net: __alloc_skb() speedup

With following patch I can reach maximum rate of my pktgen+udpsink
simulator :
- 'old' machine : dual quad core E5450  @3.00GHz
- 64 UDP rx flows (only differ by destination port)
- RPS enabled, NIC interrupts serviced on cpu0
- rps dispatched on 7 other cores. (~130.000 IPI per second)
- SLAB allocator (faster than SLUB in this workload)
- tg3 NIC
- 1.080.000 pps without a single drop at NIC level.

Idea is to add two prefetchw() calls in __alloc_skb(), one to prefetch
first sk_buff cache line, the second to prefetch the shinfo part.

Also using one memset() to initialize all skb_shared_info fields instead
of one by one to reduce number of instructions, using long word moves.

All skb_shared_info fields before 'dataref' are cleared in 
__alloc_skb().

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Eric Dumazet
2010-05-05 01:07:37 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 8753d29fd5
commit ec7d2f2cf3
2 changed files with 11 additions and 17 deletions

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@@ -187,7 +187,6 @@ union skb_shared_tx {
* the end of the header data, ie. at skb->end.
*/
struct skb_shared_info {
atomic_t dataref;
unsigned short nr_frags;
unsigned short gso_size;
/* Warning: this field is not always filled in (UFO)! */
@@ -197,6 +196,12 @@ struct skb_shared_info {
union skb_shared_tx tx_flags;
struct sk_buff *frag_list;
struct skb_shared_hwtstamps hwtstamps;
/*
* Warning : all fields before dataref are cleared in __alloc_skb()
*/
atomic_t dataref;
skb_frag_t frags[MAX_SKB_FRAGS];
/* Intermediate layers must ensure that destructor_arg
* remains valid until skb destructor */