linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slub: prefetch next freelist pointer in slab

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Message-ID: <1324162600.3323.54.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date:	Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:56:40 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	"Alex,Shi" <alex.shi@...el.com>, Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: prefetch next freelist pointer in slab_alloc()

Le vendredi 16 décembre 2011 à 18:18 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit :

> I wouldnt expect TCP being a huge win (most of cpu is consumed in tcp
> stack, not really memory allocations), but still...
> 
> [I expect much better gain on an UDP load, where memory allocator costs
> are higher ]

Update on benches. UDP results are really good.

UDP test : One cpu (cpu0) handling NIC irqs, one cpu (cpu1) running a
mono threaded UDP receiver (only receives UDP messages, no xmits)

NUMA machine, feeded with 1.000.000 64bytes packets per second (from
another pktgen machine)

cpu0/cpu1 are on different sockets, to force cache line bouncings and
stress SLUB (allocations done on cpu0, frees on cpu1)

bnx2x adapter (using new build_skb() service for low memory latencies,
available in net-next tree)


Before slub prefetch patch :
	590.000 messages received per second by application,
	410.000 drops per second.


After slub prefetch patch :
	740.000 messages received per second by application,
	260.000 drops per second.


[ If application runs on cpu2 (same socket than cpu0), it can receive
920.000 pps (after patch) instead of 890.000 pps (before patch) ]

Thanks


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