the data path of 'police' action can be faster if we avoid using spinlocks: - patch 1 converts act_police to use per-cpu counters - patch 2 lets act_police use RCU to access its configuration data.
test procedure (using pktgen from https://github.com/netoptimizer): # ip link add name eth1 type dummy # ip link set dev eth1 up # tc qdisc add dev eth1 clsact # tc filter add dev eth1 egress matchall action police \ > rate 2gbit burst 100k conform-exceed pass/pass index 100 # for c in 1 2 4; do > ./pktgen_bench_xmit_mode_queue_xmit.sh -v -s 64 -t $c -n 5000000 -i eth1 > done test results (avg. pps/thread): $c | before patch | after patch | improvement ----+--------------+--------------+------------- 1 | 3518448 | 3591240 | irrelevant 2 | 3070065 | 3383393 | 10% 4 | 1540969 | 3238385 | 110% Davide Caratti (2): net/sched: act_police: use per-cpu counters net/sched: act_police: don't use spinlock in the data path net/sched/act_police.c | 186 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 106 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-) -- 2.17.1
