| Message ID | 49F3308B.1030507@cosmosbay.com |
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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:47:23 +0200 > (All threads waiting on a socket are using same sk_sleep anchor) Great stuff Eric. We've discussed splitting the wait queue up before, but shorter-term your idea is pretty cool too :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:47:23 +0200 > In 2.6.25 we added UDP mem accounting. > > This unfortunatly added a penalty when a frame is transmitted, since > we have at TX completion time to call sock_wfree() to perform necessary > memory accounting. This calls sock_def_write_space() and utimately > scheduler if any thread is waiting on the socket. > Thread(s) waiting for an incoming frame was scheduled, then had to sleep > again as event was meaningless. ... > This patch introduces new DEFINE_WAIT_FUNC() helper and uses it > in wait_for_packet(), so that only relevant event can wakeup a thread > blocked in this function. Ok, I was going to give some time towards considering the alternative implementation of using 2 wait queues and what it would look like. It didn't take long for me to figure out that this is so much simpler that it's not even worth trying the dual wait queue approach. So I've applied this to net-2.6, thanks! Now, if we want to fix this up in -stable we'll need to scratch our heads if we can't get the keyed wakeup patch in too. :-/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
diff --git a/include/linux/wait.h b/include/linux/wait.h index 5d631c1..bc02463 100644 --- a/include/linux/wait.h +++ b/include/linux/wait.h @@ -440,13 +440,15 @@ void abort_exclusive_wait(wait_queue_head_t *q, wait_queue_t *wait, int autoremove_wake_function(wait_queue_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, void *key); int wake_bit_function(wait_queue_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, void *key); -#define DEFINE_WAIT(name) \ +#define DEFINE_WAIT_FUNC(name, function) \ wait_queue_t name = { \ .private = current, \ - .func = autoremove_wake_function, \ + .func = function, \ .task_list = LIST_HEAD_INIT((name).task_list), \ } +#define DEFINE_WAIT(name) DEFINE_WAIT_FUNC(name, autoremove_wake_function) + #define DEFINE_WAIT_BIT(name, word, bit) \ struct wait_bit_queue name = { \ .key = __WAIT_BIT_KEY_INITIALIZER(word, bit), \ diff --git a/net/core/datagram.c b/net/core/datagram.c index d0de644..b7960a3 100644 --- a/net/core/datagram.c +++ b/net/core/datagram.c @@ -64,13 +64,25 @@ static inline int connection_based(struct sock *sk) return sk->sk_type == SOCK_SEQPACKET || sk->sk_type == SOCK_STREAM; } +static int receiver_wake_function(wait_queue_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, + void *key) +{ + unsigned long bits = (unsigned long)key; + + /* + * Avoid a wakeup if event not interesting for us + */ + if (bits && !(bits & (POLLIN | POLLERR))) + return 0; + return autoremove_wake_function(wait, mode, sync, key); +} /* * Wait for a packet.. */ static int wait_for_packet(struct sock *sk, int *err, long *timeo_p) { int error; - DEFINE_WAIT(wait); + DEFINE_WAIT_FUNC(wait, receiver_wake_function); prepare_to_wait_exclusive(sk->sk_sleep, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
In 2.6.25 we added UDP mem accounting. This unfortunatly added a penalty when a frame is transmitted, since we have at TX completion time to call sock_wfree() to perform necessary memory accounting. This calls sock_def_write_space() and utimately scheduler if any thread is waiting on the socket. Thread(s) waiting for an incoming frame was scheduled, then had to sleep again as event was meaningless. (All threads waiting on a socket are using same sk_sleep anchor) This adds lot of extra wakeups and increases latencies, as noted by Christoph Lameter, and slows down softirq handler. Reference : http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=124060437012283&w=2 Fortunatly, Davide Libenzi recently added concept of keyed wakeups into kernel, and particularly for sockets (see commit 37e5540b3c9d838eb20f2ca8ea2eb8072271e403 epoll keyed wakeups: make sockets use keyed wakeups) Davide goal was to optimize epoll, but this new wakeup infrastructure can help non epoll users as well, if they care to setup an appropriate handler. This patch introduces new DEFINE_WAIT_FUNC() helper and uses it in wait_for_packet(), so that only relevant event can wakeup a thread blocked in this function. Trace of function calls from bnx2 TX completion bnx2_poll_work() is : __kfree_skb() skb_release_head_state() sock_wfree() sock_def_write_space() __wake_up_sync_key() __wake_up_common() receiver_wake_function() : Stops here since thread is waiting for an INPUT Reported-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> --- include/linux/wait.h | 6 ++++-- net/core/datagram.c | 14 +++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html