Patch "xfrm: Increase the garbage collector threshold" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From eeb1b73378b560e00ff1da2ef09fed9254f4e128 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:21:32 +0200
Subject: xfrm: Increase the garbage collector threshold

From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>

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@stwm.de>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 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@secunet.com are

queue-3.10/xfrm-increase-the-garbage-collector-threshold.patch