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From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: linux@stwm•de, hannes@stressinduktion•org,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, klassert@mathematik•tu-chemnitz.de
Subject: Re: Big performance loss from 3.4.63 to 3.10.13 when routing ipv4
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:12:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131023081255.GB10148@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131022.154638.1989281525248160764.davem@davemloft.net>

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 03:46:38PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Wolfgang Walter <linux@stwm•de>
> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 21:07:41 +0200
> 
> > Am Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 2013, 00:20:02 schrieb Hannes Frederic Sowa:
> >> On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 06:39:32PM +0200, Wolfgang Walter wrote:
> >> > All network traffic over the router become slow and sluggish. If one pings
> >> > the router there is a packet loss. After about 2 minutes the traffic
> >> > completely stalls for about 1 minute. Then it works again as in the
> >> > beginning to then stall again. And so on.
> >> 
> >> Maybe dropwatch can give a first hint?
> >> 
> > 
> > I finally found the problem:
> > 
> > In 3.10.x and 3.11.x the value of /proc/sys/net/ipv4/xfrm4_gc_thresh is 1024.
> > 
> > It is much higher in 3.4.x. If I increase this value in 3.10.x to the one I 
> > see on 3.4.x all works fine with 3.10.x
> 
> Steffen, here is yet another report about this issue.
> 
> I think we should resolve this soon, even bumping it to 2048 or 4096
> and leaving it at that would be I think acceptable.
> 

Yes, of course. Let's use 4096 as the default for ipv4 and ipv6.
I'll take care of it next week.

Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-23  8:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-01 16:39 Big performance loss from 3.4.63 to 3.10.13 when routing ipv4 Wolfgang Walter
2013-10-01 18:57 ` Brian Haley
2013-10-01 19:44   ` Wolfgang Walter
2013-10-01 22:20 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-10-22 19:07   ` Wolfgang Walter
2013-10-22 19:46     ` David Miller
2013-10-23  8:12       ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
2013-10-23 11:33         ` Wolfgang Walter
2013-10-23 12:00           ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-23 12:26             ` Steffen Klassert
2013-10-23 15:57             ` Wolfgang Walter
2013-10-23 12:04           ` Steffen Klassert
2013-10-23 16:05             ` Wolfgang Walter
     [not found] ` <3169911.kTmZ0BZVVr@h2o.as.studentenwerk.mhn.de>
     [not found]   ` <1382547992.7572.31.camel@edumazet-glaptop.roam.corp.google.com>
2013-10-23 22:52     ` Wolfgang Walter
2013-10-25  8:01       ` Steffen Klassert
2013-10-25  8:50         ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-25  9:20           ` Steffen Klassert
2013-10-28  4:43             ` David Miller
2013-10-28  6:17             ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-28 11:30               ` Steffen Klassert
2013-10-25  9:33         ` Wolfgang Walter
2013-10-24 11:07     ` Wolfgang Walter

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