net: refine {udp|tcp|sctp}_mem limits

Current tcp/udp/sctp global memory limits are not taking into account
hugepages allocations, and allow 50% of ram to be used by buffers of a
single protocol [ not counting space used by sockets / inodes ...]

Lets use nr_free_buffer_pages() and allow a default of 1/8 of kernel ram
per protocol, and a minimum of 128 pages.
Heavy duty machines sysadmins probably need to tweak limits anyway.


References: https://bugzilla.stlinux.com/show_bug.cgi?id=38032
Reported-by: starlight <starlight@binnacle.cx>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 054a59d21eb..46febcacb72 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -3220,7 +3220,7 @@ __setup("thash_entries=", set_thash_entries);
 void __init tcp_init(void)
 {
 	struct sk_buff *skb = NULL;
-	unsigned long nr_pages, limit;
+	unsigned long limit;
 	int i, max_share, cnt;
 	unsigned long jiffy = jiffies;
 
@@ -3277,13 +3277,7 @@ void __init tcp_init(void)
 	sysctl_tcp_max_orphans = cnt / 2;
 	sysctl_max_syn_backlog = max(128, cnt / 256);
 
-	/* Set the pressure threshold to be a fraction of global memory that
-	 * is up to 1/2 at 256 MB, decreasing toward zero with the amount of
-	 * memory, with a floor of 128 pages.
-	 */
-	nr_pages = totalram_pages - totalhigh_pages;
-	limit = min(nr_pages, 1UL<<(28-PAGE_SHIFT)) >> (20-PAGE_SHIFT);
-	limit = (limit * (nr_pages >> (20-PAGE_SHIFT))) >> (PAGE_SHIFT-11);
+	limit = nr_free_buffer_pages() / 8;
 	limit = max(limit, 128UL);
 	sysctl_tcp_mem[0] = limit / 4 * 3;
 	sysctl_tcp_mem[1] = limit;