tcp: new TCP_INFO stats for RTO events
authorAananth V <aananthv@google.com>
Thu, 14 Sep 2023 14:36:21 +0000 (14:36 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 16 Sep 2023 12:42:34 +0000 (13:42 +0100)
commit3868ab0f192581eff978501a05f3dc2e01541d77
tree5cd1330b779f689ecfc3e24b6fb8a5baa8600799
parente326578a21414738de45f77badd332fb00bd0f58
tcp: new TCP_INFO stats for RTO events

The 2023 SIGCOMM paper "Improving Network Availability with Protective
ReRoute" has indicated Linux TCP's RTO-triggered txhash rehashing can
effectively reduce application disruption during outages. To better
measure the efficacy of this feature, this patch adds three more
detailed stats during RTO recovery and exports via TCP_INFO.
Applications and monitoring systems can leverage this data to measure
the network path diversity and end-to-end repair latency during network
outages to improve their network infrastructure.

The following counters are added to tcp_sock in order to track RTO
events over the lifetime of a TCP socket.

1. u16 total_rto - Counts the total number of RTO timeouts.
2. u16 total_rto_recoveries - Counts the total number of RTO recoveries.
3. u32 total_rto_time - Counts the total time spent (ms) in RTO
                        recoveries. (time spent in CA_Loss and
                        CA_Recovery states)

To compute total_rto_time, we add a new u32 rto_stamp field to
tcp_sock. rto_stamp records the start timestamp (ms) of the last RTO
recovery (CA_Loss).

Corresponding fields are also added to the tcp_info struct.

Signed-off-by: Aananth V <aananthv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/linux/tcp.h
include/uapi/linux/tcp.h
net/ipv4/tcp.c
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c