubic wscale:6,6 rto:201 rtt:0.032/0.001 ato:40 mss:1448
cwnd:10 send
3620.0Mbps pacing_rate 7240.0Mbps unacked:1 rcv_rtt:993 rcv_space:29559

Updated iproute2 ip command displays :

lpk51:~# ./ip tcp_metrics | grep 10.246.11.52
10.246.11.52 age 561.914sec cwnd 10 rtt 274us rttvar 213us source
10.246.11.51

Old binary displays :

lpk51:~# ip tcp_metrics | grep 10.246.11.52
10.246.11.52 age 561.914sec cwnd 10 rtt 250us rttvar 125us source
10.246.11.51

With help from Julian Anastasov, Stephen Hemminger and Yuchung Cheng

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Larry Brakmo <brakmo@google.com>
Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/tcp_metrics.h b/include/uapi/linux/tcp_metrics.h
index 54a37b13f2c4..93533926035c 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/tcp_metrics.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/tcp_metrics.h
@@ -11,12 +11,15 @@
 #define TCP_METRICS_GENL_VERSION        0x1
 
 enum tcp_metric_index {
-        TCP_METRIC_RTT,
-        TCP_METRIC_RTTVAR,
+        TCP_METRIC_RTT,         /* in ms units */
+        TCP_METRIC_RTTVAR,      /* in ms units */
         TCP_METRIC_SSTHRESH,
         TCP_METRIC_CWND,
         TCP_METRIC_REORDERING,
 
+        TCP_METRIC_RTT_US,      /* in usec units */
+        TCP_METRIC_RTTVAR_US,   /* in usec units */
+
         /* Always last.  */
         __TCP_METRIC_MAX,
 };