Use the newly defined cshared type to account for the sum of congestion
window of every QUIC connection. This value is stored in global counter
quic_mem_global defined in proto_quic module.
Congestion window is limit by a minimal and maximum values which can
never be exceeded. Min value is hardcoded to 2 datagrams as recommended
by the specification. Max value is specified via haproxy configuration.
These values must be respected each time the congestion window size is
adjusted. However, in some rare occasions, limit were not always
enforced. Fix this by implementing wrappers to set or increment the
congestion window. These functions ensure limits are always applied
after the operation.
Additionnally, wrappers also ensure that if window reached a new maximum
value, it is saved in <cwnd_last_max> field.
This should be backported up to 2.6, after a brief period of
observation.
There was some possible confusion between fields related to congestion
window size min and max limit which cannot be exceeded, and the maximum
value previously reached by the window.
Fix this by adopting a new naming scheme. Enforced limit are now renamed
<limit_max>/<limit_min>, while the previously reached max value is
renamed <cwnd_last_max>.
This should be backported up to 3.1.
Pacing burst size is now dynamic. As such, configuration value has been
removed and related fields in bind_conf and quic_cc_path structures can
be safely removed.
This should be backported up to 3.1.
Previously, congestion window was increased any time each time a new
acknowledge was received. However, it did not take into account the
window filling level. In a network condition with negligible loss, this
will cause the window to be incremented until the maximum value (by
default 480k), even though the application does not have enough data to
fill it.
In most cases, this issue is not noticeable. However, it may lead to
excessive memory consumption when a QUIC connection is suddendly
interrupted, as in this case haproxy will fill the window with
retransmission. It even has caused OOM crash when thousands of clients
were interrupted at once on a local network benchmark.
Fix this by first checking window level prior to every incrementation
via a new helper function quic_cwnd_may_increase(). It was arbitrarily
decided that the window must be at least 50% full when the ACK is
handled prior to increment it. This value is a good compromise to keep
window in check while still allowing fast increment when needed.
Note that this patch only concerns cubic and newreno algorithm. BBR has
already its notion of application limited which ensures the window is
only incremented when necessary.
This should be backported up to 2.6.
Rename one of the congestion algorithms pacing callback from pacing_rate
to pacing_inter. This better reflects that this function returns a delay
(in nanoseconds) which should be applied between each packet emission to
fill the congestion window with a perfectly smoothed emission.
This should be backported up to 3.1.
Implement the version 3 of BBR for QUIC specified by the IETF in this draft:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ccwg-bbr/
Here is an extract from the Abstract part to sum up the the capabilities of BBR:
BBR ("Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time") uses recent
measurements of a transport connection's delivery rate, round-trip time, and
packet loss rate to build an explicit model of the network path. BBR then uses
this model to control both how fast it sends data and the maximum volume of data
it allows in flight in the network at any time. Relative to loss-based congestion
control algorithms such as Reno [RFC5681] or CUBIC [RFC9438], BBR offers
substantially higher throughput for bottlenecks with shallow buffers or random
losses, and substantially lower queueing delays for bottlenecks with deep buffers
(avoiding "bufferbloat"). BBR can be implemented in any transport protocol that
supports packet-delivery acknowledgment. Thus far, open source implementations
are available for TCP [RFC9293] and QUIC [RFC9000].
In haproxy, this implementation is considered as still experimental. It depends
on the newly implemented pacing feature.
BBR was asked in GH #2516 by @KazuyaKanemura, @osevan and @kennyZ96.
Add ->initial_wnd new member to quic_cc_path struct to keep the initial value
of the congestion window. This member is initialized as soon as a QUIC connection
is allocated. This modification is required for BBR congestion control algorithm.
Define a new QUIC congestion algorithm token 'cubic-pacing' for
quic-cc-algo bind keyword. This is identical to default cubic
implementation, except that pacing is used for STREAM frames emission.
This algorithm supports an extra argument to specify a burst size. This
is stored into a new bind_conf member named quic_pacing_burst which can
be reuse to initialize quic path.
Pacing support is still considered experimental. As such, 'cubic-pacing'
can only be used with expose-experimental-directives set.
qc_send_mux() has been extended previously to support pacing emission.
This will ensure that no more than one datagram will be emitted during
each invokation. However, to achieve better performance, it may be
necessary to emit a batch of several datagrams one one turn.
A so-called burst value can be specified by the user in the
configuration. However, some congestion control algos may defined their
owned dynamic value. As such, a new CC callback pacing_burst is defined.
quic_cc_default_pacing_burst() can be used for algo without pacing
interaction, such as cubic. It will returns a static value based on user
selected configuration.
Extend quic_pacer engine to support pacing emission. Several functions
are defined.
* quic_pacing_sent_done() to notify engine about an emission of one or
several datagrams
* quic_pacing_expired() to check if emission should be delayed or can be
conducted immediately
Future commits will implement GSO support to be able to emit multiple
datagrams in a single syscall invocation. This will be used every time
there is more data to sent than the UDP network MTU.
No change will be done for Tx buffer encoding, in particular when using
extra metadata datagram header. When GSO will be used, length field will
contain the total length of all datagrams to emit in a single GSO
syscall send. As such, QUIC send functions will detect that GSO is in
use if total length is greater than MTU.
This last assumption forces to ensure that MTU is constant. Indeed, in
case qc_send() is interrupted, Tx buffer will be left with prepared
datagrams. These datagrams will be emitted at the next qc_send()
invocation. If MTU would change during these two calls, it would be
impossible to know if GSO was used or not. To prevent this, mark <mtu>
field of quic_cc_path as constant.
Move quic_path struct from quic_conn-t.h to quic_cc-t.h and rename it to quic_cc_path.
Update the code consequently.
Also some inlined functions in relation with QUIC path to quic_cc.h
As now_ms may wrap, one must use the ticks API to protect the cubic congestion
control algorithm implementation from side effects due to this.
Furthermore to make the cubic congestion control algorithm more readable and easy
to maintain, adding a new state ("in recovery period" QUIC_CC_ST_RP new enum) helps
in reaching this goal. Implement quic_cc_cubic_rp_cb() which is the callback for
this new state.
Must be backported to 2.7 and 2.6.
xprt_quic module was too large and did not reflect the true architecture
by contrast to the other protocols in haproxy.
Extract code related to XPRT layer and keep it under xprt_quic module.
This code should only contains a simple API to communicate between QUIC
lower layer and connection/MUX.
The vast majority of the code has been moved into a new module named
quic_conn. This module is responsible to the implementation of QUIC
lower layer. Conceptually, it overlaps with TCP kernel implementation
when comparing QUIC and HTTP1/2 stacks of haproxy.
This should be backported up to 2.6.
Clean up quic sources by adjusting headers list included depending
on the actual dependency of each source file.
On some occasion, xprt_quic.h was removed from included list. This is
useful to help reducing the dependency on this single file and cleaning
up QUIC haproxy architecture.
This should be backported up to 2.6.
Ease the integration of new congestion control algorithm to come.
Move the congestion controller state to a private array of uint32_t
to stop using a union. We do not want to continue using such long
paths cc->algo_state.<algo>.<var> to modify the internal state variable
for each algorithm.
Must be backported to 2.6
Since the persistent congestion detection is done out of the congestion
controllers, there is no need to pass them information through quic_cc_event struct.
We remove its useless members. Also remove qc_cc_loss_event() which is no more used.
We establish the persistent congestion out of any congestion controller
to improve the algorithms genericity. This path characteristic detection may
be implemented regarless of the underlying congestion control algorithm.
Send congestion (loss) event using directly quic_cc_event(), so without
qc_cc_loss_event() wrapper function around quic_cc_event().
Take the opportunity of this patch to shorten "newest_time_sent" member field
of quic_cc_event to "time_sent".
As reported by Tim in issue #1428, our sources are clean, there are
just a few files with a few rare non-ASCII chars for the paragraph
symbol, a few typos, or in Fred's name. Given that Fred already uses
the non-accentuated form at other places like on the public list,
let's uniformize all this and make sure the code displays equally
everywhere.
This patch imports all the definitions for QUIC protocol with few modifications
from 20200720-quic branch of quic-dev repository found at
https://github.com/haproxytech/quic-dev.
