netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v2 0/2] Mitigate the Issue of Expired Routes in Linux IPv6 Routing Tables

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Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 09:28:38 -0600
From: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
To: Kui-Feng Lee <sinquersw@...il.com>, Kui-Feng Lee <thinker.li@...il.com>,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, ast@...nel.org, martin.lau@...ux.dev,
 kernel-team@...a.com, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
 kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com
Cc: Kui-Feng Lee <kuifeng@...a.com>, Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v2 0/2] Mitigate the Issue of Expired Routes
 in Linux IPv6 Routing Tables

On 5/17/23 11:40 PM, Kui-Feng Lee wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5/17/23 20:21, David Ahern wrote:
>> On 5/17/23 12:33 PM, Kui-Feng Lee wrote:
>>> This RFC is resent to ensure maintainers getting awared.  Also remove
>>> some forward declarations that we don't use anymore.
>>>
>>> The size of a Linux IPv6 routing table can become a big problem if not
>>> managed appropriately.  Now, Linux has a garbage collector to remove
>>> expired routes periodically.  However, this may lead to a situation in
>>> which the routing path is blocked for a long period due to an
>>> excessive number of routes.
>>
>> I take it this problem was seen internally to your org? Can you give
>> representative numbers on how many routes, stats on the blocked time,
>> and reason for the large time block (I am guessing the notifier)?
> 
> We don't have existing incidents so far.  Consider it as
> a potential issue.

So no data to compare how the system was operating before and after.

...

> 
> In contrast, the current GC has to walk every tree even only one route
> expired.  

As I recall the largest overhead is systems (e.g., switchdev) handling
the notifier. The tree walk scaling problem can be addressed with a much
simpler change -- e.g., add a list_head per fib6_table for fib6_info
entries that can expire and make the list time sorted. Then the gc only
needs to walk those lists up to the expired point.