netdev - RE: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: Keep sk->sk_forward

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Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 06:27:09 +0000
From: "Zhang, Cathy" <cathy.zhang@...el.com>
To: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
CC: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Cgroups
	<cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>, "kuba@...nel.org"
	<kuba@...nel.org>, "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	"Srinivas, Suresh" <suresh.srinivas@...el.com>, "Chen, Tim C"
	<tim.c.chen@...el.com>, "You, Lizhen" <lizhen.you@...el.com>,
	"eric.dumazet@...il.com" <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org"
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: Keep sk->sk_forward_alloc as a proper
 size



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2023 12:13 PM
> To: Zhang, Cathy <cathy.zhang@...el.com>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>; Linux MM <linux-
> mm@...ck.org>; Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>; Paolo Abeni
> <pabeni@...hat.com>; davem@...emloft.net; kuba@...nel.org;
> Brandeburg, Jesse <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>; Srinivas, Suresh
> <suresh.srinivas@...el.com>; Chen, Tim C <tim.c.chen@...el.com>; You,
> Lizhen <lizhen.you@...el.com>; eric.dumazet@...il.com;
> netdev@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: Keep sk->sk_forward_alloc as a proper
> size
> 
> On Sun, May 14, 2023 at 8:46 PM Zhang, Cathy <cathy.zhang@...el.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
> > > Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2023 1:17 AM
> > > To: Zhang, Cathy <cathy.zhang@...el.com>
> > > Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>; Eric Dumazet
> > > <edumazet@...gle.com>; Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>; Cgroups
> > > <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>; Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>;
> > > davem@...emloft.net; kuba@...nel.org; Brandeburg@...gle.com;
> > > Brandeburg, Jesse <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>; Srinivas, Suresh
> > > <suresh.srinivas@...el.com>; Chen, Tim C <tim.c.chen@...el.com>;
> > > You, Lizhen <lizhen.you@...el.com>; eric.dumazet@...il.com;
> > > netdev@...r.kernel.org
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: Keep sk->sk_forward_alloc as
> > > a proper size
> > >
> > > On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 05:51:40AM +0000, Zhang, Cathy wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > [...]
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks a lot. This tells us that one or both of following
> > > > > scenarios are
> > > > > happening:
> > > > >
> > > > > 1. In the softirq recv path, the kernel is processing packets
> > > > > from multiple memcgs.
> > > > >
> > > > > 2. The process running on the CPU belongs to memcg which is
> > > > > different from the memcgs whose packets are being received on that
> CPU.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for sharing the points, Shakeel! Is there any trace records
> > > > you want to collect?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Can you please try the following patch and see if there is any
> improvement?
> >
> > Hi Shakeel,
> >
> > Try the following patch, the data of 'perf top' from system wide
> > indicates that the overhead of page_counter_cancel is dropped from 15.52%
> to 4.82%.
> >
> > Without patch:
> >     15.52%  [kernel]            [k] page_counter_cancel
> >     12.30%  [kernel]            [k] page_counter_try_charge
> >     11.97%  [kernel]            [k] try_charge_memcg
> >
> > With patch:
> >     10.63%  [kernel]            [k] page_counter_try_charge
> >      9.49%  [kernel]            [k] try_charge_memcg
> >      4.82%  [kernel]            [k] page_counter_cancel
> >
> > The patch is applied on the latest net-next/main:
> > befcc1fce564 ("sfc: fix use-after-free in
> > efx_tc_flower_record_encap_match()")
> >
> 
> Thanks a lot Cathy for testing. Do you see any performance improvement for
> the memcached benchmark with the patch?

Yep, absolutely :- ) RPS (with/without patch) = +1.74