[NET_SCHED]: explict hold dev tx lock

For N cpus, with full throttle traffic on all N CPUs, funneling traffic
to the same ethernet device, the devices queue lock is contended by all
N CPUs constantly. The TX lock is only contended by a max of 2 CPUS.
In the current mode of operation, after all the work of entering the
dequeue region, we may endup aborting the path if we are unable to get
the tx lock and go back to contend for the queue lock. As N goes up,
this gets worse.

The changes in this patch result in a small increase in performance
with a 4CPU (2xdual-core) with no irq binding. Both e1000 and tg3
showed similar behavior;

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_generic.c b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
index e970e8e757203f79a2278e5f499a4d5ad88ce6c9..95ae11956f35ebb931fc4bf20039df2c8ba1caf8 100644 (file)
--- a/net/sched/sch_generic.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
@@ -134,34 +134,19 @@ static inline int qdisc_restart(struct net_device *dev)
 {
        struct Qdisc *q = dev->qdisc;
        struct sk_buff *skb;
-       unsigned lockless;
        int ret;
 
        /* Dequeue packet */
        if (unlikely((skb = dev_dequeue_skb(dev, q)) == NULL))
                return 0;
 
-       /*
-        * When the driver has LLTX set, it does its own locking in
-        * start_xmit. These checks are worth it because even uncongested
-        * locks can be quite expensive. The driver can do a trylock, as
-        * is being done here; in case of lock contention it should return
-        * NETDEV_TX_LOCKED and the packet will be requeued.
-        */
-       lockless = (dev->features & NETIF_F_LLTX);
-
-       if (!lockless && !netif_tx_trylock(dev)) {
-               /* Another CPU grabbed the driver tx lock */
-               return handle_dev_cpu_collision(skb, dev, q);
-       }
 
        /* And release queue */
        spin_unlock(&dev->queue_lock);
 
+       HARD_TX_LOCK(dev, smp_processor_id());
        ret = dev_hard_start_xmit(skb, dev);
-
-       if (!lockless)
-               netif_tx_unlock(dev);
+       HARD_TX_UNLOCK(dev);
 
        spin_lock(&dev->queue_lock);
        q = dev->qdisc;