From d71785ffc7e7cae3fbdc4ea8a9d05b7a1c59f7b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Abeni Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:43:57 +0100 Subject: net: add dst_cache to ovs vxlan lwtunnel In case of UDP traffic with datagram length below MTU this give about 2% performance increase when tunneling over ipv4 and about 60% when tunneling over ipv6 Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Suggested-and-acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/dst.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/core') diff --git a/net/core/dst.c b/net/core/dst.c index a1656e3b8d72..b5cbbe07f786 100644 --- a/net/core/dst.c +++ b/net/core/dst.c @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ again: lwtstate_put(dst->lwtstate); if (dst->flags & DST_METADATA) - kfree(dst); + metadata_dst_free((struct metadata_dst *)dst); else kmem_cache_free(dst->ops->kmem_cachep, dst); @@ -395,6 +395,14 @@ struct metadata_dst *metadata_dst_alloc(u8 optslen, gfp_t flags) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(metadata_dst_alloc); +void metadata_dst_free(struct metadata_dst *md_dst) +{ +#ifdef CONFIG_DST_CACHE + dst_cache_destroy(&md_dst->u.tun_info.dst_cache); +#endif + kfree(md_dst); +} + struct metadata_dst __percpu *metadata_dst_alloc_percpu(u8 optslen, gfp_t flags) { int cpu; -- cgit v1.2.3