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From: Kris Pan <kris.pan@intel.com>
To: edumazet@google.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
	horms@kernel.org, atomasov@redhat.com, oliver.sang@intel.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Kris Pan <kris.pan@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net: iterate online nodes in skb_defer_free_flush()
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:04:38 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260911020438.3502801-1-kris.pan@intel.com> (raw)

skb_attempt_defer_free() only queues skbs on the current CPU's node
(numa_node_id() of a running CPU), which is always online, so the
flush loop never needs to visit nodes that are merely possible.

for_each_node() walks node_possible_map.  On machines where the
possible map is much larger than the online map -- e.g. a POWER10
LPAR with 32 possible but 1 online node -- the flush loop touches 31
cold, always-empty per-node lists on every softirq pass, showing up
as skb_defer_free_flush() and _find_next_bit() overhead.

Use for_each_online_node() to iterate only node_online_map.

Loopback UDP throughput in a QEMU guest with 32 possible / 1 online
nodes (bench_udp, 8 senders, 6 interleaved runs) improves by ~5%.

Fixes: 5628f3fe3b16 ("net: add NUMA awareness to skb_attempt_defer_free()")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202512112119.5b9829a-lkp@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kris Pan <kris.pan@intel.com>
---
 net/core/dev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 290e0f099e6bf..b528b6a986fcf 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -6907,7 +6907,7 @@ static void skb_defer_free_flush(void)
 	struct skb_defer_node *sdn;
 	int node;
 
-	for_each_node(node) {
+	for_each_online_node(node) {
 		sdn = this_cpu_ptr(net_hotdata.skb_defer_nodes) + node;
 
 		if (llist_empty(&sdn->defer_list))
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-09-11  2:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-11  2:04 Kris Pan [this message]
2026-09-11  2:38 ` [PATCH v2] net: iterate online nodes in skb_defer_free_flush() Kris Pan
2026-09-11  2:39 ` [PATCH] " Eric Dumazet

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