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    "date": "2017-09-22T21:06:24",
    "name": "[RFC,00/11] udp: full early demux for unconnected sockets",
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        "name": "Paolo Abeni",
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            "date": "2017-09-22T21:06:24",
            "name": "udp: full early demux for unconnected sockets",
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        "From": "Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>",
        "To": "netdev@vger.kernel.org",
        "Cc": "\"David S. Miller\" <davem@davemloft.net>,\n\tPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>, Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,\n\tEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,\n\tHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>",
        "Subject": "[RFC PATCH 00/11] udp: full early demux for unconnected sockets",
        "Date": "Fri, 22 Sep 2017 23:06:24 +0200",
        "Message-Id": "<cover.1506114055.git.pabeni@redhat.com>",
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    "content": "This series refactor the UDP early demux code so that:\n\n* full socket lookup is performed for unicast packets\n* a sk is grabbed even for unconnected socket match\n* a dst cache is used even in such scenario\n\nTo perform this tasks a couple of facilities are added:\n\n* noref socket references, scoped inside the current RCU section, to be\n  explicitly cleared before leaving such section\n* a dst cache inside the inet and inet6 local addresses tables, caching the\n  related local dst entry\n\nThe measured performance gain under small packet UDP flood is as follow:\n\ningress NIC\tvanilla\t\tpatched\t\tdelta\nrx queues\t(kpps)\t\t(kpps)\t\t(%)\n[ipv4]\n1\t\t2177\t\t2414\t\t10\n2\t\t2527\t\t2892\t\t14\n3\t\t3050\t\t3733\t\t22\n4\t\t3918\t\t4643\t\t18\n5\t\t5074\t\t5699\t\t12\n6\t\t5654\t\t6869\t\t21\n\n[ipv6]\n1\t\t2002\t\t2821\t\t40\n2\t\t2087\t\t3148\t\t50\n3\t\t2583\t\t4008\t\t55\n4\t\t3072\t\t4963\t\t61\n5\t\t3719\t\t5992\t\t61\n6\t\t4314\t\t6910\t\t60\n\nThe number of user space process in use is equal to the number of\nNIC rx queue; when multiple user space processes the SO_REUSEPORT \noptions is used, as described below:\n\nethtool  -L em2 combined $n\nMASK=1\nfor I in `seq 0 $((n - 1))`; do\n        udp_sink  --reuse-port --recvfrom --count 1000000000 --port 9 $1 &\n        taskset -p $((MASK << ($I + $n) )) $!\ndone\n\nPaolo Abeni (11):\n  net: add support for noref skb->sk\n  net: allow early demux to fetch noref socket\n  udp: do not touch socket refcount in early demux\n  net: add simple socket-like dst cache helpers\n  udp: perform full socket lookup in early demux\n  ip/route: factor out helper for local route creation\n  ipv6/addrconf: add an helper for inet6 address lookup\n  net: implement local route cache inside ifaddr\n  route: add ipv4/6 helpers to do partial route lookup vs local dst\n  IP: early demux can return an error code\n  udp: dst lookup in early demux for unconnected sockets\n\n include/linux/inetdevice.h       |   4 ++\n include/linux/skbuff.h           |  31 +++++++++++\n include/linux/udp.h              |   2 +\n include/net/addrconf.h           |   3 ++\n include/net/dst.h                |  20 +++++++\n include/net/if_inet6.h           |   4 ++\n include/net/ip6_route.h          |   1 +\n include/net/protocol.h           |   4 +-\n include/net/route.h              |   4 ++\n include/net/tcp.h                |   2 +-\n include/net/udp.h                |   2 +-\n net/core/dst.c                   |  12 +++++\n net/core/sock.c                  |   7 +++\n net/ipv4/devinet.c               |  29 ++++++++++-\n net/ipv4/ip_input.c              |  33 ++++++++----\n net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_dup_ipv4.c |   3 ++\n net/ipv4/route.c                 |  73 +++++++++++++++++++++++---\n net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c              |   9 ++--\n net/ipv4/udp.c                   |  95 +++++++++++++++-------------------\n net/ipv6/addrconf.c              | 109 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------\n net/ipv6/ip6_input.c             |   4 ++\n net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_dup_ipv6.c |   3 ++\n net/ipv6/route.c                 |  13 +++++\n net/ipv6/udp.c                   |  72 ++++++++++----------------\n net/netfilter/nf_queue.c         |   3 ++\n 25 files changed, 383 insertions(+), 159 deletions(-)"
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