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Commit 217f6974 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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net: busy-poll: allow preemption in sk_busy_loop()



After commit 4cd13c21 ("softirq: Let ksoftirqd do its job"),
sk_busy_loop() needs a bit of care :
softirqs might be delayed since we do not allow preemption yet.

This patch adds preemptiom points in sk_busy_loop(),
and makes sure no unnecessary cache line dirtying
or atomic operations are done while looping.

A new flag is added into napi->state : NAPI_STATE_IN_BUSY_POLL

This prevents napi_complete_done() from clearing NAPIF_STATE_SCHED,
so that sk_busy_loop() does not have to grab it again.

Similarly, netpoll_poll_lock() is done one time.

This gives about 10 to 20 % improvement in various busy polling
tests, especially when many threads are busy polling in
configurations with large number of NIC queues.

This should allow experimenting with bigger delays without
hurting overall latencies.

Tested:
 On a 40Gb mlx4 NIC, 32 RX/TX queues.

 echo 70 >/proc/sys/net/core/busy_read
 for i in `seq 1 40`; do echo -n $i: ; ./super_netperf $i -H lpaa24 -t UDP_RR -- -N -n; done

    Before:      After:
 1:   90072   92819
 2:  157289  184007
 3:  235772  213504
 4:  344074  357513
 5:  394755  458267
 6:  461151  487819
 7:  549116  625963
 8:  544423  716219
 9:  720460  738446
10:  794686  837612
11:  915998  923960
12:  937507  925107
13: 1019677  971506
14: 1046831 1113650
15: 1114154 1148902
16: 1105221 1179263
17: 1266552 1299585
18: 1258454 1383817
19: 1341453 1312194
20: 1363557 1488487
21: 1387979 1501004
22: 1417552 1601683
23: 1550049 1642002
24: 1568876 1601915
25: 1560239 1683607
26: 1640207 1745211
27: 1706540 1723574
28: 1638518 1722036
29: 1734309 1757447
30: 1782007 1855436
31: 1724806 1888539
32: 1717716 1944297
33: 1778716 1869118
34: 1805738 1983466
35: 1815694 2020758
36: 1893059 2035632
37: 1843406 2034653
38: 1888830 2086580
39: 1972827 2143567
40: 1877729 2181851

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Cc: Adam Belay <abelay@google.com>
Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Cc: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@cavium.com>
Cc: Ariel Elior <ariel.elior@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 2874aa2e
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