rxrpc: Add keepalive for a call

We need to transmit a packet every so often to act as a keepalive for the
peer (which has a timeout from the last time it received a packet) and also
to prevent any intervening firewalls from closing the route.

Do this by resetting a timer every time we transmit a packet.  If the timer
ever expires, we transmit a PING ACK packet and thereby also elicit a PING
RESPONSE ACK from the other side - which prevents our last-rx timeout from
expiring.

The timer is set to 1/6 of the last-rx timeout so that we can detect the
other side going away if it misses 6 replies in a row.

This is particularly necessary for servers where the processing of the
service function may take a significant amount of time.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
David Howells
2017-11-24 10:18:42 +00:00
parent bd1fdf8cfd
commit 415f44e432
4 changed files with 40 additions and 0 deletions
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@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ enum rxrpc_timer_trace {
rxrpc_timer_exp_ack,
rxrpc_timer_exp_hard,
rxrpc_timer_exp_idle,
rxrpc_timer_exp_keepalive,
rxrpc_timer_exp_lost_ack,
rxrpc_timer_exp_normal,
rxrpc_timer_exp_ping,
@@ -152,6 +153,7 @@ enum rxrpc_timer_trace {
rxrpc_timer_set_for_ack,
rxrpc_timer_set_for_hard,
rxrpc_timer_set_for_idle,
rxrpc_timer_set_for_keepalive,
rxrpc_timer_set_for_lost_ack,
rxrpc_timer_set_for_normal,
rxrpc_timer_set_for_ping,
@@ -162,6 +164,7 @@ enum rxrpc_timer_trace {
enum rxrpc_propose_ack_trace {
rxrpc_propose_ack_client_tx_end,
rxrpc_propose_ack_input_data,
rxrpc_propose_ack_ping_for_keepalive,
rxrpc_propose_ack_ping_for_lost_ack,
rxrpc_propose_ack_ping_for_lost_reply,
rxrpc_propose_ack_ping_for_params,
@@ -311,6 +314,7 @@ enum rxrpc_congest_change {
EM(rxrpc_timer_exp_ack, "ExpAck") \
EM(rxrpc_timer_exp_hard, "ExpHrd") \
EM(rxrpc_timer_exp_idle, "ExpIdl") \
EM(rxrpc_timer_exp_keepalive, "ExpKA ") \
EM(rxrpc_timer_exp_lost_ack, "ExpLoA") \
EM(rxrpc_timer_exp_normal, "ExpNml") \
EM(rxrpc_timer_exp_ping, "ExpPng") \
@@ -321,6 +325,7 @@ enum rxrpc_congest_change {
EM(rxrpc_timer_set_for_ack, "SetAck") \
EM(rxrpc_timer_set_for_hard, "SetHrd") \
EM(rxrpc_timer_set_for_idle, "SetIdl") \
EM(rxrpc_timer_set_for_keepalive, "KeepAl") \
EM(rxrpc_timer_set_for_lost_ack, "SetLoA") \
EM(rxrpc_timer_set_for_normal, "SetNml") \
EM(rxrpc_timer_set_for_ping, "SetPng") \
@@ -330,6 +335,7 @@ enum rxrpc_congest_change {
#define rxrpc_propose_ack_traces \
EM(rxrpc_propose_ack_client_tx_end, "ClTxEnd") \
EM(rxrpc_propose_ack_input_data, "DataIn ") \
EM(rxrpc_propose_ack_ping_for_keepalive, "KeepAlv") \
EM(rxrpc_propose_ack_ping_for_lost_ack, "LostAck") \
EM(rxrpc_propose_ack_ping_for_lost_reply, "LostRpl") \
EM(rxrpc_propose_ack_ping_for_params, "Params ") \