[RFCv4 PATCH 0/2] net: Introduce recvmmsg socket syscall
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <hidden>
Date: 2009-09-16 17:08:00
Hi, Nir, can you please test with this patchset and check if latency numbers improved? They should, I think :-) New perf callgraphs here: http://oops.ghostprotocols.net:81/acme/perf.recvmsg.step2.cg.data.txt.bz2 versus http://oops.ghostprotocols.net:81/acme/perf.recvmmsg.step2.cg.data.txt.bz2 Look at what appears now on the radar, its not locking :-) Or course, I need to do more tests, but it looks promising, please give it a go and report back here if you can! - Arnaldo # Samples: 761074 # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ........ ........................ ...... # 6.54% recvmmsg [kernel] [k] skb_set_owner_r | |--99.43%-- sock_queue_rcv_skb | __udp_queue_rcv_skb | sk_backlog_rcv | release_sock | __sys_recvmmsg | sys_recvmmsg | system_call_fastpath | syscall | | | --12.76%-- main | __libc_start_main | --0.57%-- __udp_queue_rcv_skb sk_backlog_rcv release_sock __sys_recvmmsg sys_recvmmsg system_call_fastpath syscall | --10.84%-- main __libc_start_main 5.88% recvmmsg [kernel] [k] _spin_lock_irqsave | |--47.58%-- skb_queue_tail | sock_queue_rcv_skb | __udp_queue_rcv_skb | sk_backlog_rcv | release_sock | __sys_recvmmsg | sys_recvmmsg | system_call_fastpath | syscall | | | --12.56%-- main | __libc_start_main | |--41.85%-- __skb_recv_datagram | __udp_recvmsg | udp_unlocked_recvmsg | sock_common_unlocked_recvmsg | __sock_unlocked_recvmsg_nosec | | | |--98.41%-- sock_unlocked_recvmsg_nosec | | __sys_recvmsg | | __sys_recvmmsg | | sys_recvmmsg | | system_call_fastpath | | syscall | | | | | --12.82%-- main | | __libc_start_main | | | --1.59%-- sock_unlocked_recvmsg | __sys_recvmsg | __sys_recvmmsg | sys_recvmmsg - Arnaldo