Re: resurrecting tcphealth

From: Piotr Sawuk
Date: Mon Jul 16 2012 - 07:33:16 EST


On Sa, 14.07.2012, 01:55, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> I am not sure if the is really necessary since the most
> of the stats are available elsewhere.

if by "most" you mean address and port then you're right.
but even the rtt reported by "ss -i" seems to differ from tcphealth.

however, if instead by "elsewhere" you mean "on the server"...
>

>>+ seq_printf(seq,
>>+ "TCP Health Monitoring (established connections only)\n"
>>+ " -Duplicate ACKs indicate lost or reordered packets on the
>>connection.\n"
>>+ " -Duplicate Packets Received signal a slow and badly inefficient
>>connection.\n"
>>+ " -RttEst estimates how long future packets will take on a round trip
>>over the connection.\n"
>>+ "id Local Address Remote Address RttEst(ms) AcksSent "
>
> Header seems excessive, just put one line of header please.

I guess the header was sort of documentation for this patch.
I've put it into Kconfig instead.
>
>
>>+ "DupAcksSent PktsRecv DupPktsRecv\n");
>>+ goto out;
>>+ }
>>+
>>+ /* Loop through established TCP connections */
>>+ st = seq->private;
>>+
>>+
>>+ if (st->state == TCP_SEQ_STATE_ESTABLISHED)
>>+ {
>>+/* ; //insert read-lock here */
>
> Don't think you need read-lock

you mean I wont get segfault reading a tcp_sock that's gone?
>

> Kernel has %pI4 to print IP addresses.

thanks, I didn't know.
>

>>+ seq_printf(seq, "%*s\n", LINESZ - 1 - len, "");
>
> This padding of line is bogus, just print variable length line.
> Are you trying to make it fixed length record file?

I guess so, /proc/net/tcp is doing the same.
wont question the authors of that user-interface.

OK, new version, this time with Kconfig changed:

diff -rub A/include/linux/tcp.h B/include/linux/tcp.h
--- A/include/linux/tcp.h 2012-07-08 02:23:56.000000000 +0200
+++ B/include/linux/tcp.h 2012-07-16 09:04:54.000000000 +0200
@@ -492,6 +492,17 @@
* contains related tcp_cookie_transactions fields.
*/
struct tcp_cookie_values *cookie_values;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_TCPHEALTH
+ /*
+ * TCP health monitoring counters.
+ */
+ __u32 dup_acks_sent;
+ __u32 dup_pkts_recv;
+ __u32 acks_sent;
+ __u32 pkts_recv;
+ __u32 last_ack_sent; /* Sequence number of the last ack we sent. */
+#endif
};

static inline struct tcp_sock *tcp_sk(const struct sock *sk)
Only in B/include/linux: tcp.h.orig
diff -rub A/net/ipv4/Kconfig B/net/ipv4/Kconfig
--- A/net/ipv4/Kconfig 2012-07-08 02:23:56.000000000 +0200
+++ B/net/ipv4/Kconfig 2012-07-16 11:56:15.000000000 +0200
@@ -619,6 +619,28 @@
default "reno" if DEFAULT_RENO
default "cubic"

+config TCPHEALTH
+ bool "TCP: client-side health-statistics (/proc/net/tcphealth)"
+ default n
+ ---help---
+ IPv4 TCP Health Monitoring (established connections only):
+ -Duplicate ACKs indicate there could be lost or reordered packets
+ on the connection.
+ -Duplicate Packets Received signal a slow and badly inefficient
+ connection.
+ -RttEst estimates how long future packets will take on a round trip
+ over the connection.
+
+ Additionally you get total amount of sent ACKs and received Packets.
+ All these values are displayed seperately for each connection.
+ If you are running a dedicated server you wont need this.
+ Duplicate ACKs refers only to those sent upon receiving a Packet.
+ A server most likely doesn't receive much Packets to count.
+ Hence for a server these statistics wont be meaningful.
+ especially since they are split into individual connections.
+
+ If you plan to investigate why some download is slow, say Y.
+
config TCP_MD5SIG
bool "TCP: MD5 Signature Option support (RFC2385) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
Only in B/net/ipv4: Kconfig~
diff -rub A/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c B/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
--- A/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c 2012-07-08 02:23:56.000000000 +0200
+++ B/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c 2012-07-16 09:28:23.000000000 +0200
@@ -4492,6 +4492,11 @@
}

if (!after(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq, tp->rcv_nxt)) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_TCPHEALTH
+ /* Course Timeout caused retransmit inefficiency-
+ * this packet has been received twice. */
+ tp->dup_pkts_recv++;
+#endif
SOCK_DEBUG(sk, "ofo packet was already received\n");
__skb_unlink(skb, &tp->out_of_order_queue);
__kfree_skb(skb);
@@ -4824,6 +4829,12 @@
return;
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_TCPHEALTH
+ /* A packet is a "duplicate" if it contains bytes we have already
received. */
+ if (before(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq, tp->rcv_nxt))
+ tp->dup_pkts_recv++;
+#endif
+
if (!after(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq, tp->rcv_nxt)) {
/* A retransmit, 2nd most common case. Force an immediate ack. */
NET_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_DELAYEDACKLOST);
@@ -5535,6 +5546,12 @@

tp->rx_opt.saw_tstamp = 0;

+#ifdef CONFIG_TCPHEALTH
+ /*
+ * total per-connection packet arrivals.
+ */
+ tp->pkts_recv++;
+#endif
/* pred_flags is 0xS?10 << 16 + snd_wnd
* if header_prediction is to be made
* 'S' will always be tp->tcp_header_len >> 2
diff -rub A/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c B/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
--- A/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c 2012-07-08 02:23:56.000000000 +0200
+++ B/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c 2012-07-16 10:12:48.000000000 +0200
@@ -2500,6 +2500,57 @@
return 0;
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_TCPHEALTH
+/*
+ * Output /proc/net/tcphealth
+ */
+#define LINESZ 128
+
+int tcp_health_seq_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
+{
+ int len, num;
+ struct tcp_iter_state *st;
+
+ if (v == SEQ_START_TOKEN) {
+ seq_printf(seq,
+ "id Local Address Remote Address RttEst(ms) AcksSent "
+ "DupAcksSent PktsRecv DupPktsRecv\n");
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ /* Loop through established TCP connections */
+ st = seq->private;
+
+
+ if (st->state == TCP_SEQ_STATE_ESTABLISHED)
+ {
+ const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(v);
+ const struct inet_sock *inet = inet_sk(v);
+
+ seq_printf(seq, "%d: %-21pI4:%u %-21pI4:%u "
+ "%8lu %8lu %8lu %8lu %8lu%n",
+ st->num,
+ inet->inet_rcv_saddr,
+ ntohs(inet->inet_sport),
+ inet->inet_daddr,
+ ntohs(inet->inet_dport),
+ tp->srtt >> 3,
+ tp->acks_sent,
+ tp->dup_acks_sent,
+ tp->pkts_recv,
+ tp->dup_pkts_recv,
+
+ &len
+ );
+
+ seq_printf(seq, "%*s\n", LINESZ - 1 - len, "");
+ }
+
+out:
+ return 0;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_TCPHEALTH */
+
static const struct file_operations tcp_afinfo_seq_fops = {
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.open = tcp_seq_open,
@@ -2508,6 +2559,17 @@
.release = seq_release_net
};

+#ifdef CONFIG_TCPHEALTH
+static struct tcp_seq_afinfo tcphealth_seq_afinfo = {
+ .name = "tcphealth",
+ .family = AF_INET,
+ .seq_fops = &tcp_afinfo_seq_fops,
+ .seq_ops = {
+ .show = tcp_health_seq_show,
+ },
+};
+#endif
+
static struct tcp_seq_afinfo tcp4_seq_afinfo = {
.name = "tcp",
.family = AF_INET,
@@ -2519,12 +2581,20 @@

static int __net_init tcp4_proc_init_net(struct net *net)
{
- return tcp_proc_register(net, &tcp4_seq_afinfo);
+ int ret = tcp_proc_register(net, &tcp4_seq_afinfo);
+#ifdef CONFIG_TCPHEALTH
+ if(ret == 0)
+ ret = tcp_proc_register(net, &tcphealth_seq_afinfo);
+#endif
+ return ret;
}

static void __net_exit tcp4_proc_exit_net(struct net *net)
{
tcp_proc_unregister(net, &tcp4_seq_afinfo);
+#ifdef CONFIG_TCPHEALTH
+ tcp_proc_unregister(net, &tcphealth_seq_afinfo);
+#endif
}

static struct pernet_operations tcp4_net_ops = {
Only in B/net/ipv4: tcp_ipv4.c~
Only in B/net/ipv4: tcp_ipv4.c.orig
diff -rub A/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c B/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
--- A/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c 2012-07-08 02:23:56.000000000 +0200
+++ B/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c 2012-07-16 09:44:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -2772,8 +2772,19 @@
skb_reserve(buff, MAX_TCP_HEADER);
tcp_init_nondata_skb(buff, tcp_acceptable_seq(sk), TCPHDR_ACK);

+#ifdef CONFIG_TCPHEALTH
+ /* If the rcv_nxt has not advanced since sending our last ACK, this is a
duplicate. */
+ if (tcp_sk(sk)->rcv_nxt == tcp_sk(sk)->last_ack_sent)
+ tcp_sk(sk)->dup_acks_sent++;
+ /* Record the total number of acks sent on this connection. */
+ tcp_sk(sk)->acks_sent++;
+#endif
+
/* Send it off, this clears delayed acks for us. */
TCP_SKB_CB(buff)->when = tcp_time_stamp;
+#ifdef CONFIG_TCPHEALTH
+ tcp_sk(sk)->last_ack_sent = tcp_sk(sk)->rcv_nxt;
+#endif
tcp_transmit_skb(sk, buff, 0, GFP_ATOMIC);
}


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