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tcp: Use dual stack sockets for port forwarding when possible

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Platforms like Linux allow IPv6 sockets to listen for IPv4 connections as
well as native IPv6 connections.  By doing this we halve the number of
listening sockets we need for TCP (assuming passt/pasta is listening on the
same ports for IPv4 and IPv6).  When forwarding many ports (e.g. -t all)
this can significantly reduce the amount of kernel memory that passt
consumes.

When forwarding all TCP and UDP ports for both IPv4 and IPv6 (-t all
-u all), this reduces kernel memory usage from ~677MiB to ~487MiB
(kernel version 6.0.8 on Fedora 37, x86_64).

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
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David Gibson 2022-11-17 16:59:08 +11:00 committed by Stefano Brivio
parent 8033a8e889
commit 8e914238b6
1 changed files with 12 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -2996,8 +2996,12 @@ static int tcp_sock_init_af(const struct ctx *c, int af, in_port_t port,
s = sock_l4(c, af, IPPROTO_TCP, addr, ifname, port, tref.u32);
if (c->tcp.fwd_in.mode == FWD_AUTO)
tcp_sock_init_ext[port][(af == AF_INET) ? V4 : V6] = s;
if (c->tcp.fwd_in.mode == FWD_AUTO) {
if (af == AF_INET || af == AF_UNSPEC)
tcp_sock_init_ext[port][V4] = s;
if (af == AF_INET6 || af == AF_UNSPEC)
tcp_sock_init_ext[port][V6] = s;
}
if (s < 0)
return -1;
@ -3017,6 +3021,12 @@ static int tcp_sock_init_af(const struct ctx *c, int af, in_port_t port,
void tcp_sock_init(const struct ctx *c, sa_family_t af, const void *addr,
const char *ifname, in_port_t port)
{
if (af == AF_UNSPEC && c->ifi4 && c->ifi6)
/* Attempt to get a dual stack socket */
if (tcp_sock_init_af(c, AF_UNSPEC, port, addr, ifname) >= 0)
return;
/* Otherwise create a socket per IP version */
if ((af == AF_INET || af == AF_UNSPEC) && c->ifi4)
tcp_sock_init_af(c, AF_INET, port, addr, ifname);
if ((af == AF_INET6 || af == AF_UNSPEC) && c->ifi6)