On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 2:25 PM Kuniyuki Iwashima [off-list ref] wrote:

From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

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/Me is thinking aloud...

I'm wondering if the above has some measurable negative effect for
large deployments using only the main netns?

Specifically, are net->ipv4.tcp_death_row and net->ipv4.tcp_death_row-

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hashinfo already into the working set data for established socket?

Would the above increase the WSS by 2 cache-lines?

Currently, the death_row and hashinfo are touched around tw sockets or
connect().  If connections on the deployment are short-lived or frequently
initiated by itself, that would be host and included in WSS.

If the workload is server and there's no active-close() socket or
connections are long-lived, then it might not be included in WSS.
But I think it's not likely than the former if the deployment is
large enough.

If this change had large impact, then we could revert fbb8295248e1
which converted net->ipv4.tcp_death_row into pointer for 0dad4087a86a
that tried to fire a TW timer after netns is freed, but 0dad4087a86a
has already reverted.

Concern was fast path.

Each incoming packet does a socket lookup.

Fetching hashinfo (instead of &tcp_hashinfo) with a dereference of a
field in 'struct net' might inccurr a new cache line miss.

Previously, first cache line of tcp_info was enough to bring a lot of
fields in cpu cache.