Add congestion control states to sender.

This change just introduces different congestion control states and
ensures the sender.state is updated to reflect the current state
of the connection.

It is not used for any decisions yet but this is required before
algorithms like Eiffel/PRR can be implemented.

Fixes #394

PiperOrigin-RevId: 262638292

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/transport/tcp/snd.go b/pkg/tcpip/transport/tcp/snd.go
index 0fee7ab72..1f9b1e0ef 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/transport/tcp/snd.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/transport/tcp/snd.go
@@ -39,6 +39,28 @@ const (
 	nDupAckThreshold = 3
 )
 
+// ccState indicates the current congestion control state for this sender.
+type ccState int
+
+const (
+	// Open indicates that the sender is receiving acks in order and
+	// no loss or dupACK's etc have been detected.
+	Open ccState = iota
+	// RTORecovery indicates that an RTO has occurred and the sender
+	// has entered an RTO based recovery phase.
+	RTORecovery
+	// FastRecovery indicates that the sender has entered FastRecovery
+	// based on receiving nDupAck's. This state is entered only when
+	// SACK is not in use.
+	FastRecovery
+	// SACKRecovery indicates that the sender has entered SACK based
+	// recovery.
+	SACKRecovery
+	// Disorder indicates the sender either received some SACK blocks
+	// or dupACK's.
+	Disorder
+)
+
 // congestionControl is an interface that must be implemented by any supported
 // congestion control algorithm.
 type congestionControl interface {
@@ -138,6 +160,9 @@ type sender struct {
 	// maxSentAck is the maxium acknowledgement actually sent.
 	maxSentAck seqnum.Value
 
+	// state is the current state of congestion control for this endpoint.
+	state ccState
+
 	// cc is the congestion control algorithm in use for this sender.
 	cc congestionControl
 }
@@ -435,6 +460,7 @@ func (s *sender) retransmitTimerExpired() bool {
 		s.leaveFastRecovery()
 	}
 
+	s.state = RTORecovery
 	s.cc.HandleRTOExpired()
 
 	// Mark the next segment to be sent as the first unacknowledged one and
@@ -820,9 +846,11 @@ func (s *sender) enterFastRecovery() {
 	s.fr.last = s.sndNxt - 1
 	s.fr.maxCwnd = s.sndCwnd + s.outstanding
 	if s.ep.sackPermitted {
+		s.state = SACKRecovery
 		s.ep.stack.Stats().TCP.SACKRecovery.Increment()
 		return
 	}
+	s.state = FastRecovery
 	s.ep.stack.Stats().TCP.FastRecovery.Increment()
 }
 
@@ -981,6 +1009,7 @@ func (s *sender) checkDuplicateAck(seg *segment) (rtx bool) {
 		s.fr.highRxt = s.sndUna - 1
 		// Do run SetPipe() to calculate the outstanding segments.
 		s.SetPipe()
+		s.state = Disorder
 		return false
 	}
 
@@ -1112,6 +1141,9 @@ func (s *sender) handleRcvdSegment(seg *segment) {
 		// window based on the number of acknowledged packets.
 		if !s.fr.active {
 			s.cc.Update(originalOutstanding - s.outstanding)
+			if s.fr.last.LessThan(s.sndUna) {
+				s.state = Open
+			}
 		}
 
 		// It is possible for s.outstanding to drop below zero if we get