dccp: Minimise header option overhead in setting the MPS

This patch resolves a long-standing FIXME to dynamically update the Maximum
Packet Size depending on actual options usage.

It uses the flags set by the feature-negotiation infrastructure to compute
the required header option size.

Most options are fixed-size, a notable exception are Ack Vectors (required
currently only by CCID-2). These can have any length between 3 and 1020
bytes. As a result of testing, 16 bytes (2 bytes for type/length plus 14 Ack
Vector cells) have been found to be sufficient for loss-free situations.

There are currently no CCID-specific header options which may appear on data
packets, thus it is not necessary to define a corresponding CCID field as
suggested in the old comment.

Further changes:
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 Adjusted the type of 'cur_mps' to match the unsigned return type of the
 function.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/dccp/ackvec.h b/net/dccp/ackvec.h
index 45f95e55f87..7ea557b7c6b 100644
--- a/net/dccp/ackvec.h
+++ b/net/dccp/ackvec.h
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
 /* We can spread an ack vector across multiple options */
 #define DCCP_MAX_ACKVEC_LEN (DCCP_SINGLE_OPT_MAXLEN * 2)
 
+/* Estimated minimum average Ack Vector length - used for updating MPS */
+#define DCCPAV_MIN_OPTLEN	16
+
 #define DCCP_ACKVEC_STATE_RECEIVED	0
 #define DCCP_ACKVEC_STATE_ECN_MARKED	(1 << 6)
 #define DCCP_ACKVEC_STATE_NOT_RECEIVED	(3 << 6)