net/sched: refine indirect call mitigation in tc_wrapper.h
Some modern cpus disable X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE feature,
even if a direct call can still be beneficial.
Even when IBRS is present, an indirect call is more expensive
than a direct one:
Direct Calls:
Compilers can perform powerful optimizations like inlining,
where the function body is directly inserted at the call site,
eliminating call overhead entirely.
Indirect Calls:
Inlining is much harder, if not impossible, because the compiler
doesn't know the target function at compile time.
Techniques like Indirect Call Promotion can help by using
profile-guided optimization to turn frequently taken indirect calls
into conditional direct calls, but they still add complexity
and potential overhead compared to a truly direct call.
In this patch, I split tc_skip_wrapper in two different
static keys, one for tc_act() (tc_skip_wrapper_act)
and one for tc_classify() (tc_skip_wrapper_cls).
Then I enable the tc_skip_wrapper_cls only if the count
of builtin classifiers is above one.
I enable tc_skip_wrapper_act only it the count of builtin
actions is above one.
In our production kernels, we only have CONFIG_NET_CLS_BPF=y
and CONFIG_NET_ACT_BPF=y. Other are modules or are not compiled.
Tested on AMD Turin cpus, cls_bpf_classify() cost went
from 1% down to 0.18 %, and FDO will be able to inline
it in tcf_classify() for further gains.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Reviewed-by: Pedro Tammela <pctammela@mojatatu.com>
Reviewed-by: Victor Nogueira <victor@mojatatu.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260307133601.3863071-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>