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From: ebiederm@xmission•com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>,
	Benoit Lourdelet <blourdel@juniper•net>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu•com>,
	"netdev\@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] iproute: Faster ip link add, set and delete
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:25:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppyj6ohh.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1364516016.15753.59.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (Eric Dumazet's message of "Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:13:36 -0700")

Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com> writes:

> On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 16:52 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
>> On my microbenchmark of just creating 5000 veth pairs this takes pairs
>> 16s instead of 13s of my earlier hacks but that is well down in the
>> usable range.
>
> I guess most of the time is taken by sysctl_check_table()

All of the significant sysctl slowdowns were fixed in 3.4.  If you see
something of sysctl show up in a trace I would be happy to talk about
it.  The kernel side seems to be creating N network devices seems to
take NlogN time now.  Both sysfs and sysctl store directories as
rbtrees removing their previous bottlenecks.

The loop I timed at 16s was just:

time for i in $(seq 1 5000) ; do ip link add a$i type veth peer name b$i; done

There is plenty of room for inefficiencies in 10000 network devices and
5000 forks+execs.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-29  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-22 22:23 [RFC][PATCH] iproute: Faster ip link add, set and delete Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-22 22:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-03-26 11:51   ` Benoit Lourdelet
2013-03-26 12:40     ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-26 14:17       ` Serge Hallyn
2013-03-26 14:33       ` Serge Hallyn
2013-03-27 13:37         ` Benoit Lourdelet
2013-03-27 15:11           ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-27 17:47             ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-03-28  0:46               ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-28  3:20                 ` Serge Hallyn
2013-03-28  3:44                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-28  4:28                     ` Serge Hallyn
2013-03-28  5:00                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-28 13:36                         ` Serge Hallyn
2013-03-28 13:42                           ` Benoit Lourdelet
2013-03-28 15:04                             ` Serge Hallyn
2013-03-28 15:21                               ` Benoit Lourdelet
2013-03-28 22:20                                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-03-28 23:52                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-29  0:13                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-29  0:25                                       ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2013-03-29  0:43                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-29  1:06                                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-29  1:10                                           ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-29  1:29                                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-29  1:38                                               ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-30 10:09                                     ` Benoit Lourdelet
2013-03-30 14:44                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-30 16:07                                         ` Benoit Lourdelet
2013-03-28 20:27             ` Benoit Lourdelet
2013-03-26 15:31     ` Eric Dumazet

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