linux/net/ipv4
Kuniyuki Iwashima d1e5e6408b tcp: Introduce optional per-netns ehash.
The more sockets we have in the hash table, the longer we spend looking
up the socket.  While running a number of small workloads on the same
host, they penalise each other and cause performance degradation.

The root cause might be a single workload that consumes much more
resources than the others.  It often happens on a cloud service where
different workloads share the same computing resource.

On EC2 c5.24xlarge instance (196 GiB memory and 524288 (1Mi / 2) ehash
entries), after running iperf3 in different netns, creating 24Mi sockets
without data transfer in the root netns causes about 10% performance
regression for the iperf3's connection.

 thash_entries		sockets		length		Gbps
	524288		      1		     1		50.7
			   24Mi		    48		45.1

It is basically related to the length of the list of each hash bucket.
For testing purposes to see how performance drops along the length,
I set 131072 (1Mi / 8) to thash_entries, and here's the result.

 thash_entries		sockets		length		Gbps
        131072		      1		     1		50.7
			    1Mi		     8		49.9
			    2Mi		    16		48.9
			    4Mi		    32		47.3
			    8Mi		    64		44.6
			   16Mi		   128		40.6
			   24Mi		   192		36.3
			   32Mi		   256		32.5
			   40Mi		   320		27.0
			   48Mi		   384		25.0

To resolve the socket lookup degradation, we introduce an optional
per-netns hash table for TCP, but it's just ehash, and we still share
the global bhash, bhash2 and lhash2.

With a smaller ehash, we can look up non-listener sockets faster and
isolate such noisy neighbours.  In addition, we can reduce lock contention.

We can control the ehash size by a new sysctl knob.  However, depending
on workloads, it will require very sensitive tuning, so we disable the
feature by default (net.ipv4.tcp_child_ehash_entries == 0).  Moreover,
we can fall back to using the global ehash in case we fail to allocate
enough memory for a new ehash.  The maximum size is 16Mi, which is large
enough that even if we have 48Mi sockets, the average list length is 3,
and regression would be less than 1%.

We can check the current ehash size by another read-only sysctl knob,
net.ipv4.tcp_ehash_entries.  A negative value means the netns shares
the global ehash (per-netns ehash is disabled or failed to allocate
memory).

  # dmesg | cut -d ' ' -f 5- | grep "established hash"
  TCP established hash table entries: 524288 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes, vmalloc hugepage)

  # sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_ehash_entries
  net.ipv4.tcp_ehash_entries = 524288  # can be changed by thash_entries

  # sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_child_ehash_entries
  net.ipv4.tcp_child_ehash_entries = 0  # disabled by default

  # ip netns add test1
  # ip netns exec test1 sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_ehash_entries
  net.ipv4.tcp_ehash_entries = -524288  # share the global ehash

  # sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_child_ehash_entries=100
  net.ipv4.tcp_child_ehash_entries = 100

  # ip netns add test2
  # ip netns exec test2 sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_ehash_entries
  net.ipv4.tcp_ehash_entries = 128  # own a per-netns ehash with 2^n buckets

When more than two processes in the same netns create per-netns ehash
concurrently with different sizes, we need to guarantee the size in
one of the following ways:

  1) Share the global ehash and create per-netns ehash

  First, unshare() with tcp_child_ehash_entries==0.  It creates dedicated
  netns sysctl knobs where we can safely change tcp_child_ehash_entries
  and clone()/unshare() to create a per-netns ehash.

  2) Control write on sysctl by BPF

  We can use BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SYSCTL to allow/deny read/write on
  sysctl knobs.

Note that the global ehash allocated at the boot time is spread over
available NUMA nodes, but inet_pernet_hashinfo_alloc() will allocate
pages for each per-netns ehash depending on the current process's NUMA
policy.  By default, the allocation is done in the local node only, so
the per-netns hash table could fully reside on a random node.  Thus,
depending on the NUMA policy the netns is created with and the CPU the
current thread is running on, we could see some performance differences
for highly optimised networking applications.

Note also that the default values of two sysctl knobs depend on the ehash
size and should be tuned carefully:

  tcp_max_tw_buckets  : tcp_child_ehash_entries / 2
  tcp_max_syn_backlog : max(128, tcp_child_ehash_entries / 128)

As a bonus, we can dismantle netns faster.  Currently, while destroying
netns, we call inet_twsk_purge(), which walks through the global ehash.
It can be potentially big because it can have many sockets other than
TIME_WAIT in all netns.  Splitting ehash changes that situation, where
it's only necessary for inet_twsk_purge() to clean up TIME_WAIT sockets
in each netns.

With regard to this, we do not free the per-netns ehash in inet_twsk_kill()
to avoid UAF while iterating the per-netns ehash in inet_twsk_purge().
Instead, we do it in tcp_sk_exit_batch() after calling tcp_twsk_purge() to
keep it protocol-family-independent.

In the future, we could optimise ehash lookup/iteration further by removing
netns comparison for the per-netns ehash.

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2022-09-20 10:21:50 -07:00
..
bpfilter
netfilter tcp: Access &tcp_hashinfo via net. 2022-09-20 10:21:49 -07:00
af_inet.c tcp: Set NULL to sk->sk_prot->h.hashinfo. 2022-09-20 10:21:49 -07:00
ah4.c net: ipv4: fix clang -Wformat warnings 2022-07-12 12:58:53 +02:00
arp.c ipv4: move from strlcpy with unused retval to strscpy 2022-08-22 17:59:37 -07:00
bpf_tcp_ca.c bpf: Switch to new kfunc flags infrastructure 2022-07-21 20:59:42 -07:00
cipso_ipv4.c cipso: Fix data-races around sysctl. 2022-07-08 12:10:33 +01:00
datagram.c net-next: Fix IP_UNICAST_IF option behavior for connected sockets 2022-08-31 19:51:06 -07:00
devinet.c net: Fix data-races around sysctl_devconf_inherit_init_net. 2022-08-24 13:46:58 +01:00
esp4_offload.c
esp4.c tcp: Access &tcp_hashinfo via net. 2022-09-20 10:21:49 -07:00
fib_frontend.c ip: fix triggering of 'icmp redirect' 2022-08-31 19:50:36 -07:00
fib_lookup.h
fib_notifier.c
fib_rules.c ipv4: remove unnecessary type castings 2022-04-30 15:12:58 +01:00
fib_semantics.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2022-07-21 13:03:39 -07:00
fib_trie.c ipv4: Fix data-races around sysctl_fib_notify_on_flag_change. 2022-07-25 12:42:10 +01:00
fou.c genetlink: start to validate reserved header bytes 2022-08-29 12:47:15 +01:00
gre_demux.c
gre_offload.c net: gro: skb_gro_header helper function 2022-08-25 10:33:21 +02:00
icmp.c ip: Fix data-races around sysctl_ip_no_pmtu_disc. 2022-07-15 11:49:55 +01:00
igmp.c bpf: net: Change do_ip_getsockopt() to take the sockptr_t argument 2022-09-02 20:34:31 -07:00
inet_connection_sock.c tcp: Set NULL to sk->sk_prot->h.hashinfo. 2022-09-20 10:21:49 -07:00
inet_diag.c net: inet: Retire port only listening_hash 2022-05-12 16:52:18 -07:00
inet_fragment.c ipv4: remove unnecessary type castings 2022-04-30 15:12:58 +01:00
inet_hashtables.c tcp: Introduce optional per-netns ehash. 2022-09-20 10:21:50 -07:00
inet_timewait_sock.c tcp: Don't allocate tcp_death_row outside of struct netns_ipv4. 2022-09-20 10:21:49 -07:00
inetpeer.c inetpeer: Fix data-races around sysctl. 2022-07-08 12:10:33 +01:00
ip_forward.c ip: Fix data-races around sysctl_ip_fwd_update_priority. 2022-07-15 11:49:55 +01:00
ip_fragment.c
ip_gre.c ip_tunnel: Respect tunnel key's "flow_flags" in IP tunnels 2022-08-18 21:18:28 +02:00
ip_input.c tcp/udp: Make early_demux back namespacified. 2022-07-15 18:50:35 -07:00
ip_options.c
ip_output.c net: unify alloclen calculation for paged requests 2022-08-30 12:02:55 +02:00
ip_sockglue.c Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2022-09-06 23:21:18 +02:00
ip_tunnel_core.c tunnels: do not assume mac header is set in skb_tunnel_check_pmtu() 2022-06-27 11:50:30 +01:00
ip_tunnel.c ip_tunnel: Respect tunnel key's "flow_flags" in IP tunnels 2022-08-18 21:18:28 +02:00
ip_vti.c
ipcomp.c
ipconfig.c Driver core / kernfs changes for 6.0-rc1 2022-08-04 11:31:20 -07:00
ipip.c
ipmr_base.c ipmr: adopt rcu_read_lock() in mr_dump() 2022-06-24 11:34:38 +01:00
ipmr.c bpf: net: Change do_ip_getsockopt() to take the sockptr_t argument 2022-09-02 20:34:31 -07:00
Kconfig fou: Remove XRFM from NET_FOU Kconfig 2022-04-12 14:56:33 -07:00
Makefile
metrics.c
netfilter.c netfilter: Use l3mdev flow key when re-routing mangled packets 2022-05-16 13:03:29 +02:00
netlink.c
nexthop.c nexthop: Fix data-races around nexthop_compat_mode. 2022-07-13 12:56:50 +01:00
ping.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2022-06-23 12:33:24 -07:00
proc.c tcp: Don't allocate tcp_death_row outside of struct netns_ipv4. 2022-09-20 10:21:49 -07:00
protocol.c
raw_diag.c raw: complete rcu conversion 2022-06-21 11:38:29 +02:00
raw.c raw: fix a typo in raw_icmp_error() 2022-06-24 22:48:33 -07:00
route.c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec-next 2022-07-25 13:25:39 +01:00
syncookies.c tcp: Fix data-races around sysctl knobs related to SYN option. 2022-07-20 10:14:49 +01:00
sysctl_net_ipv4.c tcp: Introduce optional per-netns ehash. 2022-09-20 10:21:50 -07:00
tcp_bbr.c bpf: Switch to new kfunc flags infrastructure 2022-07-21 20:59:42 -07:00
tcp_bic.c tcp: add accessors to read/set tp->snd_cwnd 2022-04-06 12:05:41 -07:00
tcp_bpf.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2022-06-23 12:33:24 -07:00
tcp_cdg.c tcp: add accessors to read/set tp->snd_cwnd 2022-04-06 12:05:41 -07:00
tcp_cong.c tcp: Add tracepoint for tcp_set_ca_state 2022-04-07 20:33:15 -07:00
tcp_cubic.c bpf: Switch to new kfunc flags infrastructure 2022-07-21 20:59:42 -07:00
tcp_dctcp.c bpf: Switch to new kfunc flags infrastructure 2022-07-21 20:59:42 -07:00
tcp_dctcp.h
tcp_diag.c tcp: Access &tcp_hashinfo via net. 2022-09-20 10:21:49 -07:00
tcp_fastopen.c tcp: Make SYN ACK RTO tunable by BPF programs with TFO 2022-08-17 10:19:22 +01:00
tcp_highspeed.c tcp: add accessors to read/set tp->snd_cwnd 2022-04-06 12:05:41 -07:00
tcp_htcp.c tcp: add accessors to read/set tp->snd_cwnd 2022-04-06 12:05:41 -07:00
tcp_hybla.c tcp: add accessors to read/set tp->snd_cwnd 2022-04-06 12:05:41 -07:00
tcp_illinois.c tcp: add accessors to read/set tp->snd_cwnd 2022-04-06 12:05:41 -07:00
tcp_input.c tcp: fix early ETIMEDOUT after spurious non-SACK RTO 2022-09-06 11:06:31 +02:00
tcp_ipv4.c tcp: Introduce optional per-netns ehash. 2022-09-20 10:21:50 -07:00
tcp_lp.c tcp: add accessors to read/set tp->snd_cwnd 2022-04-06 12:05:41 -07:00
tcp_metrics.c genetlink: start to validate reserved header bytes 2022-08-29 12:47:15 +01:00
tcp_minisocks.c tcp: Introduce optional per-netns ehash. 2022-09-20 10:21:50 -07:00
tcp_nv.c tcp: add accessors to read/set tp->snd_cwnd 2022-04-06 12:05:41 -07:00
tcp_offload.c net: gro: skb_gro_header helper function 2022-08-25 10:33:21 +02:00
tcp_output.c net: Fix data-races around sysctl_[rw]mem_(max|default). 2022-08-24 13:46:57 +01:00
tcp_rate.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2022-04-28 13:02:01 -07:00
tcp_recovery.c tcp: Fix data-races around sysctl_tcp_recovery. 2022-07-20 10:14:50 +01:00
tcp_scalable.c tcp: add accessors to read/set tp->snd_cwnd 2022-04-06 12:05:41 -07:00
tcp_timer.c tcp: Make SYN ACK RTO tunable by BPF programs with TFO 2022-08-17 10:19:22 +01:00
tcp_ulp.c
tcp_vegas.c tcp: add accessors to read/set tp->snd_cwnd 2022-04-06 12:05:41 -07:00
tcp_vegas.h
tcp_veno.c tcp: add accessors to read/set tp->snd_cwnd 2022-04-06 12:05:41 -07:00
tcp_westwood.c tcp: add accessors to read/set tp->snd_cwnd 2022-04-06 12:05:41 -07:00
tcp_yeah.c tcp: add accessors to read/set tp->snd_cwnd 2022-04-06 12:05:41 -07:00
tcp.c tcp: Introduce optional per-netns ehash. 2022-09-20 10:21:50 -07:00
tunnel4.c
udp_bpf.c net: remove noblock parameter from recvmsg() entities 2022-04-12 15:00:25 +02:00
udp_diag.c
udp_impl.h net: remove noblock parameter from recvmsg() entities 2022-04-12 15:00:25 +02:00
udp_offload.c
udp_tunnel_core.c rxrpc: Fix ICMP/ICMP6 error handling 2022-09-01 11:42:12 +01:00
udp_tunnel_nic.c
udp_tunnel_stub.c
udp.c rxrpc: Fix ICMP/ICMP6 error handling 2022-09-01 11:42:12 +01:00
udplite.c net: add per_cpu_fw_alloc field to struct proto 2022-06-10 16:21:26 -07:00
xfrm4_input.c
xfrm4_output.c
xfrm4_policy.c net: rename reference+tracking helpers 2022-06-09 21:52:55 -07:00
xfrm4_protocol.c net: xfrm: unexport __init-annotated xfrm4_protocol_init() 2022-06-08 10:10:13 -07:00
xfrm4_state.c
xfrm4_tunnel.c