ipvs: allow connection reuse for unconfirmed conntrack
authorJulian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Wed, 1 Jul 2020 15:17:19 +0000 (18:17 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 06:23:51 +0000 (08:23 +0200)
commit2cc4eecf58dd2a95fa0eeabf18f7702e0432921e
treeb02b6a89fcc54bfe73b8f080fdab16e9754bbae2
parent3c3e890c7d7701b7781a9583fbfb33add3434691
ipvs: allow connection reuse for unconfirmed conntrack

[ Upstream commit f0a5e4d7a594e0fe237d3dfafb069bb82f80f42f ]

YangYuxi is reporting that connection reuse
is causing one-second delay when SYN hits
existing connection in TIME_WAIT state.
Such delay was added to give time to expire
both the IPVS connection and the corresponding
conntrack. This was considered a rare case
at that time but it is causing problem for
some environments such as Kubernetes.

As nf_conntrack_tcp_packet() can decide to
release the conntrack in TIME_WAIT state and
to replace it with a fresh NEW conntrack, we
can use this to allow rescheduling just by
tuning our check: if the conntrack is
confirmed we can not schedule it to different
real server and the one-second delay still
applies but if new conntrack was created,
we are free to select new real server without
any delays.

YangYuxi lists some of the problem reports:

- One second connection delay in masquerading mode:
https://marc.info/?t=151683118100004&r=1&w=2

- IPVS low throughput #70747
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/70747

- Apache Bench can fill up ipvs service proxy in seconds #544
https://github.com/cloudnativelabs/kube-router/issues/544

- Additional 1s latency in `host -> service IP -> pod`
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/90854

Fixes: f719e3754ee2 ("ipvs: drop first packet to redirect conntrack")
Co-developed-by: YangYuxi <yx.atom1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: YangYuxi <yx.atom1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
include/net/ip_vs.h
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c