openwrt/target/linux/generic/backport-4.9/024-4-tcp-tsq-avoid-one-atomic-in-tcp_wfree.patch
Pavel Kubelun b2ea46fe23 generic: net: tcp: backport tcp tx performance patches
An overall throughput gain of 22 % for heavy TCP use over a single TX queue.

Original patchset comment
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v4.13&id=3f4888adae7c1619b990d98a9b967536f71822b8

Signed-off-by: Pavel Kubelun <be.dissent@gmail.com>
2017-10-08 15:19:07 +03:00

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From a9b204d1564702b704ad6fe74f10a102c7b87ba3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2016 11:14:53 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 04/10] tcp: tsq: avoid one atomic in tcp_wfree()
Under high load, tcp_wfree() has an atomic operation trying
to schedule a tasklet over and over.
We can schedule it only if our per cpu list was empty.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -880,6 +880,7 @@ void tcp_wfree(struct sk_buff *skb)
for (oval = READ_ONCE(tp->tsq_flags);; oval = nval) {
struct tsq_tasklet *tsq;
+ bool empty;
if (!(oval & TSQF_THROTTLED) || (oval & TSQF_QUEUED))
goto out;
@@ -892,8 +893,10 @@ void tcp_wfree(struct sk_buff *skb)
/* queue this socket to tasklet queue */
local_irq_save(flags);
tsq = this_cpu_ptr(&tsq_tasklet);
+ empty = list_empty(&tsq->head);
list_add(&tp->tsq_node, &tsq->head);
- tasklet_schedule(&tsq->tasklet);
+ if (empty)
+ tasklet_schedule(&tsq->tasklet);
local_irq_restore(flags);
return;
}