Merge branch 'Implement-classifier-action-terse-dump-mode'
Vlad Buslov says: ==================== Implement classifier-action terse dump mode Output rate of current upstream kernel TC filter dump implementation if relatively low (~100k rules/sec depending on configuration). This constraint impacts performance of software switch implementation that rely on TC for their datapath implementation and periodically call TC filter dump to update rules stats. Moreover, TC filter dump output a lot of static data that don't change during the filter lifecycle (filter key, specific action details, etc.) which constitutes significant portion of payload on resulting netlink packets and increases amount of syscalls necessary to dump all filters on particular Qdisc. In order to significantly improve filter dump rate this patch sets implement new mode of TC filter dump operation named "terse dump" mode. In this mode only parameters necessary to identify the filter (handle, action cookie, etc.) and data that can change during filter lifecycle (filter flags, action stats, etc.) are preserved in dump output while everything else is omitted. Userspace API is implemented using new TCA_DUMP_FLAGS tlv with only available flag value TCA_DUMP_FLAGS_TERSE. Internally, new API requires individual classifier support (new tcf_proto_ops->terse_dump() callback). Support for action terse dump is implemented in act API and don't require changing individual action implementations. The following table provides performance comparison between regular filter dump and new terse dump mode for two classifier-action profiles: one minimal config with L2 flower classifier and single gact action and another heavier config with L2+5tuple flower classifier with tunnel_key+mirred actions. Classifier-action type | dump | terse dump | X improvement | (rules/sec) | (rules/sec) | -----------------------------+-------------+-------------+--------------- L2 with gact | 141.8 | 293.2 | 2.07 L2+5tuple tunnel_key+mirred | 76.4 | 198.8 | 2.60 Benchmark details: to measure the rate tc filter dump and terse dump commands are invoked on ingress Qdisc that have one million filters configured using following commands. > time sudo tc -s filter show dev ens1f0 ingress >/dev/null > time sudo tc -s filter show terse dev ens1f0 ingress >/dev/null Value in results table is calculated by dividing 1000000 total rules by "real" time reported by time command. Setup details: 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz, 32GB memory ==================== Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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