[NET]: Size listen hash tables using backlog hint

We currently allocate a fixed size (TCP_SYNQ_HSIZE=512) slots hash table for
each LISTEN socket, regardless of various parameters (listen backlog for
example)

On x86_64, this means order-1 allocations (might fail), even for 'small'
sockets, expecting few connections. On the contrary, a huge server wanting a
backlog of 50000 is slowed down a bit because of this fixed limit.

This patch makes the sizing of listen hash table a dynamic parameter,
depending of :
- net.core.somaxconn tunable (default is 128)
- net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog tunable (default : 256, 1024 or 128)
- backlog value given by user application  (2nd parameter of listen())

For large allocations (bigger than PAGE_SIZE), we use vmalloc() instead of
kmalloc().

We still limit memory allocation with the two existing tunables (somaxconn &
tcp_max_syn_backlog). So for standard setups, this patch actually reduce RAM
usage.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Eric Dumazet
2006-11-16 02:30:37 -08:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 3c62f75aac
commit 72a3effaf6
9 changed files with 38 additions and 24 deletions

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@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ int inet_listen(struct socket *sock, int backlog)
* we can only allow the backlog to be adjusted.
*/
if (old_state != TCP_LISTEN) {
err = inet_csk_listen_start(sk, TCP_SYNQ_HSIZE);
err = inet_csk_listen_start(sk, backlog);
if (err)
goto out;
}