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net/sched: Change act_api and act_xxx modules to use IDR
authorChris Mi <chrism@mellanox.com>
Wed, 30 Aug 2017 06:31:59 +0000 (02:31 -0400)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 30 Aug 2017 21:38:51 +0000 (14:38 -0700)
commit65a206c01e8e7ffe971477a36419422099216eff
treeea72c10c42996dc7d070968d45d86880fde71fac
parentc15ab236d69dd6dad24541400f460c47853803f8
net/sched: Change act_api and act_xxx modules to use IDR

Typically, each TC filter has its own action. All the actions of the
same type are saved in its hash table. But the hash buckets are too
small that it degrades to a list. And the performance is greatly
affected. For example, it takes about 0m11.914s to insert 64K rules.
If we convert the hash table to IDR, it only takes about 0m1.500s.
The improvement is huge.

But please note that the test result is based on previous patch that
cls_flower uses IDR.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mi <chrism@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
18 files changed:
include/net/act_api.h
net/sched/act_api.c
net/sched/act_bpf.c
net/sched/act_connmark.c
net/sched/act_csum.c
net/sched/act_gact.c
net/sched/act_ife.c
net/sched/act_ipt.c
net/sched/act_mirred.c
net/sched/act_nat.c
net/sched/act_pedit.c
net/sched/act_police.c
net/sched/act_sample.c
net/sched/act_simple.c
net/sched/act_skbedit.c
net/sched/act_skbmod.c
net/sched/act_tunnel_key.c
net/sched/act_vlan.c