>From linux-3.7, (commit 5640f76858 "net: use a per task frag
allocator") TCP sendmsg() has preferred using order-3 allocations.
While it gives good results for most cases, we had reports
that heavy uses of TCP over loopback were hitting a spinlock
contention in page allocations/freeing.
This commits adds a sysctl so that admins can opt-in
for order-0 allocations. Hopefully mm layer might optimize
order-3 allocations in the future since it could give us
a nice boost (see 8 lines of following benchmark)
The following benchmark shows a win when more than 8 TCP_STREAM
threads are running (56 x86 cores server in my tests)
for thr in {1..30}
do
sysctl -wq net.core.high_order_alloc_disable=0
T0=`./super_netperf $thr -H 127.0.0.1 -l 15`
sysctl -wq net.core.high_order_alloc_disable=1
T1=`./super_netperf $thr -H 127.0.0.1 -l 15`
echo $thr:$T0:$T1
done
1: 49979: 37267
2: 98745: 76286
3: 141088: 110051
4: 177414: 144772
5: 197587: 173563
6: 215377: 208448
7: 241061: 234087
8: 267155: 263373
9: 295069: 297402
10: 312393: 335213
11: 340462: 368778
12: 371366: 403954
13: 412344: 443713
14: 426617: 473580
15: 474418: 507861
16: 503261: 538539
17: 522331: 563096
18: 532409: 567084
19: 550824: 605240
20: 525493: 641988
21: 564574: 665843
22: 567349: 690868
23: 583846: 710917
24: 588715: 736306
25: 603212: 763494
26: 604083: 792654
27: 602241: 796450
28: 604291: 797993
29: 611610: 833249
30: 577356: 841062
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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