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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ipvs: change ip_vs_conn_tab_bits range to [8,31]

Hello,

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023, Abhijeet Rastogi via B4 Relay wrote:

> From: Abhijeet Rastogi <abhijeet.1989@gmail.com>
>
> Current range [8, 20] is set purely due to historical reasons
> because at the time, ~1M (2^20) was considered sufficient.
>
> Previous change regarding this limit is here.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/86eabeb9dd62aebf1e2533926fdd13fed48bab1f.1631289960.git.aclaudi@redhat.com/T/#u
>
> Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Rastogi <abhijeet.1989@gmail.com>
> ---
> The conversation for this started at:
>
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/netfilter/msg60995.html
>
> The upper limit for algo is any bit size less than 32, so this
> change will allow us to set bit size > 20. Today, it is common to have
> RAM available to handle greater than 2^20 connections per-host.

This is not a limit of number of connections. I prefer
not to allow value above 24 without adding checks for the
available memory, this more concern for 32-bit. Blindly
allocating 2^20 (1048576 pointers which is 8MB) should not
cause OOM but selecting large value and then using this
kernel on boxes with less memory is dangerous.

> Distros like RHEL already have higher limits set.
> ---
> net/netfilter/ipvs/Kconfig | 4 ++--
> net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c | 4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/Kconfig b/net/netfilter/ipvs/Kconfig
> index 271da8447b29..3e3371f8c0f9 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/Kconfig
> +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/Kconfig
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ config IP_VS_DEBUG
>
> config IP_VS_TAB_BITS
> int "IPVS connection table size (the Nth power of 2)"
> - range 8 20
> + range 8 31
> default 12
> help
> The IPVS connection hash table uses the chaining scheme to handle
> @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ config IP_VS_TAB_BITS
>
> Note the table size must be power of 2. The table size will be the
> value of 2 to the your input number power. The number to choose is
> - from 8 to 20, the default number is 12, which means the table size
> + from 8 to 31, the default number is 12, which means the table size
> is 4096. Don't input the number too small, otherwise you will lose
> performance on it. You can adapt the table size yourself, according
> to your virtual server application. It is good to set the table size
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c
> index 13534e02346c..bc0fe1a698d4 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c
> @@ -1484,8 +1484,8 @@ int __init ip_vs_conn_init(void)
> int idx;
>
> /* Compute size and mask */
> - if (ip_vs_conn_tab_bits < 8 || ip_vs_conn_tab_bits > 20) {
> - pr_info("conn_tab_bits not in [8, 20]. Using default value\n");
> + if (ip_vs_conn_tab_bits < 8 || ip_vs_conn_tab_bits > 31) {
> + pr_info("conn_tab_bits not in [8, 31]. Using default value\n");
> ip_vs_conn_tab_bits = CONFIG_IP_VS_TAB_BITS;
> }
> ip_vs_conn_tab_size = 1 << ip_vs_conn_tab_bits;
>
> ---
> base-commit: 09a9639e56c01c7a00d6c0ca63f4c7c41abe075d
> change-id: 20230412-increase_ipvs_conn_tab_bits-4322c90da216
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Abhijeet Rastogi <abhijeet.1989@gmail.com>

Regards

--
Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>

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