Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:13:31 -0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r243631 - in head/sys: kern sys Message-ID: <CAJ-VmomRW=%2BLHe3_b_87HT_opxkYD9wBaUczYiUnn2iKgGykGw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201211272119.qARLJxXV061083@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201211272119.qARLJxXV061083@svn.freebsd.org>
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Can you please post some example figures for machines with 16, 32, 64 and 128MB? As Bruce has just replied, there's concern about this tuning being very "lots of RAM" centric, which certainly isn't the case. I'd hate to see this swing from one extreme (not enough mbufs) to the other extreme .. Adrian On 27 November 2012 13:19, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> wrote: > Author: andre > Date: Tue Nov 27 21:19:58 2012 > New Revision: 243631 > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/243631 > > Log: > Base the mbuf related limits on the available physical memory or > kernel memory, whichever is lower. The overall mbuf related memory > limit must be set so that mbufs (and clusters of various sizes) > can't exhaust physical RAM or KVM. > > The limit is set to half of the physical RAM or KVM (whichever is > lower) as the baseline. In any normal scenario we want to leave > at least half of the physmem/kvm for other kernel functions and > userspace to prevent it from swapping too easily. Via a tunable > kern.maxmbufmem the limit can be upped to at most 3/4 of physmem/kvm. > > At the same time divorce maxfiles from maxusers and set maxfiles to > physpages / 8 with a floor based on maxusers. This way busy servers > can make use of the significantly increased mbuf limits with a much > larger number of open sockets. > > Tidy up ordering in init_param2() and check up on some users of > those values calculated here. > > Out of the overall mbuf memory limit 2K clusters and 4K (page size) > clusters to get 1/4 each because these are the most heavily used mbuf > sizes. 2K clusters are used for MTU 1500 ethernet inbound packets. > 4K clusters are used whenever possible for sends on sockets and thus > outbound packets. The larger cluster sizes of 9K and 16K are limited > to 1/6 of the overall mbuf memory limit. When jumbo MTU's are used > these large clusters will end up only on the inbound path. They are > not used on outbound, there it's still 4K. Yes, that will stay that > way because otherwise we run into lots of complications in the > stack. And it really isn't a problem, so don't make a scene. > > Normal mbufs (256B) weren't limited at all previously. This was > problematic as there are certain places in the kernel that on > allocation failure of clusters try to piece together their packet > from smaller mbufs. > > The mbuf limit is the number of all other mbuf sizes together plus > some more to allow for standalone mbufs (ACK for example) and to > send off a copy of a cluster. Unfortunately there isn't a way to > set an overall limit for all mbuf memory together as UMA doesn't > support such a limiting. > > NB: Every cluster also has an mbuf associated with it. > > Two examples on the revised mbuf sizing limits: > > 1GB KVM: > 512MB limit for mbufs > 419,430 mbufs > 65,536 2K mbuf clusters > 32,768 4K mbuf clusters > 9,709 9K mbuf clusters > 5,461 16K mbuf clusters > > 16GB RAM: > 8GB limit for mbufs > 33,554,432 mbufs > 1,048,576 2K mbuf clusters > 524,288 4K mbuf clusters > 155,344 9K mbuf clusters > 87,381 16K mbuf clusters > > These defaults should be sufficient for even the most demanding > network loads. > > MFC after: 1 month > > Modified: > head/sys/kern/kern_mbuf.c > head/sys/kern/subr_param.c > head/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c > head/sys/sys/eventhandler.h > head/sys/sys/mbuf.h > > Modified: head/sys/kern/kern_mbuf.c > ============================================================================== > --- head/sys/kern/kern_mbuf.c Tue Nov 27 20:22:36 2012 (r243630) > +++ head/sys/kern/kern_mbuf.c Tue Nov 27 21:19:58 2012 (r243631) > @@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ __FBSDID("$FreeBSD$"); > * > */ > > +int nmbufs; /* limits number of mbufs */ > int nmbclusters; /* limits number of mbuf clusters */ > int nmbjumbop; /* limits number of page size jumbo clusters */ > int nmbjumbo9; /* limits number of 9k jumbo clusters */ > @@ -147,9 +148,11 @@ sysctl_nmbclusters(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS) > newnmbclusters = nmbclusters; > error = sysctl_handle_int(oidp, &newnmbclusters, 0, req); > if (error == 0 && req->newptr) { > - if (newnmbclusters > nmbclusters) { > + if (newnmbclusters > nmbclusters && > + nmbufs >= nmbclusters + nmbjumbop + nmbjumbo9 + nmbjumbo16) { > nmbclusters = newnmbclusters; > uma_zone_set_max(zone_clust, nmbclusters); > + nmbclusters = uma_zone_get_max(zone_clust); > EVENTHANDLER_INVOKE(nmbclusters_change); > } else > error = EINVAL; > @@ -168,9 +171,11 @@ sysctl_nmbjumbop(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS) > newnmbjumbop = nmbjumbop; > error = sysctl_handle_int(oidp, &newnmbjumbop, 0, req); > if (error == 0 && req->newptr) { > - if (newnmbjumbop> nmbjumbop) { > + if (newnmbjumbop > nmbjumbop && > + nmbufs >= nmbclusters + nmbjumbop + nmbjumbo9 + nmbjumbo16) { > nmbjumbop = newnmbjumbop; > uma_zone_set_max(zone_jumbop, nmbjumbop); > + nmbjumbop = uma_zone_get_max(zone_jumbop); > } else > error = EINVAL; > } > @@ -189,9 +194,11 @@ sysctl_nmbjumbo9(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS) > newnmbjumbo9 = nmbjumbo9; > error = sysctl_handle_int(oidp, &newnmbjumbo9, 0, req); > if (error == 0 && req->newptr) { > - if (newnmbjumbo9> nmbjumbo9) { > + if (newnmbjumbo9 > nmbjumbo9&& > + nmbufs >= nmbclusters + nmbjumbop + nmbjumbo9 + nmbjumbo16) { > nmbjumbo9 = newnmbjumbo9; > uma_zone_set_max(zone_jumbo9, nmbjumbo9); > + nmbjumbo9 = uma_zone_get_max(zone_jumbo9); > } else > error = EINVAL; > } > @@ -209,9 +216,11 @@ sysctl_nmbjumbo16(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS) > newnmbjumbo16 = nmbjumbo16; > error = sysctl_handle_int(oidp, &newnmbjumbo16, 0, req); > if (error == 0 && req->newptr) { > - if (newnmbjumbo16> nmbjumbo16) { > + if (newnmbjumbo16 > nmbjumbo16 && > + nmbufs >= nmbclusters + nmbjumbop + nmbjumbo9 + nmbjumbo16) { > nmbjumbo16 = newnmbjumbo16; > uma_zone_set_max(zone_jumbo16, nmbjumbo16); > + nmbjumbo16 = uma_zone_get_max(zone_jumbo16); > } else > error = EINVAL; > } > @@ -221,6 +230,27 @@ SYSCTL_PROC(_kern_ipc, OID_AUTO, nmbjumb > &nmbjumbo16, 0, sysctl_nmbjumbo16, "IU", > "Maximum number of mbuf 16k jumbo clusters allowed"); > > +static int > +sysctl_nmbufs(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS) > +{ > + int error, newnmbufs; > + > + newnmbufs = nmbufs; > + error = sysctl_handle_int(oidp, &newnmbufs, 0, req); > + if (error == 0 && req->newptr) { > + if (newnmbufs > nmbufs) { > + nmbufs = newnmbufs; > + uma_zone_set_max(zone_mbuf, nmbufs); > + nmbclusters = uma_zone_get_max(zone_mbuf); > + EVENTHANDLER_INVOKE(nmbufs_change); > + } else > + error = EINVAL; > + } > + return (error); > +} > +SYSCTL_PROC(_kern_ipc, OID_AUTO, nmbuf, CTLTYPE_INT|CTLFLAG_RW, > +&nmbufs, 0, sysctl_nmbufs, "IU", > + "Maximum number of mbufs allowed"); > > > SYSCTL_STRUCT(_kern_ipc, OID_AUTO, mbstat, CTLFLAG_RD, &mbstat, mbstat, > @@ -275,6 +305,10 @@ mbuf_init(void *dummy) > NULL, NULL, > #endif > MSIZE - 1, UMA_ZONE_MAXBUCKET); > + if (nmbufs > 0) { > + uma_zone_set_max(zone_mbuf, nmbufs); > + nmbufs = uma_zone_get_max(zone_mbuf); > + } > > zone_clust = uma_zcreate(MBUF_CLUSTER_MEM_NAME, MCLBYTES, > mb_ctor_clust, mb_dtor_clust, > @@ -284,8 +318,10 @@ mbuf_init(void *dummy) > NULL, NULL, > #endif > UMA_ALIGN_PTR, UMA_ZONE_REFCNT); > - if (nmbclusters > 0) > + if (nmbclusters > 0) { > uma_zone_set_max(zone_clust, nmbclusters); > + nmbclusters = uma_zone_get_max(zone_clust); > + } > > zone_pack = uma_zsecond_create(MBUF_PACKET_MEM_NAME, mb_ctor_pack, > mb_dtor_pack, mb_zinit_pack, mb_zfini_pack, zone_mbuf); > @@ -299,8 +335,10 @@ mbuf_init(void *dummy) > NULL, NULL, > #endif > UMA_ALIGN_PTR, UMA_ZONE_REFCNT); > - if (nmbjumbop > 0) > + if (nmbjumbop > 0) { > uma_zone_set_max(zone_jumbop, nmbjumbop); > + nmbjumbop = uma_zone_get_max(zone_jumbop); > + } > > zone_jumbo9 = uma_zcreate(MBUF_JUMBO9_MEM_NAME, MJUM9BYTES, > mb_ctor_clust, mb_dtor_clust, > @@ -310,9 +348,11 @@ mbuf_init(void *dummy) > NULL, NULL, > #endif > UMA_ALIGN_PTR, UMA_ZONE_REFCNT); > - if (nmbjumbo9 > 0) > - uma_zone_set_max(zone_jumbo9, nmbjumbo9); > uma_zone_set_allocf(zone_jumbo9, mbuf_jumbo_alloc); > + if (nmbjumbo9 > 0) { > + uma_zone_set_max(zone_jumbo9, nmbjumbo9); > + nmbjumbo9 = uma_zone_get_max(zone_jumbo9); > + } > > zone_jumbo16 = uma_zcreate(MBUF_JUMBO16_MEM_NAME, MJUM16BYTES, > mb_ctor_clust, mb_dtor_clust, > @@ -322,9 +362,11 @@ mbuf_init(void *dummy) > NULL, NULL, > #endif > UMA_ALIGN_PTR, UMA_ZONE_REFCNT); > - if (nmbjumbo16 > 0) > - uma_zone_set_max(zone_jumbo16, nmbjumbo16); > uma_zone_set_allocf(zone_jumbo16, mbuf_jumbo_alloc); > + if (nmbjumbo16 > 0) { > + uma_zone_set_max(zone_jumbo16, nmbjumbo16); > + nmbjumbo16 = uma_zone_get_max(zone_jumbo16); > + } > > zone_ext_refcnt = uma_zcreate(MBUF_EXTREFCNT_MEM_NAME, sizeof(u_int), > NULL, NULL, > > Modified: head/sys/kern/subr_param.c > ============================================================================== > --- head/sys/kern/subr_param.c Tue Nov 27 20:22:36 2012 (r243630) > +++ head/sys/kern/subr_param.c Tue Nov 27 21:19:58 2012 (r243631) > @@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ int ncallout; /* maximum # of timer ev > int nbuf; > int ngroups_max; /* max # groups per process */ > int nswbuf; > +long maxmbufmem; /* max mbuf memory */ > pid_t pid_max = PID_MAX; > long maxswzone; /* max swmeta KVA storage */ > long maxbcache; /* max buffer cache KVA storage */ > @@ -270,6 +271,7 @@ init_param1(void) > void > init_param2(long physpages) > { > + long realmem; > > /* Base parameters */ > maxusers = MAXUSERS; > @@ -293,19 +295,25 @@ init_param2(long physpages) > /* > * The following can be overridden after boot via sysctl. Note: > * unless overriden, these macros are ultimately based on maxusers. > - */ > - maxproc = NPROC; > - TUNABLE_INT_FETCH("kern.maxproc", &maxproc); > - /* > * Limit maxproc so that kmap entries cannot be exhausted by > * processes. > */ > + maxproc = NPROC; > + TUNABLE_INT_FETCH("kern.maxproc", &maxproc); > if (maxproc > (physpages / 12)) > maxproc = physpages / 12; > - maxfiles = MAXFILES; > - TUNABLE_INT_FETCH("kern.maxfiles", &maxfiles); > maxprocperuid = (maxproc * 9) / 10; > - maxfilesperproc = (maxfiles * 9) / 10; > + > + /* > + * The default limit for maxfiles is 1/12 of the number of > + * physical page but not less than 16 times maxusers. > + * At most it can be 1/6 the number of physical pages. > + */ > + maxfiles = imax(MAXFILES, physpages / 8); > + TUNABLE_INT_FETCH("kern.maxfiles", &maxfiles); > + if (maxfiles > (physpages / 4)) > + maxfiles = physpages / 4; > + maxfilesperproc = (maxfiles / 10) * 9; > > /* > * Cannot be changed after boot. > @@ -313,20 +321,35 @@ init_param2(long physpages) > nbuf = NBUF; > TUNABLE_INT_FETCH("kern.nbuf", &nbuf); > > + /* > + * XXX: Does the callout wheel have to be so big? > + */ > ncallout = 16 + maxproc + maxfiles; > TUNABLE_INT_FETCH("kern.ncallout", &ncallout); > > /* > + * The default limit for all mbuf related memory is 1/2 of all > + * available kernel memory (physical or kmem). > + * At most it can be 3/4 of available kernel memory. > + */ > + realmem = lmin(physpages * PAGE_SIZE, > + VM_MAX_KERNEL_ADDRESS - VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS); > + maxmbufmem = realmem / 2; > + TUNABLE_LONG_FETCH("kern.maxmbufmem", &maxmbufmem); > + if (maxmbufmem > (realmem / 4) * 3) > + maxmbufmem = (realmem / 4) * 3; > + > + /* > * The default for maxpipekva is min(1/64 of the kernel address space, > * max(1/64 of main memory, 512KB)). See sys_pipe.c for more details. > */ > maxpipekva = (physpages / 64) * PAGE_SIZE; > + TUNABLE_LONG_FETCH("kern.ipc.maxpipekva", &maxpipekva); > if (maxpipekva < 512 * 1024) > maxpipekva = 512 * 1024; > if (maxpipekva > (VM_MAX_KERNEL_ADDRESS - VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS) / 64) > maxpipekva = (VM_MAX_KERNEL_ADDRESS - VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS) / > 64; > - TUNABLE_LONG_FETCH("kern.ipc.maxpipekva", &maxpipekva); > } > > /* > > Modified: head/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c > ============================================================================== > --- head/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c Tue Nov 27 20:22:36 2012 (r243630) > +++ head/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c Tue Nov 27 21:19:58 2012 (r243631) > @@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ init_maxsockets(void *ignored) > { > > TUNABLE_INT_FETCH("kern.ipc.maxsockets", &maxsockets); > - maxsockets = imax(maxsockets, imax(maxfiles, nmbclusters)); > + maxsockets = imax(maxsockets, maxfiles); > } > SYSINIT(param, SI_SUB_TUNABLES, SI_ORDER_ANY, init_maxsockets, NULL); > > @@ -306,12 +306,9 @@ sysctl_maxsockets(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS) > newmaxsockets = maxsockets; > error = sysctl_handle_int(oidp, &newmaxsockets, 0, req); > if (error == 0 && req->newptr) { > - if (newmaxsockets > maxsockets) { > + if (newmaxsockets > maxsockets && > + newmaxsockets <= maxfiles) { > maxsockets = newmaxsockets; > - if (maxsockets > ((maxfiles / 4) * 3)) { > - maxfiles = (maxsockets * 5) / 4; > - maxfilesperproc = (maxfiles * 9) / 10; > - } > EVENTHANDLER_INVOKE(maxsockets_change); > } else > error = EINVAL; > > Modified: head/sys/sys/eventhandler.h > ============================================================================== > --- head/sys/sys/eventhandler.h Tue Nov 27 20:22:36 2012 (r243630) > +++ head/sys/sys/eventhandler.h Tue Nov 27 21:19:58 2012 (r243631) > @@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ EVENTHANDLER_DECLARE(thread_fini, thread > > typedef void (*uma_zone_chfn)(void *); > EVENTHANDLER_DECLARE(nmbclusters_change, uma_zone_chfn); > +EVENTHANDLER_DECLARE(nmbufs_change, uma_zone_chfn); > EVENTHANDLER_DECLARE(maxsockets_change, uma_zone_chfn); > > #endif /* SYS_EVENTHANDLER_H */ > > Modified: head/sys/sys/mbuf.h > ============================================================================== > --- head/sys/sys/mbuf.h Tue Nov 27 20:22:36 2012 (r243630) > +++ head/sys/sys/mbuf.h Tue Nov 27 21:19:58 2012 (r243631) > @@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ struct mbstat { > * > * The rest of it is defined in kern/kern_mbuf.c > */ > - > +extern long maxmbufmem; > extern uma_zone_t zone_mbuf; > extern uma_zone_t zone_clust; > extern uma_zone_t zone_pack;
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