Eric Dumazet 5640f76858 net: use a per task frag allocator ... We currently use a per socket order-0 page cache for tcp_sendmsg() operations. This page is used to build fragments for skbs. Its done to increase probability of coalescing small write() into single segments in skbs still in write queue (not yet sent) But it wastes a lot of memory for applications handling many mostly idle sockets, since each socket holds one page in sk->sk_sndmsg_page Its also quite inefficient to build TSO 64KB packets, because we need about 16 pages per skb on arches where PAGE_SIZE = 4096, so we hit page allocator more than wanted. This patch adds a per task frag allocator and uses bigger pages, if available. An automatic fallback is done in case of memory pressure. (up to 32768 bytes per frag, thats order-3 pages on x86) This increases TCP stream performance by 20% on loopback device, but also benefits on other network devices, since 8x less frags are mapped on transmit and unmapped on tx completion. Alexander Duyck mentioned a probable performance win on systems with IOMMU enabled. Its possible some SG enabled hardware cant cope with bigger fragments, but their ndo_start_xmit() should already handle this, splitting a fragment in sub fragments, since some arches have PAGE_SIZE=65536 Successfully tested on various ethernet devices. (ixgbe, igb, bnx2x, tg3, mellanox mlx4) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Cc: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>		2012-09-24 16:31:37 -04:00
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act_api.c	netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion	2012-09-10 15:30:41 -04:00
act_csum.c
act_gact.c
act_ipt.c
act_mirred.c
act_nat.c
act_pedit.c
act_police.c
act_simple.c
act_skbedit.c
cls_api.c	netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion	2012-09-10 15:30:41 -04:00
cls_basic.c
cls_cgroup.c
cls_flow.c
cls_fw.c
cls_route.c
cls_rsvp.c
cls_rsvp.h
cls_rsvp6.c
cls_tcindex.c
cls_u32.c
em_canid.c
em_cmp.c
em_ipset.c
em_meta.c	net: use a per task frag allocator	2012-09-24 16:31:37 -04:00
em_nbyte.c
em_text.c
em_u32.c
ematch.c
Kconfig
Makefile
sch_api.c	netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion	2012-09-10 15:30:41 -04:00
sch_atm.c
sch_blackhole.c
sch_cbq.c	net-sched: sch_cbq: avoid infinite loop	2012-09-11 22:20:43 -04:00
sch_choke.c
sch_codel.c
sch_drr.c
sch_dsmark.c
sch_fifo.c
sch_fq_codel.c
sch_generic.c
sch_gred.c	net_sched: gred: actually perform idling in WRED mode	2012-09-13 16:10:13 -04:00
sch_hfsc.c
sch_htb.c
sch_ingress.c
sch_mq.c
sch_mqprio.c
sch_multiq.c
sch_netem.c
sch_plug.c
sch_prio.c
sch_qfq.c
sch_red.c
sch_sfb.c
sch_sfq.c
sch_tbf.c
sch_teql.c