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aoe: improve network congestion handling
authorEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Fri, 9 Nov 2012 03:05:15 +0000 (14:05 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 9 Nov 2012 03:09:11 +0000 (14:09 +1100)
commit0d1424a4792a763882eeb5ef2ebd52a50edabe2d
tree167436b3651fd23a93fe15d3ae41aab97341e836
parent7e5256a45781502bfe8c74fd6d3d2b75f35d6f38
aoe: improve network congestion handling

The aoe driver already had some congestion handling, but it was limited in
its ability to cope with the kind of congestion that can arise on more
complex networks such as those involving paths through multiple ethernet
switches.

Some of the lessons from TCP's history of development can be applied to
improving the congestion control and avoidance on AoE storage networks.
These changes use familar concepts from Van Jacobson's "Congestion
Avoidance and Control" paper from '88, without adding significant
overhead.

This patch depends on an upcoming patch that covers the failover case when
AoE commands being retransmitted are transferred from one retransmit queue
to another.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h
drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c