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net: No more expensive sock_hold()/sock_put() on each tx

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One of the problem with sock memory accounting is it uses
a pair of sock_hold()/sock_put() for each transmitted packet.

This slows down bidirectional flows because the receive path
also needs to take a refcount on socket and might use a different
cpu than transmit path or transmit completion path. So these
two atomic operations also trigger cache line bounces.

We can see this in tx or tx/rx workloads (media gateways for example),
where sock_wfree() can be in top five functions in profiles.

We use this sock_hold()/sock_put() so that sock freeing
is delayed until all tx packets are completed.

As we also update sk_wmem_alloc, we could offset sk_wmem_alloc
by one unit at init time, until sk_free() is called.
Once sk_free() is called, we atomic_dec_and_test(sk_wmem_alloc)
to decrement initial offset and atomicaly check if any packets
are in flight.

skb_set_owner_w() doesnt call sock_hold() anymore

sock_wfree() doesnt call sock_put() anymore, but check if sk_wmem_alloc
reached 0 to perform the final freeing.

Drawback is that a skb->truesize error could lead to unfreeable sockets, or
even worse, prematurely calling __sk_free() on a live socket.

Nice speedups on SMP. tbench for example, going from 2691 MB/s to 2711 MB/s
on my 8 cpu dev machine, even if tbench was not really hitting sk_refcnt
contention point. 5 % speedup on a UDP transmit workload (depends
on number of flows), lowering TX completion cpu usage.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet
2009-06-11 02:55:43 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent f2333a014c
commit 2b85a34e91
4 changed files with 30 additions and 7 deletions
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include/net/sock.h
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@@ -1217,9 +1217,13 @@ static inline int skb_copy_to_page(struct sock *sk, char __user *from,
static inline void skb_set_owner_w(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sock *sk)
{
sock_hold(sk);
skb->sk = sk;
skb->destructor = sock_wfree;
/*
* We used to take a refcount on sk, but following operation
* is enough to guarantee sk_free() wont free this sock until
* all in-flight packets are completed
*/
atomic_add(skb->truesize, &sk->sk_wmem_alloc);
}