netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: output path optimizations

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Date:	Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:26:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: output path optimizations

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:19:56 +0200

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> 1) Avoid dirtying neighbour's confirmed field.
> 
>   TCP workloads hits this cache line for each incoming ACK.
>   Lets write n->confirmed only if there is a jiffie change.
> 
> 2) Optimize neigh_hh_output() for the common Ethernet case, were
>    hh_len is less than 16 bytes. Replace the memcpy() call
>    by two inlined 64bit load/stores on x86_64.
> 
> Bench results using udpflood test, with -C option (MSG_CONFIRM flag
> added to sendto(), to reproduce the n->confirmed dirtying on UDP)
> 
> 24 threads doing 1.000.000 UDP sendto() on dummy device, 4 runs.
> 
> before : 2.247s, 2.235s, 2.247s, 2.318s
> after  : 1.884s, 1.905s, 1.891s, 1.895s
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, I'd like to significantly redo how the neigh confirmation
stuff works.

I'm not at all surprised it shows up on TCP workloads.
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