df6afe2f7c
While insertion of 16k nexthops all using the same netdev ('dummy10')
takes less than a second, deletion takes about 130 seconds:
# time -p ip -b nexthop.batch
real 0.29
user 0.01
sys 0.15
# time -p ip link set dev dummy10 down
real 131.03
user 0.06
sys 0.52
This is because of repeated calls to synchronize_rcu() whenever a
nexthop is removed from a nexthop group:
# /usr/share/bcc/tools/offcputime -p `pgrep -nx ip` -K
...
b'finish_task_switch'
b'schedule'
b'schedule_timeout'
b'wait_for_completion'
b'__wait_rcu_gp'
b'synchronize_rcu.part.0'
b'synchronize_rcu'
b'__remove_nexthop'
b'remove_nexthop'
b'nexthop_flush_dev'
b'nh_netdev_event'
b'raw_notifier_call_chain'
b'call_netdevice_notifiers_info'
b'__dev_notify_flags'
b'dev_change_flags'
b'do_setlink'
b'__rtnl_newlink'
b'rtnl_newlink'
b'rtnetlink_rcv_msg'
b'netlink_rcv_skb'
b'rtnetlink_rcv'
b'netlink_unicast'
b'netlink_sendmsg'
b'____sys_sendmsg'
b'___sys_sendmsg'
b'__sys_sendmsg'
b'__x64_sys_sendmsg'
b'do_syscall_64'
b'entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe'
- ip (277)
126554955
Since nexthops are always deleted under RTNL, synchronize_net() can be
used instead. It will call synchronize_rcu_expedited() which only blocks
for several microseconds as opposed to multiple milliseconds like
synchronize_rcu().
With this patch deletion of 16k nexthops takes less than a second:
# time -p ip link set dev dummy10 down
real 0.12
user 0.00
sys 0.04
Tested with fib_nexthops.sh which includes torture tests that prompted
the initial change:
# ./fib_nexthops.sh
...
Tests passed: 134
Tests failed: 0
Fixes: 90f33bffa382 ("nexthops: don't modify published nexthop groups")
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201016172914.643282-1-idosch@idosch.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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