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Message-ID: <20091229013401.GE10172@verge.net.au>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:34:07 +1100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
To: Mark Bergsma <mark@...imedia.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org,
"Catalin(ux) M. BOIE" <catab@...edromix.ro>,
Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack@...d.net>,
Graeme Fowler <graeme@...emef.net>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPVS: Allow boot time change of hash size.
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 07:49:38PM +0100, Mark Bergsma wrote:
> On 03-12-08 01:37, David Miller wrote:
> > From: "Catalin(ux) M. BOIE" <catab@...edromix.ro>
> > Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:16:04 -0700 (MST)
> >> I was looking for anything that could get me past of 88.000 request per
> >> seconds.
> >> The help text told me to raise that value if I have big number of
> >> connections. I just needed an easy way to test.
> >
> > You're just repeating what I said, you "think" it should be
> > changed and as a result you are wasting everyones time.
> >
> > You don't actually "know", you're just guessing using random
> > snippets from documentation rather than good hard evidence of
> > a need.
>
> Hello,
>
> I just found this year-old thread about a patch allowing the IPVS
> connection hash table size to be set at load time by a module parameter.
> Apparently the conclusion reached was that allowing this configuration
> setting to be changed would be useless, and that the poster's
> performance problems would likely lie elsewhere, since he had no
> evidence it was caused by the hash table size.
Hi Mark,
thanks for your test results. I have added them to the patch.
Feel free to edit the text.
From: Catalin(ux) M. BOIE <catab@...edromix.ro>
IPVS: Allow boot time change of hash size.
I was very frustrated about the fact that I have to recompile the kernel
to change the hash size. So, I created this patch.
If IPVS is built-in you can append ip_vs.conn_tab_bits=?? to kernel
command line, or, if you built IPVS as modules, you can add
options ip_vs conn_tab_bits=??.
To keep everything backward compatible, you still can select the size at
compile time, and that will be used as default.
[ horms@...ge.net.au: trivial up-port and minor style fixes ]
Signed-off-by: Catalin(ux) M. BOIE <catab@...edromix.ro>
Cc: Mark Bergsma <mark@...imedia.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
---
It has been about a year since this patch was originally posted
and subsequently dropped on the basis of insufficient test data.
Mark Bergsma has provided the following test results which seem
to strongly support the need for larger hash table sizes:
We do however run into the same problem with the default setting (2^12 =
4096 entries), as most of our LVS balancers handle around a million
connections/SLAB entries at any point in time (around 100-150 kpps
load). With only 4096 hash table entries this implies that each entry
consists of a linked list of 256 connections *on average*.
To provide some statistics, I did an oprofile run on an 2.6.31 kernel,
with both the default 4096 table size, and the same kernel recompiled
with IP_VS_CONN_TAB_BITS set to 18 (2^18 = 262144 entries). I built a
quick test setup with a part of Wikimedia/Wikipedia's live traffic
mirrored by the switch to the test host.
With the default setting, at ~ 120 kpps packet load we saw a typical %si
CPU usage of around 30-35%, and oprofile reported a hot spot in
ip_vs_conn_in_get:
samples % image name app name
symbol name
1719761 42.3741 ip_vs.ko ip_vs.ko ip_vs_conn_in_get
302577 7.4554 bnx2 bnx2 /bnx2
181984 4.4840 vmlinux vmlinux __ticket_spin_lock
128636 3.1695 vmlinux vmlinux ip_route_input
74345 1.8318 ip_vs.ko ip_vs.ko ip_vs_conn_out_get
68482 1.6874 vmlinux vmlinux mwait_idle
After loading the recompiled kernel with 2^18 entries, %si CPU usage
dropped in half to around 12-18%, and oprofile looks much healthier,
with only 7% spent in ip_vs_conn_in_get:
samples % image name app name
symbol name
265641 14.4616 bnx2 bnx2 /bnx2
143251 7.7986 vmlinux vmlinux __ticket_spin_lock
140661 7.6576 ip_vs.ko ip_vs.ko ip_vs_conn_in_get
94364 5.1372 vmlinux vmlinux mwait_idle
86267 4.6964 vmlinux vmlinux ip_route_input
Index: net-next-2.6/include/net/ip_vs.h
===================================================================
--- net-next-2.6.orig/include/net/ip_vs.h 2009-12-29 10:18:56.000000000 +0900
+++ net-next-2.6/include/net/ip_vs.h 2009-12-29 10:19:13.000000000 +0900
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@
#include <linux/ipv6.h> /* for struct ipv6hdr */
#include <net/ipv6.h> /* for ipv6_addr_copy */
+
+/* Connections' size value needed by ip_vs_ctl.c */
+extern int ip_vs_conn_tab_size;
+
+
struct ip_vs_iphdr {
int len;
__u8 protocol;
@@ -592,17 +597,6 @@ extern void ip_vs_init_hash_table(struct
* (from ip_vs_conn.c)
*/
-/*
- * IPVS connection entry hash table
- */
-#ifndef CONFIG_IP_VS_TAB_BITS
-#define CONFIG_IP_VS_TAB_BITS 12
-#endif
-
-#define IP_VS_CONN_TAB_BITS CONFIG_IP_VS_TAB_BITS
-#define IP_VS_CONN_TAB_SIZE (1 << IP_VS_CONN_TAB_BITS)
-#define IP_VS_CONN_TAB_MASK (IP_VS_CONN_TAB_SIZE - 1)
-
enum {
IP_VS_DIR_INPUT = 0,
IP_VS_DIR_OUTPUT,
Index: net-next-2.6/net/netfilter/ipvs/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- net-next-2.6.orig/net/netfilter/ipvs/Kconfig 2009-12-29 10:18:56.000000000 +0900
+++ net-next-2.6/net/netfilter/ipvs/Kconfig 2009-12-29 10:19:13.000000000 +0900
@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ config IP_VS_TAB_BITS
each hash entry uses 8 bytes, so you can estimate how much memory is
needed for your box.
+ You can overwrite this number setting conn_tab_bits module parameter
+ or by appending ip_vs.conn_tab_bits=? to the kernel command line
+ if IP VS was compiled built-in.
+
comment "IPVS transport protocol load balancing support"
config IP_VS_PROTO_TCP
Index: net-next-2.6/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c
===================================================================
--- net-next-2.6.orig/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c 2009-12-29 10:18:56.000000000 +0900
+++ net-next-2.6/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c 2009-12-29 10:19:13.000000000 +0900
@@ -40,6 +40,21 @@
#include <net/ip_vs.h>
+#ifndef CONFIG_IP_VS_TAB_BITS
+#define CONFIG_IP_VS_TAB_BITS 12
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * Connection hash size. Default is what was selected at compile time.
+*/
+int ip_vs_conn_tab_bits = CONFIG_IP_VS_TAB_BITS;
+module_param_named(conn_tab_bits, ip_vs_conn_tab_bits, int, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(conn_tab_bits, "Set connections' hash size");
+
+/* size and mask values */
+int ip_vs_conn_tab_size;
+int ip_vs_conn_tab_mask;
+
/*
* Connection hash table: for input and output packets lookups of IPVS
*/
@@ -125,11 +140,11 @@ static unsigned int ip_vs_conn_hashkey(i
if (af == AF_INET6)
return jhash_3words(jhash(addr, 16, ip_vs_conn_rnd),
(__force u32)port, proto, ip_vs_conn_rnd)
- & IP_VS_CONN_TAB_MASK;
+ & ip_vs_conn_tab_mask;
#endif
return jhash_3words((__force u32)addr->ip, (__force u32)port, proto,
ip_vs_conn_rnd)
- & IP_VS_CONN_TAB_MASK;
+ & ip_vs_conn_tab_mask;
}
@@ -760,7 +775,7 @@ static void *ip_vs_conn_array(struct seq
int idx;
struct ip_vs_conn *cp;
- for(idx = 0; idx < IP_VS_CONN_TAB_SIZE; idx++) {
+ for (idx = 0; idx < ip_vs_conn_tab_size; idx++) {
ct_read_lock_bh(idx);
list_for_each_entry(cp, &ip_vs_conn_tab[idx], c_list) {
if (pos-- == 0) {
@@ -797,7 +812,7 @@ static void *ip_vs_conn_seq_next(struct
idx = l - ip_vs_conn_tab;
ct_read_unlock_bh(idx);
- while (++idx < IP_VS_CONN_TAB_SIZE) {
+ while (++idx < ip_vs_conn_tab_size) {
ct_read_lock_bh(idx);
list_for_each_entry(cp, &ip_vs_conn_tab[idx], c_list) {
seq->private = &ip_vs_conn_tab[idx];
@@ -976,8 +991,8 @@ void ip_vs_random_dropentry(void)
/*
* Randomly scan 1/32 of the whole table every second
*/
- for (idx = 0; idx < (IP_VS_CONN_TAB_SIZE>>5); idx++) {
- unsigned hash = net_random() & IP_VS_CONN_TAB_MASK;
+ for (idx = 0; idx < (ip_vs_conn_tab_size>>5); idx++) {
+ unsigned hash = net_random() & ip_vs_conn_tab_mask;
/*
* Lock is actually needed in this loop.
@@ -1029,7 +1044,7 @@ static void ip_vs_conn_flush(void)
struct ip_vs_conn *cp;
flush_again:
- for (idx=0; idx<IP_VS_CONN_TAB_SIZE; idx++) {
+ for (idx = 0; idx < ip_vs_conn_tab_size; idx++) {
/*
* Lock is actually needed in this loop.
*/
@@ -1060,10 +1075,15 @@ int __init ip_vs_conn_init(void)
{
int idx;
+ /* Compute size and mask */
+ ip_vs_conn_tab_size = 1 << ip_vs_conn_tab_bits;
+ ip_vs_conn_tab_mask = ip_vs_conn_tab_size - 1;
+
/*
* Allocate the connection hash table and initialize its list heads
*/
- ip_vs_conn_tab = vmalloc(IP_VS_CONN_TAB_SIZE*sizeof(struct list_head));
+ ip_vs_conn_tab = vmalloc(ip_vs_conn_tab_size *
+ sizeof(struct list_head));
if (!ip_vs_conn_tab)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1078,12 +1098,12 @@ int __init ip_vs_conn_init(void)
pr_info("Connection hash table configured "
"(size=%d, memory=%ldKbytes)\n",
- IP_VS_CONN_TAB_SIZE,
- (long)(IP_VS_CONN_TAB_SIZE*sizeof(struct list_head))/1024);
+ ip_vs_conn_tab_size,
+ (long)(ip_vs_conn_tab_size*sizeof(struct list_head))/1024);
IP_VS_DBG(0, "Each connection entry needs %Zd bytes at least\n",
sizeof(struct ip_vs_conn));
- for (idx = 0; idx < IP_VS_CONN_TAB_SIZE; idx++) {
+ for (idx = 0; idx < ip_vs_conn_tab_size; idx++) {
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ip_vs_conn_tab[idx]);
}
Index: net-next-2.6/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
===================================================================
--- net-next-2.6.orig/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c 2009-12-29 10:18:56.000000000 +0900
+++ net-next-2.6/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c 2009-12-29 10:19:13.000000000 +0900
@@ -1843,7 +1843,7 @@ static int ip_vs_info_seq_show(struct se
if (v == SEQ_START_TOKEN) {
seq_printf(seq,
"IP Virtual Server version %d.%d.%d (size=%d)\n",
- NVERSION(IP_VS_VERSION_CODE), IP_VS_CONN_TAB_SIZE);
+ NVERSION(IP_VS_VERSION_CODE), ip_vs_conn_tab_size);
seq_puts(seq,
"Prot LocalAddress:Port Scheduler Flags\n");
seq_puts(seq,
@@ -2374,7 +2374,7 @@ do_ip_vs_get_ctl(struct sock *sk, int cm
char buf[64];
sprintf(buf, "IP Virtual Server version %d.%d.%d (size=%d)",
- NVERSION(IP_VS_VERSION_CODE), IP_VS_CONN_TAB_SIZE);
+ NVERSION(IP_VS_VERSION_CODE), ip_vs_conn_tab_size);
if (copy_to_user(user, buf, strlen(buf)+1) != 0) {
ret = -EFAULT;
goto out;
@@ -2387,7 +2387,7 @@ do_ip_vs_get_ctl(struct sock *sk, int cm
{
struct ip_vs_getinfo info;
info.version = IP_VS_VERSION_CODE;
- info.size = IP_VS_CONN_TAB_SIZE;
+ info.size = ip_vs_conn_tab_size;
info.num_services = ip_vs_num_services;
if (copy_to_user(user, &info, sizeof(info)) != 0)
ret = -EFAULT;
@@ -3231,7 +3231,7 @@ static int ip_vs_genl_get_cmd(struct sk_
case IPVS_CMD_GET_INFO:
NLA_PUT_U32(msg, IPVS_INFO_ATTR_VERSION, IP_VS_VERSION_CODE);
NLA_PUT_U32(msg, IPVS_INFO_ATTR_CONN_TAB_SIZE,
- IP_VS_CONN_TAB_SIZE);
+ ip_vs_conn_tab_size);
break;
}
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