From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 87B3B439F71; Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:56:16 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1786978577; cv=none; b=jHy2ScetUzx2AmBA+bIASMmmWm/aCBHSaOffLa1Ftz8+U7kKrVggpKrwVzflV1J6Ng+TRHRikrrUXCYXyqtKEqckXoVSsiHyNEbfXKKEFCKTA9Jhbe+d1fXCXGPJSIakmjsF4RSph2rxTOA8lmLxbrVRWLd08wcgmo7xsZxSao0= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1786978577; c=relaxed/simple; bh=7LO2qnp/Za8HH+ucYnaVp3fjxcdZsYpL6pnUx3oknEg=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=KPJJj3VzKU+a/DXr2ed5VMV+JUO12RDw8o1qrQtscJs7iqcYgAruQyZaqfad+PqPJsjlPArSpFuTM1g6AYdlFa61gJrjV/+IqXuklVNIFPjCjKhvkMDrn3qAZ5jJAStVFyplSlJNBSlbgEIchxnrNAoDEfTNRfMwvcBoOM5JJes= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=g/dy/8zv; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="g/dy/8zv" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 657491F000E9; Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:56:15 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1786978575; bh=cBCwDlXQFHcDjYO+jGW8IiApLwsmiq3tSkZrF41PHow=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References; b=g/dy/8zv8uljm9q0IldEaR1l8b5IEw0I2M6i4oBCgE1zYhey92Umvov2d6KflKBMW 88eoNkmd2Re2FZ0YZXuReBS80AsWOeQQWkajJ4y7+KYBlj0Gk3bKZVgUb+qN1/2/fw lm2yp9QdRl38hkWuqvrzNP4uS1HT+bJRHK4jikdE= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , patches@lists.linux.dev, =?UTF-8?q?Asbj=C3=B8rn=20Sloth=20T=C3=B8nnesen?= , Simon Horman , Marcelo Ricardo Leitner , "David S. Miller" , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 6.6 035/156] net: sched: make skip_sw actually skip software Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:32:49 +0200 Message-ID: <20260817132535.993002731@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.55.0 In-Reply-To: <20260817132534.666299318@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20260817132534.666299318@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.69 X-stable: review X-Patchwork-Hint: ignore Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: patches@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen [ Upstream commit 047f340b36fc550c0fc6a8947fc0a1f8e429e9ab ] TC filters come in 3 variants: - no flag (try to process in hardware, but fallback to software)) - skip_hw (do not process filter by hardware) - skip_sw (do not process filter by software) However skip_sw is implemented so that the skip_sw flag can first be checked, after it has been matched. IMHO it's common when using skip_sw, to use it on all rules. So if all filters in a block is skip_sw filters, then we can bail early, we can thus avoid having to match the filters, just to check for the skip_sw flag. This patch adds a bypass, for when only TC skip_sw rules are used. The bypass is guarded by a static key, to avoid harming other workloads. There are 3 ways that a packet from a skip_sw ruleset, can end up in the kernel path. Although the send packets to a non-existent chain way is only improved a few percents, then I believe it's worth optimizing the trap and fall-though use-cases. +----------------------------+--------+--------+--------+ | Test description | Pre- | Post- | Rel. | | | kpps | kpps | chg. | +----------------------------+--------+--------+--------+ | basic forwarding + notrack | 3589.3 | 3587.9 | 1.00x | | switch to eswitch mode | 3081.8 | 3094.7 | 1.00x | | add ingress qdisc | 3042.9 | 3063.6 | 1.01x | | tc forward in hw / skip_sw |37024.7 |37028.4 | 1.00x | | tc forward in sw / skip_hw | 3245.0 | 3245.3 | 1.00x | +----------------------------+--------+--------+--------+ | tests with only skip_sw rules below: | +----------------------------+--------+--------+--------+ | 1 non-matching rule | 2694.7 | 3058.7 | 1.14x | | 1 n-m rule, match trap | 2611.2 | 3323.1 | 1.27x | | 1 n-m rule, goto non-chain | 2886.8 | 2945.9 | 1.02x | | 5 non-matching rules | 1958.2 | 3061.3 | 1.56x | | 5 n-m rules, match trap | 1911.9 | 3327.0 | 1.74x | | 5 n-m rules, goto non-chain| 2883.1 | 2947.5 | 1.02x | | 10 non-matching rules | 1466.3 | 3062.8 | 2.09x | | 10 n-m rules, match trap | 1444.3 | 3317.9 | 2.30x | | 10 n-m rules,goto non-chain| 2883.1 | 2939.5 | 1.02x | | 25 non-matching rules | 838.5 | 3058.9 | 3.65x | | 25 n-m rules, match trap | 824.5 | 3323.0 | 4.03x | | 25 n-m rules,goto non-chain| 2875.8 | 2944.7 | 1.02x | | 50 non-matching rules | 488.1 | 3054.7 | 6.26x | | 50 n-m rules, match trap | 484.9 | 3318.5 | 6.84x | | 50 n-m rules,goto non-chain| 2884.1 | 2939.7 | 1.02x | +----------------------------+--------+--------+--------+ perf top (25 n-m skip_sw rules - pre patch): 20.39% [kernel] [k] __skb_flow_dissect 16.43% [kernel] [k] rhashtable_jhash2 10.58% [kernel] [k] fl_classify 10.23% [kernel] [k] fl_mask_lookup 4.79% [kernel] [k] memset_orig 2.58% [kernel] [k] tcf_classify 1.47% [kernel] [k] __x86_indirect_thunk_rax 1.42% [kernel] [k] __dev_queue_xmit 1.36% [kernel] [k] nft_do_chain 1.21% [kernel] [k] __rcu_read_lock perf top (25 n-m skip_sw rules - post patch): 5.12% [kernel] [k] __dev_queue_xmit 4.77% [kernel] [k] nft_do_chain 3.65% [kernel] [k] dev_gro_receive 3.41% [kernel] [k] check_preemption_disabled 3.14% [kernel] [k] mlx5e_skb_from_cqe_mpwrq_nonlinear 2.88% [kernel] [k] __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0 2.49% [kernel] [k] mlx5e_xmit 2.15% [kernel] [k] ip_forward 1.95% [kernel] [k] mlx5e_tc_restore_tunnel 1.92% [kernel] [k] vlan_gro_receive Test setup: DUT: Intel Xeon D-1518 (2.20GHz) w/ Nvidia/Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx 2x100G Data rate measured on switch (Extreme X690), and DUT connected as a router on a stick, with pktgen and pktsink as VLANs. Pktgen-dpdk was in range 36.6-37.7 Mpps 64B packets across all tests. Full test data at https://files.fiberby.net/ast/2024/tc_skip_sw/v2_tests/ Signed-off-by: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Reviewed-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Stable-dep-of: a347304b2ca1 ("net/sched: cls_api: Always acquire rtnl_lock when destroying locked classifiers") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- include/net/pkt_cls.h | 9 +++++++++ include/net/sch_generic.h | 1 + net/core/dev.c | 10 ++++++++++ net/sched/cls_api.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 38 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/net/pkt_cls.h b/include/net/pkt_cls.h index ccc1c698ed007..0c1a1e366e8eb 100644 --- a/include/net/pkt_cls.h +++ b/include/net/pkt_cls.h @@ -72,6 +72,15 @@ static inline bool tcf_block_non_null_shared(struct tcf_block *block) return block && block->index; } +#ifdef CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT +DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(tcf_bypass_check_needed_key); + +static inline bool tcf_block_bypass_sw(struct tcf_block *block) +{ + return block && block->bypass_wanted; +} +#endif + static inline struct Qdisc *tcf_block_q(struct tcf_block *block) { WARN_ON(tcf_block_shared(block)); diff --git a/include/net/sch_generic.h b/include/net/sch_generic.h index a94ff63e3cd5b..18ba0226b624f 100644 --- a/include/net/sch_generic.h +++ b/include/net/sch_generic.h @@ -478,6 +478,7 @@ struct tcf_block { struct flow_block flow_block; struct list_head owner_list; bool keep_dst; + bool bypass_wanted; atomic_t filtercnt; /* Number of filters */ atomic_t skipswcnt; /* Number of skip_sw filters */ atomic_t offloadcnt; /* Number of oddloaded filters */ diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 0cc03e6c6fb14..31469d53e067d 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -2146,6 +2146,11 @@ void net_dec_egress_queue(void) EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(net_dec_egress_queue); #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT +DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(tcf_bypass_check_needed_key); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(tcf_bypass_check_needed_key); +#endif + DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(netstamp_needed_key); EXPORT_SYMBOL(netstamp_needed_key); #ifdef CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL @@ -4030,6 +4035,11 @@ static int tc_run(struct tcx_entry *entry, struct sk_buff *skb) if (!miniq) return ret; + if (static_branch_unlikely(&tcf_bypass_check_needed_key)) { + if (tcf_block_bypass_sw(miniq->block)) + return ret; + } + tc_skb_cb(skb)->mru = 0; tc_skb_cb(skb)->post_ct = false; diff --git a/net/sched/cls_api.c b/net/sched/cls_api.c index d25ac60259715..f16cfc23014b2 100644 --- a/net/sched/cls_api.c +++ b/net/sched/cls_api.c @@ -410,6 +410,23 @@ static void tcf_proto_get(struct tcf_proto *tp) refcount_inc(&tp->refcnt); } +static void tcf_maintain_bypass(struct tcf_block *block) +{ + int filtercnt = atomic_read(&block->filtercnt); + int skipswcnt = atomic_read(&block->skipswcnt); + bool bypass_wanted = filtercnt > 0 && filtercnt == skipswcnt; + + if (bypass_wanted != block->bypass_wanted) { +#ifdef CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT + if (bypass_wanted) + static_branch_inc(&tcf_bypass_check_needed_key); + else + static_branch_dec(&tcf_bypass_check_needed_key); +#endif + block->bypass_wanted = bypass_wanted; + } +} + static void tcf_block_filter_cnt_update(struct tcf_block *block, bool *counted, bool add) { lockdep_assert_not_held(&block->cb_lock); @@ -424,6 +441,7 @@ static void tcf_block_filter_cnt_update(struct tcf_block *block, bool *counted, *counted = false; } } + tcf_maintain_bypass(block); up_write(&block->cb_lock); } -- 2.53.0