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udp: use a separate rx queue for packet reception

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under udp flood the sk_receive_queue spinlock is heavily contended.
This patch try to reduce the contention on such lock adding a
second receive queue to the udp sockets; recvmsg() looks first
in such queue and, only if empty, tries to fetch the data from
sk_receive_queue. The latter is spliced into the newly added
queue every time the receive path has to acquire the
sk_receive_queue lock.

The accounting of forward allocated memory is still protected with
the sk_receive_queue lock, so udp_rmem_release() needs to acquire
both locks when the forward deficit is flushed.

On specific scenarios we can end up acquiring and releasing the
sk_receive_queue lock multiple times; that will be covered by
the next patch

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Paolo Abeni
2017-05-16 11:20:14 +02:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 65101aeca5
commit 2276f58ac5
5 changed files with 131 additions and 24 deletions
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include/net/udplite.h
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@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ static __inline__ int udplite_getfrag(void *from, char *to, int offset,
/* Designate sk as UDP-Lite socket */
static inline int udplite_sk_init(struct sock *sk)
{
udp_init_sock(sk);
udp_sk(sk)->pcflag = UDPLITE_BIT;
sk->sk_destruct = udp_destruct_sock;
return 0;
}