Commit caacf05e5ad1abf causes big drop of UDP loop back performance.
The cause of the regression is that we do not cache the local output
routes. Each time we send a datagram from unconnected UDP socket,
the kernel allocates a dst_entry and adds it to the rt_uncached_list.
It creates lock contention on the rt_uncached_lock.
Reported-by: Alex Shi <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <redacted>
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diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index e4ba974..fd9ecb5 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -2028,7 +2028,6 @@ struct rtable *__ip_route_output_key(struct net *net, struct flowi4 *fl4)
}
dev_out = net->loopback_dev;
fl4->flowi4_oif = dev_out->ifindex;
- res.fi = NULL;
flags |= RTCF_LOCAL;
goto make_route;
}