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[IPV4]: Limit rt cache size properly.
authorKirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Wed, 8 Nov 2006 07:12:01 +0000 (08:12 +0100)
committerAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Wed, 8 Nov 2006 07:12:01 +0000 (08:12 +0100)
commita38c4343dc64fa5da5989d72c3dec9b5ed521f3b
treeeb5664103485c058dd118e8b3a85fbc4e66ff2f3
parent5db60db61aaa613f8c6dffa4213797c0dd83a8fd
[IPV4]: Limit rt cache size properly.

During OpenVZ stress testing we found that UDP traffic with random src
can generate too much excessive rt hash growing leading finally to OOM
and kernel panics.

It was found that for 4GB i686 system (having 1048576 total pages and
225280 normal zone pages) kernel allocates the following route hash:
syslog: IP route cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576
bytes) => ip_rt_max_size = 4194304 entries, i.e.  max rt size is
4194304 * 256b = 1Gb of RAM > normal_zone

Attached the patch which removes HASH_HIGHMEM flag from
alloc_large_system_hash() call.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
net/ipv4/route.c