net: introduce DST_NOCACHE flag
While doing stress tests with IP route cache disabled, and multi queue
devices, I noticed a very high contention on one rwlock used in
neighbour code.
When many cpus are trying to send frames (possibly using a high
performance multiqueue device) to the same neighbour, they fight for the
neigh->lock rwlock in order to call neigh_hh_init(), and fight on
hh->hh_refcnt (a pair of atomic_inc/atomic_dec_and_test())
But we dont need to call neigh_hh_init() for dst that are used only
once. It costs four atomic operations at least, on two contended cache
lines, plus the high contention on neigh->lock rwlock.
Introduce a new dst flag, DST_NOCACHE, that is set when dst was not
inserted in route cache.
With the stress test bench, sending 160000000 frames on one neighbour,
results are :
Before patch:
real 2m28.406s
user 0m11.781s
sys 36m17.964s
After patch:
real 1m26.532s
user 0m12.185s
sys 20m3.903s
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/net/dst.h b/include/net/dst.h
index aa53fbc..a217c83 100644
--- a/include/net/dst.h
+++ b/include/net/dst.h
@@ -43,10 +43,11 @@
short error;
short obsolete;
int flags;
-#define DST_HOST 1
-#define DST_NOXFRM 2
-#define DST_NOPOLICY 4
-#define DST_NOHASH 8
+#define DST_HOST 0x0001
+#define DST_NOXFRM 0x0002
+#define DST_NOPOLICY 0x0004
+#define DST_NOHASH 0x0008
+#define DST_NOCACHE 0x0010
unsigned long expires;
unsigned short header_len; /* more space at head required */