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TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions (tcpm)                     M. Welzl
Internet-Draft                                                  S. Islam
Intended status: Informational                        University of Oslo
Expires: April 21, 2016                                         J. Touch
                                                                 USC/ISI
                                                                  J. You
                                                                  Huawei
                                                        October 19, 2015


    The state of implementation of TCP control block interdependence
                    draft-welzl-tcpm-tcb-sharing-00

Abstract

   This document provides an overview of the state of implementation of
   RFC 2140, in preparation for a possible future RFC2140bis document.

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Table of Contents

   1.  State of Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4

1.  State of Implementation

   * L = Linux, F = FreeBSD

    Table 1: State of implementation of RFC 2140 in Linux and FreeBSD
   +----------+-------------+------------------+-----------------------+
   | RFC 2140 | Description | Implementation   | Status                |
   +----------+-------------+------------------+-----------------------+
   | Old-MSS  | Maximum     | F:rmx_mtu        | This is being cached  |
   |          | Segment     |                  | and shared in         |
   |          | Size        |                  | FreeBSD.              |
   +----------+-------------+------------------+-----------------------+
   | Old-RTT  | Estimated   | L:TCP_METRIC_RTT | Cached in both        |
   |          | Round-Trip  | F:rmx_rtt        | FreeBSD and Linux,    |
   |          | Time        |                  | however it is being   |
   |          |             |                  | used by a new         |
   |          |             |                  | connection in FreeBSD |
   |          |             |                  | only.                 |
   +----------+-------------+------------------+-----------------------+
   | Old-RTT  | Estimated   | L:TCP_METRIC_    | Cached in both        |
   | var      | Round-Trip  | RTTVAR           | FreeBSD and Linux,    |
   |          | Time        | F:rmx_rttvar     | however it is being   |
   |          |             |                  | used by a new         |
   |          |             |                  | connection in FreeBSD |
   |          |             |                  | only.                 |
   +----------+-------------+------------------+-----------------------+
   | Old-snd_ | Congestion  | L:TCP_METRIC_    | Cached in both        |
   | cwnd     | Window      | CWND             | FreeBSD and Linux,    |
   |          |             | F:rmx_cwnd       | however it is not     |
   |          |             |                  | being used by a new   |
   |          |             |                  | connection.           |
   +----------+-------------+------------------+-----------------------+
   | -        | Slow Start  | L:TCP_METRIC_    | This is being cached  |
   |          | Thresold    | SSTHRESH         | and shared in both    |
   |          |             | F:rmx_ssthresh   | FreeBSD and Linux. In |
   |          |             |                  | Linux,  it is set to  |
   |          |             |                  | max(cwnd/2, ssthresh) |
   |          |             |                  | in most cases. In     |



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   |          |             |                  | FreeBSD, however, it  |
   |          |             |                  | is set to either the  |
   |          |             |                  | current ssthresh if   |
   |          |             |                  | not set previously,   |
   |          |             |                  | or to the arithmetic  |
   |          |             |                  | ssthresh and          |
   |          |             |                  | previously cached     |
   |          |             |                  | metric.               |
   +----------+-------------+------------------+-----------------------+
   | -        | Metric      | L:TCP_METRIC_    | This is being cached  |
   |          | related to  | REORDERING       | and shared in Linux.  |
   |          | the extent  |                  |                       |
   |          | of          |                  |                       |
   |          | reordering. |                  |                       |
   +----------+-------------+------------------+-----------------------+
   | -        | Estimated   | F:rmx_bandwidth  | Not in the            |
   |          | Bandwidth   |                  | specification. It is  |
   |          |             |                  | not set before        |
   |          |             |                  | caching when a        |
   |          |             |                  | connection is closed. |
   +----------+-------------+------------------+-----------------------+
   | -        | Outbound    | F:rmx_sendpipe   | Not in the            |
   |          | Delay -     |                  | specification. This   |
   |          | Bandwidth   |                  | is used for socket    |
   |          | Product     |                  | buffer in FreeBSD.    |
   |          |             |                  | The value is set to 0 |
   |          |             |                  | before caching when a |
   |          |             |                  | connection is closed. |
   +----------+-------------+------------------+-----------------------+
   | -        | Inbound     | F:rmx_recvpipe   | Not in the            |
   |          | Delay-      |                  | specification. This   |
   |          | Bandwidth   |                  | is used for socket    |
   |          | Product     |                  | buffer in FreeBSD.    |
   |          |             |                  | The value is set to 0 |
   |          |             |                  | before caching when a |
   |          |             |                  | connection is closed. |
   +----------+-------------+------------------+-----------------------+

2.  IANA Considerations

   This memo includes no request to IANA.

3.  Security Considerations

   To be added






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Authors' Addresses

   Michael Welzl
   University of Oslo
   PO Box 1080 Blindern
   Oslo  N-0316
   Norway

   Phone: +47 22 85 24 20
   Email: michawe@ifi.uio.no


   Safiqul Islam
   University of Oslo
   PO Box 1080 Blindern
   Oslo  N-0316
   Norway

   Phone: +47 22 84 08 37
   Email: safiquli@ifi.uio.no


   Joe Touch
   USC/ISI
   4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey
   CA  90292-6695
   USA

   Phone: +1 (310) 448-9151
   Email: touch@isi.edu


   Jianjie You
   Huawei
   101 Software Avenue, Yuhua District
   Nanjing  210012
   China

   Email: youjianjie@huawei.com












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