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authorEliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>2013-06-10 11:39:50 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-06-10 21:22:35 -0700
commit060212928670593fb89243640bf05cf89560b023 (patch)
tree32ae5c7be094983fb06430dbe09d36e2b317ca9c /net
parentaf12fa6e46aa651e7b86a4c4117b562518fef184 (diff)
net: add low latency socket poll
Adds an ndo_ll_poll method and the code that supports it. This method can be used by low latency applications to busy-poll Ethernet device queues directly from the socket code. sysctl_net_ll_poll controls how many microseconds to poll. Default is zero (disabled). Individual protocol support will be added by subsequent patches. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Tested-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/Kconfig12
-rw-r--r--net/core/skbuff.c4
-rw-r--r--net/core/sock.c6
-rw-r--r--net/core/sysctl_net_core.c10
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/proc.c1
-rw-r--r--net/socket.c6
6 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
index 523e43e6da1b..d6a9ce6e1800 100644
--- a/net/Kconfig
+++ b/net/Kconfig
@@ -243,6 +243,18 @@ config NETPRIO_CGROUP
Cgroup subsystem for use in assigning processes to network priorities on
a per-interface basis
+config NET_LL_RX_POLL
+ bool "Low Latency Receive Poll"
+ depends on X86_TSC
+ default n
+ ---help---
+ Support Low Latency Receive Queue Poll.
+ (For network card drivers which support this option.)
+ When waiting for data in read or poll call directly into the the device driver
+ to flush packets which may be pending on the device queues into the stack.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
config BQL
boolean
depends on SYSFS
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 73f57a0e1523..4a4181e16c1a 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -733,6 +733,10 @@ static void __copy_skb_header(struct sk_buff *new, const struct sk_buff *old)
new->vlan_tci = old->vlan_tci;
skb_copy_secmark(new, old);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_LL_RX_POLL
+ new->napi_id = old->napi_id;
+#endif
}
/*
diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index 88868a9d21da..788c0da5eed1 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -139,6 +139,8 @@
#include <net/tcp.h>
#endif
+#include <net/ll_poll.h>
+
static DEFINE_MUTEX(proto_list_mutex);
static LIST_HEAD(proto_list);
@@ -2284,6 +2286,10 @@ void sock_init_data(struct socket *sock, struct sock *sk)
sk->sk_stamp = ktime_set(-1L, 0);
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_LL_RX_POLL
+ sk->sk_napi_id = 0;
+#endif
+
/*
* Before updating sk_refcnt, we must commit prior changes to memory
* (Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt for details)
diff --git a/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c b/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
index 741db5fc7806..4b48f39582b0 100644
--- a/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
+++ b/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <net/ip.h>
#include <net/sock.h>
#include <net/net_ratelimit.h>
+#include <net/ll_poll.h>
static int one = 1;
@@ -284,6 +285,15 @@ static struct ctl_table net_core_table[] = {
.proc_handler = flow_limit_table_len_sysctl
},
#endif /* CONFIG_NET_FLOW_LIMIT */
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_LL_RX_POLL
+ {
+ .procname = "low_latency_poll",
+ .data = &sysctl_net_ll_poll,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(unsigned long),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = proc_doulongvec_minmax
+ },
+#endif
#endif /* CONFIG_NET */
{
.procname = "netdev_budget",
diff --git a/net/ipv4/proc.c b/net/ipv4/proc.c
index 2a5bf86d2415..6577a1149a47 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/proc.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/proc.c
@@ -273,6 +273,7 @@ static const struct snmp_mib snmp4_net_list[] = {
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPFastOpenListenOverflow", LINUX_MIB_TCPFASTOPENLISTENOVERFLOW),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPFastOpenCookieReqd", LINUX_MIB_TCPFASTOPENCOOKIEREQD),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPSpuriousRtxHostQueues", LINUX_MIB_TCPSPURIOUS_RTX_HOSTQUEUES),
+ SNMP_MIB_ITEM("LowLatencyRxPackets", LINUX_MIB_LOWLATENCYRXPACKETS),
SNMP_MIB_SENTINEL
};
diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index 3ebdcb805c51..21fd29f63ed2 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -104,6 +104,12 @@
#include <linux/route.h>
#include <linux/sockios.h>
#include <linux/atalk.h>
+#include <net/ll_poll.h>
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_LL_RX_POLL
+unsigned long sysctl_net_ll_poll __read_mostly;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysctl_net_ll_poll);
+#endif
static int sock_no_open(struct inode *irrelevant, struct file *dontcare);
static ssize_t sock_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,