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tcp: Reduce chance of collisions in inet6_hashfn().
For both IPv4 and IPv6 incoming TCP connections are tracked in a hash table with a hash over the source & destination addresses and ports. However, the IPv6 hash is insufficient and can lead to a high rate of collisions. The IPv6 hash used an XOR to fit everything into the 96 bits for the fast jenkins hash, meaning it is possible for an external entity to ensure the hash collides, thus falling back to a linear search in the bucket, which is slow. We take the approach of hash the full length of IPv6 address in __ipv6_addr_jhash() so that all users can benefit from a more secure version. While this may look like it adds overhead, the reality of modern CPUs means that this is unmeasurable in real world scenarios. In simulating with llvm-mca, the increase in cycles for the hashing code was ~16 cycles on Skylake (from a base of ~155), and an extra ~9 on Nehalem (base of ~173). In commit dd6d291 ("netfilter: conntrack: switch to siphash") netfilter switched from a jenkins hash to a siphash, but even the faster hsiphash is a more significant overhead (~20-30%) in some preliminary testing. So, in this patch, we keep to the more conservative approach to ensure we don't add much overhead per SYN. In testing, this results in a consistently even spread across the connection buckets. In both testing and real-world scenarios, we have not found any measurable performance impact. Fixes: 08dcdbf ("ipv6: use a stronger hash for tcp") Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <[email protected]> Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
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