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    tcp: add TCPMemoryPressuresChrono counter · 06044751
    Eric Dumazet authored
    
    
    DRAM supply shortage and poor memory pressure tracking in TCP
    stack makes any change in SO_SNDBUF/SO_RCVBUF (or equivalent autotuning
    limits) and tcp_mem[] quite hazardous.
    
    TCPMemoryPressures SNMP counter is an indication of tcp_mem sysctl
    limits being hit, but only tracking number of transitions.
    
    If TCP stack behavior under stress was perfect :
    1) It would maintain memory usage close to the limit.
    2) Memory pressure state would be entered for short times.
    
    We certainly prefer 100 events lasting 10ms compared to one event
    lasting 200 seconds.
    
    This patch adds a new SNMP counter tracking cumulative duration of
    memory pressure events, given in ms units.
    
    $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_mem
    3088    4117    6176
    $ grep TCP /proc/net/sockstat
    TCP: inuse 180 orphan 0 tw 2 alloc 234 mem 4140
    $ nstat -n ; sleep 10 ; nstat |grep Pressure
    TcpExtTCPMemoryPressures        1700
    TcpExtTCPMemoryPressuresChrono  5209
    
    v2: Used EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() instead of EXPORT_SYMBOL() as David
    instructed.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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