tcp: switch pacing timer to softirq based hrtimer
linux-4.16 got support for softirq based hrtimers.
TCP can switch its pacing hrtimer to this variant, since this
avoids going through a tasklet and some atomic operations.
pacing timer logic looks like other (jiffies based) tcp timers.
v2: use hrtimer_try_to_cancel() in tcp_clear_xmit_timers()
to correctly release reference on socket if needed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
index f7d9448..92bdf64 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -713,6 +713,6 @@ void tcp_init_xmit_timers(struct sock *sk)
inet_csk_init_xmit_timers(sk, &tcp_write_timer, &tcp_delack_timer,
&tcp_keepalive_timer);
hrtimer_init(&tcp_sk(sk)->pacing_timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC,
- HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED);
+ HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED_SOFT);
tcp_sk(sk)->pacing_timer.function = tcp_pace_kick;
}