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net: properly flush delay-freed skbs 

Typical NAPI drivers use napi_consume_skb(skb) at TX completion time.
This put skb in a percpu special queue, napi_alloc_cache, to get bulk
frees.

It turns out the queue is not flushed and hits the NAPI_SKB_CACHE_SIZE
limit quite often, with skbs that were queued hundreds of usec earlier.
I measured this can take ~6000 nsec to perform one flush.

__kfree_skb_flush() can be called from two points right now :

1) From net_tx_action(), but only for skbs that were queued to
sd->completion_queue.

 -> Irrelevant for NAPI drivers in normal operation.

2) From net_rx_action(), but only under high stress or if RPS/RFS has a
pending action.

This patch changes net_rx_action() to perform the flush in all cases and
after more urgent operations happened (like kicking remote CPUS for
RPS/RFS).

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Eric Dumazet 2016-11-23 08:44:56 -08:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent ca89fa77b4
commit f52dffe049
1 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -5260,7 +5260,7 @@ static __latent_entropy void net_rx_action(struct softirq_action *h)
if (list_empty(&list)) {
if (!sd_has_rps_ipi_waiting(sd) && list_empty(&repoll))
return;
goto out;
break;
}
@ -5278,7 +5278,6 @@ static __latent_entropy void net_rx_action(struct softirq_action *h)
}
}
__kfree_skb_flush();
local_irq_disable();
list_splice_tail_init(&sd->poll_list, &list);
@ -5288,6 +5287,8 @@ static __latent_entropy void net_rx_action(struct softirq_action *h)
__raise_softirq_irqoff(NET_RX_SOFTIRQ);
net_rps_action_and_irq_enable(sd);
out:
__kfree_skb_flush();
}
struct netdev_adjacent {