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With RPS inclusion, skb timestamping is not consistent in RX path.

If netif_receive_skb() is used, its deferred after RPS dispatch.

If netif_rx() is used, its done before RPS dispatch.

This can give strange tcpdump timestamps results.

I think timestamping should be done as soon as possible in the receive
path, to get meaningful values (ie timestamps taken at the time packet
was delivered by NIC driver to our stack), even if NAPI already can
defer timestamping a bit (RPS can help to reduce the gap)

Tom Herbert prefer to sample timestamps after RPS dispatch. In case
sampling is expensive (HPET/acpi_pm on x86), this makes sense.

Let admins switch from one mode to another, using a new
sysctl, /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_tstamp_prequeue

Its default value (1), means timestamps are taken as soon as possible,
before backlog queueing, giving accurate timestamps.

Setting a 0 value permits to sample timestamps when processing backlog,
after RPS dispatch, to lower the load of the pre-RPS cpu.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Eric Dumazet 2010-05-15 23:57:10 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent a1aa348304
commit 3b098e2d7c
4 changed files with 49 additions and 19 deletions
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10
Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
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@ -84,6 +84,16 @@ netdev_max_backlog
Maximum number of packets, queued on the INPUT side, when the interface
receives packets faster than kernel can process them.
netdev_tstamp_prequeue
----------------------
If set to 0, RX packet timestamps can be sampled after RPS processing, when
the target CPU processes packets. It might give some delay on timestamps, but
permit to distribute the load on several cpus.
If set to 1 (default), timestamps are sampled as soon as possible, before
queueing.
optmem_max
----------

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include/linux/netdevice.h
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@ -2100,6 +2100,7 @@ extern const struct net_device_stats *dev_get_stats(struct net_device *dev);
extern void dev_txq_stats_fold(const struct net_device *dev, struct net_device_stats *stats);
extern int netdev_max_backlog;
extern int netdev_tstamp_prequeue;
extern int weight_p;
extern int netdev_set_master(struct net_device *dev, struct net_device *master);
extern int skb_checksum_help(struct sk_buff *skb);

50
net/core/dev.c
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@ -1454,7 +1454,7 @@ void net_disable_timestamp(void)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(net_disable_timestamp);
static inline void net_timestamp(struct sk_buff *skb)
static inline void net_timestamp_set(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
if (atomic_read(&netstamp_needed))
__net_timestamp(skb);
@ -1462,6 +1462,12 @@ static inline void net_timestamp(struct sk_buff *skb)
skb->tstamp.tv64 = 0;
}
static inline void net_timestamp_check(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
if (!skb->tstamp.tv64 && atomic_read(&netstamp_needed))
__net_timestamp(skb);
}
/**
* dev_forward_skb - loopback an skb to another netif
*
@ -1508,9 +1514,9 @@ static void dev_queue_xmit_nit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT
if (!(skb->tstamp.tv64 && (G_TC_FROM(skb->tc_verd) & AT_INGRESS)))
net_timestamp(skb);
net_timestamp_set(skb);
#else
net_timestamp(skb);
net_timestamp_set(skb);
#endif
rcu_read_lock();
@ -2201,6 +2207,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_queue_xmit);
=======================================================================*/
int netdev_max_backlog __read_mostly = 1000;
int netdev_tstamp_prequeue __read_mostly = 1;
int netdev_budget __read_mostly = 300;
int weight_p __read_mostly = 64; /* old backlog weight */
@ -2465,8 +2472,8 @@ int netif_rx(struct sk_buff *skb)
if (netpoll_rx(skb))
return NET_RX_DROP;
if (!skb->tstamp.tv64)
net_timestamp(skb);
if (netdev_tstamp_prequeue)
net_timestamp_check(skb);
#ifdef CONFIG_RPS
{
@ -2791,8 +2798,8 @@ static int __netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
int ret = NET_RX_DROP;
__be16 type;
if (!skb->tstamp.tv64)
net_timestamp(skb);
if (!netdev_tstamp_prequeue)
net_timestamp_check(skb);
if (vlan_tx_tag_present(skb) && vlan_hwaccel_do_receive(skb))
return NET_RX_SUCCESS;
@ -2910,23 +2917,28 @@ out:
*/
int netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
if (netdev_tstamp_prequeue)
net_timestamp_check(skb);
#ifdef CONFIG_RPS
struct rps_dev_flow voidflow, *rflow = &voidflow;
int cpu, ret;
{
struct rps_dev_flow voidflow, *rflow = &voidflow;
int cpu, ret;
rcu_read_lock();
rcu_read_lock();
cpu = get_rps_cpu(skb->dev, skb, &rflow);
cpu = get_rps_cpu(skb->dev, skb, &rflow);
if (cpu >= 0) {
ret = enqueue_to_backlog(skb, cpu, &rflow->last_qtail);
rcu_read_unlock();
} else {
rcu_read_unlock();
ret = __netif_receive_skb(skb);
if (cpu >= 0) {
ret = enqueue_to_backlog(skb, cpu, &rflow->last_qtail);
rcu_read_unlock();
} else {
rcu_read_unlock();
ret = __netif_receive_skb(skb);
}
return ret;
}
return ret;
#else
return __netif_receive_skb(skb);
#endif

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net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
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@ -121,6 +121,13 @@ static struct ctl_table net_core_table[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec
},
{
.procname = "netdev_tstamp_prequeue",
.data = &netdev_tstamp_prequeue,
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec
},
{
.procname = "message_cost",
.data = &net_ratelimit_state.interval,