netdev - 答复: [PATCH] netfilter: avoid stalls in nf_ct_alloc

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Message-ID: <2AD939572F25A448A3AE3CAEA61328C2378C969B@BC-MAIL-M28.internal.baidu.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Jul 2018 09:50:52 +0000
From:   "Li,Rongqing" <lirongqing@...du.com>
To:     Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
CC:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "pablo@...filter.org" <pablo@...filter.org>,
        "kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu" <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>
Subject: 答复: [PATCH] netfilter: avoid stalls in nf_ct_alloc_hashtable



> -----邮件原件-----
> 发件人: Florian Westphal [mailto:fw@...len.de]
> 发送时间: 2018年7月24日 17:20
> 收件人: Li,Rongqing <lirongqing@...du.com>
> 抄送: netdev@...r.kernel.org; pablo@...filter.org;
> kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu; fw@...len.de
> 主题: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: avoid stalls in nf_ct_alloc_hashtable
> 
> Li RongQing <lirongqing@...du.com> wrote:
> > when system forks a process with CLONE_NEWNET flag under the high
> > memory pressure, it will trigger memory reclaim and stall for a long
> > time because nf_ct_alloc_hashtable need to allocate high-order memory
> > at that time. The calltrace as below:
> 
> > 	nf_ct_alloc_hashtable
> > 	nf_conntrack_init_net
> 
> This call trace is from a kernel < 4.7.
> 

Sorry;  it is

> commit 56d52d4892d0e478a005b99ed10d0a7f488ea8c1
> netfilter: conntrack: use a single hashtable for all namespaces
> 
> removed per-netns hash table.

Thanks, Your patch fixes my issue;  

My patch may be able to reduce stall when modprobe nf module in memory stress, 
Do you think this patch has any value?

-RongQing