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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: fw@strlen.de
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] ipsec: flow cache removal
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 22:15:01 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160927.221501.123624802268529925.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1474992323-11327-1-git-send-email-fw@strlen.de>

From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 18:05:20 +0200

> Please do not apply these patches.

To be honest, I really want to :-)

> These are part of tests I made for the ipsec workshop at upcoming
> netdev 1.2 and I wanted to post these before the conference.
> 
> Short version is that there appear to be no major scalability issues
> anymore without flow cache.  Performance hit can be up to 30%
> in my tests (with 64 byte packets), however without flow cache we
> also avoid some undesirable effects when flow cache is constantly
> overloaded.
> 
> Seems most of the extra cost is mainly because of extra xfrm dst
> init/destruction (and not e.g. due to policy lookup).

Yes, if you have to allocate/destroy a dst every lookup then
it will hurt a lot.  Perhaps we can have a pre-cooked dst hung
off of some existing object as a first level strategy to avoid
this.

> Lets discuss more at the workshop.

Indeed.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-28  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-27 16:05 [RFC 0/3] ipsec: flow cache removal Florian Westphal
2016-09-27 16:05 ` [RFC 1/3] xfrm: state: do not acquire lock in get_mtu helpers Florian Westphal
2016-09-27 16:05 ` [RFC 2/3] vti: revert flush x-netns xfrm cache when vti interface is removed Florian Westphal
2016-09-27 16:05 ` [RFC 3/3] xfrm: remove flow cache Florian Westphal
2016-09-28  2:15 ` David Miller [this message]

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