Limit the number of items in the consdiffmgr on Windows.

This patch limits the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64
on the Windows platform. Hopefully, this will allow us to investigate a
smarter fix while avoiding the situation reported in tor#24857 where
Windows relay operators report Tor using 100% CPU.

See: tor#24857

diff --git a/changes/bug24857 b/changes/bug24857
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..fb2a7ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug24857
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+  o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
+    - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on Windows.
+      We hope this will resolve an issue where Windows relay operators reported
+      Tor using 100% CPU while we investigate better solutions. Fixes bug 24857;
+      bugfix on tor-0.3.1.1-alpha.
+

diff --git a/src/feature/dircache/consdiffmgr.c b/src/feature/dircache/consdiffmgr.c
index 10590cd6d286e37f88fd92dffc277ee990750320..21f536432ced0acbe4b6ac67224de00f3c7dcbbd 100644 (file)
--- a/src/feature/dircache/consdiffmgr.c
+++ b/src/feature/dircache/consdiffmgr.c
@@ -177,6 +177,16 @@ typedef struct cdm_diff_t {
 /** Hashtable mapping flavor and source consensus digest to status. */
 static HT_HEAD(cdm_diff_ht, cdm_diff_t) cdm_diff_ht = HT_INITIALIZER();
 
+#ifdef _WIN32
+   // XXX(ahf): For tor#24857, a contributor suggested that on Windows, the CPU
+   // begins to spike at 100% once the number of files handled by the consensus
+   // diff manager becomes larger than 64. To see if the issue goes away, we
+   // hardcode this value to 64 now while we investigate a better solution.
+#  define CACHE_MAX_NUM 64
+#else
+#  define CACHE_MAX_NUM 128
+#endif
+
 /**
  * Configuration for this module
  */
@@ -184,7 +194,7 @@ static consdiff_cfg_t consdiff_cfg = {
   // XXXX I'd like to make this number bigger, but it interferes with the
   // XXXX seccomp2 syscall filter, which tops out at BPF_MAXINS (4096)
   // XXXX rules.
-  /* .cache_max_num = */ 128
+  /* .cache_max_num = */ CACHE_MAX_NUM
 };
 
 static int consdiffmgr_ensure_space_for_files(int n);