netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: allow netdev_wait

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Date:	Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:19:13 +0200
From:	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...et.ca>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@...acom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: allow netdev_wait_allrefs() to run faster

On Sunday 25 October 2009 10:35:10 you wrote:
> > Got some time today and did some experiments myself. The test is deleting
> > 1000 dummy interfaces (interface status down, no IP/IPv6 addresses
> > assigned) on a UP non-preempt ppc750 @800Mhz system.
> >
> > 1. Ben's patch:
> >
> > real    0m 3.42s
> > user    0m 0.00s
> > sys     0m 0.00s
> >
> > 2. Eric's schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
> >
> > real    0m 3.00s
> > user    0m 0.00s
> > sys     0m 0.00s
> >
> > 3. Simple synchronize_rcu_expedited()
> >
> > This doesn't seem to work well with the UP non-preempt case since
> > synchronize_rcu_expedited() is a noop in this case - turning
> > netdev_wait_allrefs() into a while(1) loop.
> 
> Thanks for these numbers. I presume HZ value is 1000 on this platform ?
> 

Yes. I've attach the full config to this email as well.

> Could you give us your scripts so that we can use same "benchmark" ?
> 

Sure, I've attached the hack module code I've used. 

For creating interfaces: echo 1000 > /proc/sys/net/ndst/add
For deleting interface echo start_ifindex stop_ifindex > /proc/sys/net/ndst/del

Some more information:

- on our old and optimized kernel I am getting 0.4s for creating 128000 
interfaces and 0.57s for deleting them

- the 2.6.31 kernel I got the 3s numbers does have some patches to speed-up 
interface creating and deletion (removal of per device sysctl and dev_snmp6 
entries)

I'll start posting the patches we have as RFC.

Thanks,
tavi

View attachment "ndst.c" of type "text/x-csrc" (4494 bytes)

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