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David S. Miller d3aaeb38c4 net: Add ->neigh_lookup() operation to dst_ops
In the future dst entries will be neigh-less.  In that environment we
need to have an easy transition point for current users of
dst->neighbour outside of the packet output fast path.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-18 00:40:17 -07:00
David S. Miller 69cce1d140 net: Abstract dst->neighbour accesses behind helpers.
dst_{get,set}_neighbour()

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-17 23:11:35 -07:00
David S. Miller f6b72b6217 net: Embed hh_cache inside of struct neighbour.
Now that there is a one-to-one correspondance between neighbour
and hh_cache entries, we no longer need:

1) dynamic allocation
2) attachment to dst->hh
3) refcounting

Initialization of the hh_cache entry is indicated by hh_len
being non-zero, and such initialization is always done with
the neighbour's lock held as a writer.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-14 07:53:20 -07:00
David S. Miller 957c665f37 ipv6: Don't put artificial limit on routing table size.
IPV6, unlike IPV4, doesn't have a routing cache.

Routing table entries, as well as clones made in response
to route lookup requests, all live in the same table.  And
all of these things are together collected in the destination
cache table for ipv6.

This means that routing table entries count against the garbage
collection limits, even though such entries cannot ever be reclaimed
and are added explicitly by the administrator (rather than being
created in response to lookups).

Therefore it makes no sense to count ipv6 routing table entries
against the GC limits.

Add a DST_NOCOUNT destination cache entry flag, and skip the counting
if it is set.  Use this flag bit in ipv6 when adding routing table
entries.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-01 17:30:43 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 1f37070d3f dst: catch uninitialized metrics
Catch cases where dst_metric_set() and other functions are called
but _metrics is NULL.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-05-24 13:50:52 -04:00
David S. Miller 6882f933cc ipv4: Kill RT_CACHE_DEBUG
It's way past it's usefulness.  And this gets rid of a bunch
of stray ->rt_{dst,src} references.

Even the comment documenting the macro was inaccurate (stated
default was 1 when it's 0).

If reintroduced, it should be done properly, with dynamic debug
facilities.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-05-18 18:23:21 -04:00
David S. Miller 5c1e6aa300 net: Make dst_alloc() take more explicit initializations.
Now the dst->dev, dev->obsolete, and dst->flags values can
be specified as well.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-04-28 22:25:59 -07:00
David S. Miller 2a9e950701 net: Remove __KERNEL__ cpp checks from include/net
These header files are never installed to user consumption, so any
__KERNEL__ cpp checks are superfluous.

Projects should also not copy these files into their userland utility
sources and try to use them there.  If they insist on doing so, the
onus is on them to sanitize the headers as needed.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-04-24 10:54:56 -07:00
Steffen Klassert e433430a0c dst: Clone child entry in skb_dst_pop
We clone the child entry in skb_dst_pop before we call
skb_dst_drop(). Otherwise we might kill the child right
before we return it to the caller.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-27 17:55:01 -07:00
David S. Miller 452edd598f xfrm: Return dst directly from xfrm_lookup()
Instead of on the stack.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-02 13:27:41 -08:00
David S. Miller 2774c131b1 xfrm: Handle blackhole route creation via afinfo.
That way we don't have to potentially do this in every xfrm_lookup()
caller.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-01 14:59:04 -08:00
David S. Miller 80c0bc9e37 xfrm: Kill XFRM_LOOKUP_WAIT flag.
This can be determined from the flow flags instead.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-01 14:36:37 -08:00
David S. Miller dee9f4bceb net: Make flow cache paths use a const struct flowi.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-02-22 18:44:31 -08:00
David S. Miller 3c7bd1a140 net: Add initial_ref arg to dst_alloc().
This allows avoiding multiple writes to the initial __refcnt.

The most simplest cases of wanting an initial reference of "1"
in ipv4 and ipv6 have been converted, the rest have been left
along and kept at the existing "0".

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-02-17 15:44:00 -08:00
David S. Miller e7b66bdc02 net: Remove bogus barrier() in dst_allfrag().
I simply missed this one when modifying the other dst
metric interfaces earlier.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-02-08 15:33:22 -08:00
David S. Miller 92d8682926 inetpeer: Move ICMP rate limiting state into inet_peer entries.
Like metrics, the ICMP rate limiting bits are cached state about
a destination.  So move it into the inet_peer entries.

If an inet_peer cannot be bound (the reason is memory allocation
failure or similar), the policy is to allow.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-02-04 15:59:53 -08:00
David S. Miller 725d1e1b45 ipv4: Attach FIB info to dst_default_metrics when possible
If there are no explicit metrics attached to a route, hook
fi->fib_info up to dst_default_metrics.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-28 14:05:05 -08:00
David S. Miller 62fa8a846d net: Implement read-only protection and COW'ing of metrics.
Routing metrics are now copy-on-write.

Initially a route entry points it's metrics at a read-only location.
If a routing table entry exists, it will point there.  Else it will
point at the all zero metric place-holder called 'dst_default_metrics'.

The writeability state of the metrics is stored in the low bits of the
metrics pointer, we have two bits left to spare if we want to store
more states.

For the initial implementation, COW is implemented simply via kmalloc.
However future enhancements will change this to place the writable
metrics somewhere else, in order to increase sharing.  Very likely
this "somewhere else" will be the inetpeer cache.

Note also that this means that metrics updates may transiently fail
if we cannot COW the metrics successfully.

But even by itself, this patch should decrease memory usage and
increase cache locality especially for routing workloads.  In those
cases the read-only metric copies stay in place and never get written
to.

TCP workloads where metrics get updated, and those rare cases where
PMTU triggers occur, will take a very slight performance hit.  But
that hit will be alleviated when the long-term writable metrics
move to a more sharable location.

Since the metrics storage went from a u32 array of RTAX_MAX entries to
what is essentially a pointer, some retooling of the dst_entry layout
was necessary.

Most importantly, we need to preserve the alignment of the reference
count so that it doesn't share cache lines with the read-mostly state,
as per Eric Dumazet's alignment assertion checks.

The only non-trivial bit here is the move of the 'flags' member into
the writeable cacheline.  This is OK since we are always accessing the
flags around the same moment when we made a modification to the
reference count.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-26 20:51:05 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 0134e89c7b Merge branch 'master' of git://1984.lsi.us.es/net-next-2.6
Conflicts:
	net/ipv4/route.c

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2011-01-14 14:12:37 +01:00
Patrick McHardy c7066f70d9 netfilter: fix Kconfig dependencies
Fix dependencies of netfilter realm match: it depends on NET_CLS_ROUTE,
which itself depends on NET_SCHED; this dependency is missing from netfilter.

Since matching on realms is also useful without having NET_SCHED enabled and
the option really only controls whether the tclassid member is included in
route and dst entries, rename the config option to IP_ROUTE_CLASSID and move
it outside of traffic scheduling context to get rid of the NET_SCHED dependeny.

Reported-by: Vladis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2011-01-14 13:36:42 +01:00
David S. Miller d33e455337 net: Abstract default MTU metric calculation behind an accessor.
Like RTAX_ADVMSS, make the default calculation go through a dst_ops
method rather than caching the computation in the routing cache
entries.

Now dst metrics are pretty much left as-is when new entries are
created, thus optimizing metric sharing becomes a real possibility.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-14 13:01:14 -08:00
David S. Miller 0dbaee3b37 net: Abstract default ADVMSS behind an accessor.
Make all RTAX_ADVMSS metric accesses go through a new helper function,
dst_metric_advmss().

Leave the actual default metric as "zero" in the real metric slot,
and compute the actual default value dynamically via a new dst_ops
AF specific callback.

For stacked IPSEC routes, we use the advmss of the path which
preserves existing behavior.

Unlike ipv4/ipv6, DecNET ties the advmss to the mtu and thus updates
advmss on pmtu updates.  This inconsistency in advmss handling
results in more raw metric accesses than I wish we ended up with.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-13 12:52:14 -08:00
David S. Miller 323e126f0c ipv4: Don't pre-seed hoplimit metric.
Always go through a new ip4_dst_hoplimit() helper, just like ipv6.

This allowed several simplifications:

1) The interim dst_metric_hoplimit() can go as it's no longer
   userd.

2) The sysctl_ip_default_ttl entry no longer needs to use
   ipv4_doint_and_flush, since the sysctl is not cached in
   routing cache metrics any longer.

3) ipv4_doint_and_flush no longer needs to be exported and
   therefore can be marked static.

When ipv4_doint_and_flush_strategy was removed some time ago,
the external declaration in ip.h was mistakenly left around
so kill that off too.

We have to move the sysctl_ip_default_ttl declaration into
ipv4's route cache definition header net/route.h, because
currently net/ip.h (where the declaration lives now) has
a back dependency on net/route.h

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-12 22:08:17 -08:00
David S. Miller 5170ae824d net: Abstract RTAX_HOPLIMIT metric accesses behind helper.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-12 21:35:57 -08:00
David S. Miller defb3519a6 net: Abstract away all dst_entry metrics accesses.
Use helper functions to hide all direct accesses, especially writes,
to dst_entry metrics values.

This will allow us to:

1) More easily change how the metrics are stored.

2) Implement COW for metrics.

In particular this will help us put metrics into the inetpeer
cache if that is what we end up doing.  We can make the _metrics
member a pointer instead of an array, initially have it point
at the read-only metrics in the FIB, and then on the first set
grab an inetpeer entry and point the _metrics member there.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
2010-12-09 10:46:36 -08:00
Eric Dumazet fc766e4c49 decnet: RCU conversion and get rid of dev_base_lock
While tracking dev_base_lock users, I found decnet used it in
dnet_select_source(), but for a wrong purpose:

Writers only hold RTNL, not dev_base_lock, so readers must use RCU if
they cannot use RTNL.

Adds an rcu_head in struct dn_ifaddr and handle proper RCU management.

Adds __rcu annotation in dn_route as well.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-08 13:50:08 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 1c31720a74 ipv4: add __rcu annotations to routes.c
Add __rcu annotations to :
        (struct dst_entry)->rt_next
        (struct rt_hash_bucket)->chain

And use appropriate rcu primitives to reduce sparse warnings if
CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER=y

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-27 11:37:31 -07:00
Eric Dumazet c7d4426a98 net: introduce DST_NOCACHE flag
While doing stress tests with IP route cache disabled, and multi queue
devices, I noticed a very high contention on one rwlock used in
neighbour code.

When many cpus are trying to send frames (possibly using a high
performance multiqueue device) to the same neighbour, they fight for the
neigh->lock rwlock in order to call neigh_hh_init(), and fight on
hh->hh_refcnt (a pair of atomic_inc/atomic_dec_and_test())

But we dont need to call neigh_hh_init() for dst that are used only
once. It costs four atomic operations at least, on two contended cache
lines, plus the high contention on neigh->lock rwlock.

Introduce a new dst flag, DST_NOCACHE, that is set when dst was not
inserted in route cache.

With the stress test bench, sending 160000000 frames on one neighbour,
results are :

Before patch:

real	2m28.406s
user	0m11.781s
sys	36m17.964s


After patch:

real	1m26.532s
user	0m12.185s
sys	20m3.903s

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-03 22:17:54 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 290b895e0b tunnels: prepare percpu accounting
Tunnels are going to use percpu for their accounting.

They are going to use a new tstats field in net_device.

skb_tunnel_rx() is changed to be a wrapper around __skb_tunnel_rx()

IPTUNNEL_XMIT() is changed to be a wrapper around __IPTUNNEL_XMIT()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-27 21:30:42 -07:00
Tom Herbert 693019e90c net: reset skb queue mapping when rx'ing over tunnel
Reset queue mapping when an skb is reentering the stack via a tunnel.
On second pass, the queue mapping from the original device is no
longer valid.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-26 18:48:40 -07:00
Steffen Klassert 8764ab2ca7 net: check for refcount if pop a stacked dst_entry
xfrm triggers a warning if dst_pop() drops a refcount
on a noref dst. This patch changes dst_pop() to
skb_dst_pop(). skb_dst_pop() drops the refcnt only
on a refcounted dst. Also we don't clone the child
dst_entry, so it is not refcounted and we can use
skb_dst_set_noref() in xfrm_output_one().

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-04 15:56:00 -07:00
Eric Dumazet d19d56ddc8 net: Introduce skb_tunnel_rx() helper
skb rxhash should be cleared when a skb is handled by a tunnel before
being delivered again, so that correct packet steering can take place.

There are other cleanups and accounting that we can factorize in a new
helper, skb_tunnel_rx()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 22:36:55 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 7fee226ad2 net: add a noref bit on skb dst
Use low order bit of skb->_skb_dst to tell dst is not refcounted.

Change _skb_dst to _skb_refdst to make sure all uses are catched.

skb_dst() returns the dst, regardless of noref bit set or not, but
with a lockdep check to make sure a noref dst is not given if current
user is not rcu protected.

New skb_dst_set_noref() helper to set an notrefcounted dst on a skb.
(with lockdep check)

skb_dst_drop() drops a reference only if skb dst was refcounted.

skb_dst_force() helper is used to force a refcount on dst, when skb
is queued and not anymore RCU protected.

Use skb_dst_force() in __sk_add_backlog(), __dev_xmit_skb() if
!IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE or skb enqueued on qdisc queue, in
sock_queue_rcv_skb(), in __nf_queue().

Use skb_dst_force() in dev_requeue_skb().

Note: dst_use_noref() still dirties dst, we might transform it
later to do one dirtying per jiffies.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17 17:18:50 -07:00
Eric Dumazet b6c6712a42 net: sk_dst_cache RCUification
With latest CONFIG_PROVE_RCU stuff, I felt more comfortable to make this
work.

sk->sk_dst_cache is currently protected by a rwlock (sk_dst_lock)

This rwlock is readlocked for a very small amount of time, and dst
entries are already freed after RCU grace period. This calls for RCU
again :)

This patch converts sk_dst_lock to a spinlock, and use RCU for readers.

__sk_dst_get() is supposed to be called with rcu_read_lock() or if
socket locked by user, so use appropriate rcu_dereference_check()
condition (rcu_read_lock_held() || sock_owned_by_user(sk))

This patch avoids two atomic ops per tx packet on UDP connected sockets,
for example, and permits sk_dst_lock to be much less dirtied.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-13 01:41:33 -07:00
laurent chavey 31d12926e3 net: Add rtnetlink init_rcvwnd to set the TCP initial receive window
Add rtnetlink init_rcvwnd to set the TCP initial receive window size
advertised by passive and active TCP connections.
The current Linux TCP implementation limits the advertised TCP initial
receive window to the one prescribed by slow start. For short lived
TCP connections used for transaction type of traffic (i.e. http
requests), bounding the advertised TCP initial receive window results
in increased latency to complete the transaction.
Support for setting initial congestion window is already supported
using rtnetlink init_cwnd, but the feature is useless without the
ability to set a larger TCP initial receive window.
The rtnetlink init_rcvwnd allows increasing the TCP initial receive
window, allowing TCP connection to advertise larger TCP receive window
than the ones bounded by slow start.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Chavey <chavey@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-23 14:13:30 -08:00
David S. Miller bb5b7c1126 tcp: Revert per-route SACK/DSACK/TIMESTAMP changes.
It creates a regression, triggering badness for SYN_RECV
sockets, for example:

[19148.022102] Badness at net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c:293
[19148.022570] NIP: c02a0914 LR: c02a0904 CTR: 00000000
[19148.023035] REGS: eeecbd30 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (2.6.32)
[19148.023496] MSR: 00029032 <EE,ME,CE,IR,DR>  CR: 24002442  XER: 00000000
[19148.024012] TASK = eee9a820[1756] 'privoxy' THREAD: eeeca000

This is likely caused by the change in the 'estab' parameter
passed to tcp_parse_options() when invoked by the functions
in net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c

But even if that is fixed, the ->conn_request() changes made in
this patch series is fundamentally wrong.  They try to use the
listening socket's 'dst' to probe the route settings.  The
listening socket doesn't even have a route, and you can't
get the right route (the child request one) until much later
after we setup all of the state, and it must be done by hand.

This stuff really isn't ready, so the best thing to do is a
full revert.  This reverts the following commits:

f55017a93f
022c3f7d82
1aba721eba
cda42ebd67
345cda2fd6
dc343475ed
05eaade278
6a2a2d6bf8

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-15 20:56:42 -08:00
Gilad Ben-Yossef 6a2a2d6bf8 tcp: Use defaults when no route options are available
Trying to parse the option of a SYN packet that we have
no route entry for should just use global wide defaults
for route entry options.

Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@codefidence.com>
Tested-by: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-04 23:24:15 -08:00
Eric Dumazet fd2c3ef761 net: cleanup include/net
This cleanup patch puts struct/union/enum opening braces,
in first line to ease grep games.

struct something
{

becomes :

struct something {

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-04 05:06:25 -08:00
Gilad Ben-Yossef 0c3adfb8ec Add dst_feature to query route entry features
Adding an accessor to existing  dst_entry feautres field and
refactor the only supported feature (allfrag) to use it.

Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@codefidence.com>
Sigend-off-by: Ori Finkelman <ori@comsleep.com>
Sigend-off-by: Yony Amit <yony@comsleep.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-29 01:28:42 -07:00
Krishna Kumar ea94ff3b55 net: Fix for dst_negative_advice
dst_negative_advice() should check for changed dst and reset
sk_tx_queue_mapping accordingly. Pass sock to the callers of
dst_negative_advice.

(sk_reset_txq is defined just for use by dst_negative_advice. The
only way I could find to get around this is to move dst_negative_()
from dst.h to dst.c, include sock.h in dst.c, etc)

Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-20 18:55:46 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 86393e52c3 netns: embed ip6_dst_ops directly
struct net::ipv6.ip6_dst_ops is separatedly dynamically allocated,
but there is no fundamental reason for it. Embed it directly into
struct netns_ipv6.

For that:
* move struct dst_ops into separate header to fix circular dependencies
	I honestly tried not to, it's pretty impossible to do other way
* drop dynamical allocation, allocate together with netns

For a change, remove struct dst_ops::dst_net, it's deducible
by using container_of() given dst_ops pointer.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-01 17:40:31 -07:00
Eric Dumazet adf30907d6 net: skb->dst accessors
Define three accessors to get/set dst attached to a skb

struct dst_entry *skb_dst(const struct sk_buff *skb)

void skb_dst_set(struct sk_buff *skb, struct dst_entry *dst)

void skb_dst_drop(struct sk_buff *skb)
This one should replace occurrences of :
dst_release(skb->dst)
skb->dst = NULL;

Delete skb->dst field

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03 02:51:04 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 52479b623d netns xfrm: lookup in netns
Pass netns to xfrm_lookup()/__xfrm_lookup(). For that pass netns
to flow_cache_lookup() and resolver callback.

Take it from socket or netdevice. Stub DECnet to init_net.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-25 17:35:18 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 5635c10d97 net: make sure struct dst_entry refcount is aligned on 64 bytes
As found in the past (commit f1dd9c379c
[NET]: Fix tbench regression in 2.6.25-rc1), it is really
important that struct dst_entry refcount is aligned on a cache line.

We cannot use __atribute((aligned)), so manually pad the structure
for 32 and 64 bit arches.

for 32bit : offsetof(truct dst_entry, __refcnt) is 0x80
for 64bit : offsetof(truct dst_entry, __refcnt) is 0xc0

As it is not possible to guess at compile time cache line size,
we use a generic value of 64 bytes, that satisfies many current arches.
(Using 128 bytes alignment on 64bit arches would waste 64 bytes)

Add a BUILD_BUG_ON to catch future updates to "struct dst_entry" dont
break this alignment.

"tbench 8" is 4.4 % faster on a dual quad core (HP BL460c G1), Intel E5450 @3.00GHz
(2350 MB/s instead of 2250 MB/s)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-16 19:46:36 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan 6bb3ce25d0 net: remove struct dst_entry::entry_size
Unused after kmem_cache_zalloc() conversion.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-11 17:25:22 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan def8b4faff net: reduce structures when XFRM=n
ifdef out
* struct sk_buff::sp		(pointer)
* struct dst_entry::xfrm	(pointer)
* struct sock::sk_policy	(2 pointers)

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-28 13:24:06 -07:00
David S. Miller cc6533e98a net: Kill plain NET_XMIT_BYPASS.
dst_input() was doing something completely absurd, looping
on skb->dst->input() if NET_XMIT_BYPASS was seen, but these
functions never return such an error.

And as a result plain ole' NET_XMIT_BYPASS has no more
references and can be completely killed off.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-08-04 23:04:08 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger c1e20f7c8b tcp: RTT metrics scaling
Some of the metrics (RTT, RTTVAR and RTAX_RTO_MIN) are stored in
kernel units (jiffies) and this leaks out through the netlink API to
user space where the units for jiffies are unknown.

This patches changes the kernel to convert to/from milliseconds. This
changes the ABI, but milliseconds seemed like the most natural unit
for these parameters.  Values available via syscall in
/proc/net/rt_cache and netlink will be in milliseconds.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-18 23:02:15 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 8d3308687f [NET]: uninline dst_release
Codiff stats (allyesconfig, v2.6.24-mm1):
-16420  187 funcs, 103 +, 16523 -, diff: -16420 --- dst_release

Without number of debug related CONFIGs (v2.6.25-rc2-mm1):
-7257  186 funcs, 70 +, 7327 -, diff: -7257 --- dst_release
dst_release                   |  +40

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-27 17:53:31 -07:00
Zhang Yanmin f1dd9c379c [NET]: Fix tbench regression in 2.6.25-rc1
Comparing with kernel 2.6.24, tbench result has regression with
2.6.25-rc1.

1) On 2 quad-core processor stoakley: 4%.
2) On 4 quad-core processor tigerton: more than 30%.

bisect located below patch.

b4ce92775c is first bad commit
commit b4ce92775c
Author: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:   Tue Nov 13 21:33:32 2007 -0800

    [IPV6]: Move nfheader_len into rt6_info

    The dst member nfheader_len is only used by IPv6.  It's also currently
    creating a rather ugly alignment hole in struct dst.  Therefore this patch
    moves it from there into struct rt6_info.

Above patch changes the cache line alignment, especially member
__refcnt. I did a testing by adding 2 unsigned long pading before
lastuse, so the 3 members, lastuse/__refcnt/__use, are moved to next
cache line. The performance is recovered.

I created a patch to rearrange the members in struct dst_entry.

With Eric and Valdis Kletnieks's suggestion, I made finer arrangement.

1) Move tclassid under ops in case CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE=y. So
   sizeof(dst_entry)=200 no matter if CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE=y/n. I
   tested many patches on my 16-core tigerton by moving tclassid to
   different place. It looks like tclassid could also have impact on
   performance.  If moving tclassid before metrics, or just don't move
   tclassid, the performance isn't good. So I move it behind metrics.

2) Add comments before __refcnt.

On 16-core tigerton:

If CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE=y, the result with below patch is about 18%
better than the one without the patch;

If CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE=n, the result with below patch is about 30%
better than the one without the patch.

With 32bit 2.6.25-rc1 on 8-core stoakley, the new patch doesn't
introduce regression.

Thank Eric, Valdis, and David!

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-12 22:52:37 -07:00