Re: [patch 0/3] net, refcount: Address dst_entry reference count scalability issues

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Mar 01 2023 - 05:40:32 EST


On Tue, Feb 28 2023 at 19:17, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> FWIW looks good to me, especially the refcount part.
> We do see 10% of jitter in microbenchmarks due to random cache
> effects, so forgive the questioning.

Yes, those things are hard to measure.

> But again, the refcount seems like an obvious win to my noob eyes.
>
> While I have you it would be remiss of me not to mention my ksoftirq
> change which makes a large difference in production workloads:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221222221244.1290833-3-kuba@xxxxxxxxxx/

Let me find this again.

> Is Peter's "rework" of softirq going in for 6.3?

Not that I'm aware of. That had a few loose ends and got lost in space
AFAICT.

Thanks,

tglx