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Commit 3176eb82 authored by Jesper Dangaard Brouer's avatar Jesper Dangaard Brouer Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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net: avoid irqsave in skb_defer_free_flush

The spin_lock irqsave/restore API variant in skb_defer_free_flush can
be replaced with the faster spin_lock irq variant, which doesn't need
to read and restore the CPU flags.

Using the unconditional irq "disable/enable" API variant is safe,
because the skb_defer_free_flush() function is only called during
NAPI-RX processing in net_rx_action(), where it is known the IRQs
are enabled.

Expected gain is 14 cycles from avoiding reading and restoring CPU
flags in a spin_lock_irqsave/restore operation, measured via a
microbencmark kernel module[1] on CPU E5-1650 v4 @ 3.60GHz.

Microbenchmark overhead of spin_lock+unlock:
 - spin_lock_unlock_irq     cost: 34 cycles(tsc)  9.486 ns
 - spin_lock_unlock_irqsave cost: 48 cycles(tsc) 13.567 ns

We don't expect to see a measurable packet performance gain, as
skb_defer_free_flush() is called infrequently once per NIC device NAPI
bulk cycle and conditionally only if SKBs have been deferred by other
CPUs via skb_attempt_defer_free().

[1] https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/blob/master/kernel/lib/time_bench_sample.c



Reviewed-by: default avatarJacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/167421646327.1321776.7390743166998776914.stgit@firesoul


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 695a376b
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