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From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <dan.streetman@canonical.com>, <ddstreet@ieee.org>,
	<jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: xfrm4_garbage_collect reaching limit
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 06:49:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150918044943.GC7701@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150917.212335.346651920275379240.davem@davemloft.net>

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 09:23:35PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:45:41 +0200
> 
> > index 1e06c4f..3dffc73 100644
> > --- a/net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c
> > +++ b/net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c
> > @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ static struct dst_ops xfrm4_dst_ops = {
> >  	.destroy =		xfrm4_dst_destroy,
> >  	.ifdown =		xfrm4_dst_ifdown,
> >  	.local_out =		__ip_local_out,
> > -	.gc_thresh =		32768,
> > +	.gc_thresh =		INT_MAX,
> >  };
> >  
> >  static struct xfrm_policy_afinfo xfrm4_policy_afinfo = {
> 
> This means the dst_ops->gc() for xfrm will never be invoked.
> 
> Is that intentional?

Yes. This is already the case on systems with less than 8 cpus
because the flowcache is limited to 4096 entries per cpu. The
percpu flowcache shrinks itself to 'low_watermark' enrires if
it hits the percpu limit.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-18  4:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-10 21:01 xfrm4_garbage_collect reaching limit Dan Streetman
2015-09-11  9:48 ` Steffen Klassert
2015-09-15  3:14   ` Dan Streetman
2015-09-16  8:45     ` Steffen Klassert
2015-09-18  4:23       ` David Miller
2015-09-18  4:49         ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
2015-09-18  5:00       ` Dan Streetman
2015-09-21 14:51         ` Dan Streetman
2015-09-30  9:54           ` Steffen Klassert
2015-09-21 14:52       ` Dan Streetman

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