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tcp: remove prequeue support

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prequeue is a tcp receive optimization that moves part of rx processing
from bh to process context.

This only works if the socket being processed belongs to a process that
is blocked in recv on that socket.

In practice, this doesn't happen anymore that often because nowadays
servers tend to use an event driven (epoll) model.

Even normal client applications (web browsers) commonly use many tcp
connections in parallel.

This has measureable impact only in netperf (which uses plain recv and
thus allows prequeue use) from host to locally running vm (~4%), however,
there were no changes when using netperf between two physical hosts with
ixgbe interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Florian Westphal
2017-07-30 03:57:18 +02:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 764646b08d
commit e7942d0633
8 changed files with 2 additions and 262 deletions
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@@ -1244,17 +1244,6 @@ static inline bool tcp_checksum_complete(struct sk_buff *skb)
__tcp_checksum_complete(skb);
}
/* Prequeue for VJ style copy to user, combined with checksumming. */
static inline void tcp_prequeue_init(struct tcp_sock *tp)
{
tp->ucopy.task = NULL;
tp->ucopy.len = 0;
tp->ucopy.memory = 0;
skb_queue_head_init(&tp->ucopy.prequeue);
}
bool tcp_prequeue(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb);
bool tcp_add_backlog(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb);
int tcp_filter(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb);