net: sched: allow qdiscs to handle locking

This patch adds a flag for queueing disciplines to indicate the stack
does not need to use the qdisc lock to protect operations. This can
be used to build lockless scheduling algorithms and improving
performance.

The flag is checked in the tx path and the qdisc lock is only taken
if it is not set. For now use a conditional if statement. Later we
could be more aggressive if it proves worthwhile and use a static key
or wrap this in a likely().

Also the lockless case drops the TCQ_F_CAN_BYPASS logic. The reason
for this is synchronizing a qlen counter across threads proves to
cost more than doing the enqueue/dequeue operations when tested with
pktgen.

Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/sch_generic.h b/include/net/sch_generic.h
index 7dd8b0b0d244..77791fa055de 100644
--- a/include/net/sch_generic.h
+++ b/include/net/sch_generic.h
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ struct Qdisc {
 				      * qdisc_tree_decrease_qlen() should stop.
 				      */
 #define TCQ_F_INVISIBLE		0x80 /* invisible by default in dump */
+#define TCQ_F_NOLOCK		0x100 /* qdisc does not require locking */
 	u32			limit;
 	const struct Qdisc_ops	*ops;
 	struct qdisc_size_table	__rcu *stab;