Charge staged reservations to each tunnel instead of dividing a static share
of the window by routines. Several readers sending on one tunnel then share
its credit: the limit is half the peer replay window, assumed from
ReplayWindow, which must be a power of two of at least 8192 (checked at
compile time). The other half allows finite unreserved traffic (inline and
control sends, relay forwarding through SendVia) and network reordering;
unlimited bypass traffic or delay can still exceed it.
An outstanding-count cap alone would let a fast reader repeatedly send and
reacquire credit, overtaking a paused reader without bound. So once readers
overlap, spent credit is only recycled when every reservation has drained. A
sole ordered reader gets each completion refunded, since its later batches
cannot overtake its earlier ones. A reader that fails to acquire ends sole
ownership, so a busy owner cannot keep a larger waiter blocked forever. This
restores progress, not FIFO fairness. All transitions are a single CAS.
Waiting readers flush their own oldest batch before retrying and never hold a
partial acquisition: a failed multi-tunnel (relay) acquisition rolls back.
Credit is released only after the flush or an explicit drop. A read that alone
exceeds a tunnel's credit, such as a tiny-MSS superpacket, is sent segment by
segment, synchronously. Acquisition is per read, so pressure on one tunnel
also delays the other tunnels in the same read.
The combined staged transmit, receive and shared credit measured 15 to 25
Gbit/s over one tunnel with eight TCP streams between two 100 GbE hosts.
Tests model overtaking, ordered reuse, a blocked reader behind a busy owner,
and relay rollback with both window sizes, and run eight competing readers
plus unreserved control traffic on one tunnel, checking every packet is
accepted by the receiver's replay window in wire order.
Ryan Huber