net: ip_rt_send_redirect() optimization
authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:52:01 +0000 (23:52 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:52:01 +0000 (23:52 -0700)
While doing some forwarding benchmarks, I noticed
ip_rt_send_redirect() is rather expensive, even if send_redirects is
false for the device.

Fix is to avoid two atomic ops, we dont really need to take a
reference on in_dev

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv4/route.c

index fafbe163e2b55381e9e85b78db3e880942f09d42..91867d3e632824c2da1f21718001198ced5a3da0 100644 (file)
@@ -1514,13 +1514,17 @@ static struct dst_entry *ipv4_negative_advice(struct dst_entry *dst)
 void ip_rt_send_redirect(struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
        struct rtable *rt = skb_rtable(skb);
-       struct in_device *in_dev = in_dev_get(rt->u.dst.dev);
+       struct in_device *in_dev;
+       int log_martians;
 
-       if (!in_dev)
+       rcu_read_lock();
+       in_dev = __in_dev_get_rcu(rt->u.dst.dev);
+       if (!in_dev || !IN_DEV_TX_REDIRECTS(in_dev)) {
+               rcu_read_unlock();
                return;
-
-       if (!IN_DEV_TX_REDIRECTS(in_dev))
-               goto out;
+       }
+       log_martians = IN_DEV_LOG_MARTIANS(in_dev);
+       rcu_read_unlock();
 
        /* No redirected packets during ip_rt_redirect_silence;
         * reset the algorithm.
@@ -1533,7 +1537,7 @@ void ip_rt_send_redirect(struct sk_buff *skb)
         */
        if (rt->u.dst.rate_tokens >= ip_rt_redirect_number) {
                rt->u.dst.rate_last = jiffies;
-               goto out;
+               return;
        }
 
        /* Check for load limit; set rate_last to the latest sent
@@ -1547,7 +1551,7 @@ void ip_rt_send_redirect(struct sk_buff *skb)
                rt->u.dst.rate_last = jiffies;
                ++rt->u.dst.rate_tokens;
 #ifdef CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE
-               if (IN_DEV_LOG_MARTIANS(in_dev) &&
+               if (log_martians &&
                    rt->u.dst.rate_tokens == ip_rt_redirect_number &&
                    net_ratelimit())
                        printk(KERN_WARNING "host %pI4/if%d ignores redirects for %pI4 to %pI4.\n",
@@ -1555,8 +1559,6 @@ void ip_rt_send_redirect(struct sk_buff *skb)
                                &rt->rt_dst, &rt->rt_gateway);
 #endif
        }
-out:
-       in_dev_put(in_dev);
 }
 
 static int ip_error(struct sk_buff *skb)