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    sctp: simplify sk_receive_queue locking · 311b2177
    Marcelo Ricardo Leitner authored
    
    
    SCTP already serializes access to rcvbuf through its sock lock:
    sctp_recvmsg takes it right in the start and release at the end, while
    rx path will also take the lock before doing any socket processing. On
    sctp_rcv() it will check if there is an user using the socket and, if
    there is, it will queue incoming packets to the backlog. The backlog
    processing will do the same. Even timers will do such check and
    re-schedule if an user is using the socket.
    
    Simplifying this will allow us to remove sctp_skb_list_tail and get ride
    of some expensive lockings.  The lists that it is used on are also
    mangled with functions like __skb_queue_tail and __skb_unlink in the
    same context, like on sctp_ulpq_tail_event() and sctp_clear_pd().
    sctp_close() will also purge those while using only the sock lock.
    
    Therefore the lockings performed by sctp_skb_list_tail() are not
    necessary. This patch removes this function and replaces its calls with
    just skb_queue_splice_tail_init() instead.
    
    The biggest gain is at sctp_ulpq_tail_event(), because the events always
    contain a list, even if it's queueing a single skb and this was
    triggering expensive calls to spin_lock_irqsave/_irqrestore for every
    data chunk received.
    
    As SCTP will deliver each data chunk on a corresponding recvmsg, the
    more effective the change will be.
    Before this patch, with chunks with 30 bytes:
    netperf -t SCTP_STREAM -H 192.168.1.2 -cC -l 60 -- -m 30 -S 400000
    400000 -s 400000 400000
    on a 10Gbit link with 1500 MTU:
    
    SCTP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.1.1 () port 0 AF_INET
    Recv   Send    Send                          Utilization       Service Demand
    Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed              Send     Recv     Send    Recv
    Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput  local    remote   local   remote
    bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/s  % S      % S      us/KB   us/KB
    
    425984 425984     30    60.00       137.45   7.34     7.36     52.504  52.608
    
    With it:
    
    SCTP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.1.1 () port 0 AF_INET
    Recv   Send    Send                          Utilization       Service Demand
    Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed              Send     Recv     Send    Recv
    Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput  local    remote   local   remote
    bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/s  % S      % S      us/KB   us/KB
    
    425984 425984     30    60.00       179.10   7.97     6.70     43.740  36.788
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMarcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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