Re: [PATCH net-next] sock: avoid dirtying sk_stamp, if possible
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2017-03-31 03:29:28
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2017-03-31 03:29:28
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:03:06 +0200
sock_recv_ts_and_drops() unconditionally set sk->sk_stamp for every packet, even if the SOCK_TIMESTAMP flag is not set in the related socket. If selinux is enabled, this cause a cache miss for every packet since sk->sk_stamp and sk->sk_security share the same cacheline. With this change sk_stamp is set only if the SOCK_TIMESTAMP flag is set, and is cleared for the first packet, so that the user perceived behavior is unchanged. This gives up to 5% speed-up under udp-flood with small packets. Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Applied, thanks.