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Thomas Gleixner
2504ba9f59 treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 235
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license this
  program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but
  without any warranty without even the implied warranty of
  merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu
  general public license for more details

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 53 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190602204653.904365654@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-06-19 17:09:07 +02:00
Johannes Berg
8cb081746c netlink: make validation more configurable for future strictness
We currently have two levels of strict validation:

 1) liberal (default)
     - undefined (type >= max) & NLA_UNSPEC attributes accepted
     - attribute length >= expected accepted
     - garbage at end of message accepted
 2) strict (opt-in)
     - NLA_UNSPEC attributes accepted
     - attribute length >= expected accepted

Split out parsing strictness into four different options:
 * TRAILING     - check that there's no trailing data after parsing
                  attributes (in message or nested)
 * MAXTYPE      - reject attrs > max known type
 * UNSPEC       - reject attributes with NLA_UNSPEC policy entries
 * STRICT_ATTRS - strictly validate attribute size

The default for future things should be *everything*.
The current *_strict() is a combination of TRAILING and MAXTYPE,
and is renamed to _deprecated_strict().
The current regular parsing has none of this, and is renamed to
*_parse_deprecated().

Additionally it allows us to selectively set one of the new flags
even on old policies. Notably, the UNSPEC flag could be useful in
this case, since it can be arranged (by filling in the policy) to
not be an incompatible userspace ABI change, but would then going
forward prevent forgetting attribute entries. Similar can apply
to the POLICY flag.

We end up with the following renames:
 * nla_parse           -> nla_parse_deprecated
 * nla_parse_strict    -> nla_parse_deprecated_strict
 * nlmsg_parse         -> nlmsg_parse_deprecated
 * nlmsg_parse_strict  -> nlmsg_parse_deprecated_strict
 * nla_parse_nested    -> nla_parse_nested_deprecated
 * nla_validate_nested -> nla_validate_nested_deprecated

Using spatch, of course:
    @@
    expression TB, MAX, HEAD, LEN, POL, EXT;
    @@
    -nla_parse(TB, MAX, HEAD, LEN, POL, EXT)
    +nla_parse_deprecated(TB, MAX, HEAD, LEN, POL, EXT)

    @@
    expression NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT;
    @@
    -nlmsg_parse(NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT)
    +nlmsg_parse_deprecated(NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT)

    @@
    expression NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT;
    @@
    -nlmsg_parse_strict(NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT)
    +nlmsg_parse_deprecated_strict(NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT)

    @@
    expression TB, MAX, NLA, POL, EXT;
    @@
    -nla_parse_nested(TB, MAX, NLA, POL, EXT)
    +nla_parse_nested_deprecated(TB, MAX, NLA, POL, EXT)

    @@
    expression START, MAX, POL, EXT;
    @@
    -nla_validate_nested(START, MAX, POL, EXT)
    +nla_validate_nested_deprecated(START, MAX, POL, EXT)

    @@
    expression NLH, HDRLEN, MAX, POL, EXT;
    @@
    -nlmsg_validate(NLH, HDRLEN, MAX, POL, EXT)
    +nlmsg_validate_deprecated(NLH, HDRLEN, MAX, POL, EXT)

For this patch, don't actually add the strict, non-renamed versions
yet so that it breaks compile if I get it wrong.

Also, while at it, make nla_validate and nla_parse go down to a
common __nla_validate_parse() function to avoid code duplication.

Ultimately, this allows us to have very strict validation for every
new caller of nla_parse()/nlmsg_parse() etc as re-introduced in the
next patch, while existing things will continue to work as is.

In effect then, this adds fully strict validation for any new command.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-04-27 17:07:21 -04:00
Michal Kubecek
ae0be8de9a netlink: make nla_nest_start() add NLA_F_NESTED flag
Even if the NLA_F_NESTED flag was introduced more than 11 years ago, most
netlink based interfaces (including recently added ones) are still not
setting it in kernel generated messages. Without the flag, message parsers
not aware of attribute semantics (e.g. wireshark dissector or libmnl's
mnl_nlmsg_fprintf()) cannot recognize nested attributes and won't display
the structure of their contents.

Unfortunately we cannot just add the flag everywhere as there may be
userspace applications which check nlattr::nla_type directly rather than
through a helper masking out the flags. Therefore the patch renames
nla_nest_start() to nla_nest_start_noflag() and introduces nla_nest_start()
as a wrapper adding NLA_F_NESTED. The calls which add NLA_F_NESTED manually
are rewritten to use nla_nest_start().

Except for changes in include/net/netlink.h, the patch was generated using
this semantic patch:

@@ expression E1, E2; @@
-nla_nest_start(E1, E2)
+nla_nest_start_noflag(E1, E2)

@@ expression E1, E2; @@
-nla_nest_start_noflag(E1, E2 | NLA_F_NESTED)
+nla_nest_start(E1, E2)

Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-04-27 17:03:44 -04:00
Leslie Monis
6c97da1415 net: sched: pie: avoid slow division in drop probability decay
As per RFC 8033, it is sufficient for the drop probability
decay factor to have a value of (1 - 1/64) instead of 98%.
This avoids the need to do slow division.

Suggested-by: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Signed-off-by: Leslie Monis <lesliemonis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-02-28 10:35:41 -08:00
Leslie Monis
ff8285f818 net: sched: pie: fix 64-bit division
Use div_u64() to resolve build failures on 32-bit platforms.

Fixes: 3f7ae5f3dc ("net: sched: pie: add more cases to auto-tune alpha and beta")
Signed-off-by: Leslie Monis <lesliemonis@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-02-26 18:55:38 -08:00
Leslie Monis
24ed49002c net: sched: pie: fix mistake in reference link
Fix the incorrect reference link to RFC 8033

Signed-off-by: Leslie Monis <lesliemonis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-02-26 09:11:33 -08:00
Mohit P. Tahiliani
c9d2ac5e6b net: sched: pie: update references
RFC 8033 replaces the IETF draft for PIE

Signed-off-by: Mohit P. Tahiliani <tahiliani@nitk.edu.in>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Khandla <dhavaljkhandla26@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hrishikesh Hiraskar <hrishihiraskar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Manish Kumar B <bmanish15597@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sachin D. Patil <sdp.sachin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Leslie Monis <lesliemonis@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-02-25 14:21:03 -08:00
Mohit P. Tahiliani
95400b975d net: sched: pie: add derandomization mechanism
Random dropping of packets to achieve latency control may
introduce outlier situations where packets are dropped too
close to each other or too far from each other. This can
cause the real drop percentage to temporarily deviate from
the intended drop probability. In certain scenarios, such
as a small number of simultaneous TCP flows, these
deviations can cause significant deviations in link
utilization and queuing latency.

RFC 8033 suggests using a derandomization mechanism to avoid
these deviations.

Signed-off-by: Mohit P. Tahiliani <tahiliani@nitk.edu.in>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Khandla <dhavaljkhandla26@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hrishikesh Hiraskar <hrishihiraskar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Manish Kumar B <bmanish15597@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sachin D. Patil <sdp.sachin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Leslie Monis <lesliemonis@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-02-25 14:21:03 -08:00
Mohit P. Tahiliani
3f7ae5f3dc net: sched: pie: add more cases to auto-tune alpha and beta
The current implementation scales the local alpha and beta
variables in the calculate_probability function by the same
amount for all values of drop probability below 1%.

RFC 8033 suggests using additional cases for auto-tuning
alpha and beta when the drop probability is less than 1%.

In order to add more auto-tuning cases, MAX_PROB must be
scaled by u64 instead of u32 to prevent underflow when
scaling the local alpha and beta variables in the
calculate_probability function.

Signed-off-by: Mohit P. Tahiliani <tahiliani@nitk.edu.in>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Khandla <dhavaljkhandla26@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hrishikesh Hiraskar <hrishihiraskar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Manish Kumar B <bmanish15597@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sachin D. Patil <sdp.sachin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Leslie Monis <lesliemonis@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-02-25 14:21:03 -08:00
Mohit P. Tahiliani
30a92ad703 net: sched: pie: change initial value of pie_vars->burst_time
RFC 8033 suggests an initial value of 150 milliseconds for
the maximum time allowed for a burst of packets.

Signed-off-by: Mohit P. Tahiliani <tahiliani@nitk.edu.in>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Khandla <dhavaljkhandla26@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hrishikesh Hiraskar <hrishihiraskar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Manish Kumar B <bmanish15597@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sachin D. Patil <sdp.sachin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Leslie Monis <lesliemonis@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-02-25 14:21:03 -08:00
Mohit P. Tahiliani
29daa85538 net: sched: pie: change default value of pie_params->tupdate
RFC 8033 suggests a default value of 15 milliseconds for the
update interval.

Signed-off-by: Mohit P. Tahiliani <tahiliani@nitk.edu.in>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Khandla <dhavaljkhandla26@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hrishikesh Hiraskar <hrishihiraskar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Manish Kumar B <bmanish15597@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sachin D. Patil <sdp.sachin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Leslie Monis <lesliemonis@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-02-25 14:21:03 -08:00
Mohit P. Tahiliani
abde7920de net: sched: pie: change default value of pie_params->target
RFC 8033 suggests a default value of 15 milliseconds for the
target queue delay.

Signed-off-by: Mohit P. Tahiliani <tahiliani@nitk.edu.in>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Khandla <dhavaljkhandla26@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hrishikesh Hiraskar <hrishihiraskar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Manish Kumar B <bmanish15597@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sachin D. Patil <sdp.sachin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Leslie Monis <lesliemonis@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-02-25 14:21:03 -08:00
Mohit P. Tahiliani
575090036c net: sched: pie: change value of QUEUE_THRESHOLD
RFC 8033 recommends a value of 16384 bytes for the queue
threshold.

Signed-off-by: Mohit P. Tahiliani <tahiliani@nitk.edu.in>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Khandla <dhavaljkhandla26@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hrishikesh Hiraskar <hrishihiraskar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Manish Kumar B <bmanish15597@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sachin D. Patil <sdp.sachin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Leslie Monis <lesliemonis@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-02-25 14:21:03 -08:00
Leslie Monis
ac4a02c5ab net: sched: pie: fix coding style issues
Fix 5 warnings and 14 checks issued by checkpatch.pl:

CHECK: Logical continuations should be on the previous line
+	if ((q->vars.qdelay < q->params.target / 2)
+	    && (q->vars.prob < MAX_PROB / 5))

WARNING: line over 80 characters
+		q->params.tupdate = usecs_to_jiffies(nla_get_u32(tb[TCA_PIE_TUPDATE]));

CHECK: Blank lines aren't necessary after an open brace '{'
+{
+

CHECK: braces {} should be used on all arms of this statement
+			if (qlen < QUEUE_THRESHOLD)
[...]
+			else {
[...]

CHECK: Unbalanced braces around else statement
+			else {

CHECK: No space is necessary after a cast
+	if (delta > (s32) (MAX_PROB / (100 / 2)) &&

CHECK: Unnecessary parentheses around 'qdelay == 0'
+	if ((qdelay == 0) && (qdelay_old == 0) && update_prob)

CHECK: Unnecessary parentheses around 'qdelay_old == 0'
+	if ((qdelay == 0) && (qdelay_old == 0) && update_prob)

CHECK: Unnecessary parentheses around 'q->vars.prob == 0'
+	if ((q->vars.qdelay < q->params.target / 2) &&
+	    (q->vars.qdelay_old < q->params.target / 2) &&
+	    (q->vars.prob == 0) &&
+	    (q->vars.avg_dq_rate > 0))

CHECK: Unnecessary parentheses around 'q->vars.avg_dq_rate > 0'
+	if ((q->vars.qdelay < q->params.target / 2) &&
+	    (q->vars.qdelay_old < q->params.target / 2) &&
+	    (q->vars.prob == 0) &&
+	    (q->vars.avg_dq_rate > 0))

CHECK: Blank lines aren't necessary before a close brace '}'
+
+}

CHECK: Comparison to NULL could be written "!opts"
+	if (opts == NULL)

CHECK: No space is necessary after a cast
+			((u32) PSCHED_TICKS2NS(q->params.target)) /

WARNING: line over 80 characters
+	    nla_put_u32(skb, TCA_PIE_TUPDATE, jiffies_to_usecs(q->params.tupdate)) ||

CHECK: Blank lines aren't necessary before a close brace '}'
+
+}

CHECK: No space is necessary after a cast
+		.delay		= ((u32) PSCHED_TICKS2NS(q->vars.qdelay)) /

WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations
+	struct sk_buff *skb;
+	skb = qdisc_dequeue_head(sch);

WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations
+	struct pie_sched_data *q = qdisc_priv(sch);
+	qdisc_reset_queue(sch);

WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations
+	struct pie_sched_data *q = qdisc_priv(sch);
+	q->params.tupdate = 0;

Signed-off-by: Leslie Monis <lesliemonis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-10-07 20:39:01 -07:00
Alexander Aring
2030721cc0 net: sched: sch: add extack for change qdisc ops
This patch adds extack support for change callback for qdisc ops
structtur to prepare per-qdisc specific changes for extack.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aring@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-12-21 12:32:50 -05:00
Alexander Aring
e63d7dfd2d net: sched: sch: add extack for init callback
This patch adds extack support for init callback to prepare per-qdisc
specific changes for extack.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aring@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-12-21 12:32:50 -05:00
Kees Cook
cdeabbb881 net: sched: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer to
all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer()
to pass the timer pointer explicitly. Add pointer back to Qdisc.

Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-10-18 12:39:54 +01:00
Johannes Berg
fceb6435e8 netlink: pass extended ACK struct to parsing functions
Pass the new extended ACK reporting struct to all of the generic
netlink parsing functions. For now, pass NULL in almost all callers
(except for some in the core.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-04-13 13:58:22 -04:00
Florian Westphal
ed760cb8aa sched: replace __skb_dequeue with __qdisc_dequeue_head
After previous patch these functions are identical.
Replace __skb_dequeue in qdiscs with __qdisc_dequeue_head.

Next patch will then make __qdisc_dequeue_head handle
single-linked list instead of strcut sk_buff_head argument.

Doesn't change generated code.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-09-19 01:47:18 -04:00
Florian Westphal
1486587b2f pie: use qdisc_dequeue_head wrapper
Doesn't change generated code.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-09-19 01:47:18 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
520ac30f45 net_sched: drop packets after root qdisc lock is released
Qdisc performance suffers when packets are dropped at enqueue()
time because drops (kfree_skb()) are done while qdisc lock is held,
delaying a dequeue() draining the queue.

Nominal throughput can be reduced by 50 % when this happens,
at a time we would like the dequeue() to proceed as fast as possible.

Even FQ is vulnerable to this problem, while one of FQ goals was
to provide some flow isolation.

This patch adds a 'struct sk_buff **to_free' parameter to all
qdisc->enqueue(), and in qdisc_drop() helper.

I measured a performance increase of up to 12 %, but this patch
is a prereq so that future batches in enqueue() can fly.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-06-25 12:19:35 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
db4879d93c net_sched: sch_pie: defer skb freeing
pie_change() can use rtnl_qdisc_drop() to benefit from
deferred freeing.

pie_reset() is already using qdisc_reset_queue()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-06-15 14:08:36 -07:00
WANG Cong
2ccccf5fb4 net_sched: update hierarchical backlog too
When the bottom qdisc decides to, for example, drop some packet,
it calls qdisc_tree_decrease_qlen() to update the queue length
for all its ancestors, we need to update the backlog too to
keep the stats on root qdisc accurate.

Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-29 17:02:33 -05:00
WANG Cong
d56109020d sch_pie: schedule the timer after all init succeed
Cc: Vijay Subramanian <vijaynsu@cisco.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
2014-10-29 14:28:01 -04:00
John Fastabend
25331d6ce4 net: sched: implement qstat helper routines
This adds helpers to manipulate qstats logic and replaces locations
that touch the counters directly. This simplifies future patches
to push qstats onto per cpu counters.

Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-30 01:02:26 -04:00
Vijay Subramanian
219e288e89 net: sched: Cleanup PIE comments
Fix incorrect comment reported by Norbert Kiesel. Edit another comment to add
more details. Also add references to algorithm (IETF draft and paper) to top of
file.

Signed-off-by: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com>
CC: Mythili Prabhu <mysuryan@cisco.com>
CC: Norbert Kiesel <nkiesel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-13 18:29:58 -05:00
Aruna-Hewapathirane
63862b5bef net: replace macros net_random and net_srandom with direct calls to prandom
This patch removes the net_random and net_srandom macros and replaces
them with direct calls to the prandom ones. As new commits only seem to
use prandom_u32 there is no use to keep them around.
This change makes it easier to grep for users of prandom_u32.

Signed-off-by: Aruna-Hewapathirane <aruna.hewapathirane@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-14 15:15:25 -08:00
Vijay Subramanian
d4b36210c2 net: pkt_sched: PIE AQM scheme
Proportional Integral controller Enhanced (PIE) is a scheduler to address the
bufferbloat problem.

>From the IETF draft below:
" Bufferbloat is a phenomenon where excess buffers in the network cause high
latency and jitter. As more and more interactive applications (e.g. voice over
IP, real time video streaming and financial transactions) run in the Internet,
high latency and jitter degrade application performance. There is a pressing
need to design intelligent queue management schemes that can control latency and
jitter; and hence provide desirable quality of service to users.

We present here a lightweight design, PIE(Proportional Integral controller
Enhanced) that can effectively control the average queueing latency to a target
value. Simulation results, theoretical analysis and Linux testbed results have
shown that PIE can ensure low latency and achieve high link utilization under
various congestion situations. The design does not require per-packet
timestamp, so it incurs very small overhead and is simple enough to implement
in both hardware and software.  "

Many thanks to Dave Taht for extensive feedback, reviews, testing and
suggestions. Thanks also to Stephen Hemminger and Eric Dumazet for reviews and
suggestions.  Naeem Khademi and Dave Taht independently contributed to ECN
support.

For more information, please see technical paper about PIE in the IEEE
Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing 2013. A copy of the paper
can be found at ftp://ftpeng.cisco.com/pie/.

Please also refer to the IETF draft submission at
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pan-tsvwg-pie-00

All relevant code, documents and test scripts and results can be found at
ftp://ftpeng.cisco.com/pie/.

For problems with the iproute2/tc or Linux kernel code, please contact Vijay
Subramanian (vijaynsu@cisco.com or subramanian.vijay@gmail.com) Mythili Prabhu
(mysuryan@cisco.com)

Signed-off-by: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mythili Prabhu <mysuryan@cisco.com>
CC: Dave Taht <dave.taht@bufferbloat.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-06 15:13:01 -05:00