From: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: passt-dev@passt.top
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/32] Use dual stack sockets to listen for inbound TCP connections
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 10:22:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221125102257.2df576c5@elisabeth> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221117055908.2782981-1-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
On Thu, 17 Nov 2022 16:58:36 +1100
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> When forwarding many ports, passt can consume a lot of kernel memory
> because of the many listening sockets it opens. There are not a lot
> of ways we can reduce that, but here's one.
>
> Currently we create separate listening sockets for each port for both
> IPv4 and IPv6. However in Linux (and probably other platforms), it's
> possible to listen for both IPv4 and IPv6 connections on an IPv6
> socket. This series uses such dual stack sockets to halve the number
> of listening sockets needed for TCP. When forwarding all TCP and UDP
> ports, this reduces the kernel memory used from around 677 MiB to
> around 487 MiB (kernel 6.0.8 on an x86_64 Fedora 37 machine).
Applied, thanks!
--
Stefano
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-25 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-17 5:58 [PATCH v2 00/32] Use dual stack sockets to listen for inbound TCP connections David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 01/32] clang-tidy: Suppress warning about assignments in if statements David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 02/32] style: Minor corrections to function comments David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 03/32] tcp_splice: #include tcp_splice.h in tcp_splice.c David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 04/32] tcp: Remove unused TCP_MAX_SOCKS constant David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 05/32] tcp: Better helpers for converting between connection pointer and index David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 06/32] tcp_splice: Helpers for converting from index to/from tcp_splice_conn David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 07/32] tcp: Move connection state structures into a shared header David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 08/32] tcp: Add connection union type David Gibson
2022-11-18 0:25 ` Stefano Brivio
2022-11-18 1:10 ` David Gibson
2022-11-19 8:39 ` Stefano Brivio
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 09/32] tcp: Improved helpers to update connections after moving David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 10/32] tcp: Unify spliced and non-spliced connection tables David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 11/32] tcp: Unify tcp_defer_handler and tcp_splice_defer_handler() David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 12/32] tcp: Partially unify tcp_timer() and tcp_splice_timer() David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 13/32] tcp: Unify the IN_EPOLL flag David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 14/32] tcp: Separate helpers to create ns listening sockets David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 15/32] tcp: Unify part of spliced and non-spliced conn_from_sock path David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 16/32] tcp: Use the same sockets to listen for spliced and non-spliced connections David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 17/32] tcp: Remove splice from tcp_epoll_ref David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 18/32] tcp: Don't store hash bucket in connection structures David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 19/32] inany: Helper functions for handling addresses which could be IPv4 or IPv6 David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 20/32] tcp: Hash IPv4 and IPv4-mapped-IPv6 addresses the same David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 21/32] tcp: Take tcp_hash_insert() address from struct tcp_conn David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 22/32] tcp: Simplify tcp_hash_match() to take an inany_addr David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 23/32] tcp: Unify initial sequence number calculation for IPv4 and IPv6 David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:59 ` [PATCH v2 24/32] tcp: Have tcp_seq_init() take its parameters from struct tcp_conn David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:59 ` [PATCH v2 25/32] tcp: Fix small errors in tcp_seq_init() time handling David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:59 ` [PATCH v2 26/32] tcp: Remove v6 flag from tcp_epoll_ref David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:59 ` [PATCH v2 27/32] tcp: NAT IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses like IPv4 addresses David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:59 ` [PATCH v2 28/32] tcp_splice: Allow splicing of connections from IPv4-mapped loopback David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:59 ` [PATCH v2 29/32] tcp: Consolidate tcp_sock_init[46] David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:59 ` [PATCH v2 30/32] util: Allow sock_l4() to open dual stack sockets David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:59 ` [PATCH v2 31/32] util: Always return -1 on error in sock_l4() David Gibson
2022-11-17 5:59 ` [PATCH v2 32/32] tcp: Use dual stack sockets for port forwarding when possible David Gibson
2022-11-25 9:22 ` Stefano Brivio [this message]
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