[NET]: Size listen hash tables using backlog hint

We currently allocate a fixed size (TCP_SYNQ_HSIZE=512) slots hash table for
each LISTEN socket, regardless of various parameters (listen backlog for
example)

On x86_64, this means order-1 allocations (might fail), even for 'small'
sockets, expecting few connections. On the contrary, a huge server wanting a
backlog of 50000 is slowed down a bit because of this fixed limit.

This patch makes the sizing of listen hash table a dynamic parameter,
depending of :
- net.core.somaxconn tunable (default is 128)
- net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog tunable (default : 256, 1024 or 128)
- backlog value given by user application  (2nd parameter of listen())

For large allocations (bigger than PAGE_SIZE), we use vmalloc() instead of
kmalloc().

We still limit memory allocation with the two existing tunables (somaxconn &
tcp_max_syn_backlog). So for standard setups, this patch actually reduce RAM
usage.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/dccp/ipv4.c b/net/dccp/ipv4.c
index e08e7688a263..0a5d68dbb418 100644
--- a/net/dccp/ipv4.c
+++ b/net/dccp/ipv4.c
@@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@ static void dccp_v4_reqsk_destructor(struct request_sock *req)
 	kfree(inet_rsk(req)->opt);
 }
 
-static struct request_sock_ops dccp_request_sock_ops = {
+static struct request_sock_ops dccp_request_sock_ops _read_mostly = {
 	.family		= PF_INET,
 	.obj_size	= sizeof(struct dccp_request_sock),
 	.rtx_syn_ack	= dccp_v4_send_response,