Re: [PATCH] ipvs: Fix reuse connection if RS weight is 0

[Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>]

	Hello,

On Tue, 26 Oct 2021, yangxingwu wrote:

> thanks julian
> 
> What happens in this situation is that if we set the wait of the
> realserver to 0 and do NOT remove the weight zero realserver with
> sysctl settings (conn_reuse_mode == 0 && expire_nodest_conn == 1), and
> the client reuses its source ports, the kernel will constantly
> reuse connections and send the traffic to the weight 0 realserver.

	Yes, this is expected when conn_reuse_mode=0.

> you may check the details from
> https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/81775

	What happens if you try conn_reuse_mode=1? The
one-second delay in previous kernels should be corrected with

commit f0a5e4d7a594e0fe237d3dfafb069bb82f80f42f
Date:   Wed Jul 1 18:17:19 2020 +0300

    ipvs: allow connection reuse for unconfirmed conntrack

> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 2:12 AM Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 25 Oct 2021, yangxingwu wrote:
> >
> > > Since commit dc7b3eb900aa ("ipvs: Fix reuse connection if real server is
> > > dead"), new connections to dead servers are redistributed immediately to
> > > new servers.
> > >
> > > Then commit d752c3645717 ("ipvs: allow rescheduling of new connections when
> > > port reuse is detected") disable expire_nodest_conn if conn_reuse_mode is
> > > 0. And new connection may be distributed to a real server with weight 0.
> >
> >         Your change does not look correct to me. At the time
> > expire_nodest_conn was created, it was not checked when
> > weight is 0. At different places different terms are used
> > but in short, we have two independent states for real server:
> >
> > - inhibited: weight=0 and no new connections should be served,
> >         packets for existing connections can be routed to server
> >         if it is still available and packets are not dropped
> >         by expire_nodest_conn.
> >         The new feature is that port reuse detection can
> >         redirect the new TCP connection into a new IPVS conn and
> >         to expire the existing cp/ct.
> >
> > - unavailable (!IP_VS_DEST_F_AVAILABLE): server is removed,
> >         can be temporary, drop traffic for existing connections
> >         but on expire_nodest_conn we can select different server
> >
> >         The new conn_reuse_mode flag allows port reuse to
> > be detected. Only then expire_nodest_conn has the
> > opportunity with commit dc7b3eb900aa to check weight=0
> > and to consider the old traffic as finished. If a new
> > server is selected, any retrans from previous connection
> > would be considered as part from the new connection. It
> > is a rapid way to switch server without checking with
> > is_new_conn_expected() because we can not have many
> > conns/conntracks to different servers.

Regards

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Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>