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Analyzed a few structs in the networking stack by looking at variables within them that are used in the TCP/IP fast path. Fast path is defined as TCP path where data is transferred from sender to receiver unidirectionally. It doesn't include phases other than TCP_ESTABLISHED, nor does it look at error paths. We hope to re-organizing variables that span many cachelines whose fast path variables are also spread out, and this document can help future developers keep networking fast path cachelines small. Optimized_cacheline field is computed as (Fastpath_Bytes/L3_cacheline_size_x86), and not the actual organized results (see patches to come for these). Investigation is done on 6.5 Name Struct_Cachelines Cur_fastpath_cache Fastpath_Bytes Optimized_cacheline tcp_sock 42 (2664 Bytes) 12 396 8 net_device 39 (2240 bytes) 12 234 4 inet_sock 15 (960 bytes) 14 922 14 Inet_connection_sock 22 (1368 bytes) 18 1166 18 Netns_ipv4 (sysctls) 12 (768 bytes) 4 77 2 linux_mib 16 (1060) 6 104 2 Note how there isn't much improvement space for inet_sock and Inet_connection_sock because sk and icsk_inet respectively takes up so much of the struct that rest of the variables become a small portion of the struct size. So, we decided to reorganize tcp_sock, net_device, netns_ipv4 Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Coco Li <lixiaoyan@google.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
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.