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From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid•com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug•ch>, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu•com>,
	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel•com>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] pktgen: introduce 'rx' mode
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:55:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5541535E.1060908@plumgrid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1430280853.3711.19.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>

On 4/28/15 9:14 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-04-28 at 19:11 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>
>> +	if (pkt_dev->flags & F_DO_RX) {
>> +		local_bh_disable();
>> +		atomic_add(burst, &pkt_dev->skb->users);
>> +		do {
>> +			ret = netif_receive_skb(pkt_dev->skb);
>> +			if (ret == NET_RX_DROP)
>> +				pkt_dev->errors++;
>> +			pkt_dev->last_ok = 1;
>> +			pkt_dev->sofar++;
>> +			pkt_dev->seq_num++;
>> +		} while (--burst > 0);
>> +		local_bh_enable();
>> +		goto out;
>> +	}
>> +
>
> This looks buggy.
>
> skb can be put on a queue, so skb->next and skb->prev cannot be reused,
> or queues will be corrupted.

don't see the bug yet.
Any layer that wants to do such queueing should do skb_share_check
first. Just like ip_rcv does. So everything in IP world should
work fine, because it will be operating on clean cloned skb.

> Note that on TX, it is possible to have the same issue if you use a
> virtual device like bonding, and skb is queued on a slave qdisc.
>
> (Thats why we have this IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING flag)

yep, that's why xmit into veth is not useful for benchmarking of rx,
since the hottest functions are alloc_skb and fill_packet, while
netif_receive_skb is not even seen in top 10.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-29 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-29  2:11 [PATCH RFC net-next] netif_receive_skb performance Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-29  2:11 ` [PATCH RFC net-next] pktgen: introduce 'rx' mode Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-29  4:14   ` Eric Dumazet
2015-04-29 21:55     ` Alexei Starovoitov [this message]
2015-04-29 22:19       ` Eric Dumazet
2015-04-29 22:38         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-29 22:56           ` Eric Dumazet
2015-04-29 23:28             ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-29 23:39               ` Eric Dumazet
2015-04-29 23:59                 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-29  5:23 ` [PATCH RFC net-next] netif_receive_skb performance Eric Dumazet
2015-04-29 22:15   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-29  9:37 ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-04-29 22:20   ` Alexei Starovoitov

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