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net: tcp: add key management to congestion control
This patch adds necessary infrastructure to the congestion control framework for later per route congestion control support. For a per route congestion control possibility, our aim is to store a unique u32 key identifier into dst metrics, which can then be mapped into a tcp_congestion_ops struct. We argue that having a RTAX key entry is the most simple, generic and easy way to manage, and also keeps the memory footprint of dst entries lower on 64 bit than with storing a pointer directly, for example. Having a unique key id also allows for decoupling actual TCP congestion control module management from the FIB layer, i.e. we don't have to care about expensive module refcounting inside the FIB at this point. We first thought of using an IDR store for the realization, which takes over dynamic assignment of unused key space and also performs the key to pointer mapping in RCU. While doing so, we stumbled upon the issue that due to the nature of dynamic key distribution, it just so happens, arguably in very rare occasions, that excessive module loads and unloads can lead to a possible reuse of previously used key space. Thus, previously stale keys in the dst metric are now being reassigned to a different congestion control algorithm, which might lead to unexpected behaviour. One way to resolve this would have been to walk FIBs on the actually rare occasion of a module unload and reset the metric keys for each FIB in each netns, but that's just very costly. Therefore, we argue a better solution is to reuse the unique congestion control algorithm name member and map that into u32 key space through jhash. For that, we split the flags attribute (as it currently uses 2 bits only anyway) into two u32 attributes, flags and key, so that we can keep the cacheline boundary of 2 cachelines on x86_64 and cache the precalculated key at registration time for the fast path. On average we might expect 2 - 4 modules being loaded worst case perhaps 15, so a key collision possibility is extremely low, and guaranteed collision-free on LE/BE for all in-tree modules. Overall this results in much simpler code, and all without the overhead of an IDR. Due to the deterministic nature, modules can now be unloaded, the congestion control algorithm for a specific but unloaded key will fall back to the default one, and on module reload time it will switch back to the expected algorithm transparently. Joint work with Florian Westphal. Signed-off-by:Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: