/* Protective Load Balancing (PLB) * * PLB was designed to reduce link load imbalance across datacenter * switches. PLB is a host-based optimization; it leverages congestion * signals from the transport layer to randomly change the path of the * connection experiencing sustained congestion. PLB prefers to repath * after idle periods to minimize packet reordering. It repaths by * changing the IPv6 Flow Label on the packets of a connection, which * datacenter switches include as part of ECMP/WCMP hashing. * * PLB is described in detail in: * * Mubashir Adnan Qureshi, Yuchung Cheng, Qianwen Yin, Qiaobin Fu, * Gautam Kumar, Masoud Moshref, Junhua Yan, Van Jacobson, * David Wetherall,Abdul Kabbani: * "PLB: Congestion Signals are Simple and Effective for * Network Load Balancing" * In ACM SIGCOMM 2022, Amsterdam Netherlands. * */ #include <net/tcp.h> /* Called once per round-trip to update PLB state for a connection. */ void tcp_plb_update_state(const struct sock *sk, struct tcp_plb_state *plb, const int cong_ratio) { struct net *net = sock_net(sk); if (!READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_plb_enabled)) return; if (cong_ratio >= 0) { if (cong_ratio < READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_plb_cong_thresh)) plb->consec_cong_rounds = 0; else if (plb->consec_cong_rounds < READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_plb_rehash_rounds)) plb->consec_cong_rounds++; } } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tcp_plb_update_state); /* Check whether recent congestion has been persistent enough to warrant * a load balancing decision that switches the connection to another path. */ void tcp_plb_check_rehash(struct sock *sk, struct tcp_plb_state *plb) { struct net *net = sock_net(sk); u32 max_suspend; bool forced_rehash = false, idle_rehash = false; if (!READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_plb_enabled)) return; forced_rehash = plb->consec_cong_rounds >= READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_plb_rehash_rounds); /* If sender goes idle then we check whether to rehash. */ idle_rehash = READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_plb_idle_rehash_rounds) && !tcp_sk(sk)->packets_out && plb->consec_cong_rounds >= READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_plb_idle_rehash_rounds); if (!forced_rehash && !idle_rehash) return; /* Note that tcp_jiffies32 can wrap; we detect wraps by checking for * cases where the max suspension end is before the actual suspension * end. We clear pause_until to 0 to indicate there is no recent * RTO event that constrains PLB rehashing. */ max_suspend = 2 * READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_plb_suspend_rto_sec) * HZ; if (plb->pause_until && (!before(tcp_jiffies32, plb->pause_until) || before(tcp_jiffies32 + max_suspend, plb->pause_until))) plb->pause_until = 0; if (plb->pause_until) return; sk_rethink_txhash(sk); plb->consec_cong_rounds = 0; tcp_sk(sk)->plb_rehash++; NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPPLBREHASH); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tcp_plb_check_rehash); /* Upon RTO, disallow load balancing for a while, to avoid having load * balancing decisions switch traffic to a black-holed path that was * previously avoided with a sk_rethink_txhash() call at RTO time. */ void tcp_plb_update_state_upon_rto(struct sock *sk, struct tcp_plb_state *plb) { struct net *net = sock_net(sk); u32 pause; if (!READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_plb_enabled)) return; pause = READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_plb_suspend_rto_sec) * HZ; pause += get_random_u32_below(pause); plb->pause_until = tcp_jiffies32 + pause; /* Reset PLB state upon RTO, since an RTO causes a sk_rethink_txhash() call * that may switch this connection to a path with completely different * congestion characteristics. */ plb->consec_cong_rounds = 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL