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    • Kalle Valo's avatar
      Merge tag 'iwlwifi-next-for-kalle-2017-06-06' of... · 83368904
      Kalle Valo authored 
      Merge tag 'iwlwifi-next-for-kalle-2017-06-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-next

First batch of iwlwifi driver patches 4.13

* Loads of FW API documentation improvements (for tools and htmldoc);
* Continued work for the new A000 family;
* Bumped the maximum supported FW API to 31;
* Improve the differentiation between 8000, 9000 and A000 families;
* A lot of fixes and cleanups here and there;

kvalo: There were conflicts iwl_mvm_stop_device() and
iwl_mvm_tcool_set_cur_state(). The former was easy but latter needed more
thought. Apparently the mutex was taken too late, so I fixed so that the mutex
is taken first and then check for iwl_mvm_firmware_running().
      83368904
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      Merge tag 'wireless-drivers-next-for-davem-2017-06-12' of... · 63a2f310
      David S. Miller authored 
      Merge tag 'wireless-drivers-next-for-davem-2017-06-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/wireless-drivers-next

Kalle Valo says:

====================
wireless-drivers-next patches for 4.13

The first pull request for 4.13. We have a new driver qtnfmac, but
also rsi driver got a support for new firmware and supporting ath10k
SDIO devices was started.

Major changes:

ath10k

* add initial SDIO support (still work in progress)

rsi

* new loading for the new firmware version

rtlwifi

* final patches for the new btcoex support

rt2x00

* add device ID for Epson WN7512BEP

qtnfmac

* new driver for Quantenna QSR10G chipsets
====================
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      63a2f310
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      Merge branch 'udp-reduce-cache-pressure' · 073cf9e2
      David S. Miller authored 
      Paolo Abeni says:

====================
udp: reduce cache pressure

In the most common use case, many skb fields are not used by recvmsg(), and
the few ones actually accessed lays on cold cachelines, which leads to several
cache miss per packet.

This patch series attempts to reduce such misses with different strategies:
* caching the interesting fields in the scratched space
* avoid accessing at all uninteresting fields
* prefetching

Tested using the udp_sink program by Jesper[1] as the receiver, an h/w l4 rx
hash on the ingress nic, so that the number of ingress nic rx queues hit by the
udp traffic could be controlled via ethtool -L.

The udp_sink program was bound to the first idle cpu, to get more
stable numbers.

On a single numa node receiver:

nic rx queues           vanilla                 patched kernel      delta
1                       1850 kpps               1850 kpps           0%
2                       2370 kpps               2700 kpps           13.9%
16                      2000 kpps               2220 kpps           11%

[1] https://github.com/netoptimizer/network-testing/blob/master/src/udp_sink.c

v1 -> v2:
  - replaced secpath_reset() with skb_release_head_state()
  - changed udp_dev_scratch fields types to u{32,16} variant,
    replaced bitfield with bool

v2 -> v3:
  - no changes, tested against apachebench for performances regression
====================
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      073cf9e2
    • Paolo Abeni's avatar
      udp: try to avoid 2 cache miss on dequeue · b65ac446
      Paolo Abeni authored 
      when udp_recvmsg() is executed, on x86_64 and other archs, most skb
fields are on cold cachelines.
If the skb are linear and the kernel don't need to compute the udp
csum, only a handful of skb fields are required by udp_recvmsg().
Since we already use skb->dev_scratch to cache hot data, and
there are 32 bits unused on 64 bit archs, use such field to cache
as much data as we can, and try to prefetch on dequeue the relevant
fields that are left out.

This can save up to 2 cache miss per packet.

v1 -> v2:
  - changed udp_dev_scratch fields types to u{32,16} variant,
    replaced bitfiled with bool
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      b65ac446
    • Paolo Abeni's avatar
      udp: avoid a cache miss on dequeue · 0a463c78
      Paolo Abeni authored 
      Since UDP no more uses sk->destructor, we can clear completely
the skb head state before enqueuing. Amend and use
skb_release_head_state() for that.

All head states share a single cacheline, which is not
normally used/accesses on dequeue. We can avoid entirely accessing
such cacheline implementing and using in the UDP code a specialized
skb free helper which ignores the skb head state.

This saves a cacheline miss at skb deallocation time.

v1 -> v2:
  replaced secpath_reset() with skb_release_head_state()
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      0a463c78
    • Paolo Abeni's avatar
      net: factor out a helper to decrement the skb refcount · 3889a803
      Paolo Abeni authored 
      The same code is replicated in 3 different places; move it to a
common helper.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      3889a803
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