SIT tunnels can benefit from lockless xmits, using NETIF_F_LLTX
Bench on a 16 cpus machine (dual E5540 cpus), 16 threads sending
10000000 UDP frames via one sit tunnel (size:220 bytes per frame)
Before patch :
real 3m15.399s
user 0m9.185s
sys 51m55.403s
75029.00 87.5% _raw_spin_lock vmlinux
1090.00 1.3% dst_release vmlinux
902.00 1.1% dev_queue_xmit vmlinux
627.00 0.7% sock_wfree vmlinux
613.00 0.7% ip6_push_pending_frames ipv6.ko
505.00 0.6% __ip_route_output_key vmlinux
After patch:
real 1m1.387s
user 0m12.489s
sys 15m58.868s
28239.00 23.3% dst_release vmlinux
13570.00 11.2% ip6_push_pending_frames ipv6.ko
13118.00 10.8% ip6_append_data ipv6.ko
7995.00 6.6% __ip_route_output_key vmlinux
7924.00 6.5% sk_dst_check vmlinux
5015.00 4.1% udpv6_sendmsg ipv6.ko
3594.00 3.0% sock_alloc_send_pskb vmlinux
3135.00 2.6% sock_wfree vmlinux
3055.00 2.5% ip6_sk_dst_lookup ipv6.ko
2473.00 2.0% ip_finish_output vmlinux
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>