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author | Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> | 2010-10-08 06:37:34 +0000 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-10-11 13:06:53 -0700 |
commit | fc66f95c68b6d4535a0ea2ea15d5cf626e310956 (patch) | |
tree | ac3a7f08ad741a67ff683bf93e5669ddcae95ed7 /drivers/zorro | |
parent | 0ed8ddf4045fcfcac36bad753dc4046118c603ec (diff) | |
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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>
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