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| author | William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com> | 2022-05-04 08:35:59 -0700 |
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| committer | Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> | 2022-05-16 13:05:40 +0200 |
| commit | d265929930e2ffafc744c0ae05fb70acd53be1ee (patch) | |
| tree | d26c34a8536b365e1b334d5f2b37598cd18d1736 /include | |
| parent | 2c50fc04757f16427e6213989cee9182c50e2c8a (diff) | |
netfilter: nf_conncount: reduce unnecessary GC
Currently nf_conncount can trigger garbage collection (GC)
at multiple places. Each GC process takes a spin_lock_bh
to traverse the nf_conncount_list. We found that when testing
port scanning use two parallel nmap, because the number of
connection increase fast, the nf_conncount_count and its
subsequent call to __nf_conncount_add take too much time,
causing several CPU lockup. This happens when user set the
conntrack limit to +20,000, because the larger the limit,
the longer the list that GC has to traverse.
The patch mitigate the performance issue by avoiding unnecessary
GC with a timestamp. Whenever nf_conncount has done a GC,
a timestamp is updated, and beforce the next time GC is
triggered, we make sure it's more than a jiffies.
By doin this we can greatly reduce the CPU cycles and
avoid the softirq lockup.
To reproduce it in OVS,
$ ovs-appctl dpctl/ct-set-limits zone=1,limit=20000
$ ovs-appctl dpctl/ct-get-limits
At another machine, runs two nmap
$ nmap -p1- <IP>
$ nmap -p1- <IP>
Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Yifeng Sun <pkusunyifeng@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_count.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_count.h b/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_count.h index 9645b47fa7e4..e227d997fc71 100644 --- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_count.h +++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_count.h @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ struct nf_conncount_data; struct nf_conncount_list { spinlock_t list_lock; + u32 last_gc; /* jiffies at most recent gc */ struct list_head head; /* connections with the same filtering key */ unsigned int count; /* length of list */ }; |