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Kylene Hall 81179bb6a5 [PATCH] tpm: remove unnecessary __force
Remove the unnecessary use of __force.

Signed-off-by: Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:26 -07:00
Kylene Hall e2fe90666a [PATCH] tpm: use to_pci_dev
Changes the container_of calls to 'to_pci_dev' as suggested previously.

Signed-off-by: Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:26 -07:00
Kylene Hall fe3fd48384 [PATCH] tpm: fix timer initialization
Fix the timer to be inited and modified properly.  This work depends on the
fixing of the msleep stuff which in patch 1 of this set.

Signed-of-by: Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:25 -07:00
Kylene Hall 2df7111fc6 [PATCH] tpm: large stack objects
Remove some large objects be declared on the the stack.

Signed-off-by: Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:25 -07:00
Kylene Hall 5b44bd5806 [PATCH] tpm: read return code issue
Replace an erroneous return code for the read function when no data is
available.

Signed-of-by: Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:25 -07:00
Kylene Hall f87ea32ae2 [PATCH] tpm: remove unnecessary module stuff
Description: Remove unnecessary (empty) module definitions.

Signed-off-by: Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:24 -07:00
Kylene Hall dff37e4b0a [PATCH] tpm: address missing const defs
Add "const" to several static arrays that were missing it in their
definitions.

Signed-off-by: Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:24 -07:00
Kylene Hall 3122a88a24 [PATCH] tpm: Fix concerns with TPM driver -- use enums
Convert #defines to named enums where that preference has been indicated by
other kernel developers.

Signed-off-by: Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:24 -07:00
Nishanth Aravamudan 700d8bdcd0 [PATCH] char/tpm: use msleep(), clean-up timers,
The TPM driver unnecessarily uses timers when it simply needs to maintain a
maximum delay via time_before().  msleep() is used instead of
schedule_timeout() to guarantee the task delays as expected.  While
compile-testing, I found a typo in the driver, using tpm_chp instead of
tpm_chip.  Remove the now unused timer callback function and change
TPM_TIMEOUT's units to milliseconds.  Patch is compile-tested.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:24 -07:00
Andrew Morton 6a94f92097 [PATCH] ipmi: add 32-bit ioctl translations for 64-bit platforms
)

From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>

This contains the patch for supporting 32-bit compatible ioctls on x86_64
systems.  The current x86_64 driver will not work with 32-bit applications.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Hargave <jordan_hargrave@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:24 -07:00
Corey Minyard 77cf3973f2 [PATCH] ipmi: use completions, not semaphores, in powerdown code
Don't use semaphores for IPC in the poweroff code, use completions instead.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:23 -07:00
Corey Minyard 3b6259432d [PATCH] ipmi: add power cycle capability
This patch to adds "power cycle" functionality to the IPMI power off module
ipmi_poweroff.  It also contains changes to support procfs control of the
feature.

The power cycle action is considered an optional chassis control in the IPMI
specification.  However, it is definitely useful when the hardware supports
it.  A power cycle is usually required in order to reset a firmware in a bad
state.  This action is critical to allow remote management of servers.

The implementation adds power cycle as optional to the ipmi_poweroff module.
It can be modified dynamically through the proc entry mentioned above.  During
a power down and enabled, the power cycle command is sent to the BMC firmware.
 If it fails either due to non-support or some error, it will retry to send
the command as power off.

Signed-off-by: Christopher A. Poblete <Chris_Poblete@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:23 -07:00
Corey Minyard 8f43f84f13 [PATCH] ipmi: timer shutdown cleanup
Clean up the timer shutdown handling in the IPMI driver.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:23 -07:00
Corey Minyard 845e78a157 [PATCH] ipmi: doc updates
This cleans up the IPMI documentation to fix some problems and make it more
accurate for the current drivers.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:23 -07:00
Jan Kara bdd5b29c6b [PATCH] Make reiserfs BUG on too big transaction
Make reiserfs BUG() when somebody tries to start a larger transaction than
it's allowed (currently the code just silently deadlocks).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:23 -07:00
Chris Zankel 7282bee787 [PATCH] xtensa: Architecture support for Tensilica Xtensa Part 8
The attached patches provides part 8 of an architecture implementation
for the Tensilica Xtensa CPU series.

Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:22 -07:00
Chris Zankel e344b63eee [PATCH] xtensa: Architecture support for Tensilica Xtensa Part 7
The attached patches provides part 7 of an architecture implementation for the
Tensilica Xtensa CPU series.

Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:22 -07:00
Chris Zankel 9a8fd55899 [PATCH] xtensa: Architecture support for Tensilica Xtensa Part 6
The attached patches provides part 6 of an architecture implementation for the
Tensilica Xtensa CPU series.

Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:22 -07:00
Chris Zankel 3f65ce4d14 [PATCH] xtensa: Architecture support for Tensilica Xtensa Part 5
The attached patches provides part 5 of an architecture implementation for the
Tensilica Xtensa CPU series.

Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:22 -07:00
Chris Zankel 249ac17e96 [PATCH] xtensa: Architecture support for Tensilica Xtensa Part 4
The attached patches provides part 4 of an architecture implementation for the
Tensilica Xtensa CPU series.

Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:21 -07:00
Chris Zankel 5a0015d626 [PATCH] xtensa: Architecture support for Tensilica Xtensa Part 3
The attached patches provides part 3 of an architecture implementation for the
Tensilica Xtensa CPU series.

Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:21 -07:00
Chris Zankel 4bedea9454 [PATCH] xtensa: Architecture support for Tensilica Xtensa Part 2
The attached patches provides part 2 of an architecture implementation for the
Tensilica Xtensa CPU series.

Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:21 -07:00
Chris Zankel 8e1a6dd2fd [PATCH] xtensa: Architecture support for Tensilica Xtensa Part 1
The attached patches provides part 1 of an architecture implementation for the
Tensilica Xtensa CPU series.

Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:21 -07:00
Chris Zankel 48b415ca13 [PATCH] xtensa: Tensilica Xtensa CPU arch maintainer record
Start of a patch series which adds support for the xtensa architecture to
Linux.

The Xtensa architecture is highly configurable and usually buried inside an
SOC device.  So, if you buy a new printer, digital camera, or cell phone,
there is a chance that there is an Xtensa inside even though you don't know it
(sometimes as a small audio-engine or as a control CPU).  Linux hasn't been
adopted widely with Xtensa yet, but with Linux growing in the embedded space,
I am sure it will become much more important.

The attached patch supplies the maintainer record for an architecture
implementation for the Tensilica Xtensa CPU series.

Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:21 -07:00
Jan Kara 556a2a45bc [PATCH] quota: reiserfs: improve quota credit estimates
Use improved credits estimates for quota operations.  Also reserve space
for a quota operation in a transaction only if filesystem was mounted with
some quota option.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:20 -07:00
Jan Kara 1f54587bea [PATCH] quota: ext3: Improve quota credit estimates
Use improved credits estimates for quota operations.  Also reserve a space
for a quota operation in a transaction only if filesystem was mounted with
some quota options.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:20 -07:00
Jan Kara 4e5117ba0a [PATCH] quota: improve credits estimates
Improve estimates on the number of needed credits for quota transaction.
Now we distinguish blocks that might need to be allocated and blocks that
only need to be rewritten.  Also we distinguish deleting of a quota
structure and creating of a new one.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:19 -07:00
Jan Kara bd6a1f16ff [PATCH] reiserfs: add checking of journal_begin() return value
Check return values of journal_begin() and journal_end() in the quota code
for reiserfs.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:19 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 92198f7eaa [PATCH] pass iocb to dio_iodone_t
XFS will have to look at iocb->private to fix aio+dio.  No other filesystem
is using the blockdev_direct_IO* end_io callback.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:19 -07:00
Michael Halcrow 16c29b67fb [PATCH] eCryptfs: export user key type
Export this symbol to GPL modules for eCryptfs: an out-of-tree GPL'ed
filesystem.

Signed off by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:19 -07:00
David Howells 3e30148c3d [PATCH] Keys: Make request-key create an authorisation key
The attached patch makes the following changes:

 (1) There's a new special key type called ".request_key_auth".

     This is an authorisation key for when one process requests a key and
     another process is started to construct it. This type of key cannot be
     created by the user; nor can it be requested by kernel services.

     Authorisation keys hold two references:

     (a) Each refers to a key being constructed. When the key being
     	 constructed is instantiated the authorisation key is revoked,
     	 rendering it of no further use.

     (b) The "authorising process". This is either:

     	 (i) the process that called request_key(), or:

     	 (ii) if the process that called request_key() itself had an
     	      authorisation key in its session keyring, then the authorising
     	      process referred to by that authorisation key will also be
     	      referred to by the new authorisation key.

	 This means that the process that initiated a chain of key requests
	 will authorise the lot of them, and will, by default, wind up with
	 the keys obtained from them in its keyrings.

 (2) request_key() creates an authorisation key which is then passed to
     /sbin/request-key in as part of a new session keyring.

 (3) When request_key() is searching for a key to hand back to the caller, if
     it comes across an authorisation key in the session keyring of the
     calling process, it will also search the keyrings of the process
     specified therein and it will use the specified process's credentials
     (fsuid, fsgid, groups) to do that rather than the calling process's
     credentials.

     This allows a process started by /sbin/request-key to find keys belonging
     to the authorising process.

 (4) A key can be read, even if the process executing KEYCTL_READ doesn't have
     direct read or search permission if that key is contained within the
     keyrings of a process specified by an authorisation key found within the
     calling process's session keyring, and is searchable using the
     credentials of the authorising process.

     This allows a process started by /sbin/request-key to read keys belonging
     to the authorising process.

 (5) The magic KEY_SPEC_*_KEYRING key IDs when passed to KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE or
     KEYCTL_NEGATE will specify a keyring of the authorising process, rather
     than the process doing the instantiation.

 (6) One of the process keyrings can be nominated as the default to which
     request_key() should attach new keys if not otherwise specified. This is
     done with KEYCTL_SET_REQKEY_KEYRING and one of the KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_*
     constants. The current setting can also be read using this call.

 (7) request_key() is partially interruptible. If it is waiting for another
     process to finish constructing a key, it can be interrupted. This permits
     a request-key cycle to be broken without recourse to rebooting.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-Off-By: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:19 -07:00
David Howells 8589b4e00e [PATCH] Keys: Use RCU to manage session keyring pointer
The attached patch uses RCU to manage the session keyring pointer in struct
signal_struct.  This means that searching need not disable interrupts and get
a the sighand spinlock to access this pointer.  Furthermore, by judicious use
of rcu_read_(un)lock(), this patch also avoids the need to take and put
refcounts on the session keyring itself, thus saving on even more atomic ops.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:18 -07:00
David Howells 7888e7ff4e [PATCH] Keys: Pass session keyring to call_usermodehelper()
The attached patch makes it possible to pass a session keyring through to the
process spawned by call_usermodehelper().  This allows patch 3/3 to pass an
authorisation key through to /sbin/request-key, thus permitting better access
controls when doing just-in-time key creation.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:18 -07:00
David Howells 76d8aeabfe [PATCH] keys: Discard key spinlock and use RCU for key payload
The attached patch changes the key implementation in a number of ways:

 (1) It removes the spinlock from the key structure.

 (2) The key flags are now accessed using atomic bitops instead of
     write-locking the key spinlock and using C bitwise operators.

     The three instantiation flags are dealt with with the construction
     semaphore held during the request_key/instantiate/negate sequence, thus
     rendering the spinlock superfluous.

     The key flags are also now bit numbers not bit masks.

 (3) The key payload is now accessed using RCU. This permits the recursive
     keyring search algorithm to be simplified greatly since no locks need be
     taken other than the usual RCU preemption disablement. Searching now does
     not require any locks or semaphores to be held; merely that the starting
     keyring be pinned.

 (4) The keyring payload now includes an RCU head so that it can be disposed
     of by call_rcu(). This requires that the payload be copied on unlink to
     prevent introducing races in copy-down vs search-up.

 (5) The user key payload is now a structure with the data following it. It
     includes an RCU head like the keyring payload and for the same reason. It
     also contains a data length because the data length in the key may be
     changed on another CPU whilst an RCU protected read is in progress on the
     payload. This would then see the supposed RCU payload and the on-key data
     length getting out of sync.

     I'm tempted to drop the key's datalen entirely, except that it's used in
     conjunction with quota management and so is a little tricky to get rid
     of.

 (6) Update the keys documentation.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:18 -07:00
Andrea Arcangeli 7286aa9b9a [PATCH] ppc64: fix seccomp with 32-bit userland
The seccomp check has to happen when entering the syscall and not when
exiting it or regs->gpr[0] contains garabge during signal handling in
ppc64_rt_sigreturn (this actually might be a bug too, but an orthogonal
one, since we really have to run the check before invoking the syscall and
not after it).

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@cpushare.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 16822e6205 Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 2005-06-23 17:27:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a39451c17f Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2005-06-23 17:26:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds adb7ee3746 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2005-06-23 17:19:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f46f6b20cb Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial 2005-06-23 16:58:55 -07:00
David Mosberger-Tang e608a8072b [IA64] Fix pfn_to_nid() so the kernel compiles again for !CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM.
Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-06-23 14:52:51 -07:00
Russell King 67f7654ea1 [PATCH] Serial: Bugs are not capabilities
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-06-23 22:26:43 +01:00
Ben Dooks 691027b91b [PATCH] ARM: 2730/1: S3C2410 default configuration update
Patch from Ben Dooks

Add support for the DM9000 and bring default configuration
up-to-date with the latest 2.6.12 kernel release

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-06-23 21:56:48 +01:00
Ben Dooks d97a666f36 [PATCH] ARM: 2729/1: DM9000 platform support for S3C2410 machines (BAST, VR1000)
Patch from Ben Dooks

Add platform_device information for DM9000 chip(s) on the
Simtec BAST and the VR1000 board.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-06-23 21:56:47 +01:00
Ben Dooks d9dc58049d [PATCH] ARM: 2728/1: S3C2410 - fix constant warning on serial device name
Patch from Ben Dooks

Remove warning of casting `const char *` to a `char *` type.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-06-23 21:56:46 +01:00
Nicolas Pitre c1241c4c3a [PATCH] ARM: 2722/1: remove reliance on udivdi3 for nwfpe
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-06-23 21:56:46 +01:00
Nicolas Pitre bf1b8ab6f2 [PATCH] ARM: 2721/1: remove reliance on udivdi3 for pxafb driver
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-06-23 21:56:45 +01:00
John Heffner 0e57976b63 [TCP]: Add Scalable TCP congestion control module.
This patch implements Tom Kelly's Scalable TCP congestion control algorithm 
for the modular framework.

The algorithm has some nice scaling properties, and has been used a fair bit 
in research, though is known to have significant fairness issues, so it's not 
really suitable for general purpose use.

Signed-off-by: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 12:29:07 -07:00
Baruch Even a7868ea68d [TCP]: Add H-TCP congestion control module.
H-TCP is a congestion control algorithm developed at the Hamilton Institute, by
Douglas Leith and Robert Shorten. It is extending the standard Reno algorithm
with mode switching is thus a relatively simple modification.

H-TCP is defined in a layered manner as it is still a research platform. The
basic form includes the modification of beta according to the ratio of maxRTT
to min RTT and the alpha=2*factor*(1-beta) relation, where factor is dependant
on the time since last congestion.

The other layers improve convergence by adding appropriate factors to alpha.

The following patch implements the H-TCP algorithm in it's basic form.

Signed-Off-By: Baruch Even <baruch@ev-en.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 12:28:11 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger b87d8561d8 [TCP]: Add TCP Vegas congestion control module.
TCP Vegas code modified for the new TCP infrastructure.  
Vegas now uses microsecond resolution timestamps for 
better estimation of performance over higher speed links.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 12:27:19 -07:00
Daniele Lacamera 835b3f0c0d [TCP]: Add TCP Hybla congestion control module.
TCP Hybla congestion avoidance.

- "In heterogeneous networks, TCP connections that incorporate a
terrestrial or satellite radio link are greatly disadvantaged with
respect to entirely wired connections, because of their longer round
trip times (RTTs). To cope with this problem, a new TCP proposal, the
TCP Hybla, is presented and discussed in the paper[1]. It stems from an
analytical evaluation of the congestion window dynamics in the TCP
standard versions (Tahoe, Reno, NewReno), which suggests the necessary
modifications to remove the performance dependence on RTT.[...]"[1]

[1]: Carlo Caini, Rosario Firrincieli, "TCP Hybla: a TCP enhancement for
heterogeneous networks",
International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking
Volume 22, Issue 5 , Pages 547 - 566. September 2004.

Signed-off-by: Daniele Lacamera (root at danielinux.net)net
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23 12:26:34 -07:00