While doing stress tests with a disabled IP route cache, I found
__mkroute_output() was touching three times in_device atomic refcount.
Use RCU to touch it once to reduce cache line ping pongs.
Before patch
time to perform the test
real 1m42.009s
user 0m12.545s
sys 25m0.726s
Profile :
16109.00 26.4% ip_route_output_slow vmlinux
7434.00 12.2% dst_destroy vmlinux
3280.00 5.4% fib_rules_lookup vmlinux
3252.00 5.3% fib_semantic_match vmlinux
2622.00 4.3% fib_table_lookup vmlinux
2535.00 4.1% dst_alloc vmlinux
1750.00 2.9% _raw_read_lock vmlinux
1532.00 2.5% rt_set_nexthop vmlinux
After patch
real 1m36.503s
user 0m12.977s
sys 23m25.608s
14234.00 22.4% ip_route_output_slow vmlinux
8717.00 13.7% dst_destroy vmlinux
4052.00 6.4% fib_rules_lookup vmlinux
3951.00 6.2% fib_semantic_match vmlinux
3191.00 5.0% dst_alloc vmlinux
1764.00 2.8% fib_table_lookup vmlinux
1692.00 2.7% _raw_read_lock vmlinux
1605.00 2.5% rt_set_nexthop vmlinux
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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