[PATCH net v3 1/2] bonding: convert unbalanced_load to per-cpu state

From: Hangbin Liu

Date: Tue Aug 18 2026 - 04:53:35 EST


From: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@xxxxxxxxxx>

A later patch widens the bonding TLB tx counters from u32 to u64. The
unbalanced_load counter sits in the transmit hot path, and cross-CPU
synchronization of a u64 would introduce measurable overhead. Convert
unbalanced_load to a per-cpu counter first so that the subsequent
widening only touches per-cpu data local to each CPU.

Introduce struct unbalanced_load_stats to hold the per-cpu counter,
and move the aggregation into a helper, reset_unbalanced_load(), which
sums and clears all per-cpu instances.

Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++-------
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 9 +++++++++
include/net/bond_alb.h | 6 +++++-
3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c
index 839f7482dc18..d54d834cf72b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c
@@ -1345,7 +1345,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t bond_do_alb_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct bonding *bond,
/* unbalanced or unassigned, send through primary */
tx_slave = rcu_dereference(bond->curr_active_slave);
if (bond->params.tlb_dynamic_lb)
- bond_info->unbalanced_load += skb->len;
+ this_cpu_add(bond_info->unbalanced_load->tx_bytes, skb->len);
}

if (tx_slave && bond_slave_can_tx(tx_slave)) {
@@ -1529,6 +1529,21 @@ netdev_tx_t bond_alb_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *bond_dev)
return bond_do_alb_xmit(skb, bond, tx_slave);
}

+static u32 reset_unbalanced_load(struct alb_bond_info *bond_info)
+{
+ struct unbalanced_load_stats *p;
+ u32 total_bytes = 0;
+ int i;
+
+ for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
+ p = per_cpu_ptr(bond_info->unbalanced_load, i);
+ total_bytes += READ_ONCE(p->tx_bytes);
+ WRITE_ONCE(p->tx_bytes, 0);
+ }
+
+ return total_bytes / BOND_TLB_REBALANCE_INTERVAL;
+}
+
void bond_alb_monitor(struct work_struct *work)
{
struct bonding *bond = container_of(work, struct bonding,
@@ -1570,12 +1585,8 @@ void bond_alb_monitor(struct work_struct *work)
if (atomic_read(&bond_info->tx_rebalance_counter) >= BOND_TLB_REBALANCE_TICKS) {
bond_for_each_slave_rcu(bond, slave, iter) {
tlb_clear_slave(bond, slave, 1);
- if (slave == rcu_access_pointer(bond->curr_active_slave)) {
- SLAVE_TLB_INFO(slave).load =
- bond_info->unbalanced_load /
- BOND_TLB_REBALANCE_INTERVAL;
- bond_info->unbalanced_load = 0;
- }
+ if (slave == rcu_access_pointer(bond->curr_active_slave))
+ SLAVE_TLB_INFO(slave).load = reset_unbalanced_load(bond_info);
}
atomic_set(&bond_info->tx_rebalance_counter, 0);
}
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 522eab060f9e..9fb44e0031c8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -5995,6 +5995,7 @@ static void bond_destructor(struct net_device *bond_dev)
destroy_workqueue(bond->wq);

free_percpu(bond->rr_tx_counter);
+ free_percpu(bond->alb_info.unbalanced_load);
}

void bond_setup(struct net_device *bond_dev)
@@ -6494,6 +6495,10 @@ static int bond_init(struct net_device *bond_dev)
if (!bond->wq)
return -ENOMEM;

+ bond->alb_info.unbalanced_load = alloc_percpu(struct unbalanced_load_stats);
+ if (!bond->alb_info.unbalanced_load)
+ goto wq_out;
+
bond->notifier_ctx = false;

spin_lock_init(&bond->stats_lock);
@@ -6511,6 +6516,10 @@ static int bond_init(struct net_device *bond_dev)
eth_hw_addr_random(bond_dev);

return 0;
+
+wq_out:
+ destroy_workqueue(bond->wq);
+ return -ENOMEM;
}

unsigned int bond_get_num_tx_queues(void)
diff --git a/include/net/bond_alb.h b/include/net/bond_alb.h
index e5945427f38d..3fabf4714dec 100644
--- a/include/net/bond_alb.h
+++ b/include/net/bond_alb.h
@@ -123,9 +123,13 @@ struct tlb_slave_info {
*/
};

+struct unbalanced_load_stats {
+ u32 tx_bytes;
+};
+
struct alb_bond_info {
struct tlb_client_info *tx_hashtbl; /* Dynamically allocated */
- u32 unbalanced_load;
+ struct unbalanced_load_stats __percpu *unbalanced_load;
atomic_t tx_rebalance_counter;
int lp_counter;
/* -------- rlb parameters -------- */

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