[Bridge] [PATCH] bridge: per-cpu packet statistics

[Eric Dumazet]

Le lundi 01 mars 2010 à 16:16 -0800, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> The shared packet statistics are a potential source of slow down
> on bridged traffic. Convert to per-cpu array, but only keep those
> statistics which change per-packet.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger at vyatta.com>
> 
> ---
> 
>  net/bridge/br_device.c  |   43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  net/bridge/br_if.c      |    6 ++++++
>  net/bridge/br_input.c   |    5 +++--
>  net/bridge/br_private.h |    8 ++++++++
>  4 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/net/bridge/br_device.c	2010-03-01 08:22:23.476657998 -0800
> +++ b/net/bridge/br_device.c	2010-03-01 15:31:36.737227465 -0800
> @@ -26,11 +26,12 @@ netdev_tx_t br_dev_xmit(struct sk_buff *
>  	const unsigned char *dest = skb->data;
>  	struct net_bridge_fdb_entry *dst;
>  	struct net_bridge_mdb_entry *mdst;
> +	struct br_cpu_netstats *brstats = this_cpu_ptr(br->stats);
>  
> -	BR_INPUT_SKB_CB(skb)->brdev = dev;
> +	brstats->tx_packets++;
> +	brstats->tx_bytes += skb->len;


On TX path, this is not really necessary, since we already dirtied
txq->lock before calling br_dev_xmit(), we can use txq->tx_packets and
txq->tx_bytes for free ?

>  
> -	dev->stats.tx_packets++;
> -	dev->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
> +	BR_INPUT_SKB_CB(skb)->brdev = dev;
>  
>  	skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
>  	skb_pull(skb, ETH_HLEN);
> @@ -81,6 +82,28 @@ static int br_dev_stop(struct net_device
>  	return 0;
>  }
>