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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2011-09-19 05:52:27 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-09-28 13:29:50 -0400
commit16e5726269611b71c930054ffe9b858c1cea88eb (patch)
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af_unix: dont send SCM_CREDENTIALS by default
Since commit 7361c36c5224 (af_unix: Allow credentials to work across user and pid namespaces) af_unix performance dropped a lot. This is because we now take a reference on pid and cred in each write(), and release them in read(), usually done from another process, eventually from another cpu. This triggers false sharing. # Events: 154K cycles # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ....... .................. ......................... # 10.40% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] put_pid 8.60% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] unix_stream_recvmsg 7.87% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] unix_stream_sendmsg 6.11% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_raw_spin_lock 4.95% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] unix_scm_to_skb 4.87% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] pid_nr_ns 4.34% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] cred_to_ucred 2.39% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] unix_destruct_scm 2.24% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sub_preempt_count 1.75% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] fget_light 1.51% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __mutex_lock_interruptible_slowpath 1.42% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sock_alloc_send_pskb This patch includes SCM_CREDENTIALS information in a af_unix message/skb only if requested by the sender, [man 7 unix for details how to include ancillary data using sendmsg() system call] Note: This might break buggy applications that expected SCM_CREDENTIAL from an unaware write() system call, and receiver not using SO_PASSCRED socket option. If SOCK_PASSCRED is set on source or destination socket, we still include credentials for mere write() syscalls. Performance boost in hackbench : more than 50% gain on a 16 thread machine (2 quad-core cpus, 2 threads per core) hackbench 20 thread 2000 4.228 sec instead of 9.102 sec Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/scm.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/scm.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/scm.c b/net/core/scm.c
index 811b53fb330e..ff52ad0a5150 100644
--- a/net/core/scm.c
+++ b/net/core/scm.c
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ int __scm_send(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, struct scm_cookie *p)
if (err)
goto error;
- if (pid_vnr(p->pid) != p->creds.pid) {
+ if (!p->pid || pid_vnr(p->pid) != p->creds.pid) {
struct pid *pid;
err = -ESRCH;
pid = find_get_pid(p->creds.pid);
@@ -183,8 +183,9 @@ int __scm_send(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, struct scm_cookie *p)
p->pid = pid;
}
- if ((p->cred->euid != p->creds.uid) ||
- (p->cred->egid != p->creds.gid)) {
+ if (!p->cred ||
+ (p->cred->euid != p->creds.uid) ||
+ (p->cred->egid != p->creds.gid)) {
struct cred *cred;
err = -ENOMEM;
cred = prepare_creds();
@@ -193,7 +194,8 @@ int __scm_send(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, struct scm_cookie *p)
cred->uid = cred->euid = p->creds.uid;
cred->gid = cred->egid = p->creds.gid;
- put_cred(p->cred);
+ if (p->cred)
+ put_cred(p->cred);
p->cred = cred;
}
break;