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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>
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:55:27 +0000 (15:55 +1100)
commit9ec64d0f0a64b4bb598b3269353200841f738758
tree8caa634ea298c6286356cf1a41a4baf006eb589a
parentb0f815b92dc2cbaca984e31ebe2be996795426bc
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