From 28d6427109d13b0f447cba5761f88d3548e83605 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 14:38:47 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/net/sock.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/net') diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h index ab6a8b7..e4bbcbf 100644 --- a/include/net/sock.h +++ b/include/net/sock.h @@ -1539,7 +1539,8 @@ extern struct sk_buff *sock_alloc_send_pskb(struct sock *sk, unsigned long header_len, unsigned long data_len, int noblock, - int *errcode); + int *errcode, + int max_page_order); extern void *sock_kmalloc(struct sock *sk, int size, gfp_t priority); extern void sock_kfree_s(struct sock *sk, void *mem, int size); -- cgit v1.1