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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2018-03-08 12:51:41 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-03-09 11:23:11 -0500
commit79134e6ce2c9d1a00eab4d98cb48f975dd2474cb (patch)
treeb5f8a1d1f2036315e6955d015fd181c538ed8ebf /Documentation
parent2b3905de8b3d8511aee1d4acbf063197291cdd3f (diff)
net: do not create fallback tunnels for non-default namespaces
fallback tunnels (like tunl0, gre0, gretap0, erspan0, sit0, ip6tnl0, ip6gre0) are automatically created when the corresponding module is loaded. These tunnels are also automatically created when a new network namespace is created, at a great cost. In many cases, netns are used for isolation purposes, and these extra network devices are a waste of resources. We are using thousands of netns per host, and hit the netns creation/delete bottleneck a lot. (Many thanks to Kirill for recent work on this) Add a new sysctl so that we can opt-out from this automatic creation. Note that these tunnels are still created for the initial namespace, to be the least intrusive for typical setups. Tested: lpk43:~# cat add_del_unshare.sh for i in `seq 1 40` do (for j in `seq 1 100` ; do unshare -n /bin/true >/dev/null ; done) & done wait lpk43:~# echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/core/fb_tunnels_only_for_init_net lpk43:~# time ./add_del_unshare.sh real 0m37.521s user 0m0.886s sys 7m7.084s lpk43:~# echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/core/fb_tunnels_only_for_init_net lpk43:~# time ./add_del_unshare.sh real 0m4.761s user 0m0.851s sys 1m8.343s lpk43:~# Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
index 35c62f522754..5992602469d8 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
@@ -270,6 +270,18 @@ optmem_max
Maximum ancillary buffer size allowed per socket. Ancillary data is a sequence
of struct cmsghdr structures with appended data.
+fb_tunnels_only_for_init_net
+----------------------------
+
+Controls if fallback tunnels (like tunl0, gre0, gretap0, erspan0,
+sit0, ip6tnl0, ip6gre0) are automatically created when a new
+network namespace is created, if corresponding tunnel is present
+in initial network namespace.
+If set to 1, these devices are not automatically created, and
+user space is responsible for creating them if needed.
+
+Default : 0 (for compatibility reasons)
+
2. /proc/sys/net/unix - Parameters for Unix domain sockets
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