tcp: add NV congestion control
TCP-NV (New Vegas) is a major update to TCP-Vegas.
An earlier version of NV was presented at 2010's LPC.
It is a delayed based congestion avoidance for the
data center. This version has been tested within a
10G rack where the HW RTTs are 20-50us and with
1 to 400 flows.
A description of TCP-NV, including implementation
details as well as experimental results, can be found at:
http://www.brakmo.org/networking/tcp-nv/TCPNV.html
Signed-off-by: Lawrence Brakmo <brakmo@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/Kconfig
index 238225b..50d6a9b 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/Kconfig
+++ b/net/ipv4/Kconfig
@@ -532,6 +532,22 @@
window. TCP Vegas should provide less packet loss, but it is
not as aggressive as TCP Reno.
+config TCP_CONG_NV
+ tristate "TCP NV"
+ default n
+ ---help---
+ TCP NV is a follow up to TCP Vegas. It has been modified to deal with
+ 10G networks, measurement noise introduced by LRO, GRO and interrupt
+ coalescence. In addition, it will decrease its cwnd multiplicatively
+ instead of linearly.
+
+ Note that in general congestion avoidance (cwnd decreased when # packets
+ queued grows) cannot coexist with congestion control (cwnd decreased only
+ when there is packet loss) due to fairness issues. One scenario when they
+ can coexist safely is when the CA flows have RTTs << CC flows RTTs.
+
+ For further details see http://www.brakmo.org/networking/tcp-nv/
+
config TCP_CONG_SCALABLE
tristate "Scalable TCP"
default n