Re: DNS (?) not working on G5 (64-bit powerpc) (was [net-next,v3,3/3] udp: try to avoid 2 cache miss on dequeue)

On Thu, 2017-06-22 at 23:06 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:

Paolo wrote:

quoted

when udp_recvmsg() is executed, on x86_64 and other archs, most skb
fields are on cold cachelines.
If the skb are linear and the kernel don't need to compute the udp
csum, only a handful of skb fields are required by udp_recvmsg().
Since we already use skb->dev_scratch to cache hot data, and
there are 32 bits unused on 64 bit archs, use such field to cache
as much data as we can, and try to prefetch on dequeue the relevant
fields that are left out.

This can save up to 2 cache miss per packet.

v1 -> v2:
  - changed udp_dev_scratch fields types to u{32,16} variant,
    replaced bitfiled with bool

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
 net/ipv4/udp.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 103 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

This appears to break wget on one of my machines.

Networking in general is working, I'm able to SSH in, but then I can't
do a wget.

Can you please check if the following patch fixes the issue? Only
compiled tested here.

Thanks!!!
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diff --git a/net/ipv4/udp.c b/net/ipv4/udp.c
index 067a607..80d89fe 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/udp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/udp.c

@@ -1446,16 +1446,19 @@ static struct sk_buff *__first_packet_length(struct sock *sk,

 {
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 
-	while ((skb = skb_peek(rcvq)) != NULL &&
-	       udp_lib_checksum_complete(skb)) {
-		__UDP_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), UDP_MIB_CSUMERRORS,
-				IS_UDPLITE(sk));
-		__UDP_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), UDP_MIB_INERRORS,
-				IS_UDPLITE(sk));
-		atomic_inc(&sk->sk_drops);
-		__skb_unlink(skb, rcvq);
-		*total += skb->truesize;
-		kfree_skb(skb);
+	while ((skb = skb_peek(rcvq)) != NULL) {
+		if (udp_lib_checksum_complete(skb)) {
+			__UDP_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), UDP_MIB_CSUMERRORS,
+					IS_UDPLITE(sk));
+			__UDP_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), UDP_MIB_INERRORS,
+					IS_UDPLITE(sk));
+			atomic_inc(&sk->sk_drops);
+			__skb_unlink(skb, rcvq);
+			*total += skb->truesize;
+			kfree_skb(skb);
+		} else {
+			udp_set_dev_scratch(skb);
+		}
 	}
 	return skb;
 }