Merge tag 'rxrpc-devel-20140304' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs

David Howells says:

====================
net-next: AF_RXRPC fixes and development

Here are some AF_RXRPC fixes:

 (1) Fix to remove incorrect checksum calculation made during recvmsg().  It's
     unnecessary to try to do this there since we check the checksum before
     reading the RxRPC header from the packet.

 (2) Fix to prevent the sending of an ABORT packet in response to another
     ABORT packet and inducing a storm.

 (3) Fix UDP MTU calculation from parsing ICMP_FRAG_NEEDED packets where we
     don't handle the ICMP packet not specifying an MTU size.

And development patches:

 (4) Add sysctls for configuring RxRPC parameters, specifically various delays
     pertaining to ACK generation, the time before we resend a packet for
     which we don't receive an ACK, the maximum time a call is permitted to
     live and the amount of time transport, connection and dead call
     information is cached.

 (5) Improve ACK packet production by adjusting the handling of ACK_REQUESTED
     packets, ignoring the MORE_PACKETS flag, delaying the production of
     otherwise immediate ACK_IDLE packets and delaying all ACK_IDLE production
     (barring the call termination) to half a second.

 (6) Add more sysctl parameters to expose the Rx window size, the maximum
     packet size that we're willing to receive and the number of jumbo rxrpc
     packets we're willing to handle in a single UDP packet.

 (7) Request ACKs on alternate DATA packets so that the other side doesn't
     wait till we fill up the Tx window.

 (8) Use a RCU hash table to look up the rxrpc_call for an incoming packet
     rather than stepping through a hierarchy involving several spinlocks.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt b/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt
index b89bc82eed46..16a924c486bf 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ Contents of this document:
 
  (*) AF_RXRPC kernel interface.
 
+ (*) Configurable parameters.
+
 
 ========
 OVERVIEW
@@ -864,3 +866,82 @@ The kernel interface functions are as follows:
 
      This is used to allocate a null RxRPC key that can be used to indicate
      anonymous security for a particular domain.
+
+
+=======================
+CONFIGURABLE PARAMETERS
+=======================
+
+The RxRPC protocol driver has a number of configurable parameters that can be
+adjusted through sysctls in /proc/net/rxrpc/:
+
+ (*) req_ack_delay
+
+     The amount of time in milliseconds after receiving a packet with the
+     request-ack flag set before we honour the flag and actually send the
+     requested ack.
+
+     Usually the other side won't stop sending packets until the advertised
+     reception window is full (to a maximum of 255 packets), so delaying the
+     ACK permits several packets to be ACK'd in one go.
+
+ (*) soft_ack_delay
+
+     The amount of time in milliseconds after receiving a new packet before we
+     generate a soft-ACK to tell the sender that it doesn't need to resend.
+
+ (*) idle_ack_delay
+
+     The amount of time in milliseconds after all the packets currently in the
+     received queue have been consumed before we generate a hard-ACK to tell
+     the sender it can free its buffers, assuming no other reason occurs that
+     we would send an ACK.
+
+ (*) resend_timeout
+
+     The amount of time in milliseconds after transmitting a packet before we
+     transmit it again, assuming no ACK is received from the receiver telling
+     us they got it.
+
+ (*) max_call_lifetime
+
+     The maximum amount of time in seconds that a call may be in progress
+     before we preemptively kill it.
+
+ (*) dead_call_expiry
+
+     The amount of time in seconds before we remove a dead call from the call
+     list.  Dead calls are kept around for a little while for the purpose of
+     repeating ACK and ABORT packets.
+
+ (*) connection_expiry
+
+     The amount of time in seconds after a connection was last used before we
+     remove it from the connection list.  Whilst a connection is in existence,
+     it serves as a placeholder for negotiated security; when it is deleted,
+     the security must be renegotiated.
+
+ (*) transport_expiry
+
+     The amount of time in seconds after a transport was last used before we
+     remove it from the transport list.  Whilst a transport is in existence, it
+     serves to anchor the peer data and keeps the connection ID counter.
+
+ (*) rxrpc_rx_window_size
+
+     The size of the receive window in packets.  This is the maximum number of
+     unconsumed received packets we're willing to hold in memory for any
+     particular call.
+
+ (*) rxrpc_rx_mtu
+
+     The maximum packet MTU size that we're willing to receive in bytes.  This
+     indicates to the peer whether we're willing to accept jumbo packets.
+
+ (*) rxrpc_rx_jumbo_max
+
+     The maximum number of packets that we're willing to accept in a jumbo
+     packet.  Non-terminal packets in a jumbo packet must contain a four byte
+     header plus exactly 1412 bytes of data.  The terminal packet must contain
+     a four byte header plus any amount of data.  In any event, a jumbo packet
+     may not exceed rxrpc_rx_mtu in size.