Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 0/7] net_sched: act: lockless operation

2015-07-08 Thread David Miller
From: Eric Dumazet eduma...@google.com Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 05:18:02 -0700 As mentioned by Alexei last week in Budapest, it is a bit weird to take a spinlock in order to drop a packet in a tc filter... Lets add percpu infra for tc actions and use it for gact mirred. Before changes, my

[PATCH v3 net-next 0/7] net_sched: act: lockless operation

2015-07-06 Thread Eric Dumazet
As mentioned by Alexei last week in Budapest, it is a bit weird to take a spinlock in order to drop a packet in a tc filter... Lets add percpu infra for tc actions and use it for gact mirred. Before changes, my host with 8 RX queues was handling 5 Mpps with gact, and more than 11 Mpps after.