root/net/ipv4/tcp_plb.c
/* Protective Load Balancing (PLB)
 *
 * PLB was designed to reduce link load imbalance across datacenter
 * switches. PLB is a host-based optimization; it leverages congestion
 * signals from the transport layer to randomly change the path of the
 * connection experiencing sustained congestion. PLB prefers to repath
 * after idle periods to minimize packet reordering. It repaths by
 * changing the IPv6 Flow Label on the packets of a connection, which
 * datacenter switches include as part of ECMP/WCMP hashing.
 *
 * PLB is described in detail in:
 *
 *      Mubashir Adnan Qureshi, Yuchung Cheng, Qianwen Yin, Qiaobin Fu,
 *      Gautam Kumar, Masoud Moshref, Junhua Yan, Van Jacobson,
 *      David Wetherall,Abdul Kabbani:
 *      "PLB: Congestion Signals are Simple and Effective for
 *       Network Load Balancing"
 *      In ACM SIGCOMM 2022, Amsterdam Netherlands.
 *
 */

#include <net/tcp.h>

/* Called once per round-trip to update PLB state for a connection. */
void tcp_plb_update_state(const struct sock *sk, struct tcp_plb_state *plb,
                          const int cong_ratio)
{
        struct net *net = sock_net(sk);

        if (!READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_plb_enabled))
                return;

        if (cong_ratio >= 0) {
                if (cong_ratio < READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_plb_cong_thresh))
                        plb->consec_cong_rounds = 0;
                else if (plb->consec_cong_rounds <
                         READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_plb_rehash_rounds))
                        plb->consec_cong_rounds++;
        }
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tcp_plb_update_state);

/* Check whether recent congestion has been persistent enough to warrant
 * a load balancing decision that switches the connection to another path.
 */
void tcp_plb_check_rehash(struct sock *sk, struct tcp_plb_state *plb)
{
        struct net *net = sock_net(sk);
        u32 max_suspend;
        bool forced_rehash = false, idle_rehash = false;

        if (!READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_plb_enabled))
                return;

        forced_rehash = plb->consec_cong_rounds >=
                        READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_plb_rehash_rounds);
        /* If sender goes idle then we check whether to rehash. */
        idle_rehash = READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_plb_idle_rehash_rounds) &&
                      !tcp_sk(sk)->packets_out &&
                      plb->consec_cong_rounds >=
                      READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_plb_idle_rehash_rounds);

        if (!forced_rehash && !idle_rehash)
                return;

        /* Note that tcp_jiffies32 can wrap; we detect wraps by checking for
         * cases where the max suspension end is before the actual suspension
         * end. We clear pause_until to 0 to indicate there is no recent
         * RTO event that constrains PLB rehashing.
         */
        max_suspend = 2 * READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_plb_suspend_rto_sec) * HZ;
        if (plb->pause_until &&
            (!before(tcp_jiffies32, plb->pause_until) ||
             before(tcp_jiffies32 + max_suspend, plb->pause_until)))
                plb->pause_until = 0;

        if (plb->pause_until)
                return;

        sk_rethink_txhash(sk);
        plb->consec_cong_rounds = 0;
        tcp_sk(sk)->plb_rehash++;
        NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPPLBREHASH);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tcp_plb_check_rehash);

/* Upon RTO, disallow load balancing for a while, to avoid having load
 * balancing decisions switch traffic to a black-holed path that was
 * previously avoided with a sk_rethink_txhash() call at RTO time.
 */
void tcp_plb_update_state_upon_rto(struct sock *sk, struct tcp_plb_state *plb)
{
        struct net *net = sock_net(sk);
        u32 pause;

        if (!READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_plb_enabled))
                return;

        pause = READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_plb_suspend_rto_sec) * HZ;
        pause += get_random_u32_below(pause);
        plb->pause_until = tcp_jiffies32 + pause;

        /* Reset PLB state upon RTO, since an RTO causes a sk_rethink_txhash() call
         * that may switch this connection to a path with completely different
         * congestion characteristics.
         */
        plb->consec_cong_rounds = 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tcp_plb_update_state_upon_rto);