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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2014-10-03 22:31:07 (GMT)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-10-03 22:36:11 (GMT)
commit55a93b3ea780908b7d1b3a8cf1976223a9268d78 (patch)
tree2c33ad6aaf7a604185bff5659d64895f5cf9a348 /include
parent6a05880a8b22c6ba2ffdabbceb4635d28abe9072 (diff)
downloadlinux-55a93b3ea780908b7d1b3a8cf1976223a9268d78.tar.xz
qdisc: validate skb without holding lock
Validation of skb can be pretty expensive : GSO segmentation and/or checksum computations. We can do this without holding qdisc lock, so that other cpus can queue additional packets. Trick is that requeued packets were already validated, so we carry a boolean so that sch_direct_xmit() can validate a fresh skb list, or directly use an old one. Tested on 40Gb NIC (8 TX queues) and 200 concurrent flows, 48 threads host. Turning TSO on or off had no effect on throughput, only few more cpu cycles. Lock contention on qdisc lock disappeared. Same if disabling TX checksum offload. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h2
-rw-r--r--include/net/pkt_sched.h2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 9b7fbac..910fb17 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -2821,7 +2821,7 @@ int dev_set_mac_address(struct net_device *, struct sockaddr *);
int dev_change_carrier(struct net_device *, bool new_carrier);
int dev_get_phys_port_id(struct net_device *dev,
struct netdev_phys_port_id *ppid);
-struct sk_buff *validate_xmit_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev);
+struct sk_buff *validate_xmit_skb_list(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev);
struct sk_buff *dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
struct netdev_queue *txq, int *ret);
int __dev_forward_skb(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb);
diff --git a/include/net/pkt_sched.h b/include/net/pkt_sched.h
index 8bbe626..e4b3c82 100644
--- a/include/net/pkt_sched.h
+++ b/include/net/pkt_sched.h
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ void qdisc_put_stab(struct qdisc_size_table *tab);
void qdisc_warn_nonwc(const char *txt, struct Qdisc *qdisc);
int sch_direct_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *q,
struct net_device *dev, struct netdev_queue *txq,
- spinlock_t *root_lock);
+ spinlock_t *root_lock, bool validate);
void __qdisc_run(struct Qdisc *q);