rps: selective flow shedding during softnet overflow

A cpu executing the network receive path sheds packets when its input
queue grows to netdev_max_backlog. A single high rate flow (such as a
spoofed source DoS) can exceed a single cpu processing rate and will
degrade throughput of other flows hashed onto the same cpu.

This patch adds a more fine grained hashtable. If the netdev backlog
is above a threshold, IRQ cpus track the ratio of total traffic of
each flow (using 4096 buckets, configurable). The ratio is measured
by counting the number of packets per flow over the last 256 packets
from the source cpu. Any flow that occupies a large fraction of this
(set at 50%) will see packet drop while above the threshold.

Tested:
Setup is a muli-threaded UDP echo server with network rx IRQ on cpu0,
kernel receive (RPS) on cpu0 and application threads on cpus 2--7
each handling 20k req/s. Throughput halves when hit with a 400 kpps
antagonist storm. With this patch applied, antagonist overload is
dropped and the server processes its complete load.

The patch is effective when kernel receive processing is the
bottleneck. The above RPS scenario is a extreme, but the same is
reached with RFS and sufficient kernel processing (iptables, packet
socket tap, ..).

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/net-procfs.c b/net/core/net-procfs.c
index 569d355fec3..2bf83299600 100644
--- a/net/core/net-procfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-procfs.c
@@ -146,11 +146,23 @@ static void softnet_seq_stop(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
 static int softnet_seq_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
 {
 	struct softnet_data *sd = v;
+	unsigned int flow_limit_count = 0;
 
-	seq_printf(seq, "%08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x\n",
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_FLOW_LIMIT
+	struct sd_flow_limit *fl;
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	fl = rcu_dereference(sd->flow_limit);
+	if (fl)
+		flow_limit_count = fl->count;
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+#endif
+
+	seq_printf(seq,
+		   "%08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x\n",
 		   sd->processed, sd->dropped, sd->time_squeeze, 0,
 		   0, 0, 0, 0, /* was fastroute */
-		   sd->cpu_collision, sd->received_rps);
+		   sd->cpu_collision, sd->received_rps, flow_limit_count);
 	return 0;
 }