From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: "Simon Horman" <horms@kernel.org>,
"Jamal Hadi Salim" <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
"Cong Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
"Jiri Pirko" <jiri@resnulli.us>,
"Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>,
"Kuniyuki Iwashima" <kuniyu@google.com>,
"Willem de Bruijn" <willemb@google.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 net-next 07/14] net_sched: add Qdisc_read_mostly and Qdisc_write groups
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 08:32:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251121083256.674562-8-edumazet@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251121083256.674562-1-edumazet@google.com>
It is possible to reorg Qdisc to avoid always dirtying 2 cache lines in
fast path by reducing this to a single dirtied cache line.
In current layout, we change only four/six fields in the first cache line:
- q.spinlock
- q.qlen
- bstats.bytes
- bstats.packets
- some Qdisc also change q.next/q.prev
In the second cache line we change in the fast path:
- running
- state
- qstats.backlog
/* --- cacheline 2 boundary (128 bytes) --- */
struct sk_buff_head gso_skb __attribute__((__aligned__(64))); /* 0x80 0x18 */
struct qdisc_skb_head q; /* 0x98 0x18 */
struct gnet_stats_basic_sync bstats __attribute__((__aligned__(16))); /* 0xb0 0x10 */
/* --- cacheline 3 boundary (192 bytes) --- */
struct gnet_stats_queue qstats; /* 0xc0 0x14 */
bool running; /* 0xd4 0x1 */
/* XXX 3 bytes hole, try to pack */
unsigned long state; /* 0xd8 0x8 */
struct Qdisc * next_sched; /* 0xe0 0x8 */
struct sk_buff_head skb_bad_txq; /* 0xe8 0x18 */
/* --- cacheline 4 boundary (256 bytes) --- */
Reorganize things to have a first cache line mostly read,
then a mostly written one.
This gives a ~3% increase of performance under tx stress.
Note that there is an additional hole because @qstats now spans over a third cache line.
/* --- cacheline 2 boundary (128 bytes) --- */
__u8 __cacheline_group_begin__Qdisc_read_mostly[0] __attribute__((__aligned__(64))); /* 0x80 0 */
struct sk_buff_head gso_skb; /* 0x80 0x18 */
struct Qdisc * next_sched; /* 0x98 0x8 */
struct sk_buff_head skb_bad_txq; /* 0xa0 0x18 */
__u8 __cacheline_group_end__Qdisc_read_mostly[0]; /* 0xb8 0 */
/* XXX 8 bytes hole, try to pack */
/* --- cacheline 3 boundary (192 bytes) --- */
__u8 __cacheline_group_begin__Qdisc_write[0] __attribute__((__aligned__(64))); /* 0xc0 0 */
struct qdisc_skb_head q; /* 0xc0 0x18 */
unsigned long state; /* 0xd8 0x8 */
struct gnet_stats_basic_sync bstats __attribute__((__aligned__(16))); /* 0xe0 0x10 */
bool running; /* 0xf0 0x1 */
/* XXX 3 bytes hole, try to pack */
struct gnet_stats_queue qstats; /* 0xf4 0x14 */
/* --- cacheline 4 boundary (256 bytes) was 8 bytes ago --- */
__u8 __cacheline_group_end__Qdisc_write[0]; /* 0x108 0 */
/* XXX 56 bytes hole, try to pack */
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
include/net/sch_generic.h | 29 ++++++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/sch_generic.h b/include/net/sch_generic.h
index cdf7a58ebcf5ef2b5f8b76eb6fbe92d5f0e07899..79501499dafba56271b9ebd97a8f379ffdc83cac 100644
--- a/include/net/sch_generic.h
+++ b/include/net/sch_generic.h
@@ -103,17 +103,24 @@ struct Qdisc {
int pad;
refcount_t refcnt;
- /*
- * For performance sake on SMP, we put highly modified fields at the end
- */
- struct sk_buff_head gso_skb ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
- struct qdisc_skb_head q;
- struct gnet_stats_basic_sync bstats;
- struct gnet_stats_queue qstats;
- bool running; /* must be written under qdisc spinlock */
- unsigned long state;
- struct Qdisc *next_sched;
- struct sk_buff_head skb_bad_txq;
+ /* Cache line potentially dirtied in dequeue() or __netif_reschedule(). */
+ __cacheline_group_begin(Qdisc_read_mostly) ____cacheline_aligned;
+ struct sk_buff_head gso_skb;
+ struct Qdisc *next_sched;
+ struct sk_buff_head skb_bad_txq;
+ __cacheline_group_end(Qdisc_read_mostly);
+
+ /* Fields dirtied in dequeue() fast path. */
+ __cacheline_group_begin(Qdisc_write) ____cacheline_aligned;
+ struct qdisc_skb_head q;
+ unsigned long state;
+ struct gnet_stats_basic_sync bstats;
+ bool running; /* must be written under qdisc spinlock */
+
+ /* Note : we only change qstats.backlog in fast path. */
+ struct gnet_stats_queue qstats;
+ __cacheline_group_end(Qdisc_write);
+
atomic_long_t defer_count ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
struct llist_head defer_list;
--
2.52.0.460.gd25c4c69ec-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-21 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-21 8:32 [PATCH v3 net-next 00/14] net_sched: speedup qdisc dequeue Eric Dumazet
2025-11-21 8:32 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 01/14] net_sched: make room for (struct qdisc_skb_cb)->pkt_segs Eric Dumazet
2025-11-21 8:32 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 02/14] net: init shinfo->gso_segs from qdisc_pkt_len_init() Eric Dumazet
2025-11-21 8:32 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 03/14] net_sched: initialize qdisc_skb_cb(skb)->pkt_segs in qdisc_pkt_len_init() Eric Dumazet
2025-11-21 8:32 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 04/14] net: use qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init() in sch_handle_ingress() Eric Dumazet
2025-11-21 8:32 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 05/14] net_sched: use qdisc_skb_cb(skb)->pkt_segs in bstats_update() Eric Dumazet
2025-11-21 8:32 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 06/14] net_sched: cake: use qdisc_pkt_segs() Eric Dumazet
2025-11-21 8:32 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2025-11-21 8:32 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 08/14] net_sched: sch_fq: move qdisc_bstats_update() to fq_dequeue_skb() Eric Dumazet
2025-11-21 8:32 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 09/14] net_sched: sch_fq: prefetch one skb ahead in dequeue() Eric Dumazet
2025-11-21 8:32 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 10/14] net: prefech skb->priority in __dev_xmit_skb() Eric Dumazet
2025-11-21 8:32 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 11/14] net: annotate a data-race " Eric Dumazet
2025-11-21 8:32 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 12/14] net_sched: add tcf_kfree_skb_list() helper Eric Dumazet
2025-11-21 8:32 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 13/14] net_sched: add qdisc_dequeue_drop() helper Eric Dumazet
2025-11-21 8:32 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 14/14] net_sched: use qdisc_dequeue_drop() in cake, codel, fq_codel Eric Dumazet
2025-11-25 15:24 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 00/14] net_sched: speedup qdisc dequeue patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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