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Commit 28d64271 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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net: attempt high order allocations in sock_alloc_send_pskb()



Adding paged frags skbs to af_unix sockets introduced a performance
regression on large sends because of additional page allocations, even
if each skb could carry at least 100% more payload than before.

We can instruct sock_alloc_send_pskb() to attempt high order
allocations.

Most of the time, it does a single page allocation instead of 8.

I added an additional parameter to sock_alloc_send_pskb() to
let other users to opt-in for this new feature on followup patches.

Tested:

Before patch :

$ netperf -t STREAM_STREAM
STREAM STREAM TEST
Recv   Send    Send
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/sec

 2304  212992  212992    10.00    46861.15

After patch :

$ netperf -t STREAM_STREAM
STREAM STREAM TEST
Recv   Send    Send
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/sec

 2304  212992  212992    10.00    57981.11

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent e370a723
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