Re: [PATCH 2.6.5] Re: Fw: Stack sends SYN/ACKs even though accept queue is full]

Re: [PATCH 2.6.5] Re: Fw: Stack sends SYN/ACKs even though accept queue is full]

[Nivedita Singhvi]

> Attaching a patch which adds a sysctl to turn off this
> behaviour.   Could you test this, please?  Patch against
> 2.6.5 vanilla kernel.  If you need a 2.4 version, let me
> know. 

Oops, Andrew pointed out that my mailer had done
the nasty and wrapped my patch. Resending..

thanks,
Nivedita

diff -urN linux-2.6.5/include/linux/sysctl.h
linux-2.6.5synq/include/linux/sysctl.h
--- linux-2.6.5/include/linux/sysctl.h	2004-04-03 19:37:23.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.5synq/include/linux/sysctl.h	2004-04-30 15:24:12.000000000 -0700
@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@
 	NET_IPV4_IPFRAG_SECRET_INTERVAL=94,
 	NET_TCP_WESTWOOD=95,
 	NET_IPV4_IGMP_MAX_MSF=96,
+	NET_TCP_PRELOAD_SYNQ=97,
 };
 
 enum {
diff -urN linux-2.6.5/include/net/tcp.h
linux-2.6.5synq/include/net/tcp.h
--- linux-2.6.5/include/net/tcp.h	2004-04-03 19:36:18.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.5synq/include/net/tcp.h	2004-04-30 13:55:18.000000000 -0700
@@ -583,6 +583,7 @@
 extern int sysctl_tcp_frto;
 extern int sysctl_tcp_low_latency;
 extern int sysctl_tcp_westwood;
+extern int sysctl_tcp_preload_synq;
 
 extern atomic_t tcp_memory_allocated;
 extern atomic_t tcp_sockets_allocated;
diff -urN linux-2.6.5/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
linux-2.6.5synq/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
--- linux-2.6.5/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c	2004-04-03 19:37:37.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.5synq/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c	2004-04-30 16:16:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -601,6 +601,14 @@
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec,
 	},
+	{
+		.ctl_name	= NET_TCP_PRELOAD_SYNQ, 
+		.procname	= "tcp_preload_synq",
+		.data		= &sysctl_tcp_preload_synq,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec,
+	},
 	{ .ctl_name = 0 }
 };
 
diff -urN linux-2.6.5/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
linux-2.6.5synq/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
--- linux-2.6.5/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c	2004-04-03 19:36:55.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.5synq/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c	2004-04-30 15:51:38.000000000 -0700
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@
 extern int sysctl_ip_dynaddr;
 int sysctl_tcp_tw_reuse;
 int sysctl_tcp_low_latency;
+int sysctl_tcp_preload_synq = 1;
 
 /* Check TCP sequence numbers in ICMP packets. */
 #define ICMP_MIN_LENGTH 8
@@ -1442,8 +1443,11 @@
 	 * clogging syn queue with openreqs with exponentially increasing
 	 * timeout.
 	 */
-	if (tcp_acceptq_is_full(sk) && tcp_synq_young(sk) > 1)
-		goto drop;
+	if (tcp_acceptq_is_full(sk)) {
+		if (!sysctl_tcp_preload_synq ||
+		   (sysctl_tcp_preload_synq && (tcp_synq_young(sk) > 1)))
+			goto drop;
+	}
 
 	req = tcp_openreq_alloc();
 	if (!req)
@@ -2683,4 +2687,5 @@
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysctl_local_port_range);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysctl_max_syn_backlog);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysctl_tcp_low_latency);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysctl_tcp_preload_synq);
 #endif