This commit updates rack to what is basically being used at NF as
well as sets in some of the groundwork for committing BBR. The
hpts system is updated as well as some other needed utilities
for the

This commit updates rack to what is basically being used at NF as
well as sets in some of the groundwork for committing BBR. The
hpts system is updated as well as some other needed utilities
for the entrance of BBR. This is actually part 1 of 3 more
needed commits which will finally complete with BBRv1 being
added as a new tcp stack.

Sponsored by: Netflix Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20834

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Take out the stack alias inadvertantly added by my commit.

Reported by: Peter Lei

This commit brings in a new refactored TCP stack called Rack.
Rack includes the following features:
- A different SACK processing scheme (the old sack structures are not used).
- RACK (Recent ackno

This commit brings in a new refactored TCP stack called Rack.
Rack includes the following features:
- A different SACK processing scheme (the old sack structures are not used).
- RACK (Recent acknowledgment) where counting dup-acks is no longer done
instead time is used to knwo when to retransmit. (see the I-D)
- TLP (Tail Loss Probe) where we will probe for tail-losses to attempt
to try not to take a retransmit time-out. (see the I-D)
- Burst mitigation using TCPHTPS
- PRR (partial rate reduction) see the RFC.

Once built into your kernel, you can select this stack by either
socket option with the name of the stack is "rack" or by setting
the global sysctl so the default is rack.

Note that any connection that does not support SACK will be kicked
back to the "default" base FreeBSD stack (currently known as "default").

To build this into your kernel you will need to enable in your
kernel:
makeoptions WITH_EXTRA_TCP_STACKS=1
options TCPHPTS

Sponsored by: Netflix Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15525

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