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authorAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>2012-06-21 15:58:31 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-06-23 02:11:13 +0200
commit6648bd7e0e62c0c8c03b15e00c9e7015e232feff (patch)
treee5e1fdadea6ea51b4341017c40906e71c1913774 /include/net/ip.h
parentsmsc911x.c: encapsulate enable irq calls (diff)
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ipv4: Add sysctl knob to control early socket demux
This change is meant to add a control for disabling early socket demux. The main motivation behind this patch is to provide an option to disable the feature as it adds an additional cost to routing that reduces overall throughput by up to 5%. For example one of my systems went from 12.1Mpps to 11.6 after the early socket demux was added. It looks like the reason for the regression is that we are now having to perform two lookups, first the one for an established socket, and then the one for the routing table. By adding this patch and toggling the value for ip_early_demux to 0 I am able to get back to the 12.1Mpps I was previously seeing. [ Move local variables in ip_rcv_finish() down into the basic block in which they are actually used. -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/include/net/ip.h b/include/net/ip.h
index 83e0619f59d0..50841bd6f10e 100644
--- a/include/net/ip.h
+++ b/include/net/ip.h
@@ -210,6 +210,9 @@ extern int inet_peer_threshold;
extern int inet_peer_minttl;
extern int inet_peer_maxttl;
+/* From ip_input.c */
+extern int sysctl_ip_early_demux;
+
/* From ip_output.c */
extern int sysctl_ip_dynaddr;