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Date:      Wed, 8 Apr 2015 13:28:42 +0300
From:      Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r281239 - head/sys/netinet
Message-ID:  <20150408102842.GQ64665@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20150408084839.GO64665@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201504072309.t37N9Zwf011383@svn.freebsd.org> <20150408084839.GO64665@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 11:48:39AM +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
T> On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 11:09:35PM +0000, Adrian Chadd wrote:
T> A> Author: adrian
T> A> Date: Tue Apr  7 23:09:34 2015
T> A> New Revision: 281239
T> A> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/281239
T> A> 
T> A> Log:
T> A>   Move the IPv4 reassembly queue locking from a single lock to be per-bucket (global).
T> A>   
T> A>   This significantly improves performance on multi-core servers where there
T> A>   is any kind of IPv4 reassembly going on.
T> A>   
T> A>   glebius@ would like to see the locking moved to be attached to the reassembly
T> A>   bucket, which would make it per-bucket + per-VNET, instead of being global.
T> A>   I decided to keep it global for now as it's the minimal useful change;
T> A>   if people agree / wish to migrate it to be per-bucket / per-VNET then please
T> A>   do feel free to do so.  I won't complain.
T> A>   
T> A>   Thanks to Norse Corp for giving me access to much larger servers
T> A>   to test this at across the 4 core boxes I have at home.
T> A>   
T> A>   Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2095
T> A>   Reviewed by:	glebius (initial comments incorporated into this patch)
T> 
T> No, they are not.
T> 
T> Also, I just noticed another issue with the patch. You initialize the mutexes,
T> which are global, in the ip_init() which is called for every VNET. That would
T> lead to panic of initializing already initialized mutex. If you followed my advice,
T> that would not happen. Now VIMAGE+INVARIANTS is broken instantly, and w/o
T> INVARIANTS may panic if VIMAGE created under IP traffic.
T> 
T> My comment that purging from a bucket that is determined by source IP has
T> security implications was also ignored.
T> 
T> I will fix this all myself.

Another issue is that now V_nipq is not protected by a global lock and its
value would leak.

I'm working on a patch.

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.



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