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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2016-06-21 23:16:49 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-06-25 12:19:35 -0400
commit520ac30f45519b0a82dd92117c181d1d6144677b (patch)
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net_sched: drop packets after root qdisc lock is released
Qdisc performance suffers when packets are dropped at enqueue() time because drops (kfree_skb()) are done while qdisc lock is held, delaying a dequeue() draining the queue. Nominal throughput can be reduced by 50 % when this happens, at a time we would like the dequeue() to proceed as fast as possible. Even FQ is vulnerable to this problem, while one of FQ goals was to provide some flow isolation. This patch adds a 'struct sk_buff **to_free' parameter to all qdisc->enqueue(), and in qdisc_drop() helper. I measured a performance increase of up to 12 %, but this patch is a prereq so that future batches in enqueue() can fly. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/sched/sch_gred.c')
-rw-r--r--net/sched/sch_gred.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_gred.c b/net/sched/sch_gred.c
index b5fb63c7be02..c78a093c551a 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_gred.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_gred.c
@@ -149,7 +149,8 @@ static inline int gred_use_harddrop(struct gred_sched *t)
return t->red_flags & TC_RED_HARDDROP;
}
-static int gred_enqueue(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *sch)
+static int gred_enqueue(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *sch,
+ struct sk_buff **to_free)
{
struct gred_sched_data *q = NULL;
struct gred_sched *t = qdisc_priv(sch);
@@ -237,10 +238,10 @@ static int gred_enqueue(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *sch)
q->stats.pdrop++;
drop:
- return qdisc_drop(skb, sch);
+ return qdisc_drop(skb, sch, to_free);
congestion_drop:
- qdisc_drop(skb, sch);
+ qdisc_drop(skb, sch, to_free);
return NET_XMIT_CN;
}