/* * Copyright (C) 2006 Michael Brown . * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the * License, or any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA * 02110-1301, USA. * * You can also choose to distribute this program under the terms of * the Unmodified Binary Distribution Licence (as given in the file * COPYING.UBDL), provided that you have satisfied its requirements. */ FILE_LICENCE ( GPL2_OR_LATER_OR_UBDL ); #include #include #include #include #include #include /** @file * * Retry timers * * A retry timer is a binary exponential backoff timer. It can be * used to build automatic retransmission into network protocols. * * This implementation of the timer is designed to satisfy RFC 2988 * and therefore be usable as a TCP retransmission timer. * */ /* The theoretical minimum that the algorithm in stop_timer() can * adjust the timeout back down to is seven ticks, so set the minimum * timeout to at least that value for the sake of consistency. */ #define MIN_TIMEOUT 7 /** List of running timers */ static LIST_HEAD ( timers ); /** * Start timer with a specified timeout * * @v timer Retry timer * @v timeout Timeout, in ticks * * This starts the timer running with the specified timeout value. If * stop_timer() is not called before the timer expires, the timer will * be stopped and the timer's callback function will be called. */ void start_timer_fixed ( struct retry_timer *timer, unsigned long timeout ) { /* Add to list of running timers (if applicable) */ if ( ! timer->running ) { list_add ( &timer->list, &timers ); ref_get ( timer->refcnt ); timer->running = 1; } /* Record start time */ timer->start = currticks(); /* Record timeout */ timer->timeout = timeout; DBGC2 ( timer, "Timer %p started at time %ld (expires at %ld)\n", timer, timer->start, ( timer->start + timer->timeout ) ); } /** * Start timer * * @v timer Retry timer * * This starts the timer running with the current timeout value * (rounded up to the minimum timeout value). If stop_timer() is not * called before the timer expires, the timer will be stopped and the * timer's callback function will be called. */ void start_timer ( struct retry_timer *timer ) { unsigned long timeout = timer->timeout; unsigned long min; /* Calculate minimum timeout */ min = ( timer->min ? timer->min : DEFAULT_MIN_TIMEOUT ); if ( min < MIN_TIMEOUT ) min = MIN_TIMEOUT; /* Ensure timeout is at least the minimum */ if ( timeout < min ) timeout = min; /* Start timer with this timeout */ start_timer_fixed ( timer, timeout ); } /** * Stop timer * * @v timer Retry timer * * This stops the timer and updates the timer's timeout value. */ void stop_timer ( struct retry_timer *timer ) { unsigned long old_timeout = timer->timeout; unsigned long now = currticks(); unsigned long runtime; /* If timer was already stopped, do nothing */ if ( ! timer->running ) return; list_del ( &timer->list ); runtime = ( now - timer->start ); timer->running = 0; DBGC2 ( timer, "Timer %p stopped at time %ld (ran for %ld)\n", timer, now, runtime ); /* Update timer. Variables are: * * r = round-trip time estimate (i.e. runtime) * t = timeout value (i.e. timer->timeout) * s = smoothed round-trip time * * By choice, we set t = 4s, i.e. allow for four times the * normal round-trip time to pass before retransmitting. * * We want to smooth according to s := ( 7 s + r ) / 8 * * Since we don't actually store s, this reduces to * t := ( 7 t / 8 ) + ( r / 2 ) * */ if ( timer->count ) { timer->count--; } else { timer->timeout -= ( timer->timeout >> 3 ); timer->timeout += ( runtime >> 1 ); if ( timer->timeout != old_timeout ) { DBGC ( timer, "Timer %p timeout updated to %ld\n", timer, timer->timeout ); } } ref_put ( timer->refcnt ); } /** * Handle expired timer * * @v timer Retry timer */ static void timer_expired ( struct retry_timer *timer ) { struct refcnt *refcnt = timer->refcnt; unsigned long max = ( timer->max ? timer->max : DEFAULT_MAX_TIMEOUT ); int fail; /* Stop timer without performing RTT calculations */ DBGC2 ( timer, "Timer %p stopped at time %ld on expiry\n", timer, currticks() ); assert ( timer->running ); list_del ( &timer->list ); timer->running = 0; timer->count++; /* Back off the timeout value */ timer->timeout <<= 1; if ( ( fail = ( timer->timeout > max ) ) ) timer->timeout = max; DBGC ( timer, "Timer %p timeout backed off to %ld\n", timer, timer->timeout ); /* Call expiry callback */ timer->expired ( timer, fail ); /* If refcnt is NULL, then timer may already have been freed */ ref_put ( refcnt ); } /** * Poll the retry timer list * */ void retry_poll ( void ) { struct retry_timer *timer; unsigned long now = currticks(); unsigned long used; /* Process at most one timer expiry. We cannot process * multiple expiries in one pass, because one timer expiring * may end up triggering another timer's deletion from the * list. */ list_for_each_entry ( timer, &timers, list ) { used = ( now - timer->start ); if ( used >= timer->timeout ) { timer_expired ( timer ); break; } } } /** * Single-step the retry timer list * * @v process Retry timer process */ static void retry_step ( struct process *process __unused ) { retry_poll(); } /** Retry timer process */ PERMANENT_PROCESS ( retry_process, retry_step );