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authorFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>2014-07-24 16:50:35 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-07-27 22:34:36 -0700
commite3a57d18b06179d68fcf7a0a06ad844493c65e06 (patch)
tree8a7dcc0a88235136f76a3deb8818c439abb8a944 /net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c
parent3fd588eb90bfbba17091381006ecafe29c45db4a (diff)
downloadlinux-e3a57d18b06179d68fcf7a0a06ad844493c65e06.tar.gz
inet: frag: remove periodic secret rebuild timer
merge functionality into the eviction workqueue.

Instead of rebuilding every n seconds, take advantage of the upper
hash chain length limit.

If we hit it, mark table for rebuild and schedule workqueue.
To prevent frequent rebuilds when we're completely overloaded,
don't rebuild more than once every 5 seconds.

ipfrag_secret_interval sysctl is now obsolete and has been marked as
deprecated, it still can be changed so scripts won't be broken but it
won't have any effect. A comment is left above each unused secret_timer
variable to avoid confusion.

Joint work with Nikolay Aleksandrov.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c b/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c
index 8fbeee495037..44e591a7e03f 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c
@@ -720,10 +720,12 @@ static struct ctl_table ip4_frags_ns_ctl_table[] = {
 	{ }
 };
 
+/* secret interval has been deprecated */
+static int ip4_frags_secret_interval_unused;
 static struct ctl_table ip4_frags_ctl_table[] = {
 	{
 		.procname	= "ipfrag_secret_interval",
-		.data		= &ip4_frags.secret_interval,
+		.data		= &ip4_frags_secret_interval_unused,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_jiffies,
@@ -853,6 +855,5 @@ void __init ipfrag_init(void)
 	ip4_frags.qsize = sizeof(struct ipq);
 	ip4_frags.match = ip4_frag_match;
 	ip4_frags.frag_expire = ip_expire;
-	ip4_frags.secret_interval = 10 * 60 * HZ;
 	inet_frags_init(&ip4_frags);
 }