During tbench/oprofile sessions, I found that dst_release() was in third position.
CPU: Core 2, speed 2999.68 MHz (estimated)
Counted CPU_CLK_UNHALTED events (Clock cycles when not halted) with a unit mask of 0x00 (Unhalted core cycles) count 100000
samples % symbol name
483726 9.0185 __copy_user_zeroing_intel
191466 3.5697 __copy_user_intel
185475 3.4580 dst_release
175114 3.2648 ip_queue_xmit
153447 2.8608 tcp_sendmsg
108775 2.0280 tcp_recvmsg
102659 1.9140 sysenter_past_esp
101450 1.8914 tcp_current_mss
95067 1.7724 __copy_from_user_ll
86531 1.6133 tcp_transmit_skb
Of course, all CPUS fight on the dst_entry associated with 127.0.0.1
Instead of first checking the refcount value, then decrement it,
we use atomic_dec_return() to help CPU to make the right memory transaction
(ie getting the cache line in exclusive mode)
dst_release() is now at the fifth position, and tbench a litle bit faster ;)
CPU: Core 2, speed 3000.1 MHz (estimated)
Counted CPU_CLK_UNHALTED events (Clock cycles when not halted) with a unit mask of 0x00 (Unhalted core cycles) count 100000
samples % symbol name
647107 8.8072 __copy_user_zeroing_intel
258840 3.5229 ip_queue_xmit
258302 3.5155 __copy_user_intel
209629 2.8531 tcp_sendmsg
165632 2.2543 dst_release
149232 2.0311 tcp_current_mss
147821 2.0119 tcp_recvmsg
137893 1.8767 sysenter_past_esp
127473 1.7349 __copy_from_user_ll
121308 1.6510 ip_finish_output
118510 1.6129 tcp_transmit_skb
109295 1.4875 tcp_v4_rcv
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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