[PATCH 0/7]: Use RTT of SYN exchange & Patchv2

[PATCH 0/7]: Use RTT of SYN exchange & Patchv2

[Gerrit Renker]

This is 
  * one revised re-sent (Patch 1)
  * a larger patch split into six (to make review easier), implementing the use of SYN-exchange RTT
    sample to boost the performance of CCID 3. It is kept generic, so that it could be reused later.

I have compiled on x86, SMP and sparc64 and tested on x86. The performance was pretty good, suddenly
in later stages the dccp_probe results were quieter (still oscillating during slow-start). 

Patch 1: Is Patchv2 for 
         http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/dccp/patch-backlog/4e_suseconds_t_64-bit-warning.diff
         I have removed the `unsigned' casts. Thanks Ian.

Patch 2: Provides a new function rfc3390_initial_rate() for the initial sending rate.

Patch 3: Idle and application limited periods: this correctly implements [RFC 4342, 5.1] in that
         the sending rate shall not be reduced below the rfc3390_initial_rate() in an idle period.

Patch 4: DCCP library function for sampling RTTs from packet exchanges.
         RTTs are actually sampled quite often in the DCCP code, and so providing a function for this
         purpose makes sense (it is applied a patch below). 

Patch 5: This applies the new function, dccp_sample_rtt(), to replace existing uses.

Patch 6: Sampling RTT from SYN (initial Request/Response) exchange. This implements the recommendation
         in the erratum to RFC 4342 and in draft-ietf-dccp-rfc3448bis. The sampling works by adding a
         timestamp option to the open()ing Request, and catching timestamp echo option on the matching
         Response. The result is obtained via dccp_sample_rtt() and stored in dccp_sock() so that CCIDs
         can use it. No extra field required for this, due to exploiting an existing / unused field of
         dccp_sock via alias.

Patch 7: Implements the use of SYN-exchange RTT for CCID 3, using the mechanism defined in rfc3448bis.


The lot has been uploaded  to http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/dccp/patch-backlog

Re: [PATCH 0/7]: Use RTT of SYN exchange & Patchv2

[Ian McDonald]

On 24/01/07, Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> wrote:
> This is
>   * one revised re-sent (Patch 1)
>   * a larger patch split into six (to make review easier), implementing the use of SYN-exchange RTT
>     sample to boost the performance of CCID 3. It is kept generic, so that it could be reused later.
>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
(on all 7 of them)
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