vsock/virtio: limit the memory used per-socket

Since virtio-vsock was introduced, the buffers filled by the host
and pushed to the guest using the vring, are directly queued in
a per-socket list. These buffers are preallocated by the guest
with a fixed size (4 KB).

The maximum amount of memory used by each socket should be
controlled by the credit mechanism.
The default credit available per-socket is 256 KB, but if we use
only 1 byte per packet, the guest can queue up to 262144 of 4 KB
buffers, using up to 1 GB of memory per-socket. In addition, the
guest will continue to fill the vring with new 4 KB free buffers
to avoid starvation of other sockets.

This patch mitigates this issue copying the payload of small
packets (< 128 bytes) into the buffer of last packet queued, in
order to avoid wasting memory.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Stefano Garzarella
2019-07-30 17:43:30 +02:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent d1a55841ab
commit 473c7391ce
4 changed files with 55 additions and 9 deletions

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@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ struct virtio_vsock_pkt {
/* socket refcnt not held, only use for cancellation */
struct vsock_sock *vsk;
void *buf;
u32 buf_len;
u32 len;
u32 off;
bool reply;