This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xfrm: Increase the garbage collector threshold to the 3.10-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: xfrm-increase-the-garbage-collector-threshold.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From eeb1b73378b560e00ff1da2ef09fed9254f4e128 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:21:32 +0200 Subject: xfrm: Increase the garbage collector threshold From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit eeb1b73378b560e00ff1da2ef09fed9254f4e128 upstream. With the removal of the routing cache, we lost the option to tweak the garbage collector threshold along with the maximum routing cache size. So git commit 703fb94ec ("xfrm: Fix the gc threshold value for ipv4") moved back to a static threshold. It turned out that the current threshold before we start garbage collecting is much to small for some workloads, so increase it from 1024 to 32768. This means that we start the garbage collector if we have more than 32768 dst entries in the system and refuse new allocations if we are above 65536. Reported-by: Wolfgang Walter <linux@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c +++ b/net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ static struct dst_ops xfrm4_dst_ops = { .destroy = xfrm4_dst_destroy, .ifdown = xfrm4_dst_ifdown, .local_out = __ip_local_out, - .gc_thresh = 1024, + .gc_thresh = 32768, }; static struct xfrm_policy_afinfo xfrm4_policy_afinfo = { --- a/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c +++ b/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ static struct dst_ops xfrm6_dst_ops = { .destroy = xfrm6_dst_destroy, .ifdown = xfrm6_dst_ifdown, .local_out = __ip6_local_out, - .gc_thresh = 1024, + .gc_thresh = 32768, }; static struct xfrm_policy_afinfo xfrm6_policy_afinfo = { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/xfrm-increase-the-garbage-collector-threshold.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html