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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt b/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt index 7a3bb1abb83..55c575fcaf1 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt @@ -1,23 +1,25 @@ DCCP protocol -============ +============= Contents ======== - - Introduction - Missing features - Socket options +- Sysctl variables +- IOCTLs +- Other tunables - Notes + Introduction ============ - Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) is an unreliable, connection oriented protocol designed to solve issues present in UDP and TCP, particularly for real-time and multimedia (streaming) traffic. -It divides into a base protocol (RFC 4340) and plugable congestion control -modules called CCIDs. Like plugable TCP congestion control, at least one CCID +It divides into a base protocol (RFC 4340) and pluggable congestion control +modules called CCIDs. Like pluggable TCP congestion control, at least one CCID needs to be enabled in order for the protocol to function properly. In the Linux implementation, this is the TCP-like CCID2 (RFC 4341). Additional CCIDs, such as the TCP-friendly CCID3 (RFC 4342), are optional. @@ -29,22 +31,41 @@ It has a base protocol and pluggable congestion control IDs (CCIDs). DCCP is a Proposed Standard (RFC 2026), and the homepage for DCCP as a protocol is at http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/dccp-charter.html + Missing features ================ - The Linux DCCP implementation does not currently support all the features that are specified in RFCs 4340...42. The known bugs are at: - http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/TODO#DCCP + http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/todo#DCCP For more up-to-date versions of the DCCP implementation, please consider using the experimental DCCP test tree; instructions for checking this out are on: -http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/DCCP_Testing#Experimental_DCCP_source_tree +http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/dccp_testing#Experimental_DCCP_source_tree Socket options ============== +DCCP_SOCKOPT_QPOLICY_ID sets the dequeuing policy for outgoing packets. It takes +a policy ID as argument and can only be set before the connection (i.e. changes +during an established connection are not supported). Currently, two policies are +defined: the "simple" policy (DCCPQ_POLICY_SIMPLE), which does nothing special, +and a priority-based variant (DCCPQ_POLICY_PRIO). The latter allows to pass an +u32 priority value as ancillary data to sendmsg(), where higher numbers indicate +a higher packet priority (similar to SO_PRIORITY). This ancillary data needs to +be formatted using a cmsg(3) message header filled in as follows: + cmsg->cmsg_level = SOL_DCCP; + cmsg->cmsg_type = DCCP_SCM_PRIORITY; + cmsg->cmsg_len = CMSG_LEN(sizeof(uint32_t)); /* or CMSG_LEN(4) */ + +DCCP_SOCKOPT_QPOLICY_TXQLEN sets the maximum length of the output queue. A zero +value is always interpreted as unbounded queue length. If different from zero, +the interpretation of this parameter depends on the current dequeuing policy +(see above): the "simple" policy will enforce a fixed queue size by returning +EAGAIN, whereas the "prio" policy enforces a fixed queue length by dropping the +lowest-priority packet first. The default value for this parameter is +initialised from /proc/sys/net/dccp/default/tx_qlen. DCCP_SOCKOPT_SERVICE sets the service. The specification mandates use of service codes (RFC 4340, sec. 8.1.2); if this socket option is not set, @@ -58,12 +79,14 @@ DCCP_SOCKOPT_GET_CUR_MPS is read-only and retrieves the current maximum packet size (application payload size) in bytes, see RFC 4340, section 14. DCCP_SOCKOPT_AVAILABLE_CCIDS is also read-only and returns the list of CCIDs -supported by the endpoint (see include/linux/dccp.h for symbolic constants). -The caller needs to provide a sufficiently large (> 2) array of type uint8_t. +supported by the endpoint. The option value is an array of type uint8_t whose +size is passed as option length. The minimum array size is 4 elements, the +value returned in the optlen argument always reflects the true number of +built-in CCIDs. DCCP_SOCKOPT_CCID is write-only and sets both the TX and RX CCIDs at the same time, combining the operation of the next two socket options. This option is -preferrable over the latter two, since often applications will use the same +preferable over the latter two, since often applications will use the same type of CCID for both directions; and mixed use of CCIDs is not currently well understood. This socket option takes as argument at least one uint8_t value, or an array of uint8_t values, which must match available CCIDS (see above). CCIDs @@ -110,6 +133,7 @@ DCCP_SOCKOPT_CCID_TX_INFO On unidirectional connections it is useful to close the unused half-connection via shutdown (SHUT_WR or SHUT_RD): this will reduce per-packet processing costs. + Sysctl variables ================ Several DCCP default parameters can be managed by the following sysctls @@ -141,7 +165,9 @@ rx_ccid = 2 Default CCID for the receiver-sender half-connection; see tx_ccid. seq_window = 100 - The initial sequence window (sec. 7.5.2). + The initial sequence window (sec. 7.5.2) of the sender. This influences + the local ackno validity and the remote seqno validity windows (7.5.1). + Values in the range Wmin = 32 (RFC 4340, 7.5.2) up to 2^32-1 can be set. tx_qlen = 5 The size of the transmit buffer in packets. A value of 0 corresponds @@ -152,15 +178,30 @@ sync_ratelimit = 125 ms sequence-invalid packets on the same socket (RFC 4340, 7.5.4). The unit of this parameter is milliseconds; a value of 0 disables rate-limiting. + IOCTLS ====== FIONREAD Works as in udp(7): returns in the `int' argument pointer the size of the next pending datagram in bytes, or 0 when no datagram is pending. + +Other tunables +============== +Per-route rto_min support + CCID-2 supports the RTAX_RTO_MIN per-route setting for the minimum value + of the RTO timer. This setting can be modified via the 'rto_min' option + of iproute2; for example: + > ip route change 10.0.0.0/24 rto_min 250j dev wlan0 + > ip route add 10.0.0.254/32 rto_min 800j dev wlan0 + > ip route show dev wlan0 + CCID-3 also supports the rto_min setting: it is used to define the lower + bound for the expiry of the nofeedback timer. This can be useful on LANs + with very low RTTs (e.g., loopback, Gbit ethernet). + + Notes ===== - DCCP does not travel through NAT successfully at present on many boxes. This is because the checksum covers the pseudo-header as per TCP and UDP. Linux NAT support for DCCP has been added. |