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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2010-10-08 06:37:34 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-10-11 13:06:53 -0700
commitfc66f95c68b6d4535a0ea2ea15d5cf626e310956 (patch)
treeac3a7f08ad741a67ff683bf93e5669ddcae95ed7 /net/core
parent0ed8ddf4045fcfcac36bad753dc4046118c603ec (diff)
downloadlinux-fc66f95c68b6d4535a0ea2ea15d5cf626e310956.tar.gz
net dst: use a percpu_counter to track entries
struct dst_ops tracks number of allocated dst in an atomic_t field,
subject to high cache line contention in stress workload.

Switch to a percpu_counter, to reduce number of time we need to dirty a
central location. Place it on a separate cache line to avoid dirtying
read only fields.

Stress test :

(Sending 160.000.000 UDP frames,
IP route cache disabled, dual E5540 @2.53GHz,
32bit kernel, FIB_TRIE, SLUB/NUMA)

Before:

real    0m51.179s
user    0m15.329s
sys     10m15.942s

After:

real	0m45.570s
user	0m15.525s
sys	9m56.669s

With a small reordering of struct neighbour fields, subject of a
following patch, (to separate refcnt from other read mostly fields)

real	0m41.841s
user	0m15.261s
sys	8m45.949s

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dst.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dst.c b/net/core/dst.c
index 978a1ee1f7d0..32e542d7f472 100644
--- a/net/core/dst.c
+++ b/net/core/dst.c
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ void *dst_alloc(struct dst_ops *ops)
 {
 	struct dst_entry *dst;
 
-	if (ops->gc && atomic_read(&ops->entries) > ops->gc_thresh) {
+	if (ops->gc && dst_entries_get_fast(ops) > ops->gc_thresh) {
 		if (ops->gc(ops))
 			return NULL;
 	}
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ void *dst_alloc(struct dst_ops *ops)
 #if RT_CACHE_DEBUG >= 2
 	atomic_inc(&dst_total);
 #endif
-	atomic_inc(&ops->entries);
+	dst_entries_add(ops, 1);
 	return dst;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dst_alloc);
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ again:
 		neigh_release(neigh);
 	}
 
-	atomic_dec(&dst->ops->entries);
+	dst_entries_add(dst->ops, -1);
 
 	if (dst->ops->destroy)
 		dst->ops->destroy(dst);