linux/net/core
Eric Dumazet c7d4426a98 net: introduce DST_NOCACHE flag
While doing stress tests with IP route cache disabled, and multi queue
devices, I noticed a very high contention on one rwlock used in
neighbour code.

When many cpus are trying to send frames (possibly using a high
performance multiqueue device) to the same neighbour, they fight for the
neigh->lock rwlock in order to call neigh_hh_init(), and fight on
hh->hh_refcnt (a pair of atomic_inc/atomic_dec_and_test())

But we dont need to call neigh_hh_init() for dst that are used only
once. It costs four atomic operations at least, on two contended cache
lines, plus the high contention on neigh->lock rwlock.

Introduce a new dst flag, DST_NOCACHE, that is set when dst was not
inserted in route cache.

With the stress test bench, sending 160000000 frames on one neighbour,
results are :

Before patch:

real	2m28.406s
user	0m11.781s
sys	36m17.964s


After patch:

real	1m26.532s
user	0m12.185s
sys	20m3.903s

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-03 22:17:54 -07:00
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datagram.c net: poll() optimizations 2010-09-06 18:48:45 -07:00
dev_addr_lists.c net: include linux/proc_fs.h in dev_addr_lists.c 2010-04-07 16:46:36 -07:00
dev.c net: rename netdev rx_queue to ingress_queue 2010-09-29 13:25:53 -07:00
drop_monitor.c drop_monitor: use genl_register_family_with_ops() 2010-07-26 20:59:42 -07:00
dst.c __dst_free(): put EXPORT_SYMBOLS after the fct 2010-07-20 13:28:03 -07:00
ethtool.c ethtool: Fix build due to lack of ethtool.h include. 2010-09-21 16:12:11 -07:00
fib_rules.c ipv4: Allow configuring subnets as local addresses 2010-09-28 23:38:15 -07:00
filter.c net: sk_{detach|attach}_filter() rcu fixes 2010-09-27 21:30:44 -07:00
flow.c net: return operator cleanup 2010-09-23 14:33:39 -07:00
gen_estimator.c pkt_sched: remov unnecessary bh_disable 2010-09-10 12:47:59 -07:00
gen_stats.c net/core: EXPORT_SYMBOL cleanups 2010-07-12 12:57:55 -07:00
iovec.c net/core: remove address space warnings on verify_iovec() 2010-09-09 15:02:38 -07:00
kmap_skb.h
link_watch.c net/core: EXPORT_SYMBOL cleanups 2010-07-12 12:57:55 -07:00
Makefile net: support time stamping in phy devices. 2010-07-18 19:15:26 -07:00
neighbour.c net: introduce DST_NOCACHE flag 2010-10-03 22:17:54 -07:00
net_namespace.c net: disallow to use net_assign_generic externally 2010-04-27 15:49:02 -07:00
net-sysfs.c net: Allow changing number of RX queues after device allocation 2010-09-27 22:09:49 -07:00
net-sysfs.h net: Allow changing number of RX queues after device allocation 2010-09-27 22:09:49 -07:00
net-traces.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
netevent.c net/core: EXPORT_SYMBOL cleanups 2010-07-12 12:57:55 -07:00
netpoll.c Revert "net: remove zap_completion_queue" 2010-08-03 00:24:04 -07:00
pktgen.c net: core: use kernel's converter from hex to bin 2010-09-21 18:04:45 -07:00
request_sock.c
rtnetlink.c net: copy_rtnl_link_stats64() simplification 2010-08-23 20:43:16 -07:00
scm.c net/core: EXPORT_SYMBOL cleanups 2010-07-12 12:57:55 -07:00
skbuff.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-09-09 22:27:33 -07:00
sock.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-09-27 01:03:03 -07:00
stream.c net/core: EXPORT_SYMBOL cleanups 2010-07-12 12:57:55 -07:00
sysctl_net_core.c net: Consistent skb timestamping 2010-05-15 23:57:10 -07:00
timestamping.c net: support time stamping in phy devices. 2010-07-18 19:15:26 -07:00
user_dma.c net/core/user_dma.c: Use frag list abstraction interfaces. 2009-06-09 00:19:10 -07:00
utils.c net: return operator cleanup 2010-09-23 14:33:39 -07:00