Long ago we set out to remove the kitchen sink on kernel/sysctl.c arrays and
placings sysctls to their own sybsystem or file to help avoid merge conflicts.
Matthew Wilcox pointed out though that if we're going to do that we might as
well also *save* space while at it and try to remove the extra last sysctl
entry added at the end of each array, a sentintel, instead of bloating the
kernel by adding a new sentinel with each array moved.
Doing that was not so trivial, and has required slowing down the moves of
kernel/sysctl.c arrays and measuring the impact on size by each new move.
The complex part of the effort to help reduce the size of each sysctl is being
done by the patient work of el señor Don Joel Granados. A lot of this is truly
painful code refactoring and testing and then trying to measure the savings of
each move and removing the sentinels. Although Joel already has code which does
most of this work, experience with sysctl moves in the past shows is we need to
be careful due to the slew of odd build failures that are possible due to the
amount of random Kconfig options sysctls use.
To that end Joel's work is split by first addressing the major housekeeping
needed to remove the sentinels, which is part of this merge request. The rest
of the work to actually remove the sentinels will be done later in future
kernel releases.
At first I was only going to send his first 7 patches of his patch series,
posted 1 month ago, but in retrospect due to the testing the changes have
received in linux-next and the minor changes they make this goes with the
entire set of patches Joel had planned: just sysctl house keeping. There are
networking changes but these are part of the house keeping too.
The preliminary math is showing this will all help reduce the overall build
time size of the kernel and run time memory consumed by the kernel by about
~64 bytes per array where we are able to remove each sentinel in the future.
That also means there is no more bloating the kernel with the extra ~64 bytes
per array moved as no new sentinels are created.
Most of this has been in linux-next for about a month, the last 7 patches took
a minor refresh 2 week ago based on feedback.
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Merge tag 'sysctl-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux
Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
"Long ago we set out to remove the kitchen sink on kernel/sysctl.c
arrays and placings sysctls to their own sybsystem or file to help
avoid merge conflicts. Matthew Wilcox pointed out though that if we're
going to do that we might as well also *save* space while at it and
try to remove the extra last sysctl entry added at the end of each
array, a sentintel, instead of bloating the kernel by adding a new
sentinel with each array moved.
Doing that was not so trivial, and has required slowing down the moves
of kernel/sysctl.c arrays and measuring the impact on size by each new
move.
The complex part of the effort to help reduce the size of each sysctl
is being done by the patient work of el señor Don Joel Granados. A lot
of this is truly painful code refactoring and testing and then trying
to measure the savings of each move and removing the sentinels.
Although Joel already has code which does most of this work,
experience with sysctl moves in the past shows is we need to be
careful due to the slew of odd build failures that are possible due to
the amount of random Kconfig options sysctls use.
To that end Joel's work is split by first addressing the major
housekeeping needed to remove the sentinels, which is part of this
merge request. The rest of the work to actually remove the sentinels
will be done later in future kernel releases.
The preliminary math is showing this will all help reduce the overall
build time size of the kernel and run time memory consumed by the
kernel by about ~64 bytes per array where we are able to remove each
sentinel in the future. That also means there is no more bloating the
kernel with the extra ~64 bytes per array moved as no new sentinels
are created"
* tag 'sysctl-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
sysctl: Use ctl_table_size as stopping criteria for list macro
sysctl: SIZE_MAX->ARRAY_SIZE in register_net_sysctl
vrf: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
networking: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
netfilter: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
ax.25: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
sysctl: Add size to register_net_sysctl function
sysctl: Add size arg to __register_sysctl_init
sysctl: Add size to register_sysctl
sysctl: Add a size arg to __register_sysctl_table
sysctl: Add size argument to init_header
sysctl: Add ctl_table_size to ctl_table_header
sysctl: Use ctl_table_header in list_for_each_table_entry
sysctl: Prefer ctl_table_header in proc_sysctl
Move from register_net_sysctl to register_net_sysctl_sz for all the
networking related files. Do this while making sure to mirror the NULL
assignments with a table_size of zero for the unprivileged users.
We need to move to the new function in preparation for when we change
SIZE_MAX to ARRAY_SIZE() in the register_net_sysctl macro. Failing to do
so would erroneously allow ARRAY_SIZE() to be called on a pointer. We
hold off the SIZE_MAX to ARRAY_SIZE change until we have migrated all
the relevant net sysctl registering functions to register_net_sysctl_sz
in subsequent commits.
An additional size function was added to the following files in order to
calculate the size of an array that is defined in another file:
include/net/ipv6.h
net/ipv6/icmp.c
net/ipv6/route.c
net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Commit 0227f058aa ("net/smc: Unbind r/w buffer size from clcsock
and make them tunable") introduced the net.smc.rmem and net.smc.wmem
sysctls to specify the size of buffers to be used for SMC type
connections. This created a regression for users that specified the
buffer size via setsockopt() as the effective buffer size was now
doubled.
Re-introduce the division by 2 in the SMC buffer create code and level
this out by duplicating the net.smc.[rw]mem values used for initializing
sk_rcvbuf/sk_sndbuf at socket creation time. This gives users of both
methods (setsockopt or sysctl) the effective buffer size that they
expect.
Initialize net.smc.[rw]mem from its own constant of 64kB, respectively.
Internal performance tests show that this value is a good compromise
between throughput/latency and memory consumption. Also, this decouples
it from any tuning that was done to net.ipv4.tcp_[rw]mem[1] before the
module for SMC protocol was loaded. Check that no more than INT_MAX / 2
is assigned to net.smc.[rw]mem, in order to avoid any overflow condition
when that is doubled for use in sk_sndbuf or sk_rcvbuf.
While at it, drop the confusing sk_buf_size variable from
__smc_buf_create and name "compressed" buffer size variables more
consistently.
Background:
Before the commit mentioned above, SMC's buffer allocator in
__smc_buf_create() always used half of the sockets' sk_rcvbuf/sk_sndbuf
value as initial value to search for appropriate buffers. If the search
resorted to using a bigger buffer when all buffers of the specified
size were busy, the duplicate of the used effective buffer size is
stored back to sk_rcvbuf/sk_sndbuf.
When available, buffers of exactly the size that a user had specified as
input to setsockopt() were used, despite setsockopt()'s documentation in
"man 7 socket" talking of a mandatory duplication:
[...]
SO_SNDBUF
Sets or gets the maximum socket send buffer in bytes.
The kernel doubles this value (to allow space for book‐
keeping overhead) when it is set using setsockopt(2),
and this doubled value is returned by getsockopt(2).
The default value is set by the
/proc/sys/net/core/wmem_default file and the maximum
allowed value is set by the /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max
file. The minimum (doubled) value for this option is
2048.
[...]
Fixes: 0227f058aa ("net/smc: Unbind r/w buffer size from clcsock and make them tunable")
Co-developed-by: Jan Karcher <jaka@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Karcher <jaka@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Lu <tonylu@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Bayer <gbayer@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently, SMC uses smc->sk.sk_{rcv|snd}buf to create buffers for
send buffer and RMB. And the values of buffer size are from tcp_{w|r}mem
in clcsock.
The buffer size from TCP socket doesn't fit SMC well. Generally, buffers
are usually larger than TCP for SMC-R/-D to get higher performance, for
they are different underlay devices and paths.
So this patch unbinds buffer size from TCP, and introduces two sysctl
knobs to tune them independently. Also, these knobs are per net
namespace and work for containers.
Signed-off-by: Tony Lu <tonylu@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
SMC-R tests the viability of link by sending out TEST_LINK LLC
messages over RoCE fabric when connections on link have been
idle for a time longer than keepalive interval (testlink time).
But using tcp_keepalive_time as testlink time maybe not quite
suitable because it is default no less than two hours[1], which
is too long for single link to find peer dead. The active host
will still use peer-dead link (QP) sending messages, and can't
find out until get IB_WC_RETRY_EXC_ERR error CQEs, which takes
more time than TEST_LINK timeout (SMC_LLC_WAIT_TIME) normally.
So this patch introduces a independent sysctl for SMC-R to set
link keepalive time, in order to detect link down in time. The
default value is 30 seconds.
[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1122#page-101
Signed-off-by: Wen Gu <guwen@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
This patch introduces the sysctl smcr_buf_type for setting
the type of SMC-R sndbufs and RMBs.
Valid values includes:
- SMCR_PHYS_CONT_BUFS, which means use physically contiguous
buffers for better performance and is the default value.
- SMCR_VIRT_CONT_BUFS, which means use virtually contiguous
buffers in case of physically contiguous memory is scarce.
- SMCR_MIXED_BUFS, which means first try to use physically
contiguous buffers. If not available, then use virtually
contiguous buffers.
Signed-off-by: Wen Gu <guwen@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Recently added smc_sysctl_net_exit() forgot to free
the memory allocated from smc_sysctl_net_init()
for non initial network namespace.
Fixes: 462791bbfa ("net/smc: add sysctl interface for SMC")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Cc: Tony Lu <tonylu@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Dust Li <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
kernel test robot reports multiple warning for smc_sysctl:
In file included from net/smc/smc_sysctl.c:17:
>> net/smc/smc_sysctl.h:23:5: warning: no previous prototype \
for function 'smc_sysctl_init' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
int smc_sysctl_init(void)
^
and
>> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o(.text+0x12ced2d): Section mismatch \
in reference from the function smc_sysctl_exit() to the variable
.init.data:smc_sysctl_ops
The function smc_sysctl_exit() references
the variable __initdata smc_sysctl_ops.
This is often because smc_sysctl_exit lacks a __initdata
annotation or the annotation of smc_sysctl_ops is wrong.
and
net/smc/smc_sysctl.c: In function 'smc_sysctl_init_net':
net/smc/smc_sysctl.c:47:17: error: 'struct netns_smc' has no member named 'smc_hdr'
47 | net->smc.smc_hdr = register_net_sysctl(net, "net/smc", table);
Since we don't need global sysctl initialization. To make things
clean and simple, remove the global pernet_operations and
smc_sysctl_{init|exit}. Call smc_sysctl_net_{init|exit} directly
from smc_net_{init|exit}.
Also initialized sysctl_autocorking_size if CONFIG_SYSCTL it not
set, this make sure SMC autocorking is enabled by default if
CONFIG_SYSCTL is not set.
Fixes: 462791bbfa ("net/smc: add sysctl interface for SMC")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dust Li <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> # build-tested
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This add a new sysctl: net.smc.autocorking_size
We can dynamically change the behaviour of autocorking
by change the value of autocorking_size.
Setting to 0 disables autocorking in SMC
Signed-off-by: Dust Li <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch add sysctl interface to support container environment
for SMC as we talk in the mail list.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20220224020253.GF5443@linux.alibaba.com
Co-developed-by: Tony Lu <tonylu@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Lu <tonylu@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Dust Li <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
