Le 10/10/2016 à 16:04, Florian Westphal a écrit :
> Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com> wrote:
>> After commit b87a2f9199ea ("netfilter: conntrack: add gc worker to remove
>> timed-out entries"), netlink conntrack deletion events may be sent with a
>> huge delay. It could be interesting to let the user tweak gc parameters
>> depending on its use case.
>
> Hmm, care to elaborate?
>
> I am not against doing this but I'd like to hear/read your use case.
>
> The expectation is that in almot all cases eviction will happen from
> packet path. The gc worker is jusdt there for case where a busy system
> goes idle.
It was precisely that case. After a period of activity, the event is sent a long
time after the timeout. If the router does not manage a lot of flows, why not
trying to parse more entries instead of the default 1/64 of the table?
In fact, I don't understand why using GC_MAX_BUCKETS_DIV instead of using always
GC_MAX_BUCKETS whatever the size of the table is.
>
>> +nf_conntrack_gc_max_evicts - INTEGER
>> + The maximum number of entries to be evicted during a run of gc.
>> + This sysctl is only writeable in the initial net namespace.
>
> Hmmm, do you have any advice on sizing this one?
In fact, no ;-)
I really hesitate to expose the four values or just a subset. My goal was also
to get feedback. I can remove this one.
>
> I think a better change might be (instead of adding htis knob) to
> resched the gc worker for immediate re-executaion in case the entire
> "budget" was used. What do you think?
Even if it's not directly related to my problem, I think it's a good idea.
>
>
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
> b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
> --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
> @@ -983,7 +983,7 @@ static void gc_worker(struct work_struct *work)
> return;
>
> ratio = scanned ? expired_count * 100 / scanned : 0;
> - if (ratio >= 90)
> + if (ratio >= 90 || expired_count == GC_MAX_EVICTS)
> next_run = 0;
>
