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From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	brouer@redhat•com, xiyou.wangcong@gmail•com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] net: reduce cycles spend on ICMP replies that gets rate limited
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 11:31:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170107113133.227f3c29@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170106.221042.1641025960219244932.davem@davemloft.net>

On Fri, 06 Jan 2017 22:10:42 -0500 (EST)
David Miller <davem@davemloft•net> wrote:

> BTW Eric, you asked about kmalloc() allocation, you were CC:'d in the
> patch which did this :-)
> 
> commit 9a99d4a50cb8ce516adf0f2436138d4c8e6e4535
> Author: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat•com>
> Date:   Sun Jun 2 15:00:52 2013 +0000
> 
>     icmp: avoid allocating large struct on stack
>     
>     struct icmp_bxm is a large struct, reduce stack usage
>     by allocating it on heap.
>     
>     Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
>     Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches•com>
>     Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
>     Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat•com>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft•net>

Did a quick revert, and tested again.  It is not the major bottleneck,
but we do save something.  The major bottleneck is still the call to
__ip_route_output_key_hash (invoked by icmp_route_lookup).

Single flow improvement from 1719182 pps to 1783368 pps.
 - 64186 pps
 - (1/1783368-1/1719182)*10^9 = -20.93 nanosec
   * 4GHz approx = 20.93*4 = 83.72 cycles

The optimal SLUB fast-path on this machine is 54 cycles(tsc) 13.557 ns,
thus the saving is actually higher than expected.  But low compared to
avoiding the icmp_route_lookup.

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-07 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-06 17:39 [net-next PATCH] net: reduce cycles spend on ICMP replies that gets rate limited Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-01-06 19:40 ` Eric Dumazet
2017-01-06 22:08   ` Eric Dumazet
2017-01-07  3:10     ` David Miller
2017-01-07 10:31       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer [this message]
2017-01-07  9:28     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer

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