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tcp: Combat per-cpu skew in orphan tests.
authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:27:49 +0000 (02:27 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:18:13 +0000 (17:18 -0700)
commitfd31b5dcb8c69c007705caa9dccdaa371f21b4f0
treefc4aeff76ffcbfb463f601def7190062e4dcae78
parent515b723e04cb4df7f96c59dee019d126df707fc0
tcp: Combat per-cpu skew in orphan tests.

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As reported by Anton Blanchard when we use
percpu_counter_read_positive() to make our orphan socket limit checks,
the check can be off by up to num_cpus_online() * batch (which is 32
by default) which on a 128 cpu machine can be as large as the default
orphan limit itself.

Fix this by doing the full expensive sum check if the optimized check
triggers.

Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
include/net/tcp.h
net/ipv4/tcp.c
net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c