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* [PATCH net-next 0/2] udp: avoid false sharing on receive
@ 2022-10-19 10:01 Paolo Abeni
  2022-10-19 10:02 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: introduce and use custom sockopt socket flag Paolo Abeni
  2022-10-19 10:02 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] udp: track the forward memory release threshold in an hot cacheline Paolo Abeni
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Paolo Abeni @ 2022-10-19 10:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev
  Cc: David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, mptcp, David Ahern,
	Mat Martineau, Matthieu Baerts

Under high UDP load, the BH processing and the user-space receiver can
run on different cores.

The UDP implementation does a lot of effort to avoid false sharing in
the receive path, but recent changes to the struct sock layout moved
the sk_forward_alloc and the sk_rcvbuf fields on the same cacheline:

        /* --- cacheline 4 boundary (256 bytes) --- */
                struct sk_buff *   tail;
        } sk_backlog;
        int                        sk_forward_alloc;
        unsigned int               sk_reserved_mem;
        unsigned int               sk_ll_usec;
        unsigned int               sk_napi_id;
        int                        sk_rcvbuf;

sk_forward_alloc is updated by the BH, while sk_rcvbuf is accessed by
udp_recvmsg(), causing false sharing.

A possible solution would be to re-order the struct sock fields to avoid
the false sharing. Such change is subject to being invalidated by future
changes and could have negative side effects on other workload.

Instead this series uses a different approach, touching only the UDP
socket layout. 

The first patch generalizes the custom setsockopt infrastructure, to
allow UDP tracking the buffer size, and the second patch addresses the
issue, copying the relevant buffer information into an already hot
cacheline.

Overall the above gives a 10% peek throughput increase under UDP flood.

Paolo Abeni (2):
  net: introduce and use custom sockopt socket flag
  udp: track the forward memory release threshold in an hot cacheline

 include/linux/net.h  |  1 +
 include/linux/udp.h  |  3 +++
 net/ipv4/udp.c       | 22 +++++++++++++++++++---
 net/ipv6/udp.c       |  8 ++++++--
 net/mptcp/protocol.c |  4 ++++
 net/socket.c         |  8 +-------
 6 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

-- 
2.37.3


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2022-10-19 15:16   ` Matthieu Baerts
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