From 902fefb82ef72a50c78cb4a20cc954b037a98d1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Borkmann Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:25:34 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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() -> 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/packet/af_packet.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c index 279467b74eb7..85bb38cb56fd 100644 --- a/net/packet/af_packet.c +++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c @@ -2567,9 +2567,12 @@ static int packet_release(struct socket *sock) * Attach a packet hook. */ -static int packet_do_bind(struct sock *sk, struct net_device *dev, __be16 protocol) +static int packet_do_bind(struct sock *sk, struct net_device *dev, __be16 proto) { struct packet_sock *po = pkt_sk(sk); + const struct net_device *dev_curr; + __be16 proto_curr; + bool need_rehook; if (po->fanout) { if (dev) @@ -2579,21 +2582,29 @@ static int packet_do_bind(struct sock *sk, struct net_device *dev, __be16 protoc } lock_sock(sk); - spin_lock(&po->bind_lock); - unregister_prot_hook(sk, true); - po->num = protocol; - po->prot_hook.type = protocol; - if (po->prot_hook.dev) - dev_put(po->prot_hook.dev); + proto_curr = po->prot_hook.type; + dev_curr = po->prot_hook.dev; + + need_rehook = proto_curr != proto || dev_curr != dev; + + if (need_rehook) { + unregister_prot_hook(sk, true); - po->prot_hook.dev = dev; - po->ifindex = dev ? dev->ifindex : 0; + po->num = proto; + po->prot_hook.type = proto; + + if (po->prot_hook.dev) + dev_put(po->prot_hook.dev); - packet_cached_dev_assign(po, dev); + po->prot_hook.dev = dev; + + po->ifindex = dev ? dev->ifindex : 0; + packet_cached_dev_assign(po, dev); + } - if (protocol == 0) + if (proto == 0 || !need_rehook) goto out_unlock; if (!dev || (dev->flags & IFF_UP)) { -- 2.34.1