tcp: remove dst refcount false sharing for prequeue mode

Alexander Duyck reported high false sharing on dst refcount in tcp stack
when prequeue is used. prequeue is the mechanism used when a thread is
blocked in recvmsg()/read() on a TCP socket, using a blocking model
rather than select()/poll()/epoll() non blocking one.

We already try to use RCU in input path as much as possible, but we were
forced to take a refcount on the dst when skb escaped RCU protected
region. When/if the user thread runs on different cpu, dst_release()
will then touch dst refcount again.

Commit 093162553c33 (tcp: force a dst refcount when prequeue packet)
was an example of a race fix.

It turns out the only remaining usage of skb->dst for a packet stored
in a TCP socket prequeue is IP early demux.

We can add a logic to detect when IP early demux is probably going
to use skb->dst. Because we do an optimistic check rather than duplicate
existing logic, we need to guard inet_sk_rx_dst_set() and
inet6_sk_rx_dst_set() from using a NULL dst.

Many thanks to Alexander for providing a nice bug report, git bisection,
and reproducer.

Tested using Alexander script on a 40Gb NIC, 8 RX queues.
Hosts have 24 cores, 48 hyper threads.

echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_autocorking

for i in `seq 0 47`
do
  for j in `seq 0 2`
  do
     netperf -H $DEST -t TCP_STREAM -l 1000 \
             -c -C -T $i,$i -P 0 -- \
             -m 64 -s 64K -D &
  done
done

Before patch : ~6Mpps and ~95% cpu usage on receiver
After patch : ~9Mpps and ~35% cpu usage on receiver.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
index 5b3c70ff7a72..1835480336ac 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
@@ -93,13 +93,16 @@ static struct tcp_md5sig_key *tcp_v6_md5_do_lookup(struct sock *sk,
 static void inet6_sk_rx_dst_set(struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	struct dst_entry *dst = skb_dst(skb);
-	const struct rt6_info *rt = (const struct rt6_info *)dst;
 
-	dst_hold(dst);
-	sk->sk_rx_dst = dst;
-	inet_sk(sk)->rx_dst_ifindex = skb->skb_iif;
-	if (rt->rt6i_node)
-		inet6_sk(sk)->rx_dst_cookie = rt->rt6i_node->fn_sernum;
+	if (dst) {
+		const struct rt6_info *rt = (const struct rt6_info *)dst;
+
+		dst_hold(dst);
+		sk->sk_rx_dst = dst;
+		inet_sk(sk)->rx_dst_ifindex = skb->skb_iif;
+		if (rt->rt6i_node)
+			inet6_sk(sk)->rx_dst_cookie = rt->rt6i_node->fn_sernum;
+	}
 }
 
 static void tcp_v6_hash(struct sock *sk)