Patch 1: remove unnecessary seqcount operation. Patch 2: implement TCQ_F_CAN_BYPASS. Patch 3: remove qdisc->empty.
Performance data for pktgen in queue_xmit mode + dummy netdev with pfifo_fast:
threads unpatched patched delta 1 2.60Mpps 3.21Mpps +23% 2 3.84Mpps 5.56Mpps +44% 4 5.52Mpps 5.58Mpps +1% 8 2.77Mpps 2.76Mpps -0.3% 16 2.24Mpps 2.23Mpps +0.4%
Performance for IP forward testing: 1.05Mpps increases to 1.16Mpps, about 10% improvement.
V1: Drop RFC tag, Add nolock_qdisc_is_empty() and do the qdisc empty checking without the protection of qdisc->seqlock to aviod doing unnecessary spin_trylock() for contention case. RFC v4: Use STATE_MISSED and STATE_DRAINING to indicate non-empty qdisc, and add patch 1 and 3.
Yunsheng Lin (3): net: sched: avoid unnecessary seqcount operation for lockless qdisc net: sched: implement TCQ_F_CAN_BYPASS for lockless qdisc net: sched: remove qdisc->empty for lockless qdisc
include/net/sch_generic.h | 31 ++++++++++++++++++------------- net/core/dev.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-- net/sched/sch_generic.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++------- 3 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)