[PATCH 5.9 047/757] nexthop: Fix performance regression in nexthop deletion

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-10-27T15:32:24Z

From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>

[ Upstream commit df6afe2f7c19349de2ee560dc62ea4d9ad3ff889 ]

While insertion of 16k nexthops all using the same netdev ('dummy10')
takes less than a second, deletion takes about 130 seconds:

# time -p ip -b nexthop.batch
real 0.29
user 0.01
sys 0.15

# time -p ip link set dev dummy10 down
real 131.03
user 0.06
sys 0.52

This is because of repeated calls to synchronize_rcu() whenever a
nexthop is removed from a nexthop group:

# /usr/share/bcc/tools/offcputime -p `pgrep -nx ip` -K
...
b'finish_task_switch'
b'schedule'
b'schedule_timeout'
b'wait_for_completion'
b'__wait_rcu_gp'
b'synchronize_rcu.part.0'
b'synchronize_rcu'
b'__remove_nexthop'
b'remove_nexthop'
b'nexthop_flush_dev'
b'nh_netdev_event'
b'raw_notifier_call_chain'
b'call_netdevice_notifiers_info'
b'__dev_notify_flags'
b'dev_change_flags'
b'do_setlink'
b'__rtnl_newlink'
b'rtnl_newlink'
b'rtnetlink_rcv_msg'
b'netlink_rcv_skb'
b'rtnetlink_rcv'
b'netlink_unicast'
b'netlink_sendmsg'
b'____sys_sendmsg'
b'___sys_sendmsg'
b'__sys_sendmsg'
b'__x64_sys_sendmsg'
b'do_syscall_64'
b'entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe'
- ip (277)
126554955

Since nexthops are always deleted under RTNL, synchronize_net() can be
used instead. It will call synchronize_rcu_expedited() which only blocks
for several microseconds as opposed to multiple milliseconds like
synchronize_rcu().

With this patch deletion of 16k nexthops takes less than a second:

# time -p ip link set dev dummy10 down
real 0.12
user 0.00
sys 0.04

Tested with fib_nexthops.sh which includes torture tests that prompted
the initial change:

# ./fib_nexthops.sh
...
Tests passed: 134
Tests failed: 0

Fixes: 90f33bffa382 ("nexthops: don't modify published nexthop groups")
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201016172914.643282-1-idosch@idosch.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/ipv4/nexthop.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/nexthop.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/nexthop.c
@@ -842,7 +842,7 @@ static void remove_nexthop_from_groups(s
remove_nh_grp_entry(net, nhge, nlinfo);

/* make sure all see the newly published array before releasing rtnl */
- synchronize_rcu();
+ synchronize_net();
}

static void remove_nexthop_group(struct nexthop *nh, struct nl_info *nlinfo)