sctp: Implement quick failover draft from tsvwg
authorNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Sat, 21 Jul 2012 07:56:07 +0000 (07:56 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:13:46 +0000 (12:13 -0700)
commit5aa93bcf66f4af094d6f11096e81d5501a0b4ba5
tree7bcf045fcae31a7e367e7eb1e0568b3702a25018
parente3906486f616da7cc086a3ba06c0df4e5a48b4ab
sctp: Implement quick failover draft from tsvwg

I've seen several attempts recently made to do quick failover of sctp transports
by reducing various retransmit timers and counters.  While its possible to
implement a faster failover on multihomed sctp associations, its not
particularly robust, in that it can lead to unneeded retransmits, as well as
false connection failures due to intermittent latency on a network.

Instead, lets implement the new ietf quick failover draft found here:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nishida-tsvwg-sctp-failover-05

This will let the sctp stack identify transports that have had a small number of
errors, and avoid using them quickly until their reliability can be
re-established.  I've tested this out on two virt guests connected via multiple
isolated virt networks and believe its in compliance with the above draft and
works well.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
CC: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org
CC: joe@perches.com
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
include/net/sctp/constants.h
include/net/sctp/structs.h
include/net/sctp/user.h
net/sctp/associola.c
net/sctp/outqueue.c
net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
net/sctp/socket.c
net/sctp/sysctl.c
net/sctp/transport.c