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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2010-10-11 12:16:57 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-10-11 12:16:57 -0400
commit34d101dd6204bd100fc2e6f7b5f9a10f959ce2c9 (patch)
tree77b714a4de7273ec53dac80396b94a2f896cfa95 /net/core/dst.c
parent37f9fc452d138dfc4da2ee1ce5ae85094efc3606 (diff)
neigh: speedup neigh_hh_init()
When a new dst is used to send a frame, neigh_resolve_output() tries to associate an struct hh_cache to this dst, calling neigh_hh_init() with the neigh rwlock write locked. Most of the time, hh_cache is already known and linked into neighbour, so we find it and increment its refcount. This patch changes the logic so that we call neigh_hh_init() with neighbour lock read locked only, so that fast path can be run in parallel by concurrent cpus. This brings part of the speedup we got with commit c7d4426a98a5f (introduce DST_NOCACHE flag) for non cached dsts, even for cached ones, removing one of the contention point that routers hit on multiqueue enabled machines. Further improvements would need to use a seqlock instead of an rwlock to protect neigh->ha[], to not dirty neigh too often and remove two atomic ops. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dst.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dst.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dst.c b/net/core/dst.c
index 6c41b1fac3db..978a1ee1f7d0 100644
--- a/net/core/dst.c
+++ b/net/core/dst.c
@@ -228,8 +228,8 @@ again:
228 child = dst->child; 228 child = dst->child;
229 229
230 dst->hh = NULL; 230 dst->hh = NULL;
231 if (hh && atomic_dec_and_test(&hh->hh_refcnt)) 231 if (hh)
232 kfree(hh); 232 hh_cache_put(hh);
233 233
234 if (neigh) { 234 if (neigh) {
235 dst->neighbour = NULL; 235 dst->neighbour = NULL;