netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: avoid a pair of dst_hold()/dst_release() in ip_append

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Date:	Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:55:31 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dada1@...mosbay.com
Cc:	andi@...stfloor.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, minyard@....org,
	christian@...i.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: avoid a pair of dst_hold()/dst_release() in
 ip_append_data()

From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:24:53 +0100

> [PATCH] net: avoid a pair of dst_hold()/dst_release() in ip_append_data()
> 
> We can reduce pressure on dst entry refcount that slowdown UDP transmit
> path on SMP machines. This pressure is visible on RTP servers when
> delivering content to mediagateways, especially big ones, handling
> thousand of streams. Several cpus send UDP frames to the same
> destination, hence use the same dst entry.
> 
> This patch makes ip_append_data() eventually steal the refcount its
> callers had to take on the dst entry.
> 
> This doesnt avoid all refcounting, but still gives speedups on SMP,
> on UDP/RAW transmit path
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>

Ok, this looks fine to me, thanks Eric.  Although as you know
I'm not a big fan of pass by reference arguments :-)

Thinking more I believe we can do similar tricks for all TCP
transmit traffic.

Packets bound to sockets never outlive those sockets (and thus
their cached routes) unless we skb_orphan().

The only not covered case is where the socket cached route
is reset or changed.  We could defer the dst put until the
transmit queue reaches a certain point, kind of like a retransmit
queue RCU :-)

Just some ideas...
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