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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2015-03-19 19:04:21 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-03-20 12:40:25 -0400
commitbecb74f0acca19b5abfcb24dc602530f3deea66a (patch)
tree1c688749f3b5570f62245a7bb317c94f4af43a80 /net/core
parentfa76ce7328b289b6edd476e24eb52fd634261720 (diff)
downloadlinux-becb74f0acca19b5abfcb24dc602530f3deea66a.tar.gz
net: increase sk_[max_]ack_backlog
sk_ack_backlog & sk_max_ack_backlog were 16bit fields, meaning
listen() backlog was limited to 65535.

It is time to increase the width to allow much bigger backlog,
if admins change /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn &
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_syn_backlog default values.

Tested:

echo 5000000 >/proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn
echo 5000000 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_syn_backlog

Ran a SYNFLOOD test against a listener using listen(fd, 5000000)

myhost~# grep request_sock_TCP /proc/slabinfo
request_sock_TCP  4185642 4411940    304   13    1 : tunables   54   27    8 : slabdata 339380 339380      0

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/sysctl_net_core.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c b/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
index 433424804284..e1c85db5216f 100644
--- a/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
+++ b/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 
 static int zero = 0;
 static int one = 1;
-static int ushort_max = USHRT_MAX;
 
 static int net_msg_warn;	/* Unused, but still a sysctl */
 
@@ -401,7 +400,6 @@ static struct ctl_table netns_core_table[] = {
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.extra1		= &zero,
-		.extra2		= &ushort_max,
 		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax
 	},
 	{ }