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Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c index bf5b5cdafeb..3fe4f100427 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c @@ -515,8 +515,10 @@ int svc_port_is_privileged(struct sockaddr *sin) } /* - * Make sure that we don't have too many active connections. If we - * have, something must be dropped. + * Make sure that we don't have too many active connections. If we have, + * something must be dropped. It's not clear what will happen if we allow + * "too many" connections, but when dealing with network-facing software, + * we have to code defensively. Here we do that by imposing hard limits. * * There's no point in trying to do random drop here for DoS * prevention. The NFS clients does 1 reconnect in 15 seconds. An @@ -525,19 +527,27 @@ int svc_port_is_privileged(struct sockaddr *sin) * The only somewhat efficient mechanism would be if drop old * connections from the same IP first. But right now we don't even * record the client IP in svc_sock. + * + * single-threaded services that expect a lot of clients will probably + * need to set sv_maxconn to override the default value which is based + * on the number of threads */ static void svc_check_conn_limits(struct svc_serv *serv) { - if (serv->sv_tmpcnt > (serv->sv_nrthreads+3)*20) { + unsigned int limit = serv->sv_maxconn ? serv->sv_maxconn : + (serv->sv_nrthreads+3) * 20; + + if (serv->sv_tmpcnt > limit) { struct svc_xprt *xprt = NULL; spin_lock_bh(&serv->sv_lock); if (!list_empty(&serv->sv_tempsocks)) { if (net_ratelimit()) { /* Try to help the admin */ printk(KERN_NOTICE "%s: too many open " - "connections, consider increasing the " - "number of nfsd threads\n", - serv->sv_name); + "connections, consider increasing %s\n", + serv->sv_name, serv->sv_maxconn ? + "the max number of connections." : + "the number of threads."); } /* * Always select the oldest connection. It's not fair, |