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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:05:03 -0800
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>,
Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tcp: avoid wakeups for pure ACK
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
TCP prequeue mechanism purpose is to let incoming packets
being processed by the thread currently blocked in tcp_recvmsg(),
instead of behalf of the softirq handler, to better adapt flow
control on receiver host capacity to schedule the consumer.
But in typical request/answer workloads, we send request, then
block to receive the answer. And before the actual answer, TCP
stack receives the ACK packets acknowledging the request.
Processing pure ACK on behalf of the thread blocked in tcp_recvmsg()
is a waste of resources, as thread has to immediately sleep again
because it got no payload.
This patch avoids the extra context switches and scheduler overhead.
Before patch :
a:~# echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_low_latency
a:~# perf stat ./super_netperf 300 -t TCP_RR -l 10 -H 7.7.7.84 -- -r 8k,8k
231676
Performance counter stats for './super_netperf 300 -t TCP_RR -l 10 -H 7.7.7.84 -- -r 8k,8k':
116251.501765 task-clock # 11.369 CPUs utilized
5,025,463 context-switches # 0.043 M/sec
1,074,511 CPU-migrations # 0.009 M/sec
216,923 page-faults # 0.002 M/sec
311,636,972,396 cycles # 2.681 GHz
260,507,138,069 stalled-cycles-frontend # 83.59% frontend cycles idle
155,590,092,840 stalled-cycles-backend # 49.93% backend cycles idle
100,101,255,411 instructions # 0.32 insns per cycle
# 2.60 stalled cycles per insn
16,535,930,999 branches # 142.243 M/sec
646,483,591 branch-misses # 3.91% of all branches
10.225482774 seconds time elapsed
After patch :
a:~# echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_low_latency
a:~# perf stat ./super_netperf 300 -t TCP_RR -l 10 -H 7.7.7.84 -- -r 8k,8k
233297
Performance counter stats for './super_netperf 300 -t TCP_RR -l 10 -H 7.7.7.84 -- -r 8k,8k':
91084.870855 task-clock # 8.887 CPUs utilized
2,485,916 context-switches # 0.027 M/sec
815,520 CPU-migrations # 0.009 M/sec
216,932 page-faults # 0.002 M/sec
245,195,022,629 cycles # 2.692 GHz
202,635,777,041 stalled-cycles-frontend # 82.64% frontend cycles idle
124,280,372,407 stalled-cycles-backend # 50.69% backend cycles idle
83,457,289,618 instructions # 0.34 insns per cycle
# 2.43 stalled cycles per insn
13,431,472,361 branches # 147.461 M/sec
504,470,665 branch-misses # 3.76% of all branches
10.249594448 seconds time elapsed
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
---
David : Feel free to postpone this to 3.10.
I'll send a patch to move tcp_prequeue() out of line when net-next opens
include/net/tcp.h | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index 23f2e98..cf0694d 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -1045,6 +1045,10 @@ static inline bool tcp_prequeue(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
if (sysctl_tcp_low_latency || !tp->ucopy.task)
return false;
+ if (skb->len <= tcp_hdrlen(skb) &&
+ skb_queue_len(&tp->ucopy.prequeue) == 0)
+ return false;
+
__skb_queue_tail(&tp->ucopy.prequeue, skb);
tp->ucopy.memory += skb->truesize;
if (tp->ucopy.memory > sk->sk_rcvbuf) {
--
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