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Date:	Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:58:46 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Xi Wang <xii@...gle.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
	Denys Fedorysychenko <nuclearcat@...learcat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [ 35/46] net: revert 8728c544a9c ("net: dev_pick_tx() fix")

3.10-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

[ Upstream commit 702821f4ea6f68db18aa1de7d8ed62c6ba586a64 ]

commit 8728c544a9cbdc ("net: dev_pick_tx() fix") and commit
b6fe83e9525a ("bonding: refine IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE capability")
are quite incompatible : Queue selection is disabled because skb
dst was dropped before entering bonding device.

This causes major performance regression, mainly because TCP packets
for a given flow can be sent to multiple queues.

This is particularly visible when using the new FQ packet scheduler
with MQ + FQ setup on the slaves.

We can safely revert the first commit now that 416186fbf8c5b
("net: Split core bits of netdev_pick_tx into __netdev_pick_tx")
properly caps the queue_index.

Reported-by: Xi Wang <xii@...gle.com>
Diagnosed-by: Xi Wang <xii@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
Cc: Denys Fedorysychenko <nuclearcat@...learcat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 net/core/flow_dissector.c |   11 +++--------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/net/core/flow_dissector.c
+++ b/net/core/flow_dissector.c
@@ -345,14 +345,9 @@ u16 __netdev_pick_tx(struct net_device *
 		if (new_index < 0)
 			new_index = skb_tx_hash(dev, skb);
 
-		if (queue_index != new_index && sk) {
-			struct dst_entry *dst =
-				    rcu_dereference_check(sk->sk_dst_cache, 1);
-
-			if (dst && skb_dst(skb) == dst)
-				sk_tx_queue_set(sk, queue_index);
-
-		}
+		if (queue_index != new_index && sk &&
+		    rcu_access_pointer(sk->sk_dst_cache))
+			sk_tx_queue_set(sk, queue_index);
 
 		queue_index = new_index;
 	}


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