From 79ffef1fe213851f44bfccf037170a140e929f85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:05:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] tcp: avoid wakeups for pure ACK TCP prequeue mechanism purpose is to let incoming packets being processed by the thread currently blocked in tcp_recvmsg(), instead of behalf of the softirq handler, to better adapt flow control on receiver host capacity to schedule the consumer. But in typical request/answer workloads, we send request, then block to receive the answer. And before the actual answer, TCP stack receives the ACK packets acknowledging the request. Processing pure ACK on behalf of the thread blocked in tcp_recvmsg() is a waste of resources, as thread has to immediately sleep again because it got no payload. This patch avoids the extra context switches and scheduler overhead. Before patch : a:~# echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_low_latency a:~# perf stat ./super_netperf 300 -t TCP_RR -l 10 -H 7.7.7.84 -- -r 8k,8k 231676 Performance counter stats for './super_netperf 300 -t TCP_RR -l 10 -H 7.7.7.84 -- -r 8k,8k': 116251.501765 task-clock # 11.369 CPUs utilized 5,025,463 context-switches # 0.043 M/sec 1,074,511 CPU-migrations # 0.009 M/sec 216,923 page-faults # 0.002 M/sec 311,636,972,396 cycles # 2.681 GHz 260,507,138,069 stalled-cycles-frontend # 83.59% frontend cycles idle 155,590,092,840 stalled-cycles-backend # 49.93% backend cycles idle 100,101,255,411 instructions # 0.32 insns per cycle # 2.60 stalled cycles per insn 16,535,930,999 branches # 142.243 M/sec 646,483,591 branch-misses # 3.91% of all branches 10.225482774 seconds time elapsed After patch : a:~# echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_low_latency a:~# perf stat ./super_netperf 300 -t TCP_RR -l 10 -H 7.7.7.84 -- -r 8k,8k 233297 Performance counter stats for './super_netperf 300 -t TCP_RR -l 10 -H 7.7.7.84 -- -r 8k,8k': 91084.870855 task-clock # 8.887 CPUs utilized 2,485,916 context-switches # 0.027 M/sec 815,520 CPU-migrations # 0.009 M/sec 216,932 page-faults # 0.002 M/sec 245,195,022,629 cycles # 2.692 GHz 202,635,777,041 stalled-cycles-frontend # 82.64% frontend cycles idle 124,280,372,407 stalled-cycles-backend # 50.69% backend cycles idle 83,457,289,618 instructions # 0.34 insns per cycle # 2.43 stalled cycles per insn 13,431,472,361 branches # 147.461 M/sec 504,470,665 branch-misses # 3.76% of all branches 10.249594448 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Neal Cardwell Cc: Tom Herbert Cc: Yuchung Cheng Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/net/tcp.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h index 23f2e98d4b65..cf0694d4ad60 100644 --- a/include/net/tcp.h +++ b/include/net/tcp.h @@ -1045,6 +1045,10 @@ static inline bool tcp_prequeue(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb) if (sysctl_tcp_low_latency || !tp->ucopy.task) return false; + if (skb->len <= tcp_hdrlen(skb) && + skb_queue_len(&tp->ucopy.prequeue) == 0) + return false; + __skb_queue_tail(&tp->ucopy.prequeue, skb); tp->ucopy.memory += skb->truesize; if (tp->ucopy.memory > sk->sk_rcvbuf) { -- 2.20.1