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Pedro Tammela says: ==================== net/sched: retpoline wrappers for tc In tc all qdics, classifiers and actions can be compiled as modules. This results today in indirect calls in all transitions in the tc hierarchy. Due to CONFIG_RETPOLINE, CPUs with mitigations=on might pay an extra cost on indirect calls. For newer Intel cpus with IBRS the extra cost is nonexistent, but AMD Zen cpus and older x86 cpus still go through the retpoline thunk. Known built-in symbols can be optimized into direct calls, thus avoiding the retpoline thunk. So far, tc has not been leveraging this build information and leaving out a performance optimization for some CPUs. In this series we wire up 'tcf_classify()' and 'tcf_action_exec()' with direct calls when known modules are compiled as built-in as an opt-in optimization. We measured these changes in one AMD Zen 4 cpu (Retpoline), one AMD Zen 3 cpu (Retpoline), one Intel 10th Gen CPU (IBRS), one Intel 3rd Gen cpu (Retpoline) and one Intel Xeon CPU (IBRS) using pktgen with 64b udp packets. Our test setup is a dummy device with clsact and matchall in a kernel compiled with every tc module as built-in. We observed a 3-8% speed up on the retpoline CPUs, when going through 1 tc filter, and a 60-100% speed up when going through 100 filters. For the IBRS cpus we observed a 1-2% degradation in both scenarios, we believe the extra branches check introduced a small overhead therefore we added a static key that bypasses the wrapper on kernels not using the retpoline mitigation, but compiled with CONFIG_RETPOLINE. 1 filter: CPU | before (pps) | after (pps) | diff R9 7950X | |
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README
Linux kernel
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