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authorJesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>2017-09-01 11:26:08 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-09-03 11:01:05 -0700
commitfb452a1aa3fd4034d7999e309c5466ff2d7005aa (patch)
tree929f2e7692f05a685de60535e2de27aa37579400 /net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c
parent64327fc811268d4a24de03dac242ea29de6be75f (diff)
downloadlinux-fb452a1aa3fd4034d7999e309c5466ff2d7005aa.tar.bz2
Revert "net: use lib/percpu_counter API for fragmentation mem accounting"
This reverts commit 6d7b857d541ecd1d9bd997c97242d4ef94b19de2. There is a bug in fragmentation codes use of the percpu_counter API, that can cause issues on systems with many CPUs. The frag_mem_limit() just reads the global counter (fbc->count), without considering other CPUs can have upto batch size (130K) that haven't been subtracted yet. Due to the 3MBytes lower thresh limit, this become dangerous at >=24 CPUs (3*1024*1024/130000=24). The correct API usage would be to use __percpu_counter_compare() which does the right thing, and takes into account the number of (online) CPUs and batch size, to account for this and call __percpu_counter_sum() when needed. We choose to revert the use of the lib/percpu_counter API for frag memory accounting for several reasons: 1) On systems with CPUs > 24, the heavier fully locked __percpu_counter_sum() is always invoked, which will be more expensive than the atomic_t that is reverted to. Given systems with more than 24 CPUs are becoming common this doesn't seem like a good option. To mitigate this, the batch size could be decreased and thresh be increased. 2) The add_frag_mem_limit+sub_frag_mem_limit pairs happen on the RX CPU, before SKBs are pushed into sockets on remote CPUs. Given NICs can only hash on L2 part of the IP-header, the NIC-RXq's will likely be limited. Thus, a fair chance that atomic add+dec happen on the same CPU. Revert note that commit 1d6119baf061 ("net: fix percpu memory leaks") removed init_frag_mem_limit() and instead use inet_frags_init_net(). After this revert, inet_frags_uninit_net() becomes empty. Fixes: 6d7b857d541e ("net: use lib/percpu_counter API for fragmentation mem accounting") Fixes: 1d6119baf061 ("net: fix percpu memory leaks") Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c b/net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c
index 96e95e83cc61..af74d0433453 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c
@@ -234,10 +234,8 @@ evict_again:
cond_resched();
if (read_seqretry(&f->rnd_seqlock, seq) ||
- percpu_counter_sum(&nf->mem))
+ sum_frag_mem_limit(nf))
goto evict_again;
-
- percpu_counter_destroy(&nf->mem);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(inet_frags_exit_net);