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<entry>
<title>net: add option to not create fall-back tunnels in root-ns as well</title>
<updated>2020-08-28T13:52:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mahesh Bandewar</name>
<email>maheshb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-26T16:05:35+00:00</published>
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The sysctl that was added  earlier by commit 79134e6ce2c ("net: do
not create fallback tunnels for non-default namespaces") to create
fall-back only in root-ns. This patch enhances that behavior to provide
option not to create fallback tunnels in root-ns as well. Since modules
that create fallback tunnels could be built-in and setting the sysctl
value after booting is pointless, so added a kernel cmdline options to
change this default. The default setting is preseved for backward
compatibility. The kernel command line option of fb_tunnels=initns will
set the sysctl value to 1 and will create fallback tunnels only in initns
while kernel cmdline fb_tunnels=none will set the sysctl value to 2 and
fallback tunnels are skipped in every netns.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar &lt;maheshb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Maciej Zenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jian Yang &lt;jianyang@google.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The sysctl that was added  earlier by commit 79134e6ce2c ("net: do
not create fallback tunnels for non-default namespaces") to create
fall-back only in root-ns. This patch enhances that behavior to provide
option not to create fallback tunnels in root-ns as well. Since modules
that create fallback tunnels could be built-in and setting the sysctl
value after booting is pointless, so added a kernel cmdline options to
change this default. The default setting is preseved for backward
compatibility. The kernel command line option of fb_tunnels=initns will
set the sysctl value to 1 and will create fallback tunnels only in initns
while kernel cmdline fb_tunnels=none will set the sysctl value to 2 and
fallback tunnels are skipped in every netns.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar &lt;maheshb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Maciej Zenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jian Yang &lt;jianyang@google.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Check correct cred for CAP_SYSLOG in bpf_dump_raw_ok()</title>
<updated>2020-07-08T23:01:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-02T22:45:23+00:00</published>
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When evaluating access control over kallsyms visibility, credentials at
open() time need to be used, not the "current" creds (though in BPF's
case, this has likely always been the same). Plumb access to associated
file-&gt;f_cred down through bpf_dump_raw_ok() and its callers now that
kallsysm_show_value() has been refactored to take struct cred.

Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7105e828c087 ("bpf: allow for correlation of maps and helpers in dump")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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When evaluating access control over kallsyms visibility, credentials at
open() time need to be used, not the "current" creds (though in BPF's
case, this has likely always been the same). Plumb access to associated
file-&gt;f_cred down through bpf_dump_raw_ok() and its callers now that
kallsysm_show_value() has been refactored to take struct cred.

Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7105e828c087 ("bpf: allow for correlation of maps and helpers in dump")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.sysctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2020-06-10T23:05:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-10T23:05:54+00:00</published>
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Pull sysctl fixes from Al Viro:
 "Fixups to regressions in sysctl series"

* 'work.sysctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  sysctl: reject gigantic reads/write to sysctl files
  cdrom: fix an incorrect __user annotation on cdrom_sysctl_info
  trace: fix an incorrect __user annotation on stack_trace_sysctl
  random: fix an incorrect __user annotation on proc_do_entropy
  net/sysctl: remove leftover __user annotations on neigh_proc_dointvec*
  net/sysctl: use cpumask_parse in flow_limit_cpu_sysctl
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Pull sysctl fixes from Al Viro:
 "Fixups to regressions in sysctl series"

* 'work.sysctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  sysctl: reject gigantic reads/write to sysctl files
  cdrom: fix an incorrect __user annotation on cdrom_sysctl_info
  trace: fix an incorrect __user annotation on stack_trace_sysctl
  random: fix an incorrect __user annotation on proc_do_entropy
  net/sysctl: remove leftover __user annotations on neigh_proc_dointvec*
  net/sysctl: use cpumask_parse in flow_limit_cpu_sysctl
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/sysctl: use cpumask_parse in flow_limit_cpu_sysctl</title>
<updated>2020-06-08T14:13:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-03T05:52:34+00:00</published>
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cpumask_parse_user works on __user pointers, so this is wrong now.

Fixes: 32927393dc1c ("sysctl: pass kernel pointers to -&gt;proc_handler")
Reported-by: build test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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cpumask_parse_user works on __user pointers, so this is wrong now.

Fixes: 32927393dc1c ("sysctl: pass kernel pointers to -&gt;proc_handler")
Reported-by: build test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netns: enable to inherit devconf from current netns</title>
<updated>2020-05-16T20:46:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Dichtel</name>
<email>nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-13T13:58:43+00:00</published>
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The goal is to be able to inherit the initial devconf parameters from the
current netns, ie the netns where this new netns has been created.

This is useful in a containers environment where /proc/sys is read only.
For example, if a pod is created with specifics devconf parameters and has
the capability to create netns, the user expects to get the same parameters
than his 'init_net', which is not the real init_net in this case.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The goal is to be able to inherit the initial devconf parameters from the
current netns, ie the netns where this new netns has been created.

This is useful in a containers environment where /proc/sys is read only.
For example, if a pod is created with specifics devconf parameters and has
the capability to create netns, the user expects to get the same parameters
than his 'init_net', which is not the real init_net in this case.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: pass kernel pointers to -&gt;proc_handler</title>
<updated>2020-04-27T06:07:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-24T06:43:38+00:00</published>
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Instead of having all the sysctl handlers deal with user pointers, which
is rather hairy in terms of the BPF interaction, copy the input to and
from  userspace in common code.  This also means that the strings are
always NUL-terminated by the common code, making the API a little bit
safer.

As most handler just pass through the data to one of the common handlers
a lot of the changes are mechnical.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov &lt;rdna@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Instead of having all the sysctl handlers deal with user pointers, which
is rather hairy in terms of the BPF interaction, copy the input to and
from  userspace in common code.  This also means that the strings are
always NUL-terminated by the common code, making the API a little bit
safer.

As most handler just pass through the data to one of the common handlers
a lot of the changes are mechnical.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov &lt;rdna@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net, sysctl: Fix compiler warning when only cBPF is present</title>
<updated>2019-12-19T16:17:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Lobakin</name>
<email>alobakin@dlink.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-18T09:18:21+00:00</published>
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proc_dointvec_minmax_bpf_restricted() has been firstly introduced
in commit 2e4a30983b0f ("bpf: restrict access to core bpf sysctls")
under CONFIG_HAVE_EBPF_JIT. Then, this ifdef has been removed in
ede95a63b5e8 ("bpf: add bpf_jit_limit knob to restrict unpriv
allocations"), because a new sysctl, bpf_jit_limit, made use of it.
Finally, this parameter has become long instead of integer with
fdadd04931c2 ("bpf: fix bpf_jit_limit knob for PAGE_SIZE &gt;= 64K")
and thus, a new proc_dolongvec_minmax_bpf_restricted() has been
added.

With this last change, we got back to that
proc_dointvec_minmax_bpf_restricted() is used only under
CONFIG_HAVE_EBPF_JIT, but the corresponding ifdef has not been
brought back.

So, in configurations like CONFIG_BPF_JIT=y &amp;&amp; CONFIG_HAVE_EBPF_JIT=n
since v4.20 we have:

  CC      net/core/sysctl_net_core.o
net/core/sysctl_net_core.c:292:1: warning: ‘proc_dointvec_minmax_bpf_restricted’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
  292 | proc_dointvec_minmax_bpf_restricted(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
      | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Suppress this by guarding it with CONFIG_HAVE_EBPF_JIT again.

Fixes: fdadd04931c2 ("bpf: fix bpf_jit_limit knob for PAGE_SIZE &gt;= 64K")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin &lt;alobakin@dlink.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191218091821.7080-1-alobakin@dlink.ru
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proc_dointvec_minmax_bpf_restricted() has been firstly introduced
in commit 2e4a30983b0f ("bpf: restrict access to core bpf sysctls")
under CONFIG_HAVE_EBPF_JIT. Then, this ifdef has been removed in
ede95a63b5e8 ("bpf: add bpf_jit_limit knob to restrict unpriv
allocations"), because a new sysctl, bpf_jit_limit, made use of it.
Finally, this parameter has become long instead of integer with
fdadd04931c2 ("bpf: fix bpf_jit_limit knob for PAGE_SIZE &gt;= 64K")
and thus, a new proc_dolongvec_minmax_bpf_restricted() has been
added.

With this last change, we got back to that
proc_dointvec_minmax_bpf_restricted() is used only under
CONFIG_HAVE_EBPF_JIT, but the corresponding ifdef has not been
brought back.

So, in configurations like CONFIG_BPF_JIT=y &amp;&amp; CONFIG_HAVE_EBPF_JIT=n
since v4.20 we have:

  CC      net/core/sysctl_net_core.o
net/core/sysctl_net_core.c:292:1: warning: ‘proc_dointvec_minmax_bpf_restricted’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
  292 | proc_dointvec_minmax_bpf_restricted(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
      | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Suppress this by guarding it with CONFIG_HAVE_EBPF_JIT again.

Fixes: fdadd04931c2 ("bpf: fix bpf_jit_limit knob for PAGE_SIZE &gt;= 64K")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin &lt;alobakin@dlink.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191218091821.7080-1-alobakin@dlink.ru
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: use listified RX for handling GRO_NORMAL skbs</title>
<updated>2019-08-09T01:22:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Edward Cree</name>
<email>ecree@solarflare.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-06T13:53:55+00:00</published>
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When GRO decides not to coalesce a packet, in napi_frags_finish(), instead
 of passing it to the stack immediately, place it on a list in the napi
 struct.  Then, at flush time (napi_complete_done(), napi_poll(), or
 napi_busy_loop()), call netif_receive_skb_list_internal() on the list.
We'd like to do that in napi_gro_flush(), but it's not called if
 !napi-&gt;gro_bitmask, so we have to do it in the callers instead.  (There are
 a handful of drivers that call napi_gro_flush() themselves, but it's not
 clear why, or whether this will affect them.)
Because a full 64 packets is an inefficiently large batch, also consume the
 list whenever it exceeds gro_normal_batch, a new net/core sysctl that
 defaults to 8.

Signed-off-by: Edward Cree &lt;ecree@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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When GRO decides not to coalesce a packet, in napi_frags_finish(), instead
 of passing it to the stack immediately, place it on a list in the napi
 struct.  Then, at flush time (napi_complete_done(), napi_poll(), or
 napi_busy_loop()), call netif_receive_skb_list_internal() on the list.
We'd like to do that in napi_gro_flush(), but it's not called if
 !napi-&gt;gro_bitmask, so we have to do it in the callers instead.  (There are
 a handful of drivers that call napi_gro_flush() themselves, but it's not
 clear why, or whether this will affect them.)
Because a full 64 packets is an inefficiently large batch, also consume the
 list whenever it exceeds gro_normal_batch, a new net/core sysctl that
 defaults to 8.

Signed-off-by: Edward Cree &lt;ecree@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>proc/sysctl: add shared variables for range check</title>
<updated>2019-07-19T00:08:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matteo Croce</name>
<email>mcroce@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-18T22:58:50+00:00</published>
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In the sysctl code the proc_dointvec_minmax() function is often used to
validate the user supplied value between an allowed range.  This
function uses the extra1 and extra2 members from struct ctl_table as
minimum and maximum allowed value.

On sysctl handler declaration, in every source file there are some
readonly variables containing just an integer which address is assigned
to the extra1 and extra2 members, so the sysctl range is enforced.

The special values 0, 1 and INT_MAX are very often used as range
boundary, leading duplication of variables like zero=0, one=1,
int_max=INT_MAX in different source files:

    $ git grep -E '\.extra[12].*&amp;(zero|one|int_max)' |wc -l
    248

Add a const int array containing the most commonly used values, some
macros to refer more easily to the correct array member, and use them
instead of creating a local one for every object file.

This is the bloat-o-meter output comparing the old and new binary
compiled with the default Fedora config:

    # scripts/bloat-o-meter -d vmlinux.o.old vmlinux.o
    add/remove: 2/2 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 24/-188 (-164)
    Data                                         old     new   delta
    sysctl_vals                                    -      12     +12
    __kstrtab_sysctl_vals                          -      12     +12
    max                                           14      10      -4
    int_max                                       16       -     -16
    one                                           68       -     -68
    zero                                         128      28    -100
    Total: Before=20583249, After=20583085, chg -0.00%

[mcroce@redhat.com: tipc: remove two unused variables]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190530091952.4108-1-mcroce@redhat.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c]
[arnd@arndb.de: proc/sysctl: make firmware loader table conditional]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190617130014.1713870-1-arnd@arndb.de
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/eventpoll.c]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190430180111.10688-1-mcroce@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce &lt;mcroce@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin &lt;atomlin@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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In the sysctl code the proc_dointvec_minmax() function is often used to
validate the user supplied value between an allowed range.  This
function uses the extra1 and extra2 members from struct ctl_table as
minimum and maximum allowed value.

On sysctl handler declaration, in every source file there are some
readonly variables containing just an integer which address is assigned
to the extra1 and extra2 members, so the sysctl range is enforced.

The special values 0, 1 and INT_MAX are very often used as range
boundary, leading duplication of variables like zero=0, one=1,
int_max=INT_MAX in different source files:

    $ git grep -E '\.extra[12].*&amp;(zero|one|int_max)' |wc -l
    248

Add a const int array containing the most commonly used values, some
macros to refer more easily to the correct array member, and use them
instead of creating a local one for every object file.

This is the bloat-o-meter output comparing the old and new binary
compiled with the default Fedora config:

    # scripts/bloat-o-meter -d vmlinux.o.old vmlinux.o
    add/remove: 2/2 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 24/-188 (-164)
    Data                                         old     new   delta
    sysctl_vals                                    -      12     +12
    __kstrtab_sysctl_vals                          -      12     +12
    max                                           14      10      -4
    int_max                                       16       -     -16
    one                                           68       -     -68
    zero                                         128      28    -100
    Total: Before=20583249, After=20583085, chg -0.00%

[mcroce@redhat.com: tipc: remove two unused variables]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190530091952.4108-1-mcroce@redhat.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c]
[arnd@arndb.de: proc/sysctl: make firmware loader table conditional]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190617130014.1713870-1-arnd@arndb.de
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/eventpoll.c]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190430180111.10688-1-mcroce@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce &lt;mcroce@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin &lt;atomlin@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: add high_order_alloc_disable sysctl/static key</title>
<updated>2019-06-15T03:18:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-14T23:22:21+00:00</published>
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&gt;From linux-3.7, (commit 5640f7685831 "net: use a per task frag
allocator") TCP sendmsg() has preferred using order-3 allocations.

While it gives good results for most cases, we had reports
that heavy uses of TCP over loopback were hitting a spinlock
contention in page allocations/freeing.

This commits adds a sysctl so that admins can opt-in
for order-0 allocations. Hopefully mm layer might optimize
order-3 allocations in the future since it could give us
a nice boost  (see 8 lines of following benchmark)

The following benchmark shows a win when more than 8 TCP_STREAM
threads are running (56 x86 cores server in my tests)

for thr in {1..30}
do
 sysctl -wq net.core.high_order_alloc_disable=0
 T0=`./super_netperf $thr -H 127.0.0.1 -l 15`
 sysctl -wq net.core.high_order_alloc_disable=1
 T1=`./super_netperf $thr -H 127.0.0.1 -l 15`
 echo $thr:$T0:$T1
done

1: 49979: 37267
2: 98745: 76286
3: 141088: 110051
4: 177414: 144772
5: 197587: 173563
6: 215377: 208448
7: 241061: 234087
8: 267155: 263373
9: 295069: 297402
10: 312393: 335213
11: 340462: 368778
12: 371366: 403954
13: 412344: 443713
14: 426617: 473580
15: 474418: 507861
16: 503261: 538539
17: 522331: 563096
18: 532409: 567084
19: 550824: 605240
20: 525493: 641988
21: 564574: 665843
22: 567349: 690868
23: 583846: 710917
24: 588715: 736306
25: 603212: 763494
26: 604083: 792654
27: 602241: 796450
28: 604291: 797993
29: 611610: 833249
30: 577356: 841062

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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&gt;From linux-3.7, (commit 5640f7685831 "net: use a per task frag
allocator") TCP sendmsg() has preferred using order-3 allocations.

While it gives good results for most cases, we had reports
that heavy uses of TCP over loopback were hitting a spinlock
contention in page allocations/freeing.

This commits adds a sysctl so that admins can opt-in
for order-0 allocations. Hopefully mm layer might optimize
order-3 allocations in the future since it could give us
a nice boost  (see 8 lines of following benchmark)

The following benchmark shows a win when more than 8 TCP_STREAM
threads are running (56 x86 cores server in my tests)

for thr in {1..30}
do
 sysctl -wq net.core.high_order_alloc_disable=0
 T0=`./super_netperf $thr -H 127.0.0.1 -l 15`
 sysctl -wq net.core.high_order_alloc_disable=1
 T1=`./super_netperf $thr -H 127.0.0.1 -l 15`
 echo $thr:$T0:$T1
done

1: 49979: 37267
2: 98745: 76286
3: 141088: 110051
4: 177414: 144772
5: 197587: 173563
6: 215377: 208448
7: 241061: 234087
8: 267155: 263373
9: 295069: 297402
10: 312393: 335213
11: 340462: 368778
12: 371366: 403954
13: 412344: 443713
14: 426617: 473580
15: 474418: 507861
16: 503261: 538539
17: 522331: 563096
18: 532409: 567084
19: 550824: 605240
20: 525493: 641988
21: 564574: 665843
22: 567349: 690868
23: 583846: 710917
24: 588715: 736306
25: 603212: 763494
26: 604083: 792654
27: 602241: 796450
28: 604291: 797993
29: 611610: 833249
30: 577356: 841062

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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