This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netfilter: conntrack: remove GC_MAX_EVICTS break
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
netfilter-conntrack-remove-gc_max_evicts-break.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 524b698db06b9b6da7192e749f637904e2f62d7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 18:24:56 +0100
Subject: netfilter: conntrack: remove GC_MAX_EVICTS break
From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 524b698db06b9b6da7192e749f637904e2f62d7b upstream.
Instead of breaking loop and instant resched, don't bother checking
this in first place (the loop calls cond_resched for every bucket anyway).
Suggested-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c | 7 ++-----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
@@ -88,8 +88,6 @@ static __read_mostly bool nf_conntrack_l
#define GC_MAX_BUCKETS_DIV 64u
/* upper bound of scan intervals */
#define GC_INTERVAL_MAX (2 * HZ)
-/* maximum conntracks to evict per gc run */
-#define GC_MAX_EVICTS 256u
static struct conntrack_gc_work conntrack_gc_work;
@@ -979,8 +977,7 @@ static void gc_worker(struct work_struct
*/
rcu_read_unlock();
cond_resched_rcu_qs();
- } while (++buckets < goal &&
- expired_count < GC_MAX_EVICTS);
+ } while (++buckets < goal);
if (gc_work->exiting)
return;
@@ -1005,7 +1002,7 @@ static void gc_worker(struct work_struct
* In case we have lots of evictions next scan is done immediately.
*/
ratio = scanned ? expired_count * 100 / scanned : 0;
- if (ratio >= 90 || expired_count == GC_MAX_EVICTS) {
+ if (ratio >= 90) {
gc_work->next_gc_run = 0;
next_run = 0;
} else if (expired_count) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from fw@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/netfilter-conntrack-remove-gc_max_evicts-break.patch
queue-4.9/netfilter-conntrack-refine-gc-worker-heuristics-redux.patch