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Herbert Xu 8a35747a5d macvtap: Limit packet queue length
Mark Wagner reported OOM symptoms when sending UDP traffic over
a macvtap link to a kvm receiver.

This appears to be caused by the fact that macvtap packet queues
are unlimited in length.  This means that if the receiver can't
keep up with the rate of flow, then we will hit OOM. Of course
it gets worse if the OOM killer then decides to kill the receiver.

This patch imposes a cap on the packet queue length, in the same
way as the tuntap driver, using the device TX queue length.

Please note that macvtap currently has no way of giving congestion
notification, that means the software device TX queue cannot be
used and packets will always be dropped once the macvtap driver
queue fills up.

This shouldn't be a great problem for the scenario where macvtap
is used to feed a kvm receiver, as the traffic is most likely
external in origin so congestion notification can't be applied
anyway.

Of course, if anybody decides to complain about guest-to-guest
UDP packet loss down the track, then we may have to revisit this.

Incidentally, this patch also fixes a real memory leak when
macvtap_get_queue fails.

Chris Wright noticed that for this patch to work, we need a
non-zero TX queue length.  This patch includes his work to change
the default macvtap TX queue length to 500.

Reported-by: Mark Wagner <mwagner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-22 13:08:56 -07:00
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acpi Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 2010-05-28 14:42:18 -07:00
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drm Merge branch 'drm-for-2.6.35' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6 2010-05-21 11:14:52 -07:00
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linux macvtap: Limit packet queue length 2010-07-22 13:08:56 -07:00
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media V4L/DVB: v4l2-subdev.h: Add support for enum_dv_preset 2010-05-19 12:59:01 -03:00
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net net: fix problem in reading sock TX queue 2010-07-14 20:50:29 -07:00
pcmcia pcmcia: remove unused mem_op.h 2010-05-10 10:23:20 +02:00
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