netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] udp: prefetch rmem_alloc in udp_queue_rcv

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Date:   Wed, 21 Jun 2017 18:07:37 +0200
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] udp: prefetch rmem_alloc in udp_queue_rcv_skb()

On Wed, 2017-06-21 at 11:41 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 10:24:40 +0200
> 
> > On UDP packets processing, if the BH is the bottle-neck, it
> > always sees a cache miss while updating rmem_alloc; try to
> > avoid it prefetching the value as soon as we have the socket
> > available.
> > 
> > Performances under flood with multiple NIC rx queues used are
> > unaffected, but when a single NIC rx queue is in use, this
> > gives ~10% performance improvement.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
> 
> Applied, but what about ipv6?

You are right, that was unintentionally left out. I'll do some tests
and send another patch for ipv6, too.

Thanks,

Paolo