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author | Abhijeet Rastogi <abhijeet.1989@gmail.com> | 2023-05-17 06:08:49 +0300 |
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committer | Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> | 2023-06-01 22:16:38 +0300 |
commit | 04292c695f82b6cf0d25dd5ae494f16ddbb621f6 (patch) | |
tree | 3badc66a053238d30a88648c32f778c5d83059fb /net/netfilter/ipvs | |
parent | 4ff3dfc91c8458f65366f283167d1cd6f16be06f (diff) | |
download | linux-04292c695f82b6cf0d25dd5ae494f16ddbb621f6.tar.xz |
ipvs: increase ip_vs_conn_tab_bits range for 64BIT
Current range [8, 20] is set purely due to historical reasons
because at the time, ~1M (2^20) was considered sufficient.
With this change, 27 is the upper limit for 64-bit, 20 otherwise.
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>
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netfilter/ipvs')
-rw-r--r-- | net/netfilter/ipvs/Kconfig | 27 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c | 4 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/Kconfig b/net/netfilter/ipvs/Kconfig index 271da8447b29..2a3017b9c001 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/Kconfig +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/Kconfig @@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ config IP_VS_DEBUG config IP_VS_TAB_BITS int "IPVS connection table size (the Nth power of 2)" - range 8 20 + range 8 20 if !64BIT + range 8 27 if 64BIT default 12 help The IPVS connection hash table uses the chaining scheme to handle @@ -54,24 +55,24 @@ 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 - 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 - not far less than the number of connections per second multiplying - average lasting time of connection in the table. For example, your - virtual server gets 200 connections per second, the connection lasts - for 200 seconds in average in the connection table, the table size - should be not far less than 200x200, it is good to set the table - size 32768 (2**15). + from 8 to 27 for 64BIT(20 otherwise), 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 not far less than the number of + connections per second multiplying average lasting time of + connection in the table. For example, your virtual server gets 200 + connections per second, the connection lasts for 200 seconds in + average in the connection table, the table size should be not far + less than 200x200, it is good to set the table size 32768 (2**15). Another note that each connection occupies 128 bytes effectively and each hash entry uses 8 bytes, so you can estimate how much memory is needed for your box. You can overwrite this number setting conn_tab_bits module parameter - or by appending ip_vs.conn_tab_bits=? to the kernel command line - if IP VS was compiled built-in. + or by appending ip_vs.conn_tab_bits=? to the kernel command line if + IP VS was compiled built-in. comment "IPVS transport protocol load balancing support" diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c index 928e64653837..f4c55e65abd1 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c @@ -1485,8 +1485,8 @@ 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 > 27) { + pr_info("conn_tab_bits not in [8, 27]. 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; |