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Jesper Dangaard Brouer fb452a1aa3 Revert "net: use lib/percpu_counter API for fragmentation mem accounting"
This reverts commit 6d7b857d54.

There is a bug in fragmentation codes use of the percpu_counter API,
that can cause issues on systems with many CPUs.

The frag_mem_limit() just reads the global counter (fbc->count),
without considering other CPUs can have upto batch size (130K) that
haven't been subtracted yet.  Due to the 3MBytes lower thresh limit,
this become dangerous at >=24 CPUs (3*1024*1024/130000=24).

The correct API usage would be to use __percpu_counter_compare() which
does the right thing, and takes into account the number of (online)
CPUs and batch size, to account for this and call __percpu_counter_sum()
when needed.

We choose to revert the use of the lib/percpu_counter API for frag
memory accounting for several reasons:

1) On systems with CPUs > 24, the heavier fully locked
   __percpu_counter_sum() is always invoked, which will be more
   expensive than the atomic_t that is reverted to.

Given systems with more than 24 CPUs are becoming common this doesn't
seem like a good option.  To mitigate this, the batch size could be
decreased and thresh be increased.

2) The add_frag_mem_limit+sub_frag_mem_limit pairs happen on the RX
   CPU, before SKBs are pushed into sockets on remote CPUs.  Given
   NICs can only hash on L2 part of the IP-header, the NIC-RXq's will
   likely be limited.  Thus, a fair chance that atomic add+dec happen
   on the same CPU.

Revert note that commit 1d6119baf0 ("net: fix percpu memory leaks")
removed init_frag_mem_limit() and instead use inet_frags_init_net().
After this revert, inet_frags_uninit_net() becomes empty.

Fixes: 6d7b857d54 ("net: use lib/percpu_counter API for fragmentation mem accounting")
Fixes: 1d6119baf0 ("net: fix percpu memory leaks")
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-09-03 11:01:05 -07:00
arch Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2017-09-01 10:36:22 -07:00
block blk-mq-debugfs: Add names for recently added flags 2017-08-25 08:07:44 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: algif_skcipher - only call put_page on referenced and used pages 2017-08-22 14:45:48 +08:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-08-21 13:16:27 -07:00
drivers Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-09-01 12:49:03 -07:00
firmware
fs epoll: fix race between ep_poll_callback(POLLFREE) and ep_free()/ep_remove() 2017-09-01 13:07:35 -07:00
include Revert "net: use lib/percpu_counter API for fragmentation mem accounting" 2017-09-03 11:01:05 -07:00
init random: do not ignore early device randomness 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
ipc ipc: add missing container_of()s for randstruct 2017-08-02 17:16:12 -07:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-09-01 12:49:03 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-09-01 10:30:03 -07:00
mm Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-08-31 17:56:56 -07:00
net Revert "net: use lib/percpu_counter API for fragmentation mem accounting" 2017-09-03 11:01:05 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: fix bpf tunnel cleanup 2017-07-31 22:02:47 -07:00
scripts scripts/dtc: fix '%zx' warning 2017-08-31 16:33:15 -07:00
security Now that IPC and other changes have landed, enable manual markings for 2017-07-19 08:55:18 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v4.13 2017-08-31 14:08:26 +02:00
tools NTB bug fixes to address an incorrect ntb_mw_count reference in the NTB 2017-08-27 17:01:54 -07:00
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virt KVM: update to new mmu_notifier semantic v2 2017-08-31 16:13:00 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-08-20 09:07:56 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.13-rc7 2017-08-27 17:20:40 -07:00
README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.