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    inet: frag: move eviction of queues to work queue · b13d3cbf
    Florian Westphal authored
    
    
    When the high_thresh limit is reached we try to toss the 'oldest'
    incomplete fragment queues until memory limits are below the low_thresh
    value.  This happens in softirq/packet processing context.
    
    This has two drawbacks:
    
    1) processors might evict a queue that was about to be completed
    by another cpu, because they will compete wrt. resource usage and
    resource reclaim.
    
    2) LRU list maintenance is expensive.
    
    But when constantly overloaded, even the 'least recently used' element is
    recent, so removing 'lru' queue first is not 'fairer' than removing any
    other fragment queue.
    
    This moves eviction out of the fast path:
    
    When the low threshold is reached, a work queue is scheduled
    which then iterates over the table and removes the queues that exceed
    the memory limits of the namespace. It sets a new flag called
    INET_FRAG_EVICTED on the evicted queues so the proper counters will get
    incremented when the queue is forcefully expired.
    
    When the high threshold is reached, no more fragment queues are
    created until we're below the limit again.
    
    The LRU list is now unused and will be removed in a followup patch.
    
    Joint work with Nikolay Aleksandrov.
    
    Suggested-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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