Re: Modular/Pluggable TCP Congestion Control for FreeBSD

Lawrence Stewart wrote:
Hi all,

We've been involved in a research project to implement and test an
emerging TCP congestion control algorithm under FreeBSD. As a part of
this, we've put together a patch for FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 that modularises
the congestion control code in the TCP stack. It allows for new
congestion control algorithms to be developed as loadable kernel modules.

This improves FreeBSD's usefulness as a TCP research platform and makes
it easier to customise the stack for specific scenarios like high
bandwidth, long delay paths.

There is an accompanying technical report "Light-Weight Modular
TCP Congestion Control for FreeBSD 7" [1] that covers the design,
features, kernel interface and usage of the framework. Also on our website is
a beta release of a module that implements the H-TCP[2] congestion control
algorithm proposed by the Hamilton Institute.

We believe that modular congestion control is a worthwhile addition to
FreeBSD. We've performed significant internal testing and there are
currently no known issues or regressions with the implementation
compared to a 'vanilla' FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 kernel. We would welcome
further review and testing from the wider community in the hope of getting this
patch folded into FreeBSD 8-CURRENT.

SIFTR [3], our tool for monitoring FreeBSD kernel TCP connection state, has also
received a minor update to v1.1.5, with the addition of 6 new, useful variables.

All code and documentation is available on our website[3].

I've started to completely overhaul tcp_input and tcp_output
including separating out the congestion control. Actually it
is similiar to the way you seem to do it.

A quick glance at your patch shows a couple of style issues
and a complete lack of locking.

Let me get you a Perforce account so we can develop and complete
this work together. I'll create a Perforce branch and import my
code and work in progress.

--
Andre

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