From 28d6427109d13b0f447cba5761f88d3548e83605 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 14:38:47 -0700 Subject: net: attempt high order allocations in sock_alloc_send_pskb() Adding paged frags skbs to af_unix sockets introduced a performance regression on large sends because of additional page allocations, even if each skb could carry at least 100% more payload than before. We can instruct sock_alloc_send_pskb() to attempt high order allocations. Most of the time, it does a single page allocation instead of 8. I added an additional parameter to sock_alloc_send_pskb() to let other users to opt-in for this new feature on followup patches. Tested: Before patch : $ netperf -t STREAM_STREAM STREAM STREAM TEST Recv Send Send Socket Socket Message Elapsed Size Size Size Time Throughput bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec 2304 212992 212992 10.00 46861.15 After patch : $ netperf -t STREAM_STREAM STREAM STREAM TEST Recv Send Send Socket Socket Message Elapsed Size Size Size Time Throughput bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec 2304 212992 212992 10.00 57981.11 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/packet/af_packet.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/packet') diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c index 4cb28a7f639b..6c53dd9f5ccc 100644 --- a/net/packet/af_packet.c +++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c @@ -2181,7 +2181,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *packet_alloc_skb(struct sock *sk, size_t prepad, linear = len; skb = sock_alloc_send_pskb(sk, prepad + linear, len - linear, noblock, - err); + err, 0); if (!skb) return NULL; -- cgit v1.2.3