Pawel Staszewski wrote:
<blockquote>
Some time ago i report this:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6648

and now with 2.6.29 / 2.6.29.1 / 2.6.29.3 and 2.6.30 it back
dmesg output:
oprofile: using NMI interrupt.
Fix inflate_threshold_root. Now=15 size=11 bits
...
Fix inflate_threshold_root. Now=15 size=11 bits

cat /proc/net/fib_triestat
Basic info: size of leaf: 40 bytes, size of tnode: 56 bytes.
Main:
        Aver depth:     2.28
        Max depth:      6
        Leaves:         276539
        Prefixes:       289922
        Internal nodes: 66762
          1: 35046  2: 13824  3: 9508  4: 4897  5: 2331  6: 1149  7: 5
9: 1  18: 1
        Pointers: 691228
Null ptrs: 347928
Total size: 35709  kB
</blockquote>

It seems, the current threshold for root resizing is too aggressive,
and it causes misleading warnings during big updates, but it might be
also responsible for memory problems, especially with non-preempt
configs, when RCU freeing is delayed long after call_rcu.

It should be also mentioned that because of non-atomic changes during
resizing/rebalancing the current lookup algorithm can miss valid leaves
so it's additional argument to shorten these activities even at a cost
of a minimally longer searching.

This patch restores values before the patch "[IPV4]: fib_trie root
node settings", commit: 965ffea4 from
v2.6.22.

Pawel's report:
<blockquote>
I dont see any big change of (cpu load or faster/slower
routing/propagating routes from bgpd or something else) - in avg there
is from 2% to 3% more of CPU load i dont know why but it is - i change
from "preempt" to "no preempt" 3 times and check this my "mpstat -P ALL
1 30"
always avg cpu load was from 2 to 3% more compared to "no preempt"
[...]
cat /proc/net/fib_triestat
Basic info: size of leaf: 20 bytes, size of tnode: 36 bytes.
Main:
        Aver depth:     2.44
        Max depth:      6
        Leaves:         277814
        Prefixes:       291306
        Internal nodes: 66420
          1: 32737  2: 14850  3: 10332  4: 4871  5: 2313  6: 942  7: 371  8: 3  17: 1
        Pointers: 599098
Null ptrs: 254865
Total size: 18067  kB
</blockquote>

According to this and other similar reports average depth is slightly
increased (~0.2), and root nodes are shorter (log 17 vs. 18), but
there is no visible performance decrease. So, until memory handling is
improved or added parameters for changing this individually, this
patch resets to safer defaults.
Reported-by: Pawel Staszewski <pstaszewski@itcare.pl>
Reported-by: Jorge Boncompte [DTI2] <jorge@dti2.net>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Pawel Staszewski <pstaszewski@itcare.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>