Re: [tsvwg] I-D Action: draft-ietf-tsvwg-ecn-l4s-id-13.txt

Bob Briscoe <ietf@bobbriscoe.net> Tue, 02 March 2021 13:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tsvwg] I-D Action: draft-ietf-tsvwg-ecn-l4s-id-13.txt
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Asad and Ingemar,

@Asad. Thank you v much for reminding me of that section in RFC3168. The 
text in ecn-l4s-id wasn't trying to allow a higher min window than 
existing RFCs. Indeed, it was trying to encourage implementers the other 
way - lower. But without forcing anyone, because implementing a lower 
minimum than 1  requires a step-change in complexity (as your thesis on 
this subject taught me).

I don't think the first sentence with the SHOULD contradicts RFC3168, 
but it seems the second sentence makes it look that way to some people's 
eyes. So let's reword it. Also, I notice that it was only applicable to 
TCP, not all transports. How about...

       A scalable congestion control SHOULD remain responsive to
       congestion when typical RTTs over the public Internet are
       significantly smaller because they are no longer inflated by
       queuing delay.  It would be preferable for the minimum window of a
       scalable congestion control to be lower than the 1 segment minimum
       for TCP mentioned in S.6.1.2 of [RFC3168] (or an equivalent for other
       transports). However, a lower minimum is not set as a formal requirement
       for L4S experiments (see Appendix A.1.6 for rationale)."


@Ingemar, you said your min in SCReAM is 3 datagrams, but you could 
configure it lower. Are SCReAM's datagrams smaller than the MTU? Is the 
text above clear enough for a non-TCP transport? Whatever, would you set 
a different limit?


Bob

On 25/02/2021 20:06, Asad Sajjad Ahmed wrote:
> Bob,
>
> Thanks for updating and for have put in a lot of effort into this draft.
> I have a minor comment regarding the cwnd reduction over ECN when cwnd
> is already very low:
>
> Current draft gives a formal requirement:
>
> §4.3:
>       "A scalable congestion control SHOULD remain responsive to
>        congestion when typical RTTs over the public Internet are
>        significantly smaller because they are no longer inflated by
>        queuing delay.  It would be preferable for the minimum window of a
>        scalable congestion control to be lower than the 2 segment minimum
>        of TCP Reno [RFC5681] but this is not set as a formal requirement
>        for L4S experiments (see Appendix A.1.6 for rationale)."
>
> §A.1.6:
>      "However, the requirement in Section 4.3 is worded as a "SHOULD"
>       because the existence of a minimum window is not all bad.  When
>       competing with an unresponsive flow, a minimum window naturally
>       protects the flow from starvation by at least keeping some data
>       flowing."
>
> But, this contradict with RFC3168 (PS):
>
> §6.1.2:
>      "[...] Therefore, the sending TCP MUST reset the
>       retransmit timer on receiving the ECN-Echo packet when the congestion
>       window is one.  The sending TCP will then be able to send a new
>       packet only when the retransmit timer expires."
>
> The contradiction here is "SHOULD" vs. "MUST". Also TCP CC, as given out by
> RFC5681, does NOT mandate a minimum transmission rate. TCP's loss recovery at
> low cwnd relies on RTO to recover lost segments and TCP using ECN is supposed
> to mimic this behavior [floyd98]. Otherwise, you risk starving the Not-ECT set
> of flow, driving up the queue and increasing the marking probability by going
> unresponsive at cwnd of two segments. This is about harm toward other traffic
> so it make no sense to relax a formal "MUST". Of couse, it is desireable
> that the AQM take action and evict packets from non-responsive flows, but
> this is not true for all AQM, one example being CoDel.
>
> But, the minimum cwnd of 2 does not originate from L4S, but has been
> the current practice for a very long time at least under the Linux TCP stack.
> This, obviously, also needs to be addressed.
>
> Asad
>
> [floyd98] http://www.icir.org/floyd/papers/ecnsims.pdf (§8)
>
> On 21/02/22 14:01:03, internet-drafts@ietf.org wrote:
>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
>> This draft is a work item of the Transport Area Working Group WG of the IETF.
>>
>>          Title           : Identifying Modified Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Semantics for Ultra-Low Queuing Delay (L4S)
>>          Authors         : Koen De Schepper
>>                            Bob Briscoe
>> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-tsvwg-ecn-l4s-id-13.txt
>> 	Pages           : 58
>> 	Date            : 2021-02-22
>>
>> Abstract:
>>     This specification defines the identifier to be used on IP packets
>>     for a new network service called low latency, low loss and scalable
>>     throughput (L4S).  L4S uses an Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)
>>     scheme that is similar to the original (or 'Classic') ECN approach.
>>     'Classic' ECN marking was required to be equivalent to a drop, both
>>     when applied in the network and when responded to by a transport.
>>     Unlike 'Classic' ECN marking, for packets carrying the L4S
>>     identifier, the network applies marking more immediately and more
>>     aggressively than drop, and the transport response to each mark is
>>     reduced and smoothed relative to that for drop.  The two changes
>>     counterbalance each other so that the throughput of an L4S flow will
>>     be roughly the same as a non-L4S flow under the same conditions.
>>     Nonetheless, the much more frequent control signals and the finer
>>     responses to them result in much more fine-grained adjustments, so
>>     that ultra-low and consistently low queuing delay (typically sub-
>>     millisecond on average) becomes possible for L4S traffic without
>>     compromising link utilization.  Thus even capacity-seeking (TCP-like)
>>     traffic can have high bandwidth and very low delay at the same time,
>>     even during periods of high traffic load.
>>
>>     The L4S identifier defined in this document distinguishes L4S from
>>     'Classic' (e.g. TCP-Reno-friendly) traffic.  It gives an incremental
>>     migration path so that suitably modified network bottlenecks can
>>     distinguish and isolate existing traffic that still follows the
>>     Classic behaviour, to prevent it degrading the low queuing delay and
>>     low loss of L4S traffic.  This specification defines the rules that
>>     L4S transports and network elements need to follow to ensure they
>>     neither harm each other's performance nor that of Classic traffic.
>>     Examples of new active queue management (AQM) marking algorithms and
>>     examples of new transports (whether TCP-like or real-time) are
>>     specified separately.
>>
>>
>> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-ecn-l4s-id/
>>
>> There are also htmlized versions available at:
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-ecn-l4s-id-13
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-ecn-l4s-id-13
>>
>> A diff from the previous version is available at:
>> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-tsvwg-ecn-l4s-id-13
>>
>>
>> Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission
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>>
>> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
>> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
>>
>>

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