netdev - Fw: [Bug 85091] New: neighbour table overflow is not reported and impacts localhost TCP connectivity

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Message-ID: <20140924093216.083c77b4@urahara>
Date:	Wed, 24 Sep 2014 09:32:16 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Fw: [Bug 85091] New: neighbour table overflow is not reported and
 impacts localhost TCP connectivity



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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 03:44:41 -0700
From: "bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org" <bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org>
To: "stephen@...workplumber.org" <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Subject: [Bug 85091] New: neighbour table overflow is not reported and impacts localhost TCP connectivity


https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85091

            Bug ID: 85091
           Summary: neighbour table overflow is not reported and impacts
                    localhost TCP connectivity
           Product: Networking
           Version: 2.5
    Kernel Version: 3.8 - 3.17-rc6
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux
              Tree: Mainline
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: IPV4
          Assignee: shemminger@...ux-foundation.org
          Reporter: aschultz@...p.net
        Regression: No

With the default gc_thresh values and a busy /16 network attached, the
neighbour cache can overflow. No indication is given that this happens and it
does impact TCP on localhost.

Test setup:

* about 16k (simulated IP/MAC's) on one interface
* web server behind on second interface
* routing between the two
* HTTP benchmark from the 16k IP's to the web server
* for localhost connectivity verification a netperf instance is run on
localhost like so: 'netperf -D 1 -l 600 127.0.0.1'

Result:

Kernel has to learn the 16k IP/MAC combinations, as soon as gc_thresh3 is hit,
netperf stalls, no syslog/kernel message indicates the problem.

The only indication are log entries like this:

  "net_ratelimit: 1464 callbacks suppressed"

No other messages are logged.

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