macvlan: Support for high multicast packet rate

Commit Message

Thomas Karlsson Nov. 25, 2020, 4:57 p.m. UTC

Background:
Broadcast and multicast packages are enqueued for later processing.
This queue was previously hardcoded to 1000 packages.

This proved insufficient for handling very high packet rates.
This resulted in packet drops for multicast.
While at the same time unicast worked fine.

The change:
This patch make the queue len adjustable to accommodate
for environments with very high multicast packet rate.
But still keeps the default value of 1000 unless specified.

The queue len is specified using the bc_queue_len module parameter.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Karlsson <[e-mail]>

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
index c8d803d3616c..5c92ef2db284 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ 
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/moduleparam.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
@@ -35,11 +36,15 @@ 
 
 #define MACVLAN_HASH_BITS      8
 #define MACVLAN_HASH_SIZE      (1<<MACVLAN_HASH_BITS)
-#define MACVLAN_BC_QUEUE_LEN   1000
+#define MACVLAN_DEFAULT_BC_QUEUE_LEN   1000
 
 #define MACVLAN_F_PASSTHRU     1
 #define MACVLAN_F_ADDRCHANGE   2
 
+static uint bc_queue_len = MACVLAN_DEFAULT_BC_QUEUE_LEN;
+module_param(bc_queue_len, uint, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(bc_queue_len, "The maximum length of the broadcast/multicast work queue");
+
 struct macvlan_port {
        struct net_device       *dev;
        struct hlist_head       vlan_hash[MACVLAN_HASH_SIZE];
@@ -354,7 +359,7 @@  static void macvlan_broadcast_enqueue(struct macvlan_port *port,
        MACVLAN_SKB_CB(nskb)->src = src;
 
        spin_lock(&port->bc_queue.lock);
-       if (skb_queue_len(&port->bc_queue) < MACVLAN_BC_QUEUE_LEN) {
+       if (skb_queue_len(&port->bc_queue) < bc_queue_len) {
                if (src)
                        dev_hold(src->dev);
                __skb_queue_tail(&port->bc_queue, nskb);