netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/4 v2] net: Use sk_tx_queue

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Date:	Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:48:56 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@...ibm.com>
CC:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4 v2] net: Use sk_tx_queue_mapping for connected sockets

Krishna Kumar a écrit :
> From: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@...ibm.com>
> 
> For connected sockets, the first run of dev_pick_tx saves the
> calculated txq in sk_tx_queue_mapping. This is not saved if
> either skb rx was recorded, or if the device has a queue select
> handler. Next iterations of dev_pick_tx uses the cached value of
> sk_tx_queue_mapping.

Are we sure that for selection done by skb_tx_hash(dev, skb),
rx packets will use the same queue/cpu ?

Probably not, since it uses sk->sk_hash (tcp/udp port) :

u16 skb_tx_hash(const struct net_device *dev, const struct sk_buff *skb)
{
        u32 hash;

        if (skb_rx_queue_recorded(skb)) {
                hash = skb_get_rx_queue(skb);
                while (unlikely(hash >= dev->real_num_tx_queues))
                        hash -= dev->real_num_tx_queues;
                return hash;
        }

        if (skb->sk && skb->sk->sk_hash)
                hash = skb->sk->sk_hash;
        else
                hash = skb->protocol;

        hash = jhash_1word(hash, skb_tx_hashrnd);

        return (u16) (((u64) hash * dev->real_num_tx_queues) >> 32);
}

If NIC has some proprietary hash, and selects rx queue 3 for feeding us
packets, it would be nice to also use tx queue 3 for transmit.

We would have to record in sk the rx queue chosen by the device
when processing SYN / SYN-ACK packet for example for tcp flows.


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