SCTP performance is low when thousands of associations are connected to one endpoint

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When thousands of endpoints connect with same source port to one single destination IP+port the lookup in SCTP kernel module is slow.
  • When running with stock kernel and > 6000 SCTP connections from same source port the ksoftirqd saturates to 100% CPU load.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux <= 7.2
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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