Eric Dumazet says:
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net: better drop accounting
Incrementing sk->sk_drops for every dropped packet can
cause serious cache line contention under DOS.
Add optional sk->sk_drop_counters pointer so that
protocols can opt-in to use two dedicated cache lines
to hold drop counters.
Convert UDP and RAW to use this infrastructure.
Tested on UDP (see patch 4/5 for details)
Before:
nstat -n ; sleep 1 ; nstat | grep Udp
Udp6InDatagrams 615091 0.0
Udp6InErrors
3904277 0.0
Udp6RcvbufErrors
3904277 0.0
After:
nstat -n ; sleep 1 ; nstat | grep Udp
Udp6InDatagrams 816281 0.0
Udp6InErrors
7497093 0.0
Udp6RcvbufErrors
7497093 0.0
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Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250826125031.1578842-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>