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    tcp: add one skb cache for rx · 8b27dae5
    Eric Dumazet authored
    Often times, recvmsg() system calls and BH handling for a particular
    TCP socket are done on different cpus.
    
    This means the incoming skb had to be allocated on a cpu,
    but freed on another.
    
    This incurs a high spinlock contention in slab layer for small rpc,
    but also a high number of cache line ping pongs for larger packets.
    
    A full size GRO packet might use 45 page fragments, meaning
    that up to 45 put_page() can be involved.
    
    More over performing the __kfree_skb() in the recvmsg() context
    adds a latency for user applications, and increase probability
    of trapping them in backlog processing, since the BH handler
    might found the socket owned by the user.
    
    This patch, combined with the prior one increases the rpc
    performance by about 10 % on servers with large number of cores.
    
    (tcp_rr workload with 10,000 flows and 112 threads reach 9 Mpps
     instead of 8 Mpps)
    
    This also increases single bulk flow performance on 40Gbit+ links,
    since in this case there are often two cpus working in tandem :
    
     - CPU handling the NIC rx interrupts, feeding the receive queue,
      and (after this patch) freeing the skbs that were consumed.
    
     - CPU in recvmsg() system call, essentially 100 % busy copying out
      data to user space.
    
    Having at most one skb in a per-socket cache has very little risk
    of memory exhaustion, and since it is protected by socket lock,
    its management is essentially free.
    
    Note that if rps/rfs is used, we do not enable this feature, because
    there is high chance that the same cpu is handling both the recvmsg()
    system call and the TCP rx path, but that another cpu did the skb
    allocations in the device driver right before the RPS/RFS logic.
    
    To properly handle this case, it seems we would need to record
    on which cpu skb was allocated, and use a different channel
    to give skbs back to this cpu.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarSoheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarWillem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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