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Message-ID: <CAAVpQUA+L_PishcamVi9qOLb595mpB-xKgibRcnv9JSfXeoE_g@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 22:46:58 -0800 From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...gle.com> To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] net: fix napi_consume_skb() with alien skbs On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> wrote: > > There is a lack of NUMA awareness and more generally lack > of slab caches affinity on TX completion path. > > Modern drivers are using napi_consume_skb(), hoping to cache sk_buff > in per-cpu caches so that they can be recycled in RX path. > > Only use this if the skb was allocated on the same cpu, > otherwise use skb_attempt_defer_free() so that the skb > is freed on the original cpu. > > This removes contention on SLUB spinlocks and data structures. > > After this patch, I get ~50% improvement for an UDP tx workload > on an AMD EPYC 9B45 (IDPF 200Gbit NIC with 32 TX queues). > > 80 Mpps -> 120 Mpps. > > Profiling one of the 32 cpus servicing NIC interrupts : > > Before: > > mpstat -P 511 1 1 > > Average: CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %gnice %idle > Average: 511 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2.00 > > 31.01% ksoftirqd/511 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] queued_spin_lock_slowpath > 12.45% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] queued_spin_lock_slowpath > 5.60% ksoftirqd/511 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __slab_free > 3.31% ksoftirqd/511 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] idpf_tx_clean_buf_ring > 3.27% ksoftirqd/511 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] idpf_tx_splitq_clean_all > 2.95% ksoftirqd/511 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] idpf_tx_splitq_start > 2.52% ksoftirqd/511 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] fq_dequeue > 2.32% ksoftirqd/511 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] read_tsc > 2.25% ksoftirqd/511 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] build_detached_freelist > 2.15% ksoftirqd/511 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] kmem_cache_free > 2.11% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __slab_free > 2.06% ksoftirqd/511 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] idpf_features_check > 2.01% ksoftirqd/511 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] idpf_tx_splitq_clean_hdr > 1.97% ksoftirqd/511 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] skb_release_data > 1.52% ksoftirqd/511 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sock_wfree > 1.34% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] idpf_tx_clean_buf_ring > 1.23% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] idpf_tx_splitq_clean_all > 1.15% ksoftirqd/511 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] dma_unmap_page_attrs > 1.11% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] idpf_tx_splitq_start > 1.03% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] fq_dequeue > 0.94% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] kmem_cache_free > 0.93% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] read_tsc > 0.81% ksoftirqd/511 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] napi_consume_skb > 0.79% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] idpf_tx_splitq_clean_hdr > 0.77% ksoftirqd/511 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] skb_free_head > 0.76% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] idpf_features_check > 0.72% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] skb_release_data > 0.69% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] build_detached_freelist > 0.58% ksoftirqd/511 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] skb_release_head_state > 0.56% ksoftirqd/511 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __put_partials > 0.55% ksoftirqd/511 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] kmem_cache_free_bulk > 0.48% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sock_wfree > > After: > > mpstat -P 511 1 1 > > Average: CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %gnice %idle > Average: 511 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 51.49 0.00 0.00 0.00 48.51 > > 19.10% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] idpf_tx_splitq_clean_hdr > 13.86% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] idpf_tx_clean_buf_ring > 10.80% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] skb_attempt_defer_free > 10.57% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] idpf_tx_splitq_clean_all > 7.18% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] queued_spin_lock_slowpath > 6.69% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sock_wfree > 5.55% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] dma_unmap_page_attrs > 3.10% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] fq_dequeue > 3.00% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] skb_release_head_state > 2.73% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] read_tsc > 2.48% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] idpf_tx_splitq_start > 1.20% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] idpf_features_check > 1.13% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] napi_consume_skb > 0.93% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] idpf_vport_splitq_napi_poll > 0.64% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_send_call_func_single_ipi > 0.60% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] acpi_processor_ffh_cstate_enter > 0.53% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] io_idle > 0.43% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] netif_skb_features > 0.41% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __direct_call_cpuidle_state_enter2 > 0.40% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_irq_return_iret > 0.40% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] idpf_tx_buf_hw_update > 0.36% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sched_clock_noinstr > 0.34% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] handle_softirqs > 0.32% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] net_rx_action > 0.32% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] dql_completed > 0.32% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] validate_xmit_skb > 0.31% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] skb_network_protocol > 0.29% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] skb_csum_hwoffload_help > 0.29% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] x2apic_send_IPI > 0.28% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ktime_get > 0.24% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __qdisc_run > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> Big improvement again! Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...gle.com>
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