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net: increase sk_[max_]ack_backlog

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sk_ack_backlog & sk_max_ack_backlog were 16bit fields, meaning
listen() backlog was limited to 65535.

It is time to increase the width to allow much bigger backlog,
if admins change /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn &
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_syn_backlog default values.

Tested:

echo 5000000 >/proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn
echo 5000000 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_syn_backlog

Ran a SYNFLOOD test against a listener using listen(fd, 5000000)

myhost~# grep request_sock_TCP /proc/slabinfo
request_sock_TCP  4185642 4411940    304   13    1 : tunables   54   27    8 : slabdata 339380 339380      0

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet
2015-03-19 19:04:21 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent fa76ce7328
commit becb74f0ac
2 changed files with 2 additions and 4 deletions
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include/net/sock.h
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@@ -405,8 +405,8 @@ struct sock {
rwlock_t sk_callback_lock;
int sk_err,
sk_err_soft;
unsigned short sk_ack_backlog;
unsigned short sk_max_ack_backlog;
u32 sk_ack_backlog;
u32 sk_max_ack_backlog;
__u32 sk_priority;
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CGROUP_NET_PRIO)
__u32 sk_cgrp_prioidx;