Re: [PATCH net-next v5] rps: selective flow shedding during softnet overflow

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:37:27 -0400

> A cpu executing the network receive path sheds packets when its input
> queue grows to netdev_max_backlog. A single high rate flow (such as a
> spoofed source DoS) can exceed a single cpu processing rate and will
> degrade throughput of other flows hashed onto the same cpu.
> 
> This patch adds a more fine grained hashtable. If the netdev backlog
> is above a threshold, IRQ cpus track the ratio of total traffic of
> each flow (using 4096 buckets, configurable). The ratio is measured
> by counting the number of packets per flow over the last 256 packets
> from the source cpu. Any flow that occupies a large fraction of this
> (set at 50%) will see packet drop while above the threshold.
> 
> Tested:
> Setup is a muli-threaded UDP echo server with network rx IRQ on cpu0,
> kernel receive (RPS) on cpu0 and application threads on cpus 2--7
> each handling 20k req/s. Throughput halves when hit with a 400 kpps
> antagonist storm. With this patch applied, antagonist overload is
> dropped and the server processes its complete load.
> 
> The patch is effective when kernel receive processing is the
> bottleneck. The above RPS scenario is a extreme, but the same is
> reached with RFS and sufficient kernel processing (iptables, packet
> socket tap, ..).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>

This does't compile:

net/core/sysctl_net_core.c: In function ‘flow_limit_cpu_sysctl’:
net/core/sysctl_net_core.c:114:10: error: invalid type argument of ‘->’ (have ‘struct mutex’)

Also, please change the Kconfig entry to be:

config NET_FLOW_LIMIT
	boolean
	depends on RPS
	default y


like RPS et al. are.

Thanks.