traffic-control-layer.cc

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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2015 Natale Patriciello <natale.patriciello@gmail.com>
 *               2016 Stefano Avallone <stavallo@unina.it>
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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#include "traffic-control-layer.h"
 
#include "ns3/log.h"
#include "ns3/net-device-queue-interface.h"
#include "ns3/object-map.h"
#include "ns3/packet.h"
#include "ns3/queue-disc.h"
#include "ns3/socket.h"
 
#include <tuple>
 
namespace ns3
{
 
NS_LOG_COMPONENT_DEFINE("TrafficControlLayer");
 
NS_OBJECT_ENSURE_REGISTERED(TrafficControlLayer);
 
TypeId
TrafficControlLayer::GetTypeId()
{
    static TypeId tid =
        TypeId("ns3::TrafficControlLayer")
            .SetParent<Object>()
            .SetGroupName("TrafficControl")
            .AddConstructor<TrafficControlLayer>()
            .AddAttribute(
                "RootQueueDiscList",
                "The list of root queue discs associated to this Traffic Control layer.",
                ObjectMapValue(),
                MakeObjectMapAccessor(&TrafficControlLayer::GetNDevices,
                                      &TrafficControlLayer::GetRootQueueDiscOnDeviceByIndex),
                MakeObjectMapChecker<QueueDisc>())
            .AddTraceSource("TcDrop",
                            "Trace source indicating a packet has been dropped by the Traffic "
                            "Control layer because no queue disc is installed on the device, the "
                            "device supports flow control and the device queue is stopped",
                            MakeTraceSourceAccessor(&TrafficControlLayer::m_dropped),
                            "ns3::Packet::TracedCallback");
    return tid;
}
 
TypeId
TrafficControlLayer::GetInstanceTypeId() const
{
    return GetTypeId();
}
 
TrafficControlLayer::TrafficControlLayer()
    : Object()
{
    NS_LOG_FUNCTION(this);
}
 
TrafficControlLayer::~TrafficControlLayer()
{
    NS_LOG_FUNCTION(this);
}
 
void
TrafficControlLayer::DoDispose()
{
    NS_LOG_FUNCTION(this);
    m_node = nullptr;
    m_handlers.clear();
    m_netDevices.clear();
    Object::DoDispose();
}
 
void
TrafficControlLayer::DoInitialize()
{
    NS_LOG_FUNCTION(this);
 
    ScanDevices();
 
    // initialize the root queue discs
    for (auto& ndi : m_netDevices)
    {
        if (ndi.second.m_rootQueueDisc)
        {
            ndi.second.m_rootQueueDisc->Initialize();
        }
    }
 
    Object::DoInitialize();
}
 
void
TrafficControlLayer::RegisterProtocolHandler(Node::ProtocolHandler handler,
                                             uint16_t protocolType,
                                             Ptr<NetDevice> device)
{
    NS_LOG_FUNCTION(this << protocolType << device);
 
    ProtocolHandlerEntry entry;
    entry.handler = handler;
    entry.protocol = protocolType;
    entry.device = device;
    entry.promiscuous = false;
 
    m_handlers.push_back(entry);
 
    NS_LOG_DEBUG("Handler for NetDevice: " << device << " registered for protocol " << protocolType
                                           << ".");
}
 
void
TrafficControlLayer::ScanDevices()
{
    NS_LOG_FUNCTION(this);
 
    NS_ASSERT_MSG(m_node, "Cannot run ScanDevices without an aggregated node");
 
    NS_LOG_DEBUG("Scanning devices on node " << m_node->GetId());
    for (uint32_t i = 0; i < m_node->GetNDevices(); i++)
    {
        NS_LOG_DEBUG("Scanning devices on node " << m_node->GetId());
        Ptr<NetDevice> dev = m_node->GetDevice(i);
        NS_LOG_DEBUG("Checking device " << i << " with pointer " << dev << " of type "
                                        << dev->GetInstanceTypeId().GetName());
 
        // note: there may be no NetDeviceQueueInterface aggregated to the device
        Ptr<NetDeviceQueueInterface> ndqi = dev->GetObject<NetDeviceQueueInterface>();
        NS_LOG_DEBUG("Pointer to NetDeviceQueueInterface: " << ndqi);
 
        std::map<Ptr<NetDevice>, NetDeviceInfo>::iterator ndi = m_netDevices.find(dev);
 
        if (ndi != m_netDevices.end())
        {
            NS_LOG_DEBUG("Device entry found; installing NetDeviceQueueInterface pointer "
                         << ndqi << " to internal map");
            ndi->second.m_ndqi = ndqi;
        }
        else if (ndqi)
        // if no entry for the device is found, it means that no queue disc has been
        // installed. Nonetheless, create an entry for the device and store a pointer
        // to the NetDeviceQueueInterface object if the latter is not null, because
        // the Traffic Control layer checks whether the device queue is stopped even
        // when there is no queue disc.
        {
            NS_LOG_DEBUG("No device entry found; create entry for device and store pointer to "
                         "NetDeviceQueueInterface: "
                         << ndqi);
            m_netDevices[dev] = {nullptr, ndqi, QueueDiscVector()};
            ndi = m_netDevices.find(dev);
        }
 
        // if a queue disc is installed, set the wake callbacks on netdevice queues
        if (ndi != m_netDevices.end() && ndi->second.m_rootQueueDisc)
        {
            NS_LOG_DEBUG("Setting the wake callbacks on NetDevice queues");
            ndi->second.m_queueDiscsToWake.clear();
 
            if (ndqi)
            {
                for (std::size_t i = 0; i < ndqi->GetNTxQueues(); i++)
                {
                    Ptr<QueueDisc> qd;
 
                    if (ndi->second.m_rootQueueDisc->GetWakeMode() == QueueDisc::WAKE_ROOT)
                    {
                        qd = ndi->second.m_rootQueueDisc;
                    }
                    else if (ndi->second.m_rootQueueDisc->GetWakeMode() == QueueDisc::WAKE_CHILD)
                    {
                        NS_ABORT_MSG_IF(ndi->second.m_rootQueueDisc->GetNQueueDiscClasses() !=
                                            ndqi->GetNTxQueues(),
                                        "The number of child queue discs does not match the number "
                                        "of netdevice queues");
 
                        qd = ndi->second.m_rootQueueDisc->GetQueueDiscClass(i)->GetQueueDisc();
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        NS_ABORT_MSG("Invalid wake mode");
                    }
 
                    ndqi->GetTxQueue(i)->SetWakeCallback(MakeCallback(&QueueDisc::Run, qd));
                    ndi->second.m_queueDiscsToWake.push_back(qd);
                }
            }
            else
            {
                ndi->second.m_queueDiscsToWake.push_back(ndi->second.m_rootQueueDisc);
            }
 
            // set the NetDeviceQueueInterface object and the SendCallback on the queue discs
            // into which packets are enqueued and dequeued by calling Run
            for (auto& q : ndi->second.m_queueDiscsToWake)
            {
                q->SetNetDeviceQueueInterface(ndqi);
                q->SetSendCallback([dev](Ptr<QueueDiscItem> item) {
                    dev->Send(item->GetPacket(), item->GetAddress(), item->GetProtocol());
                });
            }
        }
    }
}
 
void
TrafficControlLayer::SetRootQueueDiscOnDevice(Ptr<NetDevice> device, Ptr<QueueDisc> qDisc)
{
    NS_LOG_FUNCTION(this << device << qDisc);
 
    std::map<Ptr<NetDevice>, NetDeviceInfo>::iterator ndi = m_netDevices.find(device);
 
    if (ndi == m_netDevices.end())
    {
        // No entry found for this device. Create one.
        m_netDevices[device] = {qDisc, nullptr, QueueDiscVector()};
    }
    else
    {
        NS_ABORT_MSG_IF(ndi->second.m_rootQueueDisc,
                        "Cannot install a root queue disc on a device already having one. "
                        "Delete the existing queue disc first.");
 
        ndi->second.m_rootQueueDisc = qDisc;
    }
}
 
Ptr<QueueDisc>
TrafficControlLayer::GetRootQueueDiscOnDevice(Ptr<NetDevice> device) const
{
    NS_LOG_FUNCTION(this << device);
 
    std::map<Ptr<NetDevice>, NetDeviceInfo>::const_iterator ndi = m_netDevices.find(device);
 
    if (ndi == m_netDevices.end())
    {
        return nullptr;
    }
    return ndi->second.m_rootQueueDisc;
}
 
Ptr<QueueDisc>
TrafficControlLayer::GetRootQueueDiscOnDeviceByIndex(uint32_t index) const
{
    NS_LOG_FUNCTION(this << index);
    return GetRootQueueDiscOnDevice(m_node->GetDevice(index));
}
 
void
TrafficControlLayer::DeleteRootQueueDiscOnDevice(Ptr<NetDevice> device)
{
    NS_LOG_FUNCTION(this << device);
 
    std::map<Ptr<NetDevice>, NetDeviceInfo>::iterator ndi = m_netDevices.find(device);
 
    NS_ASSERT_MSG(ndi != m_netDevices.end() && ndi->second.m_rootQueueDisc,
                  "No root queue disc installed on device " << device);
 
    // remove the root queue disc
    ndi->second.m_rootQueueDisc = nullptr;
    for (auto& q : ndi->second.m_queueDiscsToWake)
    {
        q->SetNetDeviceQueueInterface(nullptr);
        q->SetSendCallback(nullptr);
    }
    ndi->second.m_queueDiscsToWake.clear();
 
    Ptr<NetDeviceQueueInterface> ndqi = ndi->second.m_ndqi;
    if (ndqi)
    {
        // remove configured callbacks, if any
        for (std::size_t i = 0; i < ndqi->GetNTxQueues(); i++)
        {
            ndqi->GetTxQueue(i)->SetWakeCallback(MakeNullCallback<void>());
        }
    }
    else
    {
        // remove the empty entry
        m_netDevices.erase(ndi);
    }
}
 
void
TrafficControlLayer::SetNode(Ptr<Node> node)
{
    NS_LOG_FUNCTION(this << node);
    m_node = node;
}
 
void
TrafficControlLayer::NotifyNewAggregate()
{
    NS_LOG_FUNCTION(this);
    if (!m_node)
    {
        Ptr<Node> node = this->GetObject<Node>();
        // verify that it's a valid node and that
        // the node was not set before
        if (node)
        {
            this->SetNode(node);
        }
    }
    Object::NotifyNewAggregate();
}
 
uint32_t
TrafficControlLayer::GetNDevices() const
{
    return m_node->GetNDevices();
}
 
void
TrafficControlLayer::Receive(Ptr<NetDevice> device,
                             Ptr<const Packet> p,
                             uint16_t protocol,
                             const Address& from,
                             const Address& to,
                             NetDevice::PacketType packetType)
{
    NS_LOG_FUNCTION(this << device << p << protocol << from << to << packetType);
 
    bool found = false;
 
    for (ProtocolHandlerList::iterator i = m_handlers.begin(); i != m_handlers.end(); i++)
    {
        if (!i->device || (i->device == device))
        {
            if (i->protocol == 0 || i->protocol == protocol)
            {
                NS_LOG_DEBUG("Found handler for packet " << p << ", protocol " << protocol
                                                         << " and NetDevice " << device
                                                         << ". Send packet up");
                i->handler(device, p, protocol, from, to, packetType);
                found = true;
            }
        }
    }
 
    NS_ABORT_MSG_IF(!found,
                    "Handler for protocol " << p << " and device " << device
                                            << " not found. It isn't forwarded up; it dies here.");
}
 
void
TrafficControlLayer::Send(Ptr<NetDevice> device, Ptr<QueueDiscItem> item)
{
    NS_LOG_FUNCTION(this << device << item);
 
    NS_LOG_DEBUG("Send packet to device " << device << " protocol number " << item->GetProtocol());
 
    Ptr<NetDeviceQueueInterface> devQueueIface;
    std::map<Ptr<NetDevice>, NetDeviceInfo>::iterator ndi = m_netDevices.find(device);
 
    if (ndi != m_netDevices.end())
    {
        devQueueIface = ndi->second.m_ndqi;
    }
 
    // determine the transmission queue of the device where the packet will be enqueued
    std::size_t txq = 0;
    if (devQueueIface && devQueueIface->GetNTxQueues() > 1)
    {
        txq = devQueueIface->GetSelectQueueCallback()(item);
        // otherwise, Linux determines the queue index by using a hash function
        // and associates such index to the socket which the packet belongs to,
        // so that subsequent packets of the same socket will be mapped to the
        // same tx queue (__netdev_pick_tx function in net/core/dev.c). It is
        // pointless to implement this in ns-3 because currently the multi-queue
        // devices provide a select queue callback
    }
 
    NS_ASSERT(!devQueueIface || txq < devQueueIface->GetNTxQueues());
 
    if (ndi == m_netDevices.end() || !ndi->second.m_rootQueueDisc)
    {
        // The device has no attached queue disc, thus add the header to the packet and
        // send it directly to the device if the selected queue is not stopped
        item->AddHeader();
        if (!devQueueIface || !devQueueIface->GetTxQueue(txq)->IsStopped())
        {
            // a single queue device makes no use of the priority tag
            if (!devQueueIface || devQueueIface->GetNTxQueues() == 1)
            {
                SocketPriorityTag priorityTag;
                item->GetPacket()->RemovePacketTag(priorityTag);
            }
            device->Send(item->GetPacket(), item->GetAddress(), item->GetProtocol());
        }
        else
        {
            m_dropped(item->GetPacket());
        }
    }
    else
    {
        // Enqueue the packet in the queue disc associated with the netdevice queue
        // selected for the packet and try to dequeue packets from such queue disc
        item->SetTxQueueIndex(txq);
 
        Ptr<QueueDisc> qDisc = ndi->second.m_queueDiscsToWake[txq];
        NS_ASSERT(qDisc);
        qDisc->Enqueue(item);
        qDisc->Run();
    }
}
 
} // namespace ns3