When checking whether a DATA chunk fits into the estimated rwnd a full sizeof(struct sk_buff) is added to the needed chunk size. This quickly exhausts the available rwnd space and leads to packets being sent which are much below the PMTU limit. This can lead to much worse performance. The reason for this behaviour was to avoid putting too much memory pressure on the receiver. The concept is not completely irational because a Linux receiver does in fact clone an skb for each DATA chunk delivered. However, Linux also reserves half the available socket buffer space for data structures therefore usage of it is already accounted for. When proposing to change this the last time it was noted that this behaviour was introduced to solve a performance issue caused by rwnd overusage in combination with small DATA chunks. Trying to reproduce this I found that with the sk_buff overhead removed, the performance would improve significantly unless socket buffer limits are increased. The following numbers have been gathered using a patched iperf supporting SCTP over a live 1 Gbit ethernet network. The -l option was used to limit DATA chunk sizes. The numbers listed are based on the average of 3 test runs each. Default values have been used for sk_(r|w)mem. Chunk Size Unpatched No Overhead ------------------------------------- 4 15.2 Kbit [!] 12.2 Mbit [!] 8 35.8 Kbit [!] 26.0 Mbit [!] 16 95.5 Kbit [!] 54.4 Mbit [!] 32 106.7 Mbit 102.3 Mbit 64 189.2 Mbit 188.3 Mbit 128 331.2 Mbit 334.8 Mbit 256 537.7 Mbit 536.0 Mbit 512 766.9 Mbit 766.6 Mbit 1024 810.1 Mbit 808.6 Mbit Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit 8ffd3208 voids the previous patches f6778aab and 810c0719 for limiting the autoclose value. If userspace passes in -1 on 32-bit platform, the overflow check didn't work and autoclose would be set to 0xffffffff. This patch defines a max_autoclose (in seconds) for limiting the value and exposes it through sysctl, with the following intentions. 1) Avoid overflowing autoclose * HZ. 2) Keep the default autoclose bound consistent across 32- and 64-bit platforms (INT_MAX / HZ in this patch). 3) Keep the autoclose value consistent between setsockopt() and getsockopt() calls. Suggested-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The check from commit 30c2235c is incomplete and cannot prevent cases like key_len = 0x80000000 (INT_MAX + 1). In that case, the left-hand side of the check (INT_MAX - key_len), which is unsigned, becomes 0xffffffff (UINT_MAX) and bypasses the check. However this shouldn't be a security issue. The function is called from the following two code paths: 1) setsockopt() 2) sctp_auth_asoc_set_secret() In case (1), sca_keylength is never going to exceed 65535 since it's bounded by a u16 from the user API. As such, the key length will never overflow. In case (2), sca_keylength is computed based on the user key (1 short) and 2 * key_vector (3 shorts) for a total of 7 * USHRT_MAX, which still will not overflow. In other words, this overflow check is not really necessary. Just make it more correct. Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com> Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h>
net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h>
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Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
- drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
- drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
- drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
- include/linux/dmaengine.h
These files are non modular, but need to export symbols using the macros now living in export.h -- call out the include so that things won't break when we remove the implicit presence of module.h from everywhere. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
commit 66b13d99d96a (ipv4: tcp: fix TOS value in ACK messages sent from TIME_WAIT) fixed IPv4 only. This part is for the IPv6 side, adding a tclass param to ip6_xmit() We alias tw_tclass and tw_tos, if socket family is INET6. [ if sockets is ipv4-mapped, only IP_TOS socket option is used to fill TOS field, TCLASS is not taken into account ] Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
skb truesize currently accounts for sk_buff struct and part of skb head. kmalloc() roundings are also ignored. Considering that skb_shared_info is larger than sk_buff, its time to take it into account for better memory accounting. This patch introduces SKB_TRUESIZE(X) macro to centralize various assumptions into a single place. At skb alloc phase, we put skb_shared_info struct at the exact end of skb head, to allow a better use of memory (lowering number of reallocations), since kmalloc() gives us power-of-two memory blocks. Unless SLUB/SLUB debug is active, both skb->head and skb_shared_info are aligned to cache lines, as before. Note: This patch might trigger performance regressions because of misconfigured protocol stacks, hitting per socket or global memory limits that were previously not reached. But its a necessary step for a more accurate memory accounting. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> CC: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Conflicts: MAINTAINERS drivers/net/Kconfig drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_link.c drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-pci.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-tx-pcie.c drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/main.c
Attempt to reduce the number of IP packets emitted in response to single SCTP packet (2e3216cd) introduced a complication - if a packet contains two COOKIE_ECHO chunks and nothing else then SCTP state machine corks the socket while processing first COOKIE_ECHO and then loses the association and forgets to uncork the socket. To deal with the issue add new SCTP command which can be used to set association explictly. Use this new command when processing second COOKIE_ECHO chunk to restore the context for SCTP state machine. Signed-off-by: Max Matveev <makc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
With this patch a HEARTBEAT chunk is bundled into the ASCONF-ACK for ADD IP ADDRESS, confirming the new destination as quickly as possible. Signed-off-by: Michio Honda <micchie@sfc.wide.ad.jp> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>