tcp: fix tcp_ack() performance problem
We worked hard to improve tcp_ack() performance, by not accessing
skb_shinfo() in fast path (cd7d8498c9a5 tcp: change tcp_skb_pcount()
location)
We still have one spurious access because of ACK timestamping,
added in commit e1c8a607b281 ("net-timestamp: ACK timestamp for
bytestreams")
By checking if sk_tsflags has SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_ACK set,
we can avoid two cache line misses for the common case.
While we are at it, add two prefetchw() :
One in tcp_ack() to bring skb at the head of write queue.
One in tcp_clean_rtx_queue() loop to bring following skb,
as we will delete skb from the write queue and dirty skb->next->prev.
Add a couple of [un]likely() clauses.
After this patch, tcp_ack() is no longer the most consuming
function in tcp stack.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Van Jacobson <vanj@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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