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packet: improve socket create/bind latency in some cases
Most people acquire PF_PACKET sockets with a protocol argument in the socket call, e.g. libpcap does so with htons(ETH_P_ALL) for all its sockets. Most likely, at some point in time a subsequent bind() call will follow, e.g. in libpcap with ... memset(&sll, 0, sizeof(sll)); sll.sll_family = AF_PACKET; sll.sll_ifindex = ifindex; sll.sll_protocol = htons(ETH_P_ALL); ... as arguments. What happens in the kernel is that already in socket() syscall, we install a proto hook via register_prot_hook() if our protocol argument is != 0. Yet, in bind() we're almost doing the same work by doing a unregister_prot_hook() with an expensive synchronize_net() call in case during socket() the proto was != 0, plus follow-up register_prot_hook() with a bound device to it this time, in order to limit traffic we get. In the case when the protocol and user supplied device index (== 0) does not change from socket() to bind(), we can spare us doing the same work twice. Similarly for re-binding to the same device and protocol. For these scenarios, we can decrease create/bind latency from ~7447us (sock-bind-2 case) to ~89us (sock-bind-1 case) with this patch. Alternatively, for the first case, if people care, they should simply create their sockets with proto == 0 argument and define the protocol during bind() as this saves a call to synchronize_net() as well (sock-bind-3 case). In all other cases, we're tied to user space behaviour we must not change, also since a bind() is not strictly required. Thus, we need the synchronize_net() to make sure no asynchronous packet processing paths still refer to the previous elements of po->prot_hook. In case of mmap()ed sockets, the workflow that includes bind() is socket() -> setsockopt(<ring>) -> bind(). In that case, a pair of {__unregister, register}_prot_hook is being called from setsockopt() in order to install the new protocol receive handler. Thus, when we call bind and can skip a re-hook, we have already previously installed the new handler. For fanout, this is handled different entirely, so we should be good. Timings on an i7-3520M machine: * sock-bind-1: 89 us * sock-bind-2: 7447 us * sock-bind-3: 75 us sock-bind-1: socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(ETH_P_IP)) = 3 bind(3, {sa_family=AF_PACKET, proto=htons(ETH_P_IP), if=all(0), pkttype=PACKET_HOST, addr(0)={0, }, 20) = 0 sock-bind-2: socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(ETH_P_IP)) = 3 bind(3, {sa_family=AF_PACKET, proto=htons(ETH_P_IP), if=lo(1), pkttype=PACKET_HOST, addr(0)={0, }, 20) = 0 sock-bind-3: socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, 0) = 3 bind(3, {sa_family=AF_PACKET, proto=htons(ETH_P_IP), if=lo(1), pkttype=PACKET_HOST, addr(0)={0, }, 20) = 0 Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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