netdev - [PATCH net-next] net: sock_rps_record_flow() is for connected sockets

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Date:   Tue, 06 Dec 2016 19:32:50 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] net: sock_rps_record_flow() is for connected
 sockets

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

Paolo noticed a cache line miss in UDP recvmsg() to access
sk_rxhash, sharing a cache line with sk_drops.

sk_drops might be heavily incremented by cpus handling a flood targeting
this socket.

We might place sk_drops on a separate cache line, but lets try
to avoid wasting 64 bytes per socket just for this, since we have
other bottlenecks to take care of.

sock_rps_record_flow() should only access sk_rxhash for connected
flows.

Testing sk_state for TCP_ESTABLISHED covers most of the cases for
connected sockets, for a zero cost, since system calls using
sock_rps_record_flow() also access sk->sk_prot which is on the
same cache line.

A follow up patch will provide a static_key (Jump Label) since most
hosts do not even use RFS.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Reported-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
---
 include/net/sock.h |   12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
index 6dfe3aa22b970eecfab4d4a0753804b1cc82a200..a7ddab993b496f1f4060f0b41831a161c284df9e 100644
--- a/include/net/sock.h
+++ b/include/net/sock.h
@@ -913,7 +913,17 @@ static inline void sock_rps_record_flow_hash(__u32 hash)
 static inline void sock_rps_record_flow(const struct sock *sk)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_RPS
-	sock_rps_record_flow_hash(sk->sk_rxhash);
+	/* Reading sk->sk_rxhash might incur an expensive cache line miss.
+	 *
+	 * TCP_ESTABLISHED does cover almost all states where RFS
+	 * might be useful, and is cheaper [1] than testing :
+	 *	IPv4: inet_sk(sk)->inet_daddr
+	 * 	IPv6: ipv6_addr_any(&sk->sk_v6_daddr)
+	 * OR	an additional socket flag
+	 * [1] : sk_state and sk_prot are in the same cache line.
+	 */
+	if (sk->sk_state == TCP_ESTABLISHED)
+		sock_rps_record_flow_hash(sk->sk_rxhash);
 #endif
 }