tree 5cee646dfe354803f0b6f7b9ddd11c189c4ee8e3
parent e1a5964f0c32a75b17360cfc565d25aaedbff747
author Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> 1285761230 +0000
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1285894770 -0700

ipv4: __mkroute_output() speedup

While doing stress tests with a disabled IP route cache, I found
__mkroute_output() was touching three times in_device atomic refcount.

Use RCU to touch it once to reduce cache line ping pongs.

Before patch

time to perform the test
real	1m42.009s
user	0m12.545s
sys	25m0.726s

Profile :

16109.00 26.4% ip_route_output_slow   vmlinux
 7434.00 12.2% dst_destroy            vmlinux
 3280.00  5.4% fib_rules_lookup       vmlinux
 3252.00  5.3% fib_semantic_match     vmlinux
 2622.00  4.3% fib_table_lookup       vmlinux
 2535.00  4.1% dst_alloc              vmlinux
 1750.00  2.9% _raw_read_lock         vmlinux
 1532.00  2.5% rt_set_nexthop         vmlinux

After patch

real	1m36.503s
user	0m12.977s
sys	23m25.608s

14234.00 22.4% ip_route_output_slow   vmlinux
 8717.00 13.7% dst_destroy            vmlinux
 4052.00  6.4% fib_rules_lookup       vmlinux
 3951.00  6.2% fib_semantic_match     vmlinux
 3191.00  5.0% dst_alloc              vmlinux
 1764.00  2.8% fib_table_lookup       vmlinux
 1692.00  2.7% _raw_read_lock         vmlinux
 1605.00  2.5% rt_set_nexthop         vmlinux

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>