netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] commit c6825c0976fa7893692e0e43b09740b419b23c09 upstream.

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Message-ID: <20151029024052.28e11c83@playground>
Date:	Thu, 29 Oct 2015 02:40:52 -0400
From:	"Neal P. Murphy" <neal.p.murphy@...m.wpi.edu>
To:	Ani Sinha <ani@...sta.com>
Cc:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netfilter@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] commit c6825c0976fa7893692e0e43b09740b419b23c09
 upstream.

On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 02:36:50 -0400
"Neal P. Murphy" <neal.p.murphy@...m.wpi.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 21:06:33 +0100
> Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:55:39AM -0700, Ani Sinha wrote:
> > > netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix RCU race in nf_conntrack_find_get
> > 
> > Please, no need to Cc everyone here. Please, submit your Netfilter
> > patches to netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org.
> > 
> > Moreover, it would be great if the subject includes something
> > descriptive on what you need, for this I'd suggest:
> > 
> > [PATCH -stable 3.4,backport] netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix RCU race in nf_conntrack_find_get
> > 
> > I'm including Neal P. Murphy, he said he would help testing these
> > backports, getting a Tested-by: tag usually speeds up things too.
> 

I've probably done about as much seat-of-the-pants testing as I can. All opening/closing the same destination IP/port.

Host: Debian Jessie, 8-core Vishera 8350 at 4.4 GHz, 16GiB RAM at (I think) 2100MHz.

Traffic generator 1: 6-CPU KVM running 64-bit Smoothwall Express 3.1 (linux 3.4.109 without these patches), with 8GiB RAM and 9GiB swap. Packets sent across PURPLE (to bypass NAT and firewall).

Traffic generator 2: 32-bit KVM running Smoothwall Express 3.1 (linux 3.4.110 with these patches), 3GiB RAM and minimal swap.

In the first set of tests, generator 1's traffic passed through Generator 2 as a NATting firewall, to the host's web server. In the second set of tests, generator 2's traffic went through NAT to the host's web server.

The load tests:
  - 2500 processes using 2500 addresses and random src ports
  - 2500 processes using 2500 addresses and the same src port
  - 2500 processes using the same src address and port

I also tested using stock NF timeouts and using 1 second timeouts.

Bandwidth used got as high as 16Mb/s for some tests.

Conntracks got up to 200 000 or so or bounced between 1 and 2, depending on the test and the timeouts.

I did not reproduce the problem these patches solve. But more importantly, I saw no problems at all. Each time I terminated a test, RAM usage returned to about that of post-boot; so there were no apparent memory leaks. No kernel messages and no netfilter messages appeared during the tests.

If I have time, I suppose I could run another set of tests: 2500 source processes using 2500 addresses times 200 ports to connect to 2500 addresses times 200 ports on a destination system. Each process opens 200 sockets, then closes them. And repeats ad infinitum. But I might have to be clever since I can't run 500 000 processes; but I could run 20 VMs; that would get it down to about 12 000 processes per VM. And I might have to figure out how to allow allow processes on the destination system to open hundreds or thousands of sockets.

N
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