From 8df40d1033d64597dcf1efd4f7547e817f7a953b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 02:53:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] sit: enable lockless xmits SIT tunnels can benefit from lockless xmits, using NETIF_F_LLTX Bench on a 16 cpus machine (dual E5540 cpus), 16 threads sending 10000000 UDP frames via one sit tunnel (size:220 bytes per frame) Before patch : real 3m15.399s user 0m9.185s sys 51m55.403s 75029.00 87.5% _raw_spin_lock vmlinux 1090.00 1.3% dst_release vmlinux 902.00 1.1% dev_queue_xmit vmlinux 627.00 0.7% sock_wfree vmlinux 613.00 0.7% ip6_push_pending_frames ipv6.ko 505.00 0.6% __ip_route_output_key vmlinux After patch: real 1m1.387s user 0m12.489s sys 15m58.868s 28239.00 23.3% dst_release vmlinux 13570.00 11.2% ip6_push_pending_frames ipv6.ko 13118.00 10.8% ip6_append_data ipv6.ko 7995.00 6.6% __ip_route_output_key vmlinux 7924.00 6.5% sk_dst_check vmlinux 5015.00 4.1% udpv6_sendmsg ipv6.ko 3594.00 3.0% sock_alloc_send_pskb vmlinux 3135.00 2.6% sock_wfree vmlinux 3055.00 2.5% ip6_sk_dst_lookup ipv6.ko 2473.00 2.0% ip_finish_output vmlinux Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv6/sit.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/ipv6/sit.c b/net/ipv6/sit.c index 2cb64607923..d7701782b63 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/sit.c +++ b/net/ipv6/sit.c @@ -1140,6 +1140,7 @@ static void ipip6_tunnel_setup(struct net_device *dev) dev->iflink = 0; dev->addr_len = 4; dev->features |= NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL; + dev->features |= NETIF_F_LLTX; } static int ipip6_tunnel_init(struct net_device *dev) -- 2.41.0