ipv4: Make neigh lookup keys for loopback/point-to-point devices be INADDR_ANY
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- fixes coding style issues
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| 1/2 | net: Allow neigh contructor functions ability to modify the primary_keynet/ | +2 | 0 replies | |
| 2/2 | ipv4: Make neigh lookup keys for loopback/point-to-point devices be INADDR_ANYinclude/ net/ | +9 | 0 replies |
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Cover letter [PATCH v2 0/2] 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
Jim Westfall (2):
net: Allow neigh contructor functions ability to modify the
primary_key
ipv4: Make neigh lookup keys for loopback/point-to-point devices be
INADDR_ANY
include/net/arp.h | 3 +++ net/core/neighbour.c | 4 ++-- net/ipv4/arp.c | 7 ++++++- 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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