We want to be able to keep more spaces available in our queue for processing incoming multicast traffic (adding (S,G) entries) - this lets us learn more groups faster, rather than dropping them at this stage.
Signed-off-by: Brodie Greenfield <brodie.greenfi...@alliedtelesis.co.nz> --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 8 ++++++++ include/net/netns/ipv4.h | 1 + net/ipv4/af_inet.c | 1 + net/ipv4/ipmr.c | 4 +++- net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | 7 +++++++ 5 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index acdfb5d2bcaa..02f77e932adf 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -887,6 +887,14 @@ ip_local_reserved_ports - list of comma separated ranges Default: Empty +ip_mr_cache_queue_length - INTEGER + Limit the number of multicast packets we can have in the queue to be + resolved. + Bear in mind that when an unresolved multicast packet is received, + there is an O(n) traversal of the queue. This should be considered + if increasing. + Default: 10 + ip_unprivileged_port_start - INTEGER This is a per-namespace sysctl. It defines the first unprivileged port in the network namespace. Privileged ports diff --git a/include/net/netns/ipv4.h b/include/net/netns/ipv4.h index 104a6669e344..3411d3f18d51 100644 --- a/include/net/netns/ipv4.h +++ b/include/net/netns/ipv4.h @@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ struct netns_ipv4 { int sysctl_igmp_max_msf; int sysctl_igmp_llm_reports; int sysctl_igmp_qrv; + unsigned int sysctl_ip_mr_cache_queue_length; struct ping_group_range ping_group_range; diff --git a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c index 0dfb72c46671..8e25538bdb1e 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c +++ b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c @@ -1827,6 +1827,7 @@ static __net_init int inet_init_net(struct net *net) net->ipv4.sysctl_igmp_llm_reports = 1; net->ipv4.sysctl_igmp_qrv = 2; + net->ipv4.sysctl_ip_mr_cache_queue_length = 10; return 0; } diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c index ddbf8c9a1abb..c6a6c3e453a9 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c @@ -1127,6 +1127,7 @@ static int ipmr_cache_unresolved(struct mr_table *mrt, vifi_t vifi, struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) { const struct iphdr *iph = ip_hdr(skb); + struct net *net = dev_net(dev); struct mfc_cache *c; bool found = false; int err; @@ -1142,7 +1143,8 @@ static int ipmr_cache_unresolved(struct mr_table *mrt, vifi_t vifi, if (!found) { /* Create a new entry if allowable */ - if (atomic_read(&mrt->cache_resolve_queue_len) >= 10 || + if (atomic_read(&mrt->cache_resolve_queue_len) >= + net->ipv4.sysctl_ip_mr_cache_queue_length || (c = ipmr_cache_alloc_unres()) == NULL) { spin_unlock_bh(&mfc_unres_lock); diff --git a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c index ba0fc4b18465..78ae86e8c6cb 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c +++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c @@ -784,6 +784,13 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_net_table[] = { .proc_handler = proc_dointvec }, #ifdef CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST + { + .procname = "ip_mr_cache_queue_length", + .data = &init_net.ipv4.sysctl_ip_mr_cache_queue_length, + .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec + }, { .procname = "igmp_qrv", .data = &init_net.ipv4.sysctl_igmp_qrv, -- 2.21.0