On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 03:25:35AM +0000, Chris Mi wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Simon Horman [mailto:simon.hor...@netronome.com]
> > Sent: Monday, August 28, 2017 7:37 PM
> > To: Chris Mi <chr...@mellanox.com>
> > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; j...@mojatatu.com;
> > xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com; j...@resnulli.us; da...@davemloft.net;
> > mawil...@microsoft.com
> > Subject: Re: [patch net-next 2/3] net/sched: Change cls_flower to use IDR
> > 
> > On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 02:41:16AM -0400, Chris Mi wrote:
> > > Currently, all filters with the same priority are linked in a doubly
> > > linked list. Every filter should have a unique handle. To make the
> > > handle unique, we need to iterate the list every time to see if the
> > > handle exists or not when inserting a new filter. It is time-consuming.
> > > For example, it takes about 5m3.169s to insert 64K rules.
> > >
> > > This patch changes cls_flower to use IDR. With this patch, it takes
> > > about 0m1.127s to insert 64K rules. The improvement is huge.
> > 
> > Very nice :)
> > 
> > > But please note that in this testing, all filters share the same action.
> > > If every filter has a unique action, that is another bottleneck.
> > > Follow-up patch in this patchset addresses that.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Chris Mi <chr...@mellanox.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com>
> > > ---
> > >  net/sched/cls_flower.c | 55
> > > +++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
> > >  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/net/sched/cls_flower.c b/net/sched/cls_flower.c index
> > > bd9dab4..3d041d2 100644
> > > --- a/net/sched/cls_flower.c
> > > +++ b/net/sched/cls_flower.c
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > > @@ -890,6 +870,7 @@ static int fl_change(struct net *net, struct sk_buff
> > *in_skb,
> > >   struct cls_fl_filter *fnew;
> > >   struct nlattr **tb;
> > >   struct fl_flow_mask mask = {};
> > > + unsigned long idr_index;
> > >   int err;
> > >
> > >   if (!tca[TCA_OPTIONS])
> > > @@ -920,13 +901,21 @@ static int fl_change(struct net *net, struct sk_buff
> > *in_skb,
> > >           goto errout;
> > >
> > >   if (!handle) {
> > > -         handle = fl_grab_new_handle(tp, head);
> > > -         if (!handle) {
> > > -                 err = -EINVAL;
> > > +         err = idr_alloc_ext(&head->handle_idr, fnew, &idr_index,
> > > +                             1, 0x80000000, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > +         if (err)
> > >                   goto errout;
> > > -         }
> > > +         fnew->handle = idr_index;
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + /* user specifies a handle and it doesn't exist */
> > > + if (handle && !fold) {
> > > +         err = idr_alloc_ext(&head->handle_idr, fnew, &idr_index,
> > > +                             handle, handle + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > +         if (err)
> > > +                 goto errout;
> > > +         fnew->handle = idr_index;
> > >   }
> > > - fnew->handle = handle;
> > >
> > >   if (tb[TCA_FLOWER_FLAGS]) {
> > >           fnew->flags = nla_get_u32(tb[TCA_FLOWER_FLAGS]);
> > > @@ -980,6 +969,8 @@ static int fl_change(struct net *net, struct sk_buff
> > *in_skb,
> > >   *arg = fnew;
> > >
> > >   if (fold) {
> > > +         fnew->handle = handle;
> > 
> > Can it be the case that fold is non-NULL and handle is zero?
> > The handling of that case seem to have changed in this patch.
> I don't think that could happen.  In function tc_ctl_tfilter(),
> 
> fl_get() will be called.  If handle is zero, fl_get() will return NULL.
> That means fold is NULL.

Thanks for the explanation, I see that now.

> > > +         idr_replace_ext(&head->handle_idr, fnew, fnew->handle);
> > >           list_replace_rcu(&fold->list, &fnew->list);
> > >           tcf_unbind_filter(tp, &fold->res);
> > >           call_rcu(&fold->rcu, fl_destroy_filter);

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