From 1abbe1394a84c10919e32242318e715b04d7e33b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:54:33 +0000 Subject: pkt_sched: avoid requeues if possible With BQL being deployed, we can more likely have following behavior : We dequeue a packet from qdisc in dequeue_skb(), then we realize target tx queue is in XOFF state in sch_direct_xmit(), and we have to hold the skb into gso_skb for later. This shows in stats (tc -s qdisc dev eth0) as requeues. Problem of these requeues is that high priority packets can not be dequeued as long as this (possibly low prio and big TSO packet) is not removed from gso_skb. At 1Gbps speed, a full size TSO packet is 500 us of extra latency. In some cases, we know that all packets dequeued from a qdisc are for a particular and known txq : - If device is non multi queue - For all MQ/MQPRIO slave qdiscs This patch introduces a new qdisc flag, TCQ_F_ONETXQUEUE to mark this capability, so that dequeue_skb() is allowed to dequeue a packet only if the associated txq is not stopped. This indeed reduce latencies for high prio packets (or improve fairness with sfq/fq_codel), and almost remove qdisc 'requeues'. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim Cc: John Fastabend Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/sched/sch_mqprio.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'net/sched/sch_mqprio.c') diff --git a/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c b/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c index d1831ca966d4..accec33c454c 100644 --- a/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c +++ b/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c @@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ static int mqprio_init(struct Qdisc *sch, struct nlattr *opt) goto err; } priv->qdiscs[i] = qdisc; + qdisc->flags |= TCQ_F_ONETXQUEUE; } /* If the mqprio options indicate that hardware should own @@ -205,6 +206,9 @@ static int mqprio_graft(struct Qdisc *sch, unsigned long cl, struct Qdisc *new, *old = dev_graft_qdisc(dev_queue, new); + if (new) + new->flags |= TCQ_F_ONETXQUEUE; + if (dev->flags & IFF_UP) dev_activate(dev); -- cgit v1.2.3