Re: [PATCH,RFC] macvlan: Handle broadcasts inline if we have only a few macvlans.

[Cong Wang]

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Lennert Buytenhek
<buyt...@wantstofly.org> wrote:
> Commit 412ca1550cbecb2c ("macvlan: Move broadcasts into a work queue")
> moved processing of all macvlan multicasts into a work queue.  This
> causes a noticable performance regression when there is heavy multicast
> traffic on the underlying interface for multicast groups that the
> macvlan subinterfaces are not members of, in which case we end up
> cloning all those packets and then freeing them again from a work queue
> without really doing any useful work with them in between.

But we only queue up to 1000 packets in our backlog.

How about adding a quick check before cloning it?

diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
index cb01023..1c73d0f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -315,6 +315,9 @@ static void macvlan_broadcast_enqueue(struct
macvlan_port *port,
        struct sk_buff *nskb;
        int err = -ENOMEM;

+       if (skb_queue_len(&port->bc_queue) >= MACVLAN_BC_QUEUE_LEN)
+               return;
+
        nskb = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
        if (!nskb)
                goto err;