tcp: use dctcp if enabled on the route to the initiator
Currently, the following case doesn't use DCTCP, even if it should:
A responder has f.e. Cubic as system wide default, but for a specific
route to the initiating host, DCTCP is being set in RTAX_CC_ALGO. The
initiating host then uses DCTCP as congestion control, but since the
initiator sets ECT(0), tcp_ecn_create_request() doesn't set ecn_ok,
and we have to fall back to Reno after 3WHS completes.
We were thinking on how to solve this in a minimal, non-intrusive
way without bloating tcp_ecn_create_request() needlessly: lets cache
the CA ecn option flag in RTAX_FEATURES. In other words, when ECT(0)
is set on the SYN packet, set ecn_ok=1 iff route RTAX_FEATURES
contains the unexposed (internal-only) DST_FEATURE_ECN_CA. This allows
to only do a single metric feature lookup inside tcp_ecn_create_request().
Joint work with Florian Westphal.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 788ceed..a466821 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -678,6 +678,12 @@
continue;
if (nla_put_string(skb, i + 1, name))
goto nla_put_failure;
+ } else if (i == RTAX_FEATURES - 1) {
+ u32 user_features = metrics[i] & RTAX_FEATURE_MASK;
+
+ BUILD_BUG_ON(RTAX_FEATURE_MASK & DST_FEATURE_MASK);
+ if (nla_put_u32(skb, i + 1, user_features))
+ goto nla_put_failure;
} else {
if (nla_put_u32(skb, i + 1, metrics[i]))
goto nla_put_failure;