macvtap: Limit packet queue length

Mark Wagner reported OOM symptoms when sending UDP traffic over
a macvtap link to a kvm receiver.

This appears to be caused by the fact that macvtap packet queues
are unlimited in length.  This means that if the receiver can't
keep up with the rate of flow, then we will hit OOM. Of course
it gets worse if the OOM killer then decides to kill the receiver.

This patch imposes a cap on the packet queue length, in the same
way as the tuntap driver, using the device TX queue length.

Please note that macvtap currently has no way of giving congestion
notification, that means the software device TX queue cannot be
used and packets will always be dropped once the macvtap driver
queue fills up.

This shouldn't be a great problem for the scenario where macvtap
is used to feed a kvm receiver, as the traffic is most likely
external in origin so congestion notification can't be applied
anyway.

Of course, if anybody decides to complain about guest-to-guest
UDP packet loss down the track, then we may have to revisit this.

Incidentally, this patch also fixes a real memory leak when
macvtap_get_queue fails.

Chris Wright noticed that for this patch to work, we need a
non-zero TX queue length.  This patch includes his work to change
the default macvtap TX queue length to 500.

Reported-by: Mark Wagner <mwagner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
index 87e8d4c..f15fe2cf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops macvlan_netdev_ops = {
 	.ndo_validate_addr	= eth_validate_addr,
 };
 
-static void macvlan_setup(struct net_device *dev)
+void macvlan_common_setup(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	ether_setup(dev);
 
@@ -508,6 +508,12 @@ static void macvlan_setup(struct net_device *dev)
 	dev->destructor		= free_netdev;
 	dev->header_ops		= &macvlan_hard_header_ops,
 	dev->ethtool_ops	= &macvlan_ethtool_ops;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(macvlan_common_setup);
+
+static void macvlan_setup(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	macvlan_common_setup(dev);
 	dev->tx_queue_len	= 0;
 }
 
@@ -705,7 +711,6 @@ int macvlan_link_register(struct rtnl_link_ops *ops)
 	/* common fields */
 	ops->priv_size		= sizeof(struct macvlan_dev);
 	ops->get_tx_queues	= macvlan_get_tx_queues;
-	ops->setup		= macvlan_setup;
 	ops->validate		= macvlan_validate;
 	ops->maxtype		= IFLA_MACVLAN_MAX;
 	ops->policy		= macvlan_policy;
@@ -719,6 +724,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(macvlan_link_register);
 
 static struct rtnl_link_ops macvlan_link_ops = {
 	.kind		= "macvlan",
+	.setup		= macvlan_setup,
 	.newlink	= macvlan_newlink,
 	.dellink	= macvlan_dellink,
 };