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From: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 6/6] net_sched: act: remove spinlock in fast path
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2015 10:21:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5596C4A0.9030502@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1435925285.11970.69.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>

On 15-07-03 05:08 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-07-03 at 07:25 -0400, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>> On 07/02/15 16:59, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2015-07-02 at 09:35 -0700, John Fastabend wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Point is to not dirty cache line for every packet ?
>>>
>>> Doing the test means we attempt dirtying only ~HZ times per second,
>>> which really matters to handle millions of packets per second.
>>>
>>> My tests show a good enough performance, not sure we want a percpu thing
>>> for this lastuse field.

Agreed percpu is overkill thanks for the explanation. Looks good
to me.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-03 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-02 13:07 [PATCH net-next 0/6] net_sched: act: lockless operation Eric Dumazet
2015-07-02 13:07 ` [PATCH net-next 1/6] net: sched: extend percpu stats helpers Eric Dumazet
2015-07-02 15:19   ` John Fastabend
2015-07-03 10:44   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-07-02 13:07 ` [PATCH net-next 2/6] net: sched: add percpu stats to actions Eric Dumazet
2015-07-02 15:31   ` John Fastabend
2015-07-03 10:48   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-07-02 13:07 ` [PATCH net-next 3/6] net_sched: act: make tcfg_pval non zero Eric Dumazet
2015-07-02 15:33   ` John Fastabend
2015-07-02 16:58   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-07-03 10:49   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-07-04  7:18     ` Eric Dumazet
2015-07-02 13:07 ` [PATCH net-next 4/6] net_sched: act: use a separate packet counters for gact_determ() Eric Dumazet
2015-07-02 15:44   ` John Fastabend
2015-07-03 10:50   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-07-02 13:07 ` [PATCH net-next 5/6] net_sched: act: read tcfg_ptype once Eric Dumazet
2015-07-02 15:47   ` John Fastabend
2015-07-03 10:57   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-07-02 13:07 ` [PATCH net-next 6/6] net_sched: act: remove spinlock in fast path Eric Dumazet
2015-07-02 16:35   ` John Fastabend
2015-07-02 20:59     ` Eric Dumazet
2015-07-03 11:25       ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-07-03 12:08         ` Eric Dumazet
2015-07-03 17:21           ` John Fastabend [this message]
2015-07-02 17:13   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-07-03 11:07   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-07-04  5:45     ` Eric Dumazet

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