net: Consistent skb timestamping
With RPS inclusion, skb timestamping is not consistent in RX path.
If netif_receive_skb() is used, its deferred after RPS dispatch.
If netif_rx() is used, its done before RPS dispatch.
This can give strange tcpdump timestamps results.
I think timestamping should be done as soon as possible in the receive
path, to get meaningful values (ie timestamps taken at the time packet
was delivered by NIC driver to our stack), even if NAPI already can
defer timestamping a bit (RPS can help to reduce the gap)
Tom Herbert prefer to sample timestamps after RPS dispatch. In case
sampling is expensive (HPET/acpi_pm on x86), this makes sense.
Let admins switch from one mode to another, using a new
sysctl, /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_tstamp_prequeue
Its default value (1), means timestamps are taken as soon as possible,
before backlog queueing, giving accurate timestamps.
Setting a 0 value permits to sample timestamps when processing backlog,
after RPS dispatch, to lower the load of the pre-RPS cpu.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
index df38ef04..cbd05ff 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
@@ -84,6 +84,16 @@
Maximum number of packets, queued on the INPUT side, when the interface
receives packets faster than kernel can process them.
+netdev_tstamp_prequeue
+----------------------
+
+If set to 0, RX packet timestamps can be sampled after RPS processing, when
+the target CPU processes packets. It might give some delay on timestamps, but
+permit to distribute the load on several cpus.
+
+If set to 1 (default), timestamps are sampled as soon as possible, before
+queueing.
+
optmem_max
----------
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 69022d4..c1b2341 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -2100,6 +2100,7 @@
extern void dev_txq_stats_fold(const struct net_device *dev, struct net_device_stats *stats);
extern int netdev_max_backlog;
+extern int netdev_tstamp_prequeue;
extern int weight_p;
extern int netdev_set_master(struct net_device *dev, struct net_device *master);
extern int skb_checksum_help(struct sk_buff *skb);
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 5cbba09..988e429 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1454,7 +1454,7 @@
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(net_disable_timestamp);
-static inline void net_timestamp(struct sk_buff *skb)
+static inline void net_timestamp_set(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
if (atomic_read(&netstamp_needed))
__net_timestamp(skb);
@@ -1462,6 +1462,12 @@
skb->tstamp.tv64 = 0;
}
+static inline void net_timestamp_check(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+ if (!skb->tstamp.tv64 && atomic_read(&netstamp_needed))
+ __net_timestamp(skb);
+}
+
/**
* dev_forward_skb - loopback an skb to another netif
*
@@ -1508,9 +1514,9 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT
if (!(skb->tstamp.tv64 && (G_TC_FROM(skb->tc_verd) & AT_INGRESS)))
- net_timestamp(skb);
+ net_timestamp_set(skb);
#else
- net_timestamp(skb);
+ net_timestamp_set(skb);
#endif
rcu_read_lock();
@@ -2201,6 +2207,7 @@
=======================================================================*/
int netdev_max_backlog __read_mostly = 1000;
+int netdev_tstamp_prequeue __read_mostly = 1;
int netdev_budget __read_mostly = 300;
int weight_p __read_mostly = 64; /* old backlog weight */
@@ -2465,8 +2472,8 @@
if (netpoll_rx(skb))
return NET_RX_DROP;
- if (!skb->tstamp.tv64)
- net_timestamp(skb);
+ if (netdev_tstamp_prequeue)
+ net_timestamp_check(skb);
#ifdef CONFIG_RPS
{
@@ -2791,8 +2798,8 @@
int ret = NET_RX_DROP;
__be16 type;
- if (!skb->tstamp.tv64)
- net_timestamp(skb);
+ if (!netdev_tstamp_prequeue)
+ net_timestamp_check(skb);
if (vlan_tx_tag_present(skb) && vlan_hwaccel_do_receive(skb))
return NET_RX_SUCCESS;
@@ -2910,23 +2917,28 @@
*/
int netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
+ if (netdev_tstamp_prequeue)
+ net_timestamp_check(skb);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_RPS
- struct rps_dev_flow voidflow, *rflow = &voidflow;
- int cpu, ret;
+ {
+ struct rps_dev_flow voidflow, *rflow = &voidflow;
+ int cpu, ret;
- rcu_read_lock();
+ rcu_read_lock();
- cpu = get_rps_cpu(skb->dev, skb, &rflow);
+ cpu = get_rps_cpu(skb->dev, skb, &rflow);
- if (cpu >= 0) {
- ret = enqueue_to_backlog(skb, cpu, &rflow->last_qtail);
- rcu_read_unlock();
- } else {
- rcu_read_unlock();
- ret = __netif_receive_skb(skb);
+ if (cpu >= 0) {
+ ret = enqueue_to_backlog(skb, cpu, &rflow->last_qtail);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ } else {
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ ret = __netif_receive_skb(skb);
+ }
+
+ return ret;
}
-
- return ret;
#else
return __netif_receive_skb(skb);
#endif
diff --git a/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c b/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
index dcc7d25..01eee5d 100644
--- a/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
+++ b/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
@@ -122,6 +122,13 @@
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec
},
{
+ .procname = "netdev_tstamp_prequeue",
+ .data = &netdev_tstamp_prequeue,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = proc_dointvec
+ },
+ {
.procname = "message_cost",
.data = &net_ratelimit_state.interval,
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
