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    net: tcp: add per route congestion control · 81164413
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    This work adds the possibility to define a per route/destination
    congestion control algorithm. Generally, this opens up the possibility
    for a machine with different links to enforce specific congestion
    control algorithms with optimal strategies for each of them based
    on their network characteristics, even transparently for a single
    application listening on all links.
    
    For our specific use case, this additionally facilitates deployment
    of DCTCP, for example, applications can easily serve internal
    traffic/dsts in DCTCP and external one with CUBIC. Other scenarios
    would also allow for utilizing e.g. long living, low priority
    background flows for certain destinations/routes while still being
    able for normal traffic to utilize the default congestion control
    algorithm. We also thought about a per netns setting (where different
    defaults are possible), but given its actually a link specific
    property, we argue that a per route/destination setting is the most
    natural and flexible.
    
    The administrator can utilize this through ip-route(8) by appending
    "congctl [lock] <name>", where <name> denotes the name of a
    congestion control algorithm and the optional lock parameter allows
    to enforce the given algorithm so that applications in user space
    would not be allowed to overwrite that algorithm for that destination.
    
    The dst metric lookups are being done when a dst entry is already
    available in order to avoid a costly lookup and still before the
    algorithms are being initialized, thus overhead is very low when the
    feature is not being used. While the client side would need to drop
    the current reference on the module, on server side this can actually
    even be avoided as we just got a flat-copied socket clone.
    
    Joint work with Florian Westphal.
    Suggested-by: default avatarHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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