linux/include/net/netfilter
Fernando Fernandez Mancera 13eede458f netfilter: nf_conncount: increase the connection clean up limit to 64
[ Upstream commit 21d033e472 ]

After the optimization to only perform one GC per jiffy, a new problem
was introduced. If more than 8 new connections are tracked per jiffy the
list won't be cleaned up fast enough possibly reaching the limit
wrongly.

In order to prevent this issue, only skip the GC if it was already
triggered during the same jiffy and the increment is lower than the
clean up limit. In addition, increase the clean up limit to 64
connections to avoid triggering GC too often and do more effective GCs.

This has been tested using a HTTP server and several
performance tools while having nft_connlimit/xt_connlimit or OVS limit
configured.

Output of slowhttptest + OVS limit at 52000 connections:

 slow HTTP test status on 340th second:
 initializing:        0
 pending:             432
 connected:           51998
 error:               0
 closed:              0
 service available:   YES

Fixes: d265929930 ("netfilter: nf_conncount: reduce unnecessary GC")
Reported-by: Aleksandra Rukomoinikova <ARukomoinikova@k2.cloud>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter/b2064e7b-0776-4e14-adb6-c68080987471@k2.cloud/
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2026-03-04 07:19:34 -05:00
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ipv4 netfilter: disable defrag once its no longer needed 2021-04-26 03:20:07 +02:00
ipv6 netfilter: conntrack: fix boot failure with nf_conntrack.enable_hooks=1 2021-09-28 13:04:55 +02:00
br_netfilter.h netfilter: remove CONFIG_NETFILTER checks from headers. 2019-09-13 12:47:36 +02:00
nf_conntrack.h netfilter: let reset rules clean out conntrack entries 2024-03-06 14:38:46 +00:00
nf_conntrack_acct.h netfilter: conntrack: add nf_ct_acct_add() 2020-03-30 02:05:39 +02:00
nf_conntrack_bridge.h netfilter: remove CONFIG_NETFILTER checks from headers. 2019-09-13 12:47:36 +02:00
nf_conntrack_core.h netfilter: conntrack: re-fetch conntrack after insertion 2022-06-06 08:43:38 +02:00
nf_conntrack_count.h netfilter: nf_conncount: increase the connection clean up limit to 64 2026-03-04 07:19:34 -05:00
nf_conntrack_ecache.h netfilter: ecache: remove nf_exp_event_notifier structure 2021-08-25 12:50:38 +02:00
nf_conntrack_expect.h netfilter: fix coding-style errors. 2019-09-13 11:39:38 +02:00
nf_conntrack_extend.h netfilter: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member 2020-03-15 15:20:16 +01:00
nf_conntrack_helper.h netfilter: conntrack: Add and use nf_ct_set_auto_assign_helper_warned() 2022-04-08 14:23:42 +02:00
nf_conntrack_l4proto.h netfilter: conntrack: pass hook state to log functions 2021-06-18 14:47:43 +02:00
nf_conntrack_labels.h netfilter: fix include guards. 2019-09-13 11:39:38 +02:00
nf_conntrack_seqadj.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
nf_conntrack_synproxy.h netfilter: conntrack: wrap two inline functions in config checks. 2019-09-13 12:47:10 +02:00
nf_conntrack_timeout.h netfilter: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member 2020-03-15 15:20:16 +01:00
nf_conntrack_timestamp.h netfilter: conntrack: remove two unused functions from nf_conntrack_timestamp.h. 2019-09-13 12:48:09 +02:00
nf_conntrack_tuple.h netfilter: remove CONFIG_NETFILTER checks from headers. 2019-09-13 12:47:36 +02:00
nf_conntrack_zones.h netfilter: conntrack: remove CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK checks from nf_conntrack_zones.h. 2019-09-13 12:47:41 +02:00
nf_dup_netdev.h netfilter: nft_{fwd,dup}_netdev: add offload support 2019-09-10 22:44:29 +02:00
nf_flow_table.h netfilter: flowtable: account for Ethernet header in nf_flow_pppoe_proto() 2025-07-17 18:30:53 +02:00
nf_hooks_lwtunnel.h netfilter: add netfilter hooks to SRv6 data plane 2021-08-30 01:51:36 +02:00
nf_log.h netfilter: nf_log_common: merge with nf_log_syslog 2021-03-31 22:34:10 +02:00
nf_nat.h netfilter: nat: move nf_xfrm_me_harder to where it is used 2021-04-26 03:20:07 +02:00
nf_nat_helper.h netfilter: add missing includes to a number of header-files. 2019-08-13 12:14:39 +02:00
nf_nat_masquerade.h netfilter: update include directives. 2019-09-13 12:33:06 +02:00
nf_nat_redirect.h netfilter: nft_redir: use struct nf_nat_range2 throughout and deduplicate eval call-backs 2023-11-20 11:08:29 +01:00
nf_queue.h netfilter: nf_queue: fix possible use-after-free 2022-03-08 19:12:45 +01:00
nf_reject.h netfilter: add missing includes to a number of header-files. 2019-08-13 12:14:39 +02:00
nf_socket.h netfilter: Decrease code duplication regarding transparent socket option 2018-06-03 00:02:01 +02:00
nf_synproxy.h netfilter: remove CONFIG_NETFILTER checks from headers. 2019-09-13 12:47:36 +02:00
nf_tables.h netfilter: nf_tables: do not defer rule destruction via call_rcu 2025-05-22 14:08:28 +02:00
nf_tables_core.h netfilter: nft_payload: move struct nft_payload_set definition where it belongs 2024-06-16 13:39:50 +02:00
nf_tables_ipv4.h netfilter: nf_tables: convert pktinfo->tprot_set to flags field 2022-07-12 16:34:55 +02:00
nf_tables_ipv6.h netfilter: nf_tables: convert pktinfo->tprot_set to flags field 2022-07-12 16:34:55 +02:00
nf_tables_offload.h netfilter: nf_tables: bail out early if hardware offload is not supported 2022-06-14 18:36:17 +02:00
nf_tproxy.h netfilter: tproxy: fix deadlock due to missing BH disable 2023-03-17 08:48:55 +01:00
nft_fib.h netfilter: nftables: add nft_parse_register_store() and use it 2021-01-27 23:16:02 +01:00
nft_meta.h netfilter: nftables: add nft_parse_register_store() and use it 2021-01-27 23:16:02 +01:00
nft_reject.h netfilter: add missing includes to a number of header-files. 2019-08-13 12:14:39 +02:00
xt_rateest.h netfilter: make xt_rateest hash table per net 2018-03-05 23:15:44 +01:00