ipv4: Allow amount of dirty memory from fib resizing to be controllable

fib_trie implementation calls synchronize_rcu when a certain amount of
pages are dirty from freed entries. The number of pages was determined
experimentally in 2009 (commit c3059477fce2d).

At the current setting, synchronize_rcu is called often -- 51 times in a
second in one test with an average of an 8 msec delay adding a fib entry.
The total impact is a lot of slow down modifying the fib. This is seen
in the output of 'time' - the difference between real time and sys+user.
For example, using 720,022 single path routes and 'ip -batch'[1]:

    $ time ./ip -batch ipv4/routes-1-hops
    real    0m14.214s
    user    0m2.513s
    sys     0m6.783s

So roughly 35% of the actual time to install the routes is from the ip
command getting scheduled out, most notably due to synchronize_rcu (this
is observed using 'perf sched timehist').

This patch makes the amount of dirty memory configurable between 64k where
the synchronize_rcu is called often (small, low end systems that are memory
sensitive) to 64M where synchronize_rcu is called rarely during a large
FIB change (for high end systems with lots of memory). The default is 512kB
which corresponds to the current setting of 128 pages with a 4kB page size.

As an example, at 16MB the worst interval shows 4 calls to synchronize_rcu
in a second blocking for up to 30 msec in a single instance, and a total
of almost 100 msec across the 4 calls in the second. The trade off is
allowing FIB entries to consume more memory in a given time window but
but with much better fib insertion rates (~30% increase in prefixes/sec).
With this patch and net.ipv4.fib_sync_mem set to 16MB, the same batch
file runs in:

    $ time ./ip -batch ipv4/routes-1-hops
    real    0m9.692s
    user    0m2.491s
    sys     0m6.769s

So the dead time is reduced to about 1/2 second or <5% of the real time.

[1] 'ip' modified to not request ACK messages which improves route
    insertion times by about 20%

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c b/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
index a573e37e0615..1704f432de1f 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
@@ -183,14 +183,16 @@ struct trie {
 };
 
 static struct key_vector *resize(struct trie *t, struct key_vector *tn);
-static size_t tnode_free_size;
+static unsigned int tnode_free_size;
 
 /*
- * synchronize_rcu after call_rcu for that many pages; it should be especially
- * useful before resizing the root node with PREEMPT_NONE configs; the value was
- * obtained experimentally, aiming to avoid visible slowdown.
+ * synchronize_rcu after call_rcu for outstanding dirty memory; it should be
+ * especially useful before resizing the root node with PREEMPT_NONE configs;
+ * the value was obtained experimentally, aiming to avoid visible slowdown.
  */
-static const int sync_pages = 128;
+unsigned int sysctl_fib_sync_mem = 512 * 1024;
+unsigned int sysctl_fib_sync_mem_min = 64 * 1024;
+unsigned int sysctl_fib_sync_mem_max = 64 * 1024 * 1024;
 
 static struct kmem_cache *fn_alias_kmem __ro_after_init;
 static struct kmem_cache *trie_leaf_kmem __ro_after_init;
@@ -504,7 +506,7 @@ static void tnode_free(struct key_vector *tn)
 		tn = container_of(head, struct tnode, rcu)->kv;
 	}
 
-	if (tnode_free_size >= PAGE_SIZE * sync_pages) {
+	if (tnode_free_size >= sysctl_fib_sync_mem) {
 		tnode_free_size = 0;
 		synchronize_rcu();
 	}