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Wei Wang 0da4af00b2 ipv6: only update __use and lastusetime once per jiffy at most
In order to not dirty the cacheline too often, we try to only update
dst->__use and dst->lastusetime at most once per jiffy.
As dst->lastusetime is only used by ipv6 garbage collector, it should
be good enough time resolution.
And __use is only used in ipv6_route_seq_show() to show how many times a
dst has been used. And as __use is not atomic_t right now, it does not
show the precise number of usage times anyway. So we think it should be
OK to only update it at most once per jiffy.

According to my latest syn flood test on a machine with intel Xeon 6th
gen processor and 2 10G mlx nics bonded together, each with 8 rx queues
on 2 NUMA nodes:
With this patch, the packet process rate increases from ~3.49Mpps to
~3.75Mpps with a 7% increase rate.

Note: dst_use() is being renamed to dst_hold_and_use() to better specify
the purpose of the function.

Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@googl.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-10-16 21:08:30 +01:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-09 20:11:09 -07:00
block bsg-lib: fix use-after-free under memory-pressure 2017-10-04 08:35:04 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - update correct dst SGL entry 2017-09-20 17:42:42 +08:00
Documentation Work continues in various areas: 2017-10-11 10:15:01 -07:00
drivers Merge tag 'mlx5-updates-2017-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mellanox/linux 2017-10-16 05:42:41 +01:00
firmware firmware: Restore support for built-in firmware 2017-09-16 10:58:48 -07:00
fs NFS client bugfixes for Linux 4.14 2017-10-09 10:55:37 -07:00
include ipv6: only update __use and lastusetime once per jiffy at most 2017-10-16 21:08:30 +01:00
init Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:54:01 -07:00
ipc fix a typo in put_compat_shm_info() 2017-09-25 20:41:46 -04:00
kernel bpf: verifier: set reg_type on context accesses in second pass 2017-10-14 11:13:27 -07:00
lib once: switch to new jump label API 2017-10-09 20:26:23 -07:00
mm mm/memory_hotplug: define find_{smallest|biggest}_section_pfn as unsigned long 2017-10-03 17:54:26 -07:00
net ipv6: only update __use and lastusetime once per jiffy at most 2017-10-16 21:08:30 +01:00
samples bpf: Add -target to clang switch while cross compiling. 2017-10-16 21:04:32 +01:00
scripts Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-05 18:19:22 -07:00
security lsm: fix smack_inode_removexattr and xattr_getsecurity memleak 2017-10-04 18:03:15 +11:00
sound sound fixes for 4.14-rc4 2017-10-05 10:39:29 -07:00
tools tc-testing: fix the -l argument bug in tdc.py 2017-10-14 18:47:53 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt Revert "KVM: Don't accept obviously wrong gsi values via KVM_IRQFD" 2017-09-19 08:37:17 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap Update James Hogan's email address 2017-10-04 17:11:53 -07:00
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CREDITS selinux/stable-4.14 PR 20170831 2017-09-12 13:21:00 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade 2010-09-19 22:54:11 -04:00
MAINTAINERS Work continues in various areas: 2017-10-11 10:15:01 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.14-rc4 2017-10-08 20:53:29 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.