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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 1/5] vsock/virtio: limit the memory used per-socket
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 03:39:50PM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> 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>
> ---
> drivers/vhost/vsock.c | 2 +
> include/linux/virtio_vsock.h | 1 +
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c | 1 +
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++----
> 4 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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