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Florian Westphal authored
One deployment requirement of DCTCP is to be able to run in a DC setting along with TCP traffic. As Glenn Judd's NSDI'15 paper "Attaining the Promise and Avoiding the Pitfalls of TCP in the Datacenter" [1] (tba) explains, one way to solve this on switch side is to split DCTCP and TCP traffic in two queues per switch port based on the DSCP: one queue soley intended for DCTCP traffic and one for non-DCTCP traffic. For the DCTCP queue, there's the marking threshold K as explained in commit e3118e83 ("net: tcp: add DCTCP congestion control algorithm") for RED marking ECT(0) packets with CE. For the non-DCTCP queue, there's f.e. a classic tail drop queue. As already explained in e3118e83, running DCTCP at scale when not marking SYN/SYN-ACK packets with ECT(0) has severe consequences as for non-ECT(0) packets, traversing the RED marking DCTCP queue will result in a severe reduction of connection probability. This is due to the DCTCP queue being dominated by ECT(0) traffic and switches handle non-ECT traffic in the RED marking queue after passing K as drops, where K is usually a low watermark in order to leave enough tailroom for bursts. Splitting DCTCP traffic among several queues (ECN and non-ECN queue) is being considered a terrible idea in the network community as it splits single flows across multiple network paths. Therefore, commit e3118e83 implements this on Linux as ECT(0) marked traffic, as we argue that marking all packets of a DCTCP flow is the only viable solution and also doesn't speak against the draft. However, recently, a DCTCP implementation for FreeBSD hit also their mainline kernel [2]. In order to let them play well together with Linux' DCTCP, we would need to loosen the requirement that ECT(0) has to be asserted during the 3WHS as not implemented in FreeBSD. This simplifies the ECN test and lets DCTCP work together with FreeBSD. Joint work with Daniel Borkmann. [1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi15/technical-sessions/presentation/judd [2] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/8ad879445281027858a7fa706d13e458095b595fSigned-off-by:
Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by:
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Glenn Judd <glenn.judd@morganstanley.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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