Kill HASH_HIGHMEM from route cache hash sizing

[IPV4]: Limit rt cache size properly.

During OpenVZ stress testing we found that UDP traffic with random src
can generate too much excessive rt hash growing leading finally to OOM
and kernel panics.

It was found that for 4GB i686 system (having 1048576 total pages and
225280 normal zone pages) kernel allocates the following route hash:
syslog: IP route cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576
bytes) => ip_rt_max_size = 4194304 entries, i.e.  max rt size is
4194304 * 256b = 1Gb of RAM > normal_zone

Attached the patch which removes HASH_HIGHMEM flag from
alloc_large_system_hash() call.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index cc9423de7311fcac8845b38a055b6ea008b22ec7..5fe2fcf998528b223ec359d42522390177ed9a49 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -3144,7 +3144,7 @@ int __init ip_rt_init(void)
                                        rhash_entries,
                                        (num_physpages >= 128 * 1024) ?
                                        15 : 17,
-                                       HASH_HIGHMEM,
+                                       0,
                                        &rt_hash_log,
                                        &rt_hash_mask,
                                        0);