Am Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 04:24:56PM +0200 schrieb Felix Huettner:
> When "commit" is false then conn_not_found will never write to
> ct->conns. This means that the guarantee the mutex provides for us is not
> necessary.
> If "commit" is true then the mutex is still necessary. We need to be sure
> that we do not insert a connection that is added in parallel somewhere
> else.
>
> When doing a loadtest with OVN and natting across two LRs we increased
> our packet rate from 1 Mio pps to 2.5 Mio pps. This mainly comes from
> the UNSNAT and UNDNAT stages of OVN that generally do not match anything
> as long as we are in not specific cases.
>
> Below are some statistics based on the new
> "ovstest test-conntrack benchmark-tcp".
>
> Testconfig 1: '10 10000 100 0 100'
> 10 Threads with 10k connections each. Connections in 100 different
> zones. Each connection is directly closed after setup and we run 100
> iterations.
>
> Testconfig 2: '10 10000 100 20 100'
> 10 Threads with 10k connections each. Connections in 100 different
> zones. Each connection is sends 20 data packets and we run 100
> iterations.
>
> Testconfig 3: '10 10000 1 0 100'
> 10 Threads with 10k connections each. Connections in a single
> zone. Each connection is directly closed after setup and we run 100
> iterations.
>
> Testconfig 4: '10 10000 1 20 100'
> 10 Threads with 10k connections each. Connections in a single
> zone. Each connection is sends 20 data packets and we run 100
> iterations.
>
> Testconfig 5: '10 10 100 20000 100'
> 10 Threads with 10 connections each. Connections in a 100 different
> zones. Each connection is sends 20k data packets and we run 100
> iterations.
>
> Testconfig 6: '10 10 1 20000 100'
> 10 Threads with 10 connections each. Connections in a single
> zone. Each connection is sends 20k data packets and we run 100
> iterations.
>
> Below lists the total time for the testrun with these various configs.
> | | Without this patch | With this patch |
> | Config 1 | 73.8 s | 70.8 s |
> | Config 2 | 72.3 s | 73.1 s |
> | Config 3 | 64.5 s | 68.1 s |
> | Config 4 | 70.7 s | 78.5 s |
> | Config 5 | 43.4 s | 45.5 s |
> | Config 6 | 44.9 s | 47.3 s |
>
> Co-Authored-by: Florian Werner <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Werner <[email protected]>
> Co-Authored-by: Sebastian Riese <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Riese <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Huettner <[email protected]>
> ---
> lib/conntrack.c | 225 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
> 1 file changed, 132 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)
Something strange happened in the CI in regards to installation of
dependencies.
Recheck-request: github-robot-_Build_and_Test
>
> diff --git a/lib/conntrack.c b/lib/conntrack.c
> index f84cdd216..4661e803f 100644
> --- a/lib/conntrack.c
> +++ b/lib/conntrack.c
> @@ -1022,115 +1022,102 @@ ct_verify_helper(const char *helper, enum
> ct_alg_ctl_type ct_alg_ctl)
> }
>
> static struct conn *
> -conn_not_found(struct conntrack *ct, struct dp_packet *pkt,
> - struct conn_lookup_ctx *ctx, bool commit, long long now,
> - const struct nat_action_info_t *nat_action_info,
> - const char *helper, const struct alg_exp_node *alg_exp,
> - enum ct_alg_ctl_type ct_alg_ctl, uint32_t tp_id)
> +conn_insert(struct conntrack *ct, struct dp_packet *pkt,
> + struct conn_lookup_ctx *ctx, long long now,
> + const struct nat_action_info_t *nat_action_info,
> + const char *helper, const struct alg_exp_node *alg_exp,
> + enum ct_alg_ctl_type ct_alg_ctl, uint32_t tp_id)
> OVS_REQUIRES(ct->ct_lock)
> {
> struct conn *nc = NULL;
>
> - if (!valid_new(pkt, &ctx->key)) {
> - pkt->md.ct_state = CS_INVALID;
> + int64_t czl_limit;
> + struct conn_key_node *fwd_key_node, *rev_key_node;
> + struct zone_limit *zl = zone_limit_lookup_or_default(ct,
> + ctx->key.zone);
> + if (zl) {
> + czl_limit = zone_limit_get_limit(ct, &zl->czl);
> + if (czl_limit >= 0 &&
> + atomic_count_get(&zl->czl.count) >= czl_limit) {
> + COVERAGE_INC(conntrack_zone_full);
> + return nc;
> + }
> + }
> +
> + unsigned int n_conn_limit;
> + atomic_read_relaxed(&ct->n_conn_limit, &n_conn_limit);
> + if (atomic_count_get(&ct->n_conn) >= n_conn_limit) {
> + COVERAGE_INC(conntrack_full);
> return nc;
> }
>
> - pkt->md.ct_state = CS_NEW;
> + nc = new_conn(ct, pkt, &ctx->key, now, tp_id);
> + fwd_key_node = &nc->key_node[CT_DIR_FWD];
> + rev_key_node = &nc->key_node[CT_DIR_REV];
> + memcpy(&fwd_key_node->key, &ctx->key, sizeof fwd_key_node->key);
> + memcpy(&rev_key_node->key, &fwd_key_node->key,
> + sizeof rev_key_node->key);
> + conn_key_reverse(&rev_key_node->key);
> +
> + if (ct_verify_helper(helper, ct_alg_ctl)) {
> + nc->alg = nullable_xstrdup(helper);
> + }
>
> if (alg_exp) {
> - pkt->md.ct_state |= CS_RELATED;
> + nc->alg_related = true;
> + nc->mark = alg_exp->parent_mark;
> + nc->label = alg_exp->parent_label;
> + nc->parent_key = alg_exp->parent_key;
> }
>
> - if (commit) {
> - int64_t czl_limit;
> - struct conn_key_node *fwd_key_node, *rev_key_node;
> - struct zone_limit *zl = zone_limit_lookup_or_default(ct,
> - ctx->key.zone);
> - if (zl) {
> - czl_limit = zone_limit_get_limit(ct, &zl->czl);
> - if (czl_limit >= 0 &&
> - atomic_count_get(&zl->czl.count) >= czl_limit) {
> - COVERAGE_INC(conntrack_zone_full);
> - return nc;
> - }
> - }
> + ovs_mutex_init_adaptive(&nc->lock);
> + atomic_flag_clear(&nc->reclaimed);
> + fwd_key_node->dir = CT_DIR_FWD;
> + rev_key_node->dir = CT_DIR_REV;
>
> - unsigned int n_conn_limit;
> - atomic_read_relaxed(&ct->n_conn_limit, &n_conn_limit);
> - if (atomic_count_get(&ct->n_conn) >= n_conn_limit) {
> - COVERAGE_INC(conntrack_full);
> - return nc;
> - }
> + if (zl) {
> + nc->admit_zone = zl->czl.zone;
> + nc->zone_limit_seq = zl->czl.zone_limit_seq;
> + } else {
> + nc->admit_zone = INVALID_ZONE;
> + }
>
> - nc = new_conn(ct, pkt, &ctx->key, now, tp_id);
> - fwd_key_node = &nc->key_node[CT_DIR_FWD];
> - rev_key_node = &nc->key_node[CT_DIR_REV];
> - memcpy(&fwd_key_node->key, &ctx->key, sizeof fwd_key_node->key);
> - memcpy(&rev_key_node->key, &fwd_key_node->key,
> - sizeof rev_key_node->key);
> - conn_key_reverse(&rev_key_node->key);
> -
> - if (ct_verify_helper(helper, ct_alg_ctl)) {
> - nc->alg = nullable_xstrdup(helper);
> - }
> + if (nat_action_info) {
> + nc->nat_action = nat_action_info->nat_action;
>
> if (alg_exp) {
> - nc->alg_related = true;
> - nc->mark = alg_exp->parent_mark;
> - nc->label = alg_exp->parent_label;
> - nc->parent_key = alg_exp->parent_key;
> - }
> -
> - ovs_mutex_init_adaptive(&nc->lock);
> - atomic_flag_clear(&nc->reclaimed);
> - fwd_key_node->dir = CT_DIR_FWD;
> - rev_key_node->dir = CT_DIR_REV;
> -
> - if (zl) {
> - nc->admit_zone = zl->czl.zone;
> - nc->zone_limit_seq = zl->czl.zone_limit_seq;
> - } else {
> - nc->admit_zone = INVALID_ZONE;
> - }
> -
> - if (nat_action_info) {
> - nc->nat_action = nat_action_info->nat_action;
> -
> - if (alg_exp) {
> - if (alg_exp->nat_rpl_dst) {
> - rev_key_node->key.dst.addr = alg_exp->alg_nat_repl_addr;
> - nc->nat_action = NAT_ACTION_SRC;
> - } else {
> - rev_key_node->key.src.addr = alg_exp->alg_nat_repl_addr;
> - nc->nat_action = NAT_ACTION_DST;
> - }
> + if (alg_exp->nat_rpl_dst) {
> + rev_key_node->key.dst.addr = alg_exp->alg_nat_repl_addr;
> + nc->nat_action = NAT_ACTION_SRC;
> } else {
> - bool nat_res = nat_get_unique_tuple(ct, nc, nat_action_info);
> - if (!nat_res) {
> - goto nat_res_exhaustion;
> - }
> + rev_key_node->key.src.addr = alg_exp->alg_nat_repl_addr;
> + nc->nat_action = NAT_ACTION_DST;
> + }
> + } else {
> + bool nat_res = nat_get_unique_tuple(ct, nc, nat_action_info);
> + if (!nat_res) {
> + goto nat_res_exhaustion;
> }
> -
> - nat_packet(pkt, nc, false, ctx->icmp_related);
> - uint32_t rev_hash = conn_key_hash(&rev_key_node->key,
> - ct->hash_basis);
> - cmap_insert(&ct->conns[ctx->key.zone],
> - &rev_key_node->cm_node, rev_hash);
> }
>
> + nat_packet(pkt, nc, false, ctx->icmp_related);
> + uint32_t rev_hash = conn_key_hash(&rev_key_node->key,
> + ct->hash_basis);
> cmap_insert(&ct->conns[ctx->key.zone],
> - &fwd_key_node->cm_node, ctx->hash);
> - conn_expire_push_front(ct, nc);
> - atomic_count_inc(&ct->n_conn);
> -
> - if (zl) {
> - atomic_count_inc(&zl->czl.count);
> - }
> -
> - ctx->conn = nc; /* For completeness. */
> + &rev_key_node->cm_node, rev_hash);
> }
>
> + cmap_insert(&ct->conns[ctx->key.zone],
> + &fwd_key_node->cm_node, ctx->hash);
> + conn_expire_push_front(ct, nc);
> + atomic_count_inc(&ct->n_conn);
> +
> + if (zl) {
> + atomic_count_inc(&zl->czl.count);
> + }
> +
> + ctx->conn = nc; /* For completeness. */
> +
> return nc;
>
> /* This would be a user error or a DOS attack. A user error is prevented
> @@ -1146,6 +1133,62 @@ nat_res_exhaustion:
> return NULL;
> }
>
> +static bool
> +pkt_set_new_ct_state(struct dp_packet *pkt, struct conn_lookup_ctx *ctx,
> + const struct alg_exp_node *alg_exp)
> +{
> + if (!valid_new(pkt, &ctx->key)) {
> + pkt->md.ct_state = CS_INVALID;
> + return false;
> + }
> +
> + pkt->md.ct_state = CS_NEW;
> +
> + if (alg_exp) {
> + pkt->md.ct_state |= CS_RELATED;
> + }
> +
> + return true;
> +}
> +
> +static struct conn *
> +conn_maybe_not_found(struct conntrack *ct, struct dp_packet *pkt,
> + struct conn_lookup_ctx *ctx, bool commit, long long now,
> + const struct nat_action_info_t *nat_action_info,
> + const char *helper, const struct alg_exp_node *alg_exp,
> + enum ct_alg_ctl_type ct_alg_ctl, uint32_t tp_id)
> +{
> + struct conn *nc = NULL;
> +
> + /* Note that we only insert a connection if commit=true. In this
> + * case we must ensure that the connection is not already part of
> + * ct->conns. This means the lock needs to be held across the lookup and
> + * insert.
> + * Since we do not need this sequencing if we do not insert we can skip
> the
> + * lock completely.
> + * We do not use multiple small if's as this confused clangs locking
> + * analysis. */
> + if (commit) {
> + ovs_mutex_lock(&ct->ct_lock);
> + bool found = conn_lookup(ct, &ctx->key, now, NULL, NULL);
> + if (!found) {
> + if (!pkt_set_new_ct_state(pkt, ctx, alg_exp)) {
> + ovs_mutex_unlock(&ct->ct_lock);
> + return nc;
> + }
> + nc = conn_insert(ct, pkt, ctx, now, nat_action_info,
> + helper, alg_exp, ct_alg_ctl, tp_id);
> + }
> + ovs_mutex_unlock(&ct->ct_lock);
> + } else {
> + bool found = conn_lookup(ct, &ctx->key, now, NULL, NULL);
> + if (!found) {
> + pkt_set_new_ct_state(pkt, ctx, alg_exp);
> + }
> + }
> + return nc;
> +}
> +
> static bool
> conn_update_state(struct conntrack *ct, struct dp_packet *pkt,
> struct conn_lookup_ctx *ctx, struct conn *conn,
> @@ -1440,12 +1483,8 @@ process_one(struct conntrack *ct, struct dp_packet
> *pkt,
> }
> ovs_rwlock_unlock(&ct->resources_lock);
>
> - ovs_mutex_lock(&ct->ct_lock);
> - if (!conn_lookup(ct, &ctx->key, now, NULL, NULL)) {
> - conn = conn_not_found(ct, pkt, ctx, commit, now, nat_action_info,
> - helper, alg_exp, ct_alg_ctl, tp_id);
> - }
> - ovs_mutex_unlock(&ct->ct_lock);
> + conn = conn_maybe_not_found(ct, pkt, ctx, commit, now,
> nat_action_info,
> + helper, alg_exp, ct_alg_ctl, tp_id);
> }
>
> write_ct_md(pkt, zone, conn, &ctx->key, alg_exp);
> --
> 2.43.0
>
>
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