Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/10] udp/ipv6 optimisations

[Willem de Bruijn]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 7:36 PM Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Shed some weight from udp/ipv6. Zerocopy benchmarks over dummy showed
> ~5% tx/s improvement, should be similar for small payload non-zc
> cases.
>
> The performance comes from killing 4 atomics and a couple of big struct
> memcpy/memset. 1/10 removes a pair of atomics on dst refcounting for
> cork->skb setup, 9/10 saves another pair on cork init. 5/10 and 8/10
> kill extra 88B memset and memcpy respectively.
>
> v2: add a comment about setting dst early in ip6_setup_cork()
>     drop non-udp patches for now
>     add patch 10
>
> Pavel Begunkov (10):
>   ipv6: optimise dst refcounting on skb init
>   udp6: shuffle up->pending AF_INET bits
>   ipv6: remove daddr temp buffer in __ip6_make_skb
>   ipv6: clean up cork setup/release
>   ipv6: don't zero inet_cork_full::fl after use
>   ipv6: pass full cork into __ip6_append_data()
>   udp6: pass flow in ip6_make_skb together with cork
>   udp6: don't make extra copies of iflow
>   ipv6: optimise dst refcounting on cork init
>   ipv6: partially inline ipv6_fixup_options
>
>  include/net/ipv6.h    |  14 ++++--
>  net/ipv6/exthdrs.c    |   8 ++--
>  net/ipv6/ip6_output.c |  99 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>  net/ipv6/udp.c        | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  4 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-)

For the series:

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx>

Iterative review vs v1, where I only had one small comment, which was
addressed. NB: Due to some subject line changes, it wasn't immediately
clear to me that this was just a range-diff over the first 10 patches
in both series.