linux-stable/include/net/sctp
Xin Long b87641aff9 sctp: do state transition when a probe succeeds on HB ACK recv path
As described in rfc8899#section-5.2, when a probe succeeds, there might
be the following state transitions:

  - Base -> Search, occurs when probe succeeds with BASE_PLPMTU,
    pl.pmtu is not changing,
    pl.probe_size increases by SCTP_PL_BIG_STEP,

  - Error -> Search, occurs when probe succeeds with BASE_PLPMTU,
    pl.pmtu is changed from SCTP_MIN_PLPMTU to SCTP_BASE_PLPMTU,
    pl.probe_size increases by SCTP_PL_BIG_STEP.

  - Search -> Search Complete, occurs when probe succeeds with the probe
    size SCTP_MAX_PLPMTU less than pl.probe_high,
    pl.pmtu is not changing, but update *pathmtu* with it,
    pl.probe_size is set back to pl.pmtu to double check it.

  - Search Complete -> Search, occurs when probe succeeds with the probe
    size equal to pl.pmtu,
    pl.pmtu is not changing,
    pl.probe_size increases by SCTP_PL_MIN_STEP.

So search process can be described as:

 1. When it just enters 'Search' state, *pathmtu* is not updated with
    pl.pmtu, and probe_size increases by a big step (SCTP_PL_BIG_STEP)
    each round.

 2. Until pl.probe_high is set when a probe fails, and probe_size
    decreases back to pl.pmtu, as described in the last patch.

 3. When the probe with the new size succeeds, probe_size changes to
    increase by a small step (SCTP_PL_MIN_STEP) due to pl.probe_high
    is set.

 4. Until probe_size is next to pl.probe_high, the searching finishes and
    it goes to 'Complete' state and updates *pathmtu* with pl.pmtu, and
    then probe_size is set to pl.pmtu to confirm by once more probe.

 5. This probe occurs after "30 * probe_inteval", a much longer time than
    that in Search state. Once it is done it goes to 'Search' state again
    with probe_size increased by SCTP_PL_MIN_STEP.

As we can see above, during the searching, pl.pmtu changes while *pathmtu*
doesn't. *pathmtu* is only updated when the search finishes by which it
gets an optimal value for it. A big step is used at the beginning until
it gets close to the optimal value, then it changes to a small step until
it has this optimal value.

The small step is also used in 'Complete' until it goes to 'Search' state
again and the probe with 'pmtu + the small step' succeeds, which means a
higher size could be used. Then probe_size changes to increase by a big
step again until it gets close to the next optimal value.

Note that anytime when black hole is detected, it goes directly to 'Base'
state with pl.pmtu set to SCTP_BASE_PLPMTU, as described in the last patch.

Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2021-06-22 11:28:52 -07:00
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auth.h sctp: add sctp_auth_init and sctp_auth_free 2019-08-19 18:27:29 -07:00
checksum.h Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-05-31 10:49:43 -07:00
command.h sctp: add the probe timer in transport for PLPMTUD 2021-06-22 11:28:52 -07:00
constants.h sctp: add the probe timer in transport for PLPMTUD 2021-06-22 11:28:52 -07:00
sctp.h sctp: add the probe timer in transport for PLPMTUD 2021-06-22 11:28:52 -07:00
sm.h sctp: do the basic send and recv for PLPMTUD probe 2021-06-22 11:28:52 -07:00
stream_interleave.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 104 2019-05-24 17:39:00 +02:00
stream_sched.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 104 2019-05-24 17:39:00 +02:00
structs.h sctp: do state transition when a probe succeeds on HB ACK recv path 2021-06-22 11:28:52 -07:00
tsnmap.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 104 2019-05-24 17:39:00 +02:00
ulpevent.h sctp: fix typo sctp_ulpevent_nofity_peer_addr_change 2020-05-27 15:08:02 -07:00
ulpqueue.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 104 2019-05-24 17:39:00 +02:00