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Message-ID: <20160428211839.GB2276@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:18:39 -0300
From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: make TCP preemptible
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:25:46PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Most of TCP stack assumed it was running from BH handler.
>
> This is great for most things, as TCP behavior is very sensitive
> to scheduling artifacts.
>
> However, the prequeue and backlog processing are problematic,
> as they need to be flushed with BH being blocked.
>
> To cope with modern needs, TCP sockets have big sk_rcvbuf values,
> in the order of 16 MB.
> This means that backlog can hold thousands of packets, and things
> like TCP coalescing or collapsing on this amount of packets can
> lead to insane latency spikes, since BH are blocked for too long.
And due to that, it may potentially lead to packet drops on NIC ring
buffers. Great, thanks Eric.
> It is time to make UDP/TCP stacks preemptible.
>
> Note that fast path still runs from BH handler.
>
> Eric Dumazet (6):
> tcp: do not assume TCP code is non preemptible
> tcp: do not block bh during prequeue processing
> dccp: do not assume DCCP code is non preemptible
> udp: prepare for non BH masking at backlog processing
> sctp: prepare for socket backlog behavior change
> net: do not block BH while processing socket backlog
>
> net/core/sock.c | 22 +++------
> net/dccp/input.c | 2 +-
> net/dccp/ipv4.c | 4 +-
> net/dccp/ipv6.c | 4 +-
> net/dccp/options.c | 2 +-
> net/ipv4/tcp.c | 6 +--
> net/ipv4/tcp_cdg.c | 20 ++++----
> net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c | 20 ++++----
> net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen.c | 12 ++---
> net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 126 +++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
> net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 14 ++++--
> net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c | 2 +-
> net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 7 ++-
> net/ipv4/tcp_recovery.c | 4 +-
> net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c | 10 ++--
> net/ipv4/udp.c | 4 +-
> net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 12 ++---
> net/ipv6/udp.c | 4 +-
> net/sctp/inqueue.c | 2 +
> 19 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 153 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020
>
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