Merge branch 'ipv4-Make-neigh-lookup-keys-for-loopback-point-to-point-devices-be...
authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 19:53:44 +0000 (14:53 -0500)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 19:53:44 +0000 (14:53 -0500)
commitdb9ca5cacbda79c3c51c723006418f5b864b47fe
tree84e0e11399bdb5eb0f479497026f16d5a7259a8f
parent17d0fb0caa68f2bfd8aaa8125ff15abebfbfa1d7
parentcd9ff4de0107c65d69d02253bb25d6db93c3dbc1
Merge branch 'ipv4-Make-neigh-lookup-keys-for-loopback-point-to-point-devices-be-INADDR_ANY'

Jim Westfall says:

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ipv4: Make neigh lookup keys for loopback/point-to-point devices be INADDR_ANY

This used to be the previous behavior in older kernels but became broken in
a263b3093641f (ipv4: Make neigh lookups directly in output packet path)
and then later removed because it was broken in 0bb4087cbec0 (ipv4: Fix neigh
lookup keying over loopback/point-to-point devices)

Not having this results in there being an arp entry for every remote ip
address that the device talks to.  Given a fairly active device it can
cause the arp table to become huge and/or having to add/purge large number
of entires to keep within table size thresholds.

$ ip -4 neigh show nud noarp | grep tun | wc -l
55850

$ lnstat -k arp_cache:entries,arp_cache:allocs,arp_cache:destroys -c 10
arp_cach|arp_cach|arp_cach|
 entries|  allocs|destroys|
   81493|620166816|620126069|
  101867|   10186|       0|
  113854|    5993|       0|
  118773|    2459|       0|
   27937|   18579|   63998|
   39256|    5659|       0|
   56231|    8487|       0|
   65602|    4685|       0|
   79697|    7047|       0|
   90733|    5517|       0|

v2:
 - fixes coding style issues
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>