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Split KUBE-SERVICES chain to re-shrink the INPUT chain #56164

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What this PR does / why we need it:
#43972 added an iptables rule "-A INPUT -j KUBE-SERVICES" to make NodePort ICMP rejection work. (Previously the KUBE-SERVICES chain was only run from OUTPUT, not INPUT.) #44547 extended that patch for ExternalIP rejection as well.

However, the KUBE-SERVICES chain may potentially have a very large number of ICMP reject rules for plain ClusterIP services (the ones that get run from OUTPUT), and it seems that for some reason the kernel is much more sensitive to the length of the INPUT chain than it is to the length of the OUTPUT chain. So a node that worked fine with kube 1.6 (when KUBE-SERVICES was only run from OUTPUT) might fall over with kube 1.7 (with KUBE-SERVICES being run from both INPUT and OUTPUT).

(Specifically, a node with about 5000 ClusterIP reject rules that ran fine with OpenShift 3.6 [kube 1.6] slowed almost to a complete halt with OpenShift 3.7 [kube 1.7].)

This PR fixes things by splitting out the "new" part of KUBE-SERVICES (NodePort and ExternalIP reject rules) into a separate KUBE-EXTERNAL-SERVICES chain run from INPUT, and moves KUBE-SERVICES back to being only run from OUTPUT. (So, yes, this assumes that you don't have 5000 NodePort/ExternalIP services, but, if you do, there's not much we can do, since those rules have to be run on the INPUT side.)

Oh, and I left in the code to clean up the "-A INPUT -j KUBE-SERVICES" rule even though we don't generate it any more, so it gets fixed on upgrade.

Release note:

Reorganized iptables rules to fix a performance regression on clusters with thousands of services.

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Do we need an equivalent on ipvs side?

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m1093782566 commented Nov 22, 2017

Thanks @thockin

I haven't take a deep look yet, but IPVS proxier does not need to use iptables REJECT to reject packets if service has no endpoints. Because when visit an IPVS virtual server which has no real server, kernel will reject it by itself, for example,

[root@SHA1000130405 app]# curl 1.2.3.4:8080
curl: (7) Failed connect to 1.2.3.4:8080; Connection refused

Of course, please correct me if this PR has other benefits.

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It's not about rejecting packets specifically, it's about having too many rules in the INPUT chain. But IPVS doesn't use the INPUT chain at all, so it's fine.

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/hold
The reporter of #56842 apparently has enough externalip services to hit this problem even with this patch. I think the suggestion there is not quite right though. I'll look into this more next week when I'm back from kubecon.

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/hold cancel
While #56842 needs more than just this, this PR doesn't conflict with the changes needed there, and I think the fix here (having one chain for INPUT and one for OUTPUT rather than a single chain containing a mix of rules some of which only apply to input packets and some of which only apply to output packets) makes sense regardless of whether it fixes #56842.

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dcbw commented Jan 18, 2018

/lgtm

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dcbw commented Jan 18, 2018

/test pull-kubernetes-e2e-kops-aws

"error creating VPC: VpcLimitExceeded: The maximum number of VPCs has been reached."

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thockin commented Feb 6, 2018

@m1093782566 do we need an IPVS equivalent? Or does IPVS get this for free?

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thockin commented Feb 6, 2018

LGTM, but let's wait for #57336 to merge, since I didn't re-review the first commit here :) Or rebase the 2nd commit here on top of that so I can verify same hash and not re-read it :)

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Abstract some duplicated code in the iptables proxier

Reorganizes the iptables proxier code so we only have the list of "-A FOO -j KUBE-BAR" rules in one place rather than duplicating the same list in multiple places. Split out from kubernetes#56164 for ease of review/merging.

**Release note**:
```release-note
NONE
```
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m1093782566 commented Feb 7, 2018

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IPVS get this for free since there is no INPUT chain created by IPVS proxier.

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Automatic merge from submit-queue (batch tested with PRs 18754, 18761).

kube-proxy iptables performance fixes

Pull in multiple upstream iptables fixes to improve performance in "very large clusters" (ie, Online).

Includes kubernetes/kubernetes#57336, kubernetes/kubernetes#56164, kubernetes/kubernetes#57461, and kubernetes/kubernetes#60306.

Fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1514174
openshift-publish-robot pushed a commit to openshift/kubernetes that referenced this pull request Feb 27, 2018
…-fixes

Automatic merge from submit-queue (batch tested with PRs 18754, 18761).

kube-proxy iptables performance fixes

Pull in multiple upstream iptables fixes to improve performance in "very large clusters" (ie, Online).

Includes kubernetes#57336, kubernetes#56164, kubernetes#57461, and kubernetes#60306.

Fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1514174

Origin-commit: e2e14cb4fe6a6789936da736d627ae96ca822116
openshift-publish-robot pushed a commit to openshift/kubernetes that referenced this pull request Mar 5, 2018
…-fixes

Automatic merge from submit-queue (batch tested with PRs 18754, 18761).

kube-proxy iptables performance fixes

Pull in multiple upstream iptables fixes to improve performance in "very large clusters" (ie, Online).

Includes kubernetes#57336, kubernetes#56164, kubernetes#57461, and kubernetes#60306.

Fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1514174

Origin-commit: e2e14cb4fe6a6789936da736d627ae96ca822116
@danwinship danwinship deleted the proxier-chain-split branch March 26, 2018 13:29
tssurya added a commit to tssurya/kubernetes that referenced this pull request Oct 19, 2020
In kubernetes#56164, we had split the reject rules for non-ep existing services
into KUBE-EXTERNAL-SERVICES chain in order to avoid calling KUBE-SERVICES
from INPUT. However in kubernetes#74394 KUBE-SERVICES was re-added into INPUT.

As noted in kubernetes#56164, kernel is sensitive to the size of INPUT chain. This
patch refrains from calling the KUBE-SERVICES chain from INPUT and FORWARD,
instead adds the lb reject rule to the KUBE-EXTERNAL-SERVICES chain which will be
called from INPUT and FORWARD.
tssurya added a commit to tssurya/kubernetes that referenced this pull request Oct 26, 2020
In kubernetes#56164, we had split the reject rules for non-ep existing services
into KUBE-EXTERNAL-SERVICES chain in order to avoid calling KUBE-SERVICES
from INPUT. However in kubernetes#74394 KUBE-SERVICES was re-added into INPUT.

As noted in kubernetes#56164, kernel is sensitive to the size of INPUT chain. This
patch refrains from calling the KUBE-SERVICES chain from INPUT and FORWARD,
instead adds the lb reject rule to the KUBE-EXTERNAL-SERVICES chain which will be
called from INPUT and FORWARD.

Conflicts:
    pkg/proxy/iptables/proxier.go
Minor conflict due to 1f7ea16
openshift-cherrypick-robot pushed a commit to openshift-cherrypick-robot/kubernetes that referenced this pull request Oct 27, 2020
In kubernetes#56164, we had split the reject rules for non-ep existing services
into KUBE-EXTERNAL-SERVICES chain in order to avoid calling KUBE-SERVICES
from INPUT. However in kubernetes#74394 KUBE-SERVICES was re-added into INPUT.

As noted in kubernetes#56164, kernel is sensitive to the size of INPUT chain. This
patch refrains from calling the KUBE-SERVICES chain from INPUT and FORWARD,
instead adds the lb reject rule to the KUBE-EXTERNAL-SERVICES chain which will be
called from INPUT and FORWARD.

Conflicts:
    pkg/proxy/iptables/proxier.go
Minor conflict due to 1f7ea16
tssurya added a commit to tssurya/kubernetes that referenced this pull request Nov 3, 2020
In kubernetes#56164, we had split the reject rules for non-ep existing services
into KUBE-EXTERNAL-SERVICES chain in order to avoid calling KUBE-SERVICES
from INPUT. However in kubernetes#74394 KUBE-SERVICES was re-added into INPUT.

As noted in kubernetes#56164, kernel is sensitive to the size of INPUT chain. This
patch refrains from calling the KUBE-SERVICES chain from INPUT and FORWARD,
instead adds the lb reject rule to the KUBE-EXTERNAL-SERVICES chain which will be
called from INPUT and FORWARD.

Conflicts:
    pkg/proxy/iptables/proxier.go
Minor conflict due to 1f7ea16
tssurya added a commit to tssurya/kubernetes that referenced this pull request Nov 9, 2020
In kubernetes#56164, we had split the reject rules for non-ep existing services
into KUBE-EXTERNAL-SERVICES chain in order to avoid calling KUBE-SERVICES
from INPUT. However in kubernetes#74394 KUBE-SERVICES was re-added into INPUT.

As noted in kubernetes#56164, kernel is sensitive to the size of INPUT chain. This
patch refrains from calling the KUBE-SERVICES chain from INPUT and FORWARD,
instead adds the lb reject rule to the KUBE-EXTERNAL-SERVICES chain which will be
called from INPUT and FORWARD.

Conflicts:
    pkg/proxy/iptables/proxier.go
Minor conflict due to 1f7ea16
mrmassis pushed a commit to mrmassis/kubernetes that referenced this pull request Nov 12, 2020
In kubernetes#56164, we had split the reject rules for non-ep existing services
into KUBE-EXTERNAL-SERVICES chain in order to avoid calling KUBE-SERVICES
from INPUT. However in kubernetes#74394 KUBE-SERVICES was re-added into INPUT.

As noted in kubernetes#56164, kernel is sensitive to the size of INPUT chain. This
patch refrains from calling the KUBE-SERVICES chain from INPUT and FORWARD,
instead adds the lb reject rule to the KUBE-EXTERNAL-SERVICES chain which will be
called from INPUT and FORWARD.
tssurya added a commit to tssurya/kubernetes that referenced this pull request Nov 20, 2020
In kubernetes#56164, we had split the reject rules for non-ep existing services
into KUBE-EXTERNAL-SERVICES chain in order to avoid calling KUBE-SERVICES
from INPUT. However in kubernetes#74394 KUBE-SERVICES was re-added into INPUT.

As noted in kubernetes#56164, kernel is sensitive to the size of INPUT chain. This
patch refrains from calling the KUBE-SERVICES chain from INPUT and FORWARD,
instead adds the lb reject rule to the KUBE-EXTERNAL-SERVICES chain which will be
called from INPUT and FORWARD.

Conflicts:
    pkg/proxy/iptables/proxier.go
Minor conflict due to 1f7ea16
tssurya added a commit to tssurya/kubernetes that referenced this pull request Nov 20, 2020
In kubernetes#56164, we had split the reject rules for non-ep existing services
into KUBE-EXTERNAL-SERVICES chain in order to avoid calling KUBE-SERVICES
from INPUT. However in kubernetes#74394 KUBE-SERVICES was re-added into INPUT.

As noted in kubernetes#56164, kernel is sensitive to the size of INPUT chain. This
patch refrains from calling the KUBE-SERVICES chain from INPUT and FORWARD,
instead adds the lb reject rule to the KUBE-EXTERNAL-SERVICES chain which will be
called from INPUT and FORWARD.

Conflicts:
    pkg/proxy/iptables/proxier.go
Minor conflict due to 1f7ea16
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