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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2011-11-09 11:24:35 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-11-10 01:36:27 +0400
commitd826eb14ecef3574b6b3be55e5f4329f4a76fbf3 (patch)
treee072ee768f065be430543709d48f08a36f4eed2d /include/net/ip.h
parentacb32ba3dee66d58704caeeb8c6ff95f60efdc66 (diff)
downloadlinux-d826eb14ecef3574b6b3be55e5f4329f4a76fbf3.tar.xz
ipv4: PKTINFO doesnt need dst reference
Le lundi 07 novembre 2011 à 15:33 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit : > At least, in recent kernels we dont change dst->refcnt in forwarding > patch (usinf NOREF skb->dst) > > One particular point is the atomic_inc(dst->refcnt) we have to perform > when queuing an UDP packet if socket asked PKTINFO stuff (for example a > typical DNS server has to setup this option) > > I have one patch somewhere that stores the information in skb->cb[] and > avoid the atomic_{inc|dec}(dst->refcnt). > OK I found it, I did some extra tests and believe its ready. [PATCH net-next] ipv4: IP_PKTINFO doesnt need dst reference When a socket uses IP_PKTINFO notifications, we currently force a dst reference for each received skb. Reader has to access dst to get needed information (rt_iif & rt_spec_dst) and must release dst reference. We also forced a dst reference if skb was put in socket backlog, even without IP_PKTINFO handling. This happens under stress/load. We can instead store the needed information in skb->cb[], so that only softirq handler really access dst, improving cache hit ratios. This removes two atomic operations per packet, and false sharing as well. On a benchmark using a mono threaded receiver (doing only recvmsg() calls), I can reach 720.000 pps instead of 570.000 pps. IP_PKTINFO is typically used by DNS servers, and any multihomed aware UDP application. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/include/net/ip.h b/include/net/ip.h
index eca0ef7a495e..fd1561e88a1a 100644
--- a/include/net/ip.h
+++ b/include/net/ip.h
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ extern int ip_options_rcv_srr(struct sk_buff *skb);
* Functions provided by ip_sockglue.c
*/
-extern int ip_queue_rcv_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb);
+extern void ipv4_pktinfo_prepare(struct sk_buff *skb);
extern void ip_cmsg_recv(struct msghdr *msg, struct sk_buff *skb);
extern int ip_cmsg_send(struct net *net,
struct msghdr *msg, struct ipcm_cookie *ipc);