On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 15:21 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Zhang, Yanmin a écrit :
> > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 07:05 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >
> >> Zhang, Yanmin a �crit :
> >>
> >>> Comparing with kernel 2.6.24, tbench result has regression with
> >>> 2.6.25-rc1.
> >>>
> >>> 1) On 2 quad-core processor stoakley: 4%.
> >>> 2) On 4 quad-core processor tigerton: more than 30%.
> >>>
> >>> bisect located below patch.
> >>>
> >>> b4ce92775c2e7ff9cf79cca4e0a19c8c5fd6287b is first bad commit
> >>> commit b4ce92775c2e7ff9cf79cca4e0a19c8c5fd6287b
> >>> Author: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>> Date: Tue Nov 13 21:33:32 2007 -0800
> >>>
> >>> [IPV6]: Move nfheader_len into rt6_info
> >>>
> >>> The dst member nfheader_len is only used by IPv6. It's also currently
> >>> creating a rather ugly alignment hole in struct dst. Therefore this
> >>> patch
> >>> moves it from there into struct rt6_info.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> As tbench uses ipv4, so the patch's real impact on ipv4 is it deletes
> >>> nfheader_len in dst_entry. It might change cache line alignment.
> >>>
> >>> To verify my finding, I just added nfheader_len back to dst_entry in
> >>> 2.6.25-rc1
> >>> and reran tbench on the 2 machines. Performance could be recovered
> >>> completely.
> >>>
> >>> I started cpu_number*2 tbench processes. On my 16-core tigerton:
> >>> #./tbench_srv &
> >>> #./tbench 32 127.0.0.1
> >>>
> >>> -yanmin
> >>>
> >> Yup. struct dst is sensitive to alignements, especially for benches.
> >>
> >> In the real world, we need to make sure that next pointer start at a cache
> >> line bondary (or a litle bit after), so that RT cache lookups use one
> >> cache
> >> line per entry instead of two. This permits better behavior in DDOS
> >> attacks.
> >>
> >> (check commit 1e19e02ca0c5e33ea73a25127dbe6c3b8fcaac4b for reference)
> >>
> >> Are you using a 64 or a 32 bit kernel ?
> >>
> > 64bit x86-64 machine. On another 4-way Madison Itanium machine, tbench has
> > the
> > similiar regression.
> >
> >
>
> On linux-2.6.25-rc1 x86_64 :
>
> offsetof(struct dst_entry, lastuse)=0xb0
> offsetof(struct dst_entry, __refcnt)=0xb8
> offsetof(struct dst_entry, __use)=0xbc
> offsetof(struct dst_entry, next)=0xc0
>
> So it should be optimal... I dont know why tbench prefers __refcnt being
> on 0xc0, since in this case lastuse will be on a different cache line...
>
> Each incoming IP packet will need to change lastuse, __refcnt and __use,
> so keeping them in the same cache line is a win.
>
> I suspect then that even this patch could help tbench, since it avoids
> writing lastuse...
>
> diff --git a/include/net/dst.h b/include/net/dst.h
> index e3ac7d0..24d3c4e 100644
> --- a/include/net/dst.h
> +++ b/include/net/dst.h
> @@ -147,7 +147,8 @@ static inline void dst_use(struct dst_entry *dst,
> unsigned long time)
> {
> dst_hold(dst);
> dst->__use++;
> - dst->lastuse = time;
> + if (time != dst->lastuse)
> + dst->lastuse = time;
> }
I did a quick test and this patch doesn't help tbench.
Thanks,
-yanmin
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