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David Ahern dcdd43c41e net: vrf: performance improvements for IPv4
The VRF driver allows users to implement device based features for an
entire domain. For example, a qdisc or netfilter rules can be attached
to a VRF device or tcpdump can be used to view packets for all devices
in the L3 domain.

The device-based features come with a performance penalty, most
notably in the Tx path. The VRF driver uses the l3mdev_l3_out hook
to switch the dst on an skb to its private dst. This allows the skb
to traverse the xmit stack with the device set to the VRF device
which in turn enables the netfilter and qdisc features. The VRF
driver then performs the FIB lookup again and reinserts the packet.

This patch avoids the redirect for IPv4 packets if a qdisc has not
been attached to a VRF device which is the default config. In this
case the netfilter hooks and network taps are directly traversed in
the l3mdev_l3_out handler. If a qdisc is attached to a VRF device,
then the redirect using the vrf dst is done.

Additional overhead is removed by only checking packet taps if a
socket is open on the device (vrf_dev->ptype_all list is not empty).
Packet sockets bound to any device will still get a copy of the
packet via the real ingress or egress interface.

The end result of this change is a decrease in the overhead of VRF
for the default, baseline case (ie., no netfilter rules, no packet
sockets, no qdisc) to ~3% for UDP which has a lookup per packet and
< 1% overhead for connected sockets that leverage early demux and
avoid FIB lookups.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-03-22 11:19:48 -07:00
arch sock: introduce SO_MEMINFO getsockopt 2017-03-22 11:18:58 -07:00
block blk: improve order of bio handling in generic_make_request() 2017-03-08 10:55:17 -07:00
certs
crypto net: Work around lockdep limitation in sockets that use sockets 2017-03-09 18:23:27 -08:00
Documentation net: stmmac: RX queue routing configuration 2017-03-21 17:24:01 -07:00
drivers net: vrf: performance improvements for IPv4 2017-03-22 11:19:48 -07:00
firmware
fs gfs2: Avoid alignment hole in struct lm_lockname 2017-03-15 10:06:07 -04:00
include sock: introduce SO_MEMINFO getsockopt 2017-03-22 11:18:58 -07:00
init Change get_random_{int,log} to use the CRNG used by /dev/urandom and 2017-03-11 09:08:47 -08:00
ipc Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
kernel bpf: inline htab_map_lookup_elem() 2017-03-16 20:44:11 -07:00
lib mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
mm Merge branch 'for-4.11-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2017-03-14 14:48:50 -07:00
net sock: introduce SO_MEMINFO getsockopt 2017-03-22 11:18:58 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: add map_lookup microbenchmark 2017-03-16 20:44:12 -07:00
scripts Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-03-10 08:34:42 -08:00
security Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
sound scripts/spelling.txt: add "disble(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-03-09 17:01:09 -08:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-03-15 11:59:10 -07:00
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