netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/17] tcp/dccp: lockless listener

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Date:	Sat, 03 Oct 2015 04:48:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	edumazet@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ycai@...gle.com, willemb@...gle.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/17] tcp/dccp: lockless listener

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Date: Fri,  2 Oct 2015 11:43:22 -0700

> TCP listener refactoring : this is becoming interesting !
> 
> This patch series takes the steps to use normal TCP/DCCP ehash
> table to store SYN_RECV requests, instead of the private per-listener
> hash table we had until now.
> 
> SYNACK skb are now attached to their syn_recv request socket,
> so that we no longer heavily modify listener sk_wmem_alloc.
> 
> listener lock is no longer held in fast path, including
> SYNCOOKIE mode.
> 
> During my tests, my server was able to process 3,500,000
> SYN packets per second on one listener and still had available
> cpu cycles.
> 
> That is about 2 to 3 order of magnitude what we had with older kernels.
> 
> This effort started two years ago and I am pleased to reach expectations.
> 
> We'll probably extend SO_REUSEPORT to add proper cpu/numa affinities,
> so that heavy duty TCP servers can get proper siloing thanks to multi-queues
> NIC.

This looks amazing, series applied, thanks Eric!
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