netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: make SK_MEMORY_PCPU

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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 15:08:18 -0800 (PST)
From: "Lameter, Christopher" <cl@...amperecomputing.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: make SK_MEMORY_PCPU_RESERV tunable

On Tue, 27 Feb 2024, Eric Dumazet wrote:

>> sk_prot->memory_allocated points to global atomic variable:
>> atomic_long_t tcp_memory_allocated ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
>>
>> If increasing the per-cpu cache size from 1MB to e.g. 16MB,
>> changes to sk->sk_prot->memory_allocated can be further reduced.
>> Performance may be improved on system with many cores.
>
> This looks good, do you have any performance numbers to share ?
>
> On a host with 384 threads, 384*16 ->  6 GB of memory.

Those things also come with corresponding memories of a couple of TB...

> With this kind of use, we might need a shrinker...

Yes. No point of keeping the buffers around if the core stops doing 
networking. But to be done at times when there is no contention please. 
Isnt there something like a timeout for skbs in the network stack already?