net: make SK_MEMORY_PCPU_RESERV tunable

This patch adds /proc/sys/net/core/mem_pcpu_rsv sysctl file,
to make SK_MEMORY_PCPU_RESERV tunable.

Commit 3cd3399dd7 ("net: implement per-cpu reserves for
memory_allocated") introduced per-cpu forward alloc cache:

"Implement a per-cpu cache of +1/-1 MB, to reduce number
of changes to sk->sk_prot->memory_allocated, which
would otherwise be cause of false sharing."

sk_prot->memory_allocated points to global atomic variable:
atomic_long_t tcp_memory_allocated ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;

If increasing the per-cpu cache size from 1MB to e.g. 16MB,
changes to sk->sk_prot->memory_allocated can be further reduced.
Performance may be improved on system with many cores.

Signed-off-by: Adam Li <adamli@os.amperecomputing.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Adam Li
2024-02-26 02:24:52 +00:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent d4beef418c
commit 12a686c2e7
4 changed files with 18 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -206,6 +206,11 @@ Will increase power usage.
Default: 0 (off)
mem_pcpu_rsv
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Per-cpu reserved forward alloc cache size in page units. Default 1MB per CPU.
rmem_default
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