BBRv2 v2alpha branch rebased from 5.4 to 5.10, supports all CCs and E2 GCE VMs

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Neal Cardwell

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Jan 14, 2021, 6:04:09 PM1/14/21
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Hi all,

By popular demand, we have rebased the BBRv2 v2alpha branch from 5.4 to 5.10.

The BBRv2 code in this release should be functionally identical to the previous release, since in this rebase we only made the minimal changes to the BBRv2 and TCP patches necessary to get the code to compile.

There were two changes of note we incorporated during the rebase. The kernel .config generated by the gce-install.sh build/install/boot script now has some added features:

(1) it builds all available congestion control modules, to facilitate comparisons (a request made recently on the bbr-dev list here)

(2) it has UEFI support needed to allow booting on the new E2 "cost-optimized general purpose" VM type on Google Cloud
 
You can find the list of rebased commits here.
 
As always, previous versions of the v2alpha release can be found using the git tags in the Google bbr repository.  

best,
neal

Matt Mathis

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Jan 15, 2021, 4:51:40 PM1/15/21
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Great!  I'm sure this will provoke more testing!

Thanks,
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Neal Cardwell

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Jan 15, 2021, 6:29:53 PM1/15/21
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Based on some quick feedback from the user community (thanks!) we have fixed a few minor issues with yesterday's release, and pushed an update to the v2alpha branch in the github repo. The fixes can be found at the latest tagged release:

The changes since yesterday's release:

(1) a bug fix for the warning that has been reported by a few users:
  WARN_ON_ONCE(bbr->prior_cwnd == 0);

(2) a fix for a compilation error caused for users of the following
  .config option:
    CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y

(3) enabled the .config option CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y to catch further issues
  of this kind

best,
neal

ps: as always, you can find the instructions to download and build Linux TCP BBRv2 alpha here:

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