[PATCH 00/13] add "windowsize" (RFC 7440) support for tftp

[Enrico Scholz]

The tftp "windowsize" greatly improves the performance of tftp
transfers.  This patchset adds support for it.

The first two patches are a little bit unrelated and enhance the 'cp
-v' output by giving information about the transfer speed.  They can
be dropped if they are unwanted.

I tested the function with an iMX8MP platform in three environments:

  - at home over OpenVPN on an ADSL 50 line  -->  27x speedup
  - 1 Gb/s connection --> 9x speedup
  - connection over 100 Mb/s switch  -->  4x speedup

In the test, I downloaded variable sized files which were filled from
/dev/urandom.  E.g.

| :/ global tftp.windowsize=128
| :/ cp -v /mnt/tftp/data-100MiB /tmp/data && sha1sum /tmp/data
|         [################################################################] 104857600 bytes, 98550375 bytes/s

For slow connection speed, smaller files (1MiB, 4 MiB + 20 MiB) were
used.


The numbers (bytes/s) are

 | windowsize | VPN       | 1 Gb/s     | 100 Mb/s   |
 |------------|-----------|------------|------------|
 | 128        | 3.869.284 | 98.643.085 | 11.434.852 |
 |  64        | 3.863.581 | 98.550.375 | 11.434.852 |
 |  48        | 3.431.580 | 94.211.680 | 11.275.010 |
 |  32        | 2.835.129 | 85.250.081 | 10.985.605 |
 |  24        | 2.344.858 | 77.787.537 | 10.765.667 |
 |  16        | 1.734.186 | 67.519.381 | 10.210.087 |
 |  12        | 1.403.340 | 61.972.576 |  9.915.612 |
 |   8        | 1.002.462 | 50.852.376 |  9.016.130 |
 |   6        |   775.573 | 42.781.558 |  8.422.297 |
 |   4        |   547.845 | 32.066.544 |  6.835.567 |
 |   3        |   412.987 | 26.526.081 |  6.322.435 |
 |   2        |   280.987 | 19.120.641 |  5.494.241 |
 |   1        |   141.699 | 10.431.516 |  2.967.224 |
 |------------|-----------|------------|------------|
 | unpatched  |   140.587 | 10.553.301 |  2.978.063 |



Enrico Scholz (13):
  progress: add close_progress() to display some statistics
  libfile:copy_file: show statistics in verbose mode
  tftp: minor refactoring of RRQ/WRQ packet generation code
  tftp: replace hardcoded blksize by global constant
  tftp: record whether tftp file is opened for lookup operation only
  tftp: reduce block size on lookup requests
  tftp: refactor data processing
  tftp: detect out-of-memory situations
  tftp: implement 'windowsize' (RFC 7440) support
  tftp: do not use 'priv->block' for RRQ
  tftp: reorder tftp packets
  tftp: allow to change tftp port
  tftp: add sanity check for OACK response

 fs/Kconfig          |  36 ++++++
 fs/tftp.c           | 298 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 include/progress.h  |   1 +
 lib/libfile.c       |   3 +
 lib/show_progress.c |  25 ++++
 5 files changed, 319 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

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