From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [V3 PATCH net-next 0/5] xdp: more work on xdp tracepoints Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 12:00:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20170824.120017.1701190804482902696.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20170823.170737.931093928208799430.davem@davemloft.net> <150357074701.26663.4047992776649697788.stgit@firesoul> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, borkmann@iogearbox.net To: brouer@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:50176 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752974AbdHXTAS (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2017 15:00:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <150357074701.26663.4047992776649697788.stgit@firesoul> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 12:32:58 +0200 > More work on streamlining and performance optimizing the tracepoints > for XDP. > > I've created a simple xdp_monitor application that uses this > tracepoint, and prints statistics. Available at github: > > https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/blob/master/kernel/samples/bpf/xdp_monitor_kern.c > https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/blob/master/kernel/samples/bpf/xdp_monitor_user.c > > The improvement over tracepoint with strcpy: 9810372 - 8428762 = +1381610 pps faster > - (1/9810372 - 1/8428762)*10^9 = -16.7 nanosec > - 100-(8428762/9810372*100) = strcpy-trace is 14.08% slower > - 981037/8428762*100 = removing strcpy made it 11.64% faster > > V3: Fix merge conflict with commit e4a8e817d3cb ("bpf: misc xdp redirect cleanups") > V2: Change trace_xdp_redirect() to align with args of trace_xdp_exception() Series applied, thanks Jesper.