kernel_optimize_test/net/core
Eric Dumazet 271b72c7fa udp: RCU handling for Unicast packets.
Goals are :

1) Optimizing handling of incoming Unicast UDP frames, so that no memory
 writes should happen in the fast path.

 Note: Multicasts and broadcasts still will need to take a lock,
 because doing a full lockless lookup in this case is difficult.

2) No expensive operations in the socket bind/unhash phases :
  - No expensive synchronize_rcu() calls.

  - No added rcu_head in socket structure, increasing memory needs,
  but more important, forcing us to use call_rcu() calls,
  that have the bad property of making sockets structure cold.
  (rcu grace period between socket freeing and its potential reuse
   make this socket being cold in CPU cache).
  David did a previous patch using call_rcu() and noticed a 20%
  impact on TCP connection rates.
  Quoting Cristopher Lameter :
   "Right. That results in cacheline cooldown. You'd want to recycle
    the object as they are cache hot on a per cpu basis. That is screwed
    up by the delayed regular rcu processing. We have seen multiple
    regressions due to cacheline cooldown.
    The only choice in cacheline hot sensitive areas is to deal with the
    complexity that comes with SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU or give up on RCU."

  - Because udp sockets are allocated from dedicated kmem_cache,
  use of SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU can help here.

Theory of operation :
---------------------

As the lookup is lockfree (using rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock()),
special attention must be taken by readers and writers.

Use of SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU is tricky too, because a socket can be freed,
reused, inserted in a different chain or in worst case in the same chain
while readers could do lookups in the same time.

In order to avoid loops, a reader must check each socket found in a chain
really belongs to the chain the reader was traversing. If it finds a
mismatch, lookup must start again at the begining. This *restart* loop
is the reason we had to use rdlock for the multicast case, because
we dont want to send same message several times to the same socket.

We use RCU only for fast path.
Thus, /proc/net/udp still takes spinlocks.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-29 02:11:14 -07:00
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datagram.c net: Rationalise email address: Network Specific Parts 2008-10-13 19:01:08 -07:00
dev_mcast.c net: Rationalise email address: Network Specific Parts 2008-10-13 19:01:08 -07:00
dev.c netns: Coexist with the sysfs limitations v2 2008-10-27 17:51:47 -07:00
dst.c net: fix scheduling of dst_gc_task by __dst_free 2008-09-12 16:16:37 -07:00
ethtool.c netdev: Add support for rx flow hash configuration, using ethtool. 2008-07-02 03:47:41 -07:00
fib_rules.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-07-05 23:08:07 -07:00
filter.c net: Tyop of sk_filter() comment 2008-07-01 19:55:40 -07:00
flow.c smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argument 2008-06-26 11:24:35 +02:00
gen_estimator.c Revert "pkt_sched: Protect gen estimators under est_lock." 2008-08-18 22:32:10 -07:00
gen_stats.c
iovec.c net: Use standard structures for generic socket address structures. 2008-07-19 22:35:47 -07:00
kmap_skb.h
link_watch.c net: Clean up explicit ->tx_queue references in link watch. 2008-07-08 23:01:06 -07:00
Makefile net: Add SKB DMA mapping helper functions. 2008-09-11 04:51:14 -07:00
neighbour.c net: don't use INIT_RCU_HEAD 2008-10-28 13:25:09 -07:00
net_namespace.c net: don't use INIT_RCU_HEAD 2008-10-28 13:25:09 -07:00
net-sysfs.c netns: Coexist with the sysfs limitations v2 2008-10-27 17:51:47 -07:00
net-sysfs.h
netevent.c
netpoll.c net: convert print_mac to %pM 2008-10-27 17:06:18 -07:00
pktgen.c net: convert print_mac to %pM 2008-10-27 17:06:18 -07:00
request_sock.c net: convert BUG_TRAP to generic WARN_ON 2008-07-25 21:43:18 -07:00
rtnetlink.c net: Remove CONFIG_KMOD from net/ (towards removing CONFIG_KMOD entirely) 2008-10-16 15:24:51 -07:00
scm.c
skb_dma_map.c net: Fix off-by-one in skb_dma_map 2008-10-12 21:07:34 -07:00
skbuff.c net: reduce structures when XFRM=n 2008-10-28 13:24:06 -07:00
sock.c udp: RCU handling for Unicast packets. 2008-10-29 02:11:14 -07:00
stream.c net: Rationalise email address: Network Specific Parts 2008-10-13 19:01:08 -07:00
sysctl_net_core.c printk ratelimiting rewrite 2008-07-25 10:53:29 -07:00
user_dma.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-07-26 20:17:56 -07:00
utils.c printk ratelimiting rewrite 2008-07-25 10:53:29 -07:00