From 5640f7685831e088fe6c2e1f863a6805962f8e81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:04:42 +0000 Subject: net: use a per task frag allocator We currently use a per socket order-0 page cache for tcp_sendmsg() operations. This page is used to build fragments for skbs. Its done to increase probability of coalescing small write() into single segments in skbs still in write queue (not yet sent) But it wastes a lot of memory for applications handling many mostly idle sockets, since each socket holds one page in sk->sk_sndmsg_page Its also quite inefficient to build TSO 64KB packets, because we need about 16 pages per skb on arches where PAGE_SIZE = 4096, so we hit page allocator more than wanted. This patch adds a per task frag allocator and uses bigger pages, if available. An automatic fallback is done in case of memory pressure. (up to 32768 bytes per frag, thats order-3 pages on x86) This increases TCP stream performance by 20% on loopback device, but also benefits on other network devices, since 8x less frags are mapped on transmit and unmapped on tx completion. Alexander Duyck mentioned a probable performance win on systems with IOMMU enabled. Its possible some SG enabled hardware cant cope with bigger fragments, but their ndo_start_xmit() should already handle this, splitting a fragment in sub fragments, since some arches have PAGE_SIZE=65536 Successfully tested on various ethernet devices. (ixgbe, igb, bnx2x, tg3, mellanox mlx4) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Ben Hutchings Cc: Vijay Subramanian Cc: Alexander Duyck Tested-by: Vijay Subramanian Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/net/inet_sock.h | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/net/inet_sock.h') diff --git a/include/net/inet_sock.h b/include/net/inet_sock.h index 613cfa40167..256c1ed2d69 100644 --- a/include/net/inet_sock.h +++ b/include/net/inet_sock.h @@ -101,10 +101,8 @@ struct inet_cork { __be32 addr; struct ip_options *opt; unsigned int fragsize; - struct dst_entry *dst; int length; /* Total length of all frames */ - struct page *page; - u32 off; + struct dst_entry *dst; u8 tx_flags; }; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2