From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: lvxiafei <xiafei_xupt@163.com>,
coreteam@netfilter.org, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com,
horms@kernel.org, kadlec@netfilter.org, kuba@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lvxiafei@sensetime.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com, pablo@netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] netfilter: netns nf_conntrack: per-netns net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_max sysctl
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:16:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250410141655.GA20644@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250410131717.GA14051@breakpoint.cc>
Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> wrote:
> lvxiafei <xiafei_xupt@163.com> wrote:
> > Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> wrote:
> > > I suggest to remove nf_conntrack_max as a global variable,
> > > make net.nf_conntrack_max use init_net.nf_conntrack_max too internally,
> > > so in the init_net both sysctls remain the same.
> >
> > The nf_conntrack_max global variable is a system calculated
> > value and should not be removed.
> > nf_conntrack_max = max_factor * nf_conntrack_htable_size;
>
> Thats the default calculation for the initial sysctl value:
>
> net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c: .data = &nf_conntrack_max,
> net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c: .data = &nf_conntrack_max,
>
> You can make an initial patch that replaces all occurences of
> nf_conntrack_max with cnet->sysctl_conntrack_max
Something like this:
diff --git a/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h b/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h
--- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h
+++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h
@@ -320,7 +320,6 @@ int nf_conntrack_hash_resize(unsigned int hashsize);
extern struct hlist_nulls_head *nf_conntrack_hash;
extern unsigned int nf_conntrack_htable_size;
extern seqcount_spinlock_t nf_conntrack_generation;
-extern unsigned int nf_conntrack_max;
/* must be called with rcu read lock held */
static inline void
@@ -360,6 +359,11 @@ static inline struct nf_conntrack_net *nf_ct_pernet(const struct net *net)
return net_generic(net, nf_conntrack_net_id);
}
+static inline unsigned int nf_conntrack_max(const struct net *net)
+{
+ return net->ct.sysctl_conntrack_max;
+}
+
int nf_ct_skb_network_trim(struct sk_buff *skb, int family);
int nf_ct_handle_fragments(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb,
u16 zone, u8 family, u8 *proto, u16 *mru);
diff --git a/include/net/netns/conntrack.h b/include/net/netns/conntrack.h
--- a/include/net/netns/conntrack.h
+++ b/include/net/netns/conntrack.h
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ struct netns_ct {
u8 sysctl_acct;
u8 sysctl_tstamp;
u8 sysctl_checksum;
+ unsigned int sysctl_conntrack_max;
struct ip_conntrack_stat __percpu *stat;
struct nf_ct_event_notifier __rcu *nf_conntrack_event_cb;
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
index 7f8b245e287a..8ae9c22cfcb3 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
@@ -202,8 +202,6 @@ static void nf_conntrack_all_unlock(void)
unsigned int nf_conntrack_htable_size __read_mostly;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_htable_size);
-unsigned int nf_conntrack_max __read_mostly;
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_max);
seqcount_spinlock_t nf_conntrack_generation __read_mostly;
static siphash_aligned_key_t nf_conntrack_hash_rnd;
@@ -1509,8 +1507,7 @@ static void gc_worker(struct work_struct *work)
gc_work = container_of(work, struct conntrack_gc_work, dwork.work);
i = gc_work->next_bucket;
- if (gc_work->early_drop)
- nf_conntrack_max95 = nf_conntrack_max / 100u * 95u;
+ nf_conntrack_max95 = nf_conntrack_max(&init_net) / 100u * 95u;
if (i == 0) {
gc_work->avg_timeout = GC_SCAN_INTERVAL_INIT;
@@ -1648,13 +1645,14 @@ __nf_conntrack_alloc(struct net *net,
gfp_t gfp, u32 hash)
{
struct nf_conntrack_net *cnet = nf_ct_pernet(net);
- unsigned int ct_count;
+ unsigned int ct_max, ct_count;
struct nf_conn *ct;
/* We don't want any race condition at early drop stage */
ct_count = atomic_inc_return(&cnet->count);
+ ct_max = nf_conntrack_max(&init_net);
- if (nf_conntrack_max && unlikely(ct_count > nf_conntrack_max)) {
+ if (ct_max && unlikely(ct_count > ct_max)) {
if (!early_drop(net, hash)) {
if (!conntrack_gc_work.early_drop)
conntrack_gc_work.early_drop = true;
@@ -2650,7 +2648,7 @@ int nf_conntrack_init_start(void)
if (!nf_conntrack_hash)
return -ENOMEM;
- nf_conntrack_max = max_factor * nf_conntrack_htable_size;
+ init_net.ct.sysctl_conntrack_max = max_factor * nf_conntrack_htable_size;
nf_conntrack_cachep = kmem_cache_create("nf_conntrack",
sizeof(struct nf_conn),
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
index db23876a6016..f1938204b827 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
@@ -2608,7 +2608,7 @@ ctnetlink_stat_ct_fill_info(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 portid, u32 seq, u32 type,
if (nla_put_be32(skb, CTA_STATS_GLOBAL_ENTRIES, htonl(nr_conntracks)))
goto nla_put_failure;
- if (nla_put_be32(skb, CTA_STATS_GLOBAL_MAX_ENTRIES, htonl(nf_conntrack_max)))
+ if (nla_put_be32(skb, CTA_STATS_GLOBAL_MAX_ENTRIES, htonl(nf_conntrack_max(net))))
goto nla_put_failure;
nlmsg_end(skb, nlh);
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c
index 502cf10aab41..8a185dfd3261 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ enum nf_ct_sysctl_index {
static struct ctl_table nf_ct_sysctl_table[] = {
[NF_SYSCTL_CT_MAX] = {
.procname = "nf_conntrack_max",
- .data = &nf_conntrack_max,
+ .data = &init_net.ct.sysctl_conntrack_max,
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
@@ -944,7 +944,7 @@ static struct ctl_table nf_ct_sysctl_table[] = {
static struct ctl_table nf_ct_netfilter_table[] = {
{
.procname = "nf_conntrack_max",
- .data = &nf_conntrack_max,
+ .data = &init_net.ct.sysctl_conntrack_max,
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-04-10 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-07 9:50 [PATCH] netfilter: netns nf_conntrack: per-netns net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_max sysctl lvxiafei
2025-04-07 10:13 ` Florian Westphal
2025-04-07 10:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2025-04-08 8:27 ` lvxiafei
2025-04-08 8:38 ` lvxiafei
2025-04-08 8:17 ` lvxiafei
2025-04-08 9:03 ` [PATCH V2] " lvxiafei
2025-04-08 9:58 ` Florian Westphal
2025-04-08 12:39 ` lvxiafei
2025-04-08 13:28 ` Florian Westphal
2025-04-09 4:14 ` lvxiafei
2025-04-09 4:25 ` [PATCH V3] " lvxiafei
2025-04-09 7:20 ` Florian Westphal
2025-04-09 9:13 ` lvxiafei
2025-04-09 9:42 ` Florian Westphal
2025-04-10 10:02 ` lvxiafei
2025-04-10 10:53 ` Florian Westphal
2025-04-10 13:05 ` lvxiafei
2025-04-10 13:17 ` Florian Westphal
2025-04-10 14:16 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2025-04-11 4:09 ` lvxiafei
2025-04-12 14:37 ` [PATCH V4] " lvxiafei
2025-04-12 17:26 ` [PATCH V5] " lvxiafei
2025-04-12 17:30 ` lvxiafei
2025-04-12 21:16 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-04-13 1:14 ` lvxiafei
2025-04-13 9:07 ` Florian Westphal
2025-04-14 3:04 ` lvxiafei
2025-04-15 9:08 ` [PATCH V6] " lvxiafei
2025-04-27 8:14 ` lvxiafei
2025-04-28 9:40 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2025-05-22 19:24 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2025-05-22 19:32 ` Florian Westphal
2025-05-22 19:58 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2025-05-23 9:21 ` lvxiafei
2025-10-14 13:54 ` Florian Westphal
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