net: attempt high order allocations in sock_alloc_send_pskb()

Adding paged frags skbs to af_unix sockets introduced a performance
regression on large sends because of additional page allocations, even
if each skb could carry at least 100% more payload than before.

We can instruct sock_alloc_send_pskb() to attempt high order
allocations.

Most of the time, it does a single page allocation instead of 8.

I added an additional parameter to sock_alloc_send_pskb() to
let other users to opt-in for this new feature on followup patches.

Tested:

Before patch :

$ netperf -t STREAM_STREAM
STREAM STREAM TEST
Recv   Send    Send
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/sec

 2304  212992  212992    10.00    46861.15

After patch :

$ netperf -t STREAM_STREAM
STREAM STREAM TEST
Recv   Send    Send
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/sec

 2304  212992  212992    10.00    57981.11

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
Eric Dumazet 2013-08-08 14:38:47 -07:00 • committed by David S. Miller
commit 28d6427109
6 changed files with 60 additions and 55 deletions

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@ -2181,7 +2181,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *packet_alloc_skb(struct sock *sk, size_t prepad,
linear = len;
skb = sock_alloc_send_pskb(sk, prepad + linear, len - linear, noblock,
err);
err, 0);
if (!skb)
return NULL;