Credit based pacing has been further refined to be able to calculate
dynamically burst size based on congestion parameter. However, BBR
algorithm already provides pacing rate and burst size (labelled as
send_quantum) for 1ms of emission.
Adapt quic_pacing_reload() to use BBR values to compute pacing credit.
This is done via pacing_burst callback which is now only defined for
BBR. For other algorithms, determine the burst size over 1ms with the
congestion window size and RTT.
This should be backported up to 3.1.
Major improvements have been introduced in pacing recently. Most
notably, QMUX schedules emission on a millisecond resolution, which
allow to use passive wait to be much CPU friendly.
However, an issue remains with the pacing max credit. Unless BBR is
used, it is fixed to the configured value from quic-cc-algo bind
statement. This is not practical as if too low, it may drastically
reduce performance due to 1ms sleep resolution. If too high, some
clients will suffer from too much packet loss.
This commit fixes the issue by implementing a dynamic maximum credit
value based on the network condition specific to each clients.
Calculation is done to fix a maximum value which should allow QMUX
current tasklet context to emit enough data to cover the delay with the
next tasklet invokation. As such, avg_loop_us is used to detect the
process load. If too small, 1.5ms is used as minimal value, to cover the
extra delay incurred by the system which will happen for a default 1ms
sleep.
This should be backported up to 3.1.
Pacing algorithm has been revamped in the previous commit to implement a
credit based solution. This is a far more adaptative solution, in
particular which allow to catch up in case pause between pacing emission
was longer than expected.
This allows QMUX to remove the active loop based on tasklet wake-up.
Instead, a new task is used when emission should be paced. The main
advantage is that CPU usage is drastically reduced.
New pacing task timer is reset each time qcc_io_send() is invoked. Timer
will be set only if pacing engine reports that emission must be
interrupted. In this case timer is set via qcc_wakeup_pacing() to the
delay reported by congestion algorithm, or 1ms if delay is too short. At
the end of qcc_io_cb(), pacing task is queued if timer has been set.
Pacing task execution is simple enough : it immediately wakes up QCC I/O
handler.
Note that to have decent performance, it requires to have a large enough
burst defined in configuration of quic-cc-algo. However, this value is
common to every listener clients, which may cause too much loss under
network conditions. This will be address in a future patch.
This should be backported up to 3.1.
Implement a new method for QUIC pacing emission based on credit. This
represents the number of packets which can be emitted in a single burst.
After emission, decrement from the credit the number of emitted packets.
Several emission can be conducted in the same sequence until the credit
is completely decremented.
When a new emission sequence is initiated (i.e. under a new QMUX tasklet
invokation), credit is refilled according to the delay which occured
between the last and current emission context.
This new mechanism main advantage is that it allows to conduct several
emission in the same task context without having to wait between each
invokation. Wait is only forced if pacing is expired, which is now
equivalent to having a null credit.
Furthermore, if delay between two emissions sequence would have been
smaller than expected, credit is only partially refilled. This allows to
restart emission without having to wait for the whole credit to be
available.
On the implementation side, a new field <credit> is avaiable in
quic_pacer structure. It is automatically decremented on
quic_pacing_sent_done() invokation. Also, a new function
quic_pacing_reload() must be used by QUIC MUX when a new emission
sequence is initiated to refill credit. <next> field from quic_pacer has
been removed.
For the moment, credit is based on the burst configured via quic-cc-algo
keyword, or directly reported by BBR.
This should be backported up to 3.1.
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.
QUIC pacing was recently implemented to limit burst and improve overall
bandwidth. This is used only for MUX STREAM emission. Pacing requires
nanosecond resolution. As such, it used now_cpu_time() which relies on
clock_gettime() syscall.
The usage of clock_gettime() has several drawbacks :
* it is a syscall and thus requires a context-switch which may hurt
performance
* it is not be available on all systems
* timestamp is retrieved multiple times during a single task execution,
thus yielding different values which may tamper pacing calculation
Improve this by using task_mono_time() instead. This returns task call
time from the scheduler thread context. It requires the flag
TASK_F_WANTS_TIME on QUIC MUX tasklet to force the scheduler to update
call time with now_mono_time(). This solves every limitations listed
above :
* syscall invokation is only performed once before tasklet execution,
thus reducing context-switch impact
* on non compatible system, a millisecond timer is used as a fallback
which should ensure that pacing works decently for them
* timer value is now guaranteed to be fixed duing task execution
To improve debugging, extend "show quic" output to report if pacing is
activated on a connection. Two values will be displayed for pacing :
* a new counter paced_sent_ctr is defined in QCC structure. It will be
incremented each time an emission is interrupted due to pacing.
* pacing engine now saves the number of datagrams sent in the last paced
emission. This will be helpful to ensure burst parameter is valid.
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
