Merge branch 'net-reduce-tcp_memory_allocated-inflation'

Eric Dumazet says:

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net: reduce tcp_memory_allocated inflation

Hosts with a lot of sockets tend to hit so called TCP memory pressure,
leading to very bad TCP performance and/or OOM.

The problem is that some TCP sockets can hold up to 2MB of 'forward
allocations' in their per-socket cache (sk->sk_forward_alloc),
and there is no mechanism to make them relinquish their share
under mem pressure.
Only under some potentially rare events their share is reclaimed,
one socket at a time.

In this series, I implemented a per-cpu cache instead of a per-socket one.

Each CPU has a +1/-1 MB (256 pages on x86) forward alloc cache, in order
to not dirty tcp_memory_allocated shared cache line too often.

We keep sk->sk_forward_alloc values as small as possible, to meet
memcg page granularity constraint.

Note that memcg already has a per-cpu cache, although MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH
is defined to 32 pages, which seems a bit small.

Note that while this cover letter mentions TCP, this work is generic
and supports TCP, UDP, DECNET, SCTP.
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220609063412.2205738-1-eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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