releases/2.6.32.23/tcp-fix-three-tcp-sysctls-tuning.patch

From cf69069853065815fba61d3584ea708258dfaed6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:38:12 -0700
Subject: tcp: fix three tcp sysctls tuning


From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit c5ed63d66f24fd4f7089b5a6e087b0ce7202aa8e ]

As discovered by Anton Blanchard, current code to autotune
tcp_death_row.sysctl_max_tw_buckets, sysctl_tcp_max_orphans and
sysctl_max_syn_backlog makes little sense.

The bigger a page is, the less tcp_max_orphans is : 4096 on a 512GB
machine in Anton's case.

(tcp_hashinfo.bhash_size * sizeof(struct inet_bind_hashbucket))
is much bigger if spinlock debugging is on. Its wrong to select bigger
limits in this case (where kernel structures are also bigger)

bhash_size max is 65536, and we get this value even for small machines.

A better ground is to use size of ehash table, this also makes code
shorter and more obvious.

Based on a patch from Anton, and another from David.

Reported-and-tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp.c |   24 +++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -2878,7 +2878,7 @@ void __init tcp_init(void)
 {
 	struct sk_buff *skb = NULL;
 	unsigned long nr_pages, limit;
-	int order, i, max_share;
+	int i, max_share, cnt;
 
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct tcp_skb_cb) > sizeof(skb->cb));
 
@@ -2927,22 +2927,12 @@ void __init tcp_init(void)
 		INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&tcp_hashinfo.bhash[i].chain);
 	}
 
-	/* Try to be a bit smarter and adjust defaults depending
-	 * on available memory.
-	 */
-	for (order = 0; ((1 << order) << PAGE_SHIFT) <
-			(tcp_hashinfo.bhash_size * sizeof(struct inet_bind_hashbucket));
-			order++)
-		;
-	if (order >= 4) {
-		tcp_death_row.sysctl_max_tw_buckets = 180000;
-		sysctl_tcp_max_orphans = 4096 << (order - 4);
-		sysctl_max_syn_backlog = 1024;
-	} else if (order < 3) {
-		tcp_death_row.sysctl_max_tw_buckets >>= (3 - order);
-		sysctl_tcp_max_orphans >>= (3 - order);
-		sysctl_max_syn_backlog = 128;
-	}
+
+	cnt = tcp_hashinfo.ehash_size;
+
+	tcp_death_row.sysctl_max_tw_buckets = cnt / 2;
+	sysctl_tcp_max_orphans = cnt / 2;
+	sysctl_max_syn_backlog = max(128, cnt / 256);
 
 	/* Set the pressure threshold to be a fraction of global memory that
 	 * is up to 1/2 at 256 MB, decreasing toward zero with the amount of