dynamic-queue-limits.cc

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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2016 Universita' degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
 * published by the Free Software Foundation;
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 * 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.
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 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
 *
 * Authors: Pasquale Imputato <p.imputato@gmail.com>
 *          Stefano Avallone <stefano.avallone@unina.it>
 *
 * This code is a port of the dynamic queue limits library implemented
 * in the Linux kernel by
 * Author: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
 */
 
#include "dynamic-queue-limits.h"
 
#include "ns3/log.h"
#include "ns3/simulator.h"
#include "ns3/string.h"
#include "ns3/uinteger.h"
 
// Set some static maximums
static const uint32_t UINTMAX = std::numeric_limits<uint32_t>::max();
static const uint32_t DQL_MAX_OBJECT = UINTMAX / 16;
static const uint32_t DQL_MAX_LIMIT = (UINTMAX / 2) - DQL_MAX_OBJECT;
 
namespace ns3
{
 
NS_LOG_COMPONENT_DEFINE("DynamicQueueLimits");
 
NS_OBJECT_ENSURE_REGISTERED(DynamicQueueLimits);
 
TypeId
DynamicQueueLimits::GetTypeId()
{
    static TypeId tid = TypeId("ns3::DynamicQueueLimits")
                            .SetParent<Object>()
                            .SetParent<QueueLimits>()
                            .SetGroupName("Network")
                            .AddConstructor<DynamicQueueLimits>()
                            .AddAttribute("HoldTime",
                                          "The DQL algorithm hold time",
                                          StringValue("1s"),
                                          MakeTimeAccessor(&DynamicQueueLimits::m_slackHoldTime),
                                          MakeTimeChecker())
                            .AddAttribute("MaxLimit",
                                          "Maximum limit",
                                          UintegerValue(DQL_MAX_LIMIT),
                                          MakeUintegerAccessor(&DynamicQueueLimits::m_maxLimit),
                                          MakeUintegerChecker<uint32_t>(0, DQL_MAX_LIMIT))
                            .AddAttribute("MinLimit",
                                          "Minimum limit",
                                          UintegerValue(0),
                                          MakeUintegerAccessor(&DynamicQueueLimits::m_minLimit),
                                          MakeUintegerChecker<uint32_t>())
                            .AddTraceSource("Limit",
                                            "Limit value calculated by DQL",
                                            MakeTraceSourceAccessor(&DynamicQueueLimits::m_limit),
                                            "ns3::TracedValueCallback::Uint32");
    return tid;
}
 
DynamicQueueLimits::DynamicQueueLimits()
{
    NS_LOG_FUNCTION(this);
    Reset();
}
 
DynamicQueueLimits::~DynamicQueueLimits()
{
    NS_LOG_FUNCTION(this);
}
 
void
DynamicQueueLimits::Reset()
{
    NS_LOG_FUNCTION(this);
    // Reset all dynamic values
    m_limit = 0;
    m_numQueued = 0;
    m_numCompleted = 0;
    m_lastObjCnt = 0;
    m_prevNumQueued = 0;
    m_prevLastObjCnt = 0;
    m_prevOvlimit = 0;
    m_lowestSlack = UINTMAX;
    m_slackStartTime = Simulator::Now();
}
 
void
DynamicQueueLimits::Completed(uint32_t count)
{
    NS_LOG_FUNCTION(this << count);
    uint32_t inprogress;
    uint32_t prevInprogress;
    uint32_t limit;
    uint32_t ovlimit;
    uint32_t completed;
    uint32_t numQueued;
    bool allPrevCompleted;
 
    numQueued = m_numQueued;
 
    // Can't complete more than what's in queue
    NS_ASSERT(count <= numQueued - m_numCompleted);
 
    completed = m_numCompleted + count;
    limit = m_limit;
    ovlimit = Posdiff(numQueued - m_numCompleted, limit);
    inprogress = numQueued - completed;
    prevInprogress = m_prevNumQueued - m_numCompleted;
    allPrevCompleted = ((int32_t)(completed - m_prevNumQueued)) >= 0;
 
    if ((ovlimit && !inprogress) || (m_prevOvlimit && allPrevCompleted))
    {
        NS_LOG_DEBUG("Queue starved, increase limit");
        /*
         * Queue considered starved if:
         *   - The queue was over-limit in the last interval,
         *     and there is no more data in the queue.
         *  OR
         *   - The queue was over-limit in the previous interval and
         *     when enqueuing it was possible that all queued data
         *     had been consumed.  This covers the case when queue
         *     may have becomes starved between completion processing
         *     running and next time enqueue was scheduled.
         *
         *     When queue is starved increase the limit by the amount
         *     of bytes both sent and completed in the last interval,
         *     plus any previous over-limit.
         */
        limit += Posdiff(completed, m_prevNumQueued) + m_prevOvlimit;
        m_slackStartTime = Simulator::Now();
        m_lowestSlack = UINTMAX;
    }
    else if (inprogress && prevInprogress && !allPrevCompleted)
    {
        NS_LOG_DEBUG("Queue not starved, check decrease limit");
        /*
         * Queue was not starved, check if the limit can be decreased.
         * A decrease is only considered if the queue has been busy in
         * the whole interval (the check above).
         *
         * If there is slack, the amount of execess data queued above
         * the the amount needed to prevent starvation, the queue limit
         * can be decreased.  To avoid hysteresis we consider the
         * minimum amount of slack found over several iterations of the
         * completion routine.
         */
        uint32_t slack;
        uint32_t slackLastObjs;
 
        /*
         * Slack is the maximum of
         *   - The queue limit plus previous over-limit minus twice
         *     the number of objects completed.  Note that two times
         *     number of completed bytes is a basis for an upper bound
         *     of the limit.
         *   - Portion of objects in the last queuing operation that
         *     was not part of non-zero previous over-limit.  That is
         *     "round down" by non-overlimit portion of the last
         *     queueing operation.
         */
        slack = Posdiff(limit + m_prevOvlimit, 2 * (completed - m_numCompleted));
        slackLastObjs = m_prevOvlimit ? Posdiff(m_prevLastObjCnt, m_prevOvlimit) : 0;
 
        slack = std::max(slack, slackLastObjs);
 
        if (slack < m_lowestSlack)
        {
            m_lowestSlack = slack;
        }
 
        if (Simulator::Now() > (m_slackStartTime + m_slackHoldTime))
        {
            limit = Posdiff(limit, m_lowestSlack);
            m_slackStartTime = Simulator::Now();
            m_lowestSlack = UINTMAX;
        }
    }
 
    // Enforce bounds on limit
    limit = std::min((uint32_t)std::max(limit, m_minLimit), m_maxLimit);
 
    if (limit != m_limit)
    {
        NS_LOG_DEBUG("Update limit");
        m_limit = limit;
        ovlimit = 0;
    }
 
    m_adjLimit = limit + completed;
    m_prevOvlimit = ovlimit;
    m_prevLastObjCnt = m_lastObjCnt;
    m_numCompleted = completed;
    m_prevNumQueued = numQueued;
}
 
int32_t
DynamicQueueLimits::Available() const
{
    NS_LOG_FUNCTION(this);
    return (m_adjLimit - m_numQueued);
}
 
void
DynamicQueueLimits::Queued(uint32_t count)
{
    NS_LOG_FUNCTION(this << count);
    NS_ASSERT(count <= DQL_MAX_OBJECT);
 
    m_lastObjCnt = count;
    m_numQueued += count;
}
 
int32_t
DynamicQueueLimits::Posdiff(int32_t a, int32_t b)
{
    NS_LOG_FUNCTION(this << a << b);
    return std::max((a - b), 0);
}
 
} // namespace ns3