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/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index 4a7b039..0cab28c 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -888,7 +888,7 @@
extern struct tcp_congestion_ops tcp_reno;
struct tcp_congestion_ops *tcp_ca_find_key(u32 key);
-u32 tcp_ca_get_key_by_name(const char *name);
+u32 tcp_ca_get_key_by_name(const char *name, bool *ecn_ca);
#ifdef CONFIG_INET
char *tcp_ca_get_name_by_key(u32 key, char *buffer);
#else