inet: get rid of central tcp/dccp listener timer

One of the major issue for TCP is the SYNACK rtx handling,
done by inet_csk_reqsk_queue_prune(), fired by the keepalive
timer of a TCP_LISTEN socket.

This function runs for awful long times, with socket lock held,
meaning that other cpus needing this lock have to spin for hundred of ms.

SYNACK are sent in huge bursts, likely to cause severe drops anyway.

This model was OK 15 years ago when memory was very tight.

We now can afford to have a timer per request sock.

Timer invocations no longer need to lock the listener,
and can be run from all cpus in parallel.

With following patch increasing somaxconn width to 32 bits,
I tested a listener with more than 4 million active request sockets,
and a steady SYNFLOOD of ~200,000 SYN per second.
Host was sending ~830,000 SYNACK per second.

This is ~100 times more what we could achieve before this patch.

Later, we will get rid of the listener hash and use ehash instead.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
index 15505936511d..3daa6b5d766d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -539,16 +539,6 @@ static void tcp_write_timer(unsigned long data)
 	sock_put(sk);
 }
 
-/*
- *	Timer for listening sockets
- */
-
-static void tcp_synack_timer(struct sock *sk)
-{
-	inet_csk_reqsk_queue_prune(sk, TCP_SYNQ_INTERVAL,
-				   TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT, TCP_RTO_MAX);
-}
-
 void tcp_syn_ack_timeout(struct sock *sk, struct request_sock *req)
 {
 	NET_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPTIMEOUTS);
@@ -583,7 +573,7 @@ static void tcp_keepalive_timer (unsigned long data)
 	}
 
 	if (sk->sk_state == TCP_LISTEN) {
-		tcp_synack_timer(sk);
+		pr_err("Hmm... keepalive on a LISTEN ???\n");
 		goto out;
 	}