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Message-ID: <5541591D.3070505@plumgrid.com>
Date:	Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:20:13 -0700
From:	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
To:	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] netif_receive_skb performance

On 4/29/15 2:37 AM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>
> Is the below the case where the conntracker has always a miss and thus
> each time needs to create new entries, iow pktgen DoS with random IPs?

not really. As far as I understand it's not doing much, just being
invoked as part of default code path. Not sure. This was a default
number on my setup with all modules loaded. I have empty
iptables/nat/ct rules. I mentioned it, since that is what most linux
users will see by default from their distro.

>> Few other numbers for comparison with dmac == eth0 mac:
>> no qdisc, with conntrack and empty iptables - 2.2 Mpps
>>     7.65%  kpktgend_0   [nf_conntrack]    [k] nf_conntrack_in
>>     7.62%  kpktgend_0   [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] fib_table_lookup
>>     5.44%  kpktgend_0   [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] __call_rcu.constprop.63
>>     3.71%  kpktgend_0   [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] nf_iterate
>>     3.59%  kpktgend_0   [ip_tables]       [k] ipt_do_table
>>
>> no qdisc, unload conntrack, keep empty iptables - 5.4 Mpps
>>    18.17%  kpktgend_0   [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] fib_table_lookup
>>     8.31%  kpktgend_0   [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] ip_rcv
>>     7.97%  kpktgend_0   [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] __netif_receive_skb_core
>>     7.53%  kpktgend_0   [ip_tables]       [k] ipt_do_table
>>
>> no qdisc, unload conntrack, unload iptables - 6.5 Mpps
>>    21.97%  kpktgend_0   [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] fib_table_lookup
>>     9.64%  kpktgend_0   [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] __netif_receive_skb_core
>>     8.44%  kpktgend_0   [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] ip_rcv
>>     7.19%  kpktgend_0   [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] __skb_clone
>>     6.89%  kpktgend_0   [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] fib_validate_source

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