this patch consists of two bits of work submitted as one
patch.
the first bit fixed a "pacing" problem, where a tcp connection
rate-limited by the reading process would experience 10%
of the expected throughput, and could even get into live
lock. it was noticed at the time of this initial work that
the stack often sent tiny grams. some good bits from nix'
original tcp were merged in. the test program
/n/sources/contrib/quanstro/tcptest.c
will verify that under most conditions, a reader-paced connection
now gets the expected throughput. expected arguments
would be
tcptest -s1 -n 5000 -l
the second bit is a first step in preparing tcp to handle
modest (1-2MB) bandwidth-delay products. the strategy
was to completely implement NewReno. the testing network
was a 7/35/70ms by 100Mbit wan emulator with 0/.05/.1% loss.
here are the performance comparisons from the changes after
the first round "old" to the submitted patch "new". the
smallest improvement was 80%, the largest was 11x.
loss% rtt old new
0.10 7 4.40 7.85
0.10 35 0.88 1.79
0.10 70 0.47 0.84
0.05 7 4.80 9.38
0.05 35 1.00 2.02
0.05 70 0.52 1.77
0.01 7 5.33 11.87
0.01 35 1.14 10.97
0.01 70 0.54 4.75
0.00 7 4.49 11.92
0.00 35 1.04 11.35
0.00 70 0.58 10.56
since the diff is not very easy to read, i wrote a small
paper detailing the changes
http://www.quanstro.net/plan9/tcp/tcp.pdf
- erik
on usb ethernet, it can happen that we read truncated packets smaller
than the ethernet header size. this produces a warning in pullupblock()
later like: "pullup negative length packet, called from 0xf0199e46"
Fsprotoclone() is not supposed to raise error, but return nil.
ipopen() seemed to assume otherwise as it setup error label
before calling Fsprotoclone(). fix ipopen(), make Fsprotoclone()
return nil instead of raising error.
Fsprotocone():
qopen() and qbypass() can fail and return nil, so make sure
the connection was not partially created by checking if read
and write queues have been setup by the protocol create hanler.
on error, free any resources of the partial connection and
error out.
netlogopen(): check malloc() error.
