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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: inetpeer with create==0
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:45:45 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110302.204545.193730647.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)


Eric, I was profiling the non-routing-cache case and something that stuck
out is the case of calling inet_getpeer() with create==0.

If an entry is not found, we have to redo the lookup under a spinlock
to make certain that a concurrent writer rebalancing the tree does
not "hide" an existing entry from us.

This makes the case of a create==0 lookup for a not-present entry
really expensive.  It is on the order of 600 cpu cycles on my
Niagara2.

I added a hack to not do the relookup under the lock when create==0
and it now costs less than 300 cycles.

This is now a pretty common operation with the way we handle COW'd
metrics, so I think it's definitely worth optimizing.

I looked at the generic radix tree implementation, and it supports
full RCU lookups in parallel with insert/delete.  It handles the race
case without the relookup under lock because it creates fixed paths
to "slots" where nodes live using shifts and masks.  So if a path
to a slot ever existed, it will always exist.

Take a look at lib/radix-tree.c and include/linux/radix-tree.h if
you are curious.

I think we should do something similar for inetpeer.  Currently we
cannot just use the existing generic radix-tree code because it only
supports indexes as large as "unsigned long" and we need to handle
128-bit ipv6 addresses.

             reply	other threads:[~2011-03-03  4:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-03  4:45 David Miller [this message]
2011-03-03  5:30 ` inetpeer with create==0 Changli Gao
2011-03-03  5:36   ` David Miller
2011-03-03  6:27     ` Changli Gao
2011-03-03  6:42       ` David Miller
2011-03-03  7:39         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-03  8:32           ` David Miller
2011-03-04 15:09             ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] inetpeer: seqlock optimization Eric Dumazet
2011-03-04 19:17               ` David Miller
2011-03-04 20:45                 ` David Miller
2011-03-04 22:13                   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-04 22:44                     ` David Miller
2011-03-04 23:02                       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-03  8:07         ` inetpeer with create==0 Changli Gao
2011-03-03  8:34           ` David Miller
2011-03-03  6:51 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-03  8:30   ` David Miller

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