From a842fe1425cb20f457abd3f8ef98b468f83ca98b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 11:57:25 -0700 Subject: tcp: add optional per socket transmit delay Adding delays to TCP flows is crucial for studying behavior of TCP stacks, including congestion control modules. Linux offers netem module, but it has unpractical constraints : - Need root access to change qdisc - Hard to setup on egress if combined with non trivial qdisc like FQ - Single delay for all flows. EDT (Earliest Departure Time) adoption in TCP stack allows us to enable a per socket delay at a very small cost. Networking tools can now establish thousands of flows, each of them with a different delay, simulating real world conditions. This requires FQ packet scheduler or a EDT-enabled NIC. This patchs adds TCP_TX_DELAY socket option, to set a delay in usec units. unsigned int tx_delay = 10000; /* 10 msec */ setsockopt(fd, SOL_TCP, TCP_TX_DELAY, &tx_delay, sizeof(tx_delay)); Note that FQ packet scheduler limits might need some tweaking : man tc-fq PARAMETERS limit Hard limit on the real queue size. When this limit is reached, new packets are dropped. If the value is lowered, packets are dropped so that the new limit is met. Default is 10000 packets. flow_limit Hard limit on the maximum number of packets queued per flow. Default value is 100. Use of TCP_TX_DELAY option will increase number of skbs in FQ qdisc, so packets would be dropped if any of the previous limit is hit. Use of a jump label makes this support runtime-free, for hosts never using the option. Also note that TSQ (TCP Small Queues) limits are slightly changed with this patch : we need to account that skbs artificially delayed wont stop us providind more skbs to feed the pipe (netem uses skb_orphan_partial() for this purpose, but FQ can not use this trick) Because of that, using big delays might very well trigger old bugs in TSO auto defer logic and/or sndbuf limited detection. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/uapi/linux/tcp.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/uapi') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/tcp.h b/include/uapi/linux/tcp.h index b521464ea962..b3564f85a762 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/tcp.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/tcp.h @@ -127,6 +127,9 @@ enum { #define TCP_CM_INQ TCP_INQ +#define TCP_TX_DELAY 37 /* delay outgoing packets by XX usec */ + + #define TCP_REPAIR_ON 1 #define TCP_REPAIR_OFF 0 #define TCP_REPAIR_OFF_NO_WP -1 /* Turn off without window probes */ -- cgit v1.2.3