From 425f09ab7d1c9da6ca4137dd639cb6fe3f8a88f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 02:19:56 +0000 Subject: net: output path optimizations 1) Avoid dirtying neighbour's confirmed field. TCP workloads hits this cache line for each incoming ACK. Lets write n->confirmed only if there is a jiffie change. 2) Optimize neigh_hh_output() for the common Ethernet case, were hh_len is less than 16 bytes. Replace the memcpy() call by two inlined 64bit load/stores on x86_64. Bench results using udpflood test, with -C option (MSG_CONFIRM flag added to sendto(), to reproduce the n->confirmed dirtying on UDP) 24 threads doing 1.000.000 UDP sendto() on dummy device, 4 runs. before : 2.247s, 2.235s, 2.247s, 2.318s after : 1.884s, 1.905s, 1.891s, 1.895s Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/net/dst.h | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/net/dst.h') diff --git a/include/net/dst.h b/include/net/dst.h index baf59789006..77f52f7dc82 100644 --- a/include/net/dst.h +++ b/include/net/dst.h @@ -396,11 +396,15 @@ static inline void dst_confirm(struct dst_entry *dst) static inline int dst_neigh_output(struct dst_entry *dst, struct neighbour *n, struct sk_buff *skb) { - struct hh_cache *hh; + const struct hh_cache *hh; + + if (dst->pending_confirm) { + unsigned long now = jiffies; - if (unlikely(dst->pending_confirm)) { - n->confirmed = jiffies; dst->pending_confirm = 0; + /* avoid dirtying neighbour */ + if (n->confirmed != now) + n->confirmed = now; } hh = &n->hh; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2