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<title>net-tcp: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_probe_interval is a u32 not int</title>
<updated>2018-09-27T03:33:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej Żenczykowski</name>
<email>maze@google.com</email>
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<published>2018-09-26T04:59:28+00:00</published>
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(fix documentation and sysctl access to treat it as such)

Tested:
  # zcat /proc/config.gz | egrep ^CONFIG_HZ
  CONFIG_HZ_1000=y
  CONFIG_HZ=1000
  # echo $[(1&lt;&lt;32)/1000 + 1] | tee /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_probe_interval
  4294968
  tee: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_probe_interval: Invalid argument
  # echo $[(1&lt;&lt;32)/1000] | tee /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_probe_interval
  4294967
  # echo 0 | tee /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_probe_interval
  # echo -1 | tee /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_probe_interval
  -1
  tee: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_probe_interval: Invalid argument

Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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(fix documentation and sysctl access to treat it as such)

Tested:
  # zcat /proc/config.gz | egrep ^CONFIG_HZ
  CONFIG_HZ_1000=y
  CONFIG_HZ=1000
  # echo $[(1&lt;&lt;32)/1000 + 1] | tee /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_probe_interval
  4294968
  tee: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_probe_interval: Invalid argument
  # echo $[(1&lt;&lt;32)/1000] | tee /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_probe_interval
  4294967
  # echo 0 | tee /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_probe_interval
  # echo -1 | tee /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_probe_interval
  -1
  tee: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_probe_interval: Invalid argument

Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipv6: Add icmp_echo_ignore_all support for ICMPv6</title>
<updated>2018-08-13T15:42:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Virgile Jarry</name>
<email>virgile@acceis.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-10T15:48:15+00:00</published>
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Preventing the kernel from responding to ICMP Echo Requests messages
can be useful in several ways. The sysctl parameter
'icmp_echo_ignore_all' can be used to prevent the kernel from
responding to IPv4 ICMP echo requests. For IPv6 pings, such
a sysctl kernel parameter did not exist.

Add the ability to prevent the kernel from responding to IPv6
ICMP echo requests through the use of the following sysctl
parameter : /proc/sys/net/ipv6/icmp/echo_ignore_all.
Update the documentation to reflect this change.

Signed-off-by: Virgile Jarry &lt;virgile@acceis.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Preventing the kernel from responding to ICMP Echo Requests messages
can be useful in several ways. The sysctl parameter
'icmp_echo_ignore_all' can be used to prevent the kernel from
responding to IPv4 ICMP echo requests. For IPv6 pings, such
a sysctl kernel parameter did not exist.

Add the ability to prevent the kernel from responding to IPv6
ICMP echo requests through the use of the following sysctl
parameter : /proc/sys/net/ipv6/icmp/echo_ignore_all.
Update the documentation to reflect this change.

Signed-off-by: Virgile Jarry &lt;virgile@acceis.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: ipv4: Control SKB reprioritization after forwarding</title>
<updated>2018-08-01T16:52:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Machata</name>
<email>petrm@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-31T22:36:03+00:00</published>
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After IPv4 packets are forwarded, the priority of the corresponding SKB
is updated according to the TOS field of IPv4 header. This overrides any
prioritization done earlier by e.g. an skbedit action or ingress-qos-map
defined at a vlan device.

Such overriding may not always be desirable. Even if the packet ends up
being routed, which implies this is an L3 network node, an administrator
may wish to preserve whatever prioritization was done earlier on in the
pipeline.

Therefore introduce a sysctl that controls this behavior. Keep the
default value at 1 to maintain backward-compatible behavior.

Signed-off-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@mellanox.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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After IPv4 packets are forwarded, the priority of the corresponding SKB
is updated according to the TOS field of IPv4 header. This overrides any
prioritization done earlier by e.g. an skbedit action or ingress-qos-map
defined at a vlan device.

Such overriding may not always be desirable. Even if the packet ends up
being routed, which implies this is an L3 network node, an administrator
may wish to preserve whatever prioritization was done earlier on in the
pipeline.

Therefore introduce a sysctl that controls this behavior. Keep the
default value at 1 to maintain backward-compatible behavior.

Signed-off-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@mellanox.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Documentation: ip-sysctl.txt: document addr_gen_mode</title>
<updated>2018-07-12T05:50:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sabrina Dubroca</name>
<email>sd@queasysnail.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-09T10:25:18+00:00</published>
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addr_gen_mode was introduced in without documentation, add it now.

Fixes: d35a00b8e33d ("net/ipv6: allow sysctl to change link-local address generation mode")
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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addr_gen_mode was introduced in without documentation, add it now.

Fixes: d35a00b8e33d ("net/ipv6: allow sysctl to change link-local address generation mode")
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>skbuff: preserve sock reference when scrubbing the skb.</title>
<updated>2018-06-28T13:21:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Flavio Leitner</name>
<email>fbl@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-27T13:34:26+00:00</published>
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The sock reference is lost when scrubbing the packet and that breaks
TSQ (TCP Small Queues) and XPS (Transmit Packet Steering) causing
performance impacts of about 50% in a single TCP stream when crossing
network namespaces.

XPS breaks because the queue mapping stored in the socket is not
available, so another random queue might be selected when the stack
needs to transmit something like a TCP ACK, or TCP Retransmissions.
That causes packet re-ordering and/or performance issues.

TSQ breaks because it orphans the packet while it is still in the
host, so packets are queued contributing to the buffer bloat problem.

Preserving the sock reference fixes both issues. The socket is
orphaned anyways in the receiving path before any relevant action
and on TX side the netfilter checks if the reference is local before
use it.

Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner &lt;fbl@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The sock reference is lost when scrubbing the packet and that breaks
TSQ (TCP Small Queues) and XPS (Transmit Packet Steering) causing
performance impacts of about 50% in a single TCP stream when crossing
network namespaces.

XPS breaks because the queue mapping stored in the socket is not
available, so another random queue might be selected when the stack
needs to transmit something like a TCP ACK, or TCP Retransmissions.
That causes packet re-ordering and/or performance issues.

TSQ breaks because it orphans the packet while it is still in the
host, so packets are queued contributing to the buffer bloat problem.

Preserving the sock reference fixes both issues. The socket is
orphaned anyways in the receiving path before any relevant action
and on TX side the netfilter checks if the reference is local before
use it.

Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner &lt;fbl@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: networking: fix minor typos in various documentation files</title>
<updated>2018-06-04T21:21:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Olivier Gayot</name>
<email>olivier.gayot@sigexec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-04T10:07:37+00:00</published>
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This patch fixes some typos/misspelling errors in the
Documentation/networking files.

Signed-off-by: Olivier Gayot &lt;olivier.gayot@sigexec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch fixes some typos/misspelling errors in the
Documentation/networking files.

Signed-off-by: Olivier Gayot &lt;olivier.gayot@sigexec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net-tcp: extend tcp_tw_reuse sysctl to enable loopback only optimization</title>
<updated>2018-06-04T21:13:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej Żenczykowski</name>
<email>maze@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-03T17:41:17+00:00</published>
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This changes the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tw_reuse from a boolean
to an integer.

It now takes the values 0, 1 and 2, where 0 and 1 behave as before,
while 2 enables timewait socket reuse only for sockets that we can
prove are loopback connections:
  ie. bound to 'lo' interface or where one of source or destination
  IPs is 127.0.0.0/8, ::ffff:127.0.0.0/104 or ::1.

This enables quicker reuse of ephemeral ports for loopback connections
- where tcp_tw_reuse is 100% safe from a protocol perspective
(this assumes no artificially induced packet loss on 'lo').

This also makes estblishing many loopback connections *much* faster
(allocating ports out of the first half of the ephemeral port range
is significantly faster, then allocating from the second half)

Without this change in a 32K ephemeral port space my sample program
(it just establishes and closes [::1]:ephemeral -&gt; [::1]:server_port
connections in a tight loop) fails after 32765 connections in 24 seconds.
With it enabled 50000 connections only take 4.7 seconds.

This is particularly problematic for IPv6 where we only have one local
address and cannot play tricks with varying source IP from 127.0.0.0/8
pool.

Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Cc: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Wang &lt;weiwan@google.com&gt;
Change-Id: I0377961749979d0301b7b62871a32a4b34b654e1
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This changes the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tw_reuse from a boolean
to an integer.

It now takes the values 0, 1 and 2, where 0 and 1 behave as before,
while 2 enables timewait socket reuse only for sockets that we can
prove are loopback connections:
  ie. bound to 'lo' interface or where one of source or destination
  IPs is 127.0.0.0/8, ::ffff:127.0.0.0/104 or ::1.

This enables quicker reuse of ephemeral ports for loopback connections
- where tcp_tw_reuse is 100% safe from a protocol perspective
(this assumes no artificially induced packet loss on 'lo').

This also makes estblishing many loopback connections *much* faster
(allocating ports out of the first half of the ephemeral port range
is significantly faster, then allocating from the second half)

Without this change in a 32K ephemeral port space my sample program
(it just establishes and closes [::1]:ephemeral -&gt; [::1]:server_port
connections in a tight loop) fails after 32765 connections in 24 seconds.
With it enabled 50000 connections only take 4.7 seconds.

This is particularly problematic for IPv6 where we only have one local
address and cannot play tricks with varying source IP from 127.0.0.0/8
pool.

Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Cc: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Wang &lt;weiwan@google.com&gt;
Change-Id: I0377961749979d0301b7b62871a32a4b34b654e1
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>tcp: add tcp_comp_sack_nr sysctl</title>
<updated>2018-05-18T15:40:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-17T21:47:29+00:00</published>
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This per netns sysctl allows for TCP SACK compression fine-tuning.

This limits number of SACK that can be compressed.
Using 0 disables SACK compression.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This per netns sysctl allows for TCP SACK compression fine-tuning.

This limits number of SACK that can be compressed.
Using 0 disables SACK compression.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>tcp: add tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns sysctl</title>
<updated>2018-05-18T15:40:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-17T21:47:28+00:00</published>
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This per netns sysctl allows for TCP SACK compression fine-tuning.

Its default value is 1,000,000, or 1 ms to meet TSO autosizing period.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This per netns sysctl allows for TCP SACK compression fine-tuning.

Its default value is 1,000,000, or 1 ms to meet TSO autosizing period.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tcp: disable RFC6675 loss detection</title>
<updated>2018-05-17T19:41:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuchung Cheng</name>
<email>ycheng@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-16T23:40:11+00:00</published>
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This patch disables RFC6675 loss detection and make sysctl
net.ipv4.tcp_recovery = 1 controls a binary choice between RACK
(1) or RFC6675 (0).

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh &lt;soheil@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Priyaranjan Jha &lt;priyarjha@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch disables RFC6675 loss detection and make sysctl
net.ipv4.tcp_recovery = 1 controls a binary choice between RACK
(1) or RFC6675 (0).

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh &lt;soheil@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Priyaranjan Jha &lt;priyarjha@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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