[Patch v2 3/3] net: Restrict receive packets queuing to housekeeping CPUs

From: Nitesh Narayan Lal
Date: Mon Jun 22 2020 - 19:47:16 EST


From: Alex Belits <abelits@xxxxxxxxxxx>

With the existing implementation of store_rps_map(), packets are queued
in the receive path on the backlog queues of other CPUs irrespective of
whether they are isolated or not. This could add a latency overhead to
any RT workload that is running on the same CPU.

Ensure that store_rps_map() only uses available housekeeping CPUs for
storing the rps_map.

Signed-off-by: Alex Belits <abelits@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/net-sysfs.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index e353b822bb15..16e433287191 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
#include <linux/if_arp.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/sched/signal.h>
+#include <linux/sched/isolation.h>
#include <linux/nsproxy.h>
#include <net/sock.h>
#include <net/net_namespace.h>
@@ -741,7 +742,7 @@ static ssize_t store_rps_map(struct netdev_rx_queue *queue,
{
struct rps_map *old_map, *map;
cpumask_var_t mask;
- int err, cpu, i;
+ int err, cpu, i, hk_flags;
static DEFINE_MUTEX(rps_map_mutex);

if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
@@ -756,6 +757,13 @@ static ssize_t store_rps_map(struct netdev_rx_queue *queue,
return err;
}

+ hk_flags = HK_FLAG_DOMAIN | HK_FLAG_WQ;
+ cpumask_and(mask, mask, housekeeping_cpumask(hk_flags));
+ if (cpumask_weight(mask) == 0) {
+ free_cpumask_var(mask);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
map = kzalloc(max_t(unsigned int,
RPS_MAP_SIZE(cpumask_weight(mask)), L1_CACHE_BYTES),
GFP_KERNEL);
--
2.18.4