Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] udp: prefetch rmem_alloc in udp_queue_rcv_skb()

From: Paolo Abeni <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 18:07:37 +0200

On Wed, 2017-06-21 at 11:41 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Paolo Abeni <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 10:24:40 +0200
> 
> > On UDP packets processing, if the BH is the bottle-neck, it
> > always sees a cache miss while updating rmem_alloc; try to
> > avoid it prefetching the value as soon as we have the socket
> > available.
> > 
> > Performances under flood with multiple NIC rx queues used are
> > unaffected, but when a single NIC rx queue is in use, this
> > gives ~10% performance improvement.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <[email-masked]>
> 
> Applied, but what about ipv6?

You are right, that was unintentionally left out. I'll do some tests
and send another patch for ipv6, too.

Thanks,

Paolo