netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net_sched: avoid too many hrtimer

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Date:	Tue, 24 May 2016 14:49:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	alexander.duyck@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	aduyck@...antis.com, john.r.fastabend@...el.com, jhs@...atatu.com,
	brouer@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net_sched: avoid too many hrtimer_start() calls

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 14:24:56 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> I found a serious performance bug in packet schedulers using hrtimers.
> 
> sch_htb and sch_fq are definitely impacted by this problem.
> 
> We constantly rearm high resolution timers if some packets are throttled
> in one (or more) class, and other packets are flying through qdisc on
> another (non throttled) class.
> 
> hrtimer_start() does not have the mod_timer() trick of doing nothing if
> expires value does not change :
> 
> 	if (timer_pending(timer) &&
>             timer->expires == expires)
>                 return 1;
> 
> This issue is particularly visible when multiple cpus can queue/dequeue
> packets on the same qdisc, as hrtimer code has to lock a remote base.
> 
> I used following fix :
> 
> 1) Change htb to use qdisc_watchdog_schedule_ns() instead of open-coding
> it.
> 
> 2) Cache watchdog prior expiration. hrtimer might provide this, but I
> prefer to not rely on some hrtimer internal.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

This looks fine, applied, thanks Eric.