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authorWei Wang <weiwan@google.com>2019-06-21 03:36:40 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-06-23 23:24:17 +0300
commit67f415dd29063a5906c560051c00e42dcf01a4dd (patch)
treea5b60f021fa257770d786ffec2e5c656c97d6c2e /net/ipv6
parentd64a1f574a2957b4bcb06452d36cc1c6bf16e9fc (diff)
downloadlinux-67f415dd29063a5906c560051c00e42dcf01a4dd.tar.xz
ipv6: convert rx data path to not take refcnt on dst
ip6_route_input() is the key function to do the route lookup in the rx data path. All the callers to this function are already holding rcu lock. So it is fairly easy to convert it to not take refcnt on the dst: We pass in flag RT6_LOOKUP_F_DST_NOREF and do skb_dst_set_noref(). This saves a few atomic inc or dec operations and should boost performance overall. This also makes the logic more aligned with v4. Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/route.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index c71f0e4f77ed..66fc69ef5909 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -2375,11 +2375,12 @@ u32 rt6_multipath_hash(const struct net *net, const struct flowi6 *fl6,
return mhash >> 1;
}
+/* Called with rcu held */
void ip6_route_input(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
const struct ipv6hdr *iph = ipv6_hdr(skb);
struct net *net = dev_net(skb->dev);
- int flags = RT6_LOOKUP_F_HAS_SADDR;
+ int flags = RT6_LOOKUP_F_HAS_SADDR | RT6_LOOKUP_F_DST_NOREF;
struct ip_tunnel_info *tun_info;
struct flowi6 fl6 = {
.flowi6_iif = skb->dev->ifindex,
@@ -2401,8 +2402,8 @@ void ip6_route_input(struct sk_buff *skb)
if (unlikely(fl6.flowi6_proto == IPPROTO_ICMPV6))
fl6.mp_hash = rt6_multipath_hash(net, &fl6, skb, flkeys);
skb_dst_drop(skb);
- skb_dst_set(skb,
- ip6_route_input_lookup(net, skb->dev, &fl6, skb, flags));
+ skb_dst_set_noref(skb, ip6_route_input_lookup(net, skb->dev,
+ &fl6, skb, flags));
}
static struct rt6_info *ip6_pol_route_output(struct net *net,