sctp: avoid refreshing heartbeat timer too often

Currently on high rate SCTP streams the heartbeat timer refresh can
consume quite a lot of resources as timer updates are costly and it
contains a random factor, which a) is also costly and b) invalidates
mod_timer() optimization for not editing a timer to the same value.
It may even cause the timer to be slightly advanced, for no good reason.

As suggested by David Laight this patch now removes this timer update
from hot path by leaving the timer on and re-evaluating upon its
expiration if the heartbeat is still needed or not, similarly to what is
done for TCP. If it's not needed anymore the timer is re-scheduled to
the new timeout, considering the time already elapsed.

For this, we now record the last tx timestamp per transport, updated in
the same spots as hb timer was restarted on tx. Also split up
sctp_transport_reset_timers into sctp_transport_reset_t3_rtx and
sctp_transport_reset_hb_timer, so we can re-arm T3 without re-arming the
heartbeat one.

On loopback with MTU of 65535 and data chunks with 1636, so that we
have a considerable amount of chunks without stressing system calls,
netperf -t SCTP_STREAM -l 30, perf looked like this before:

Samples: 103K of event 'cpu-clock', Event count (approx.): 25833000000
  Overhead  Command  Shared Object      Symbol
+    6,15%  netperf  [kernel.vmlinux]   [k] copy_user_enhanced_fast_string
-    5,43%  netperf  [kernel.vmlinux]   [k] _raw_write_unlock_irqrestore
   - _raw_write_unlock_irqrestore
      - 96,54% _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
         - 36,14% mod_timer
            + 97,24% sctp_transport_reset_timers
            + 2,76% sctp_do_sm
         + 33,65% __wake_up_sync_key
         + 28,77% sctp_ulpq_tail_event
         + 1,40% del_timer
      - 1,84% mod_timer
         + 99,03% sctp_transport_reset_timers
         + 0,97% sctp_do_sm
      + 1,50% sctp_ulpq_tail_event

And after this patch, now with netperf -l 60:

Samples: 230K of event 'cpu-clock', Event count (approx.): 57707250000
  Overhead  Command  Shared Object      Symbol
+    5,65%  netperf  [kernel.vmlinux]   [k] memcpy_erms
+    5,59%  netperf  [kernel.vmlinux]   [k] copy_user_enhanced_fast_string
-    5,05%  netperf  [kernel.vmlinux]   [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   - _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
      + 49,89% __wake_up_sync_key
      + 45,68% sctp_ulpq_tail_event
      - 2,85% mod_timer
         + 76,51% sctp_transport_reset_t3_rtx
         + 23,49% sctp_do_sm
      + 1,55% del_timer
+    2,50%  netperf  [sctp]             [k] sctp_datamsg_from_user
+    2,26%  netperf  [sctp]             [k] sctp_sendmsg

Throughput-wise, from 6800mbps without the patch to 7050mbps with it,
~3.7%.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
index 7fe56d0acabf..41b081a64752 100644
--- a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
+++ b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
@@ -69,8 +69,6 @@ static int sctp_side_effects(sctp_event_t event_type, sctp_subtype_t subtype,
 			     sctp_cmd_seq_t *commands,
 			     gfp_t gfp);
 
-static void sctp_cmd_hb_timer_update(sctp_cmd_seq_t *cmds,
-				     struct sctp_transport *t);
 /********************************************************************
  * Helper functions
  ********************************************************************/
@@ -367,6 +365,7 @@ void sctp_generate_heartbeat_event(unsigned long data)
 	struct sctp_association *asoc = transport->asoc;
 	struct sock *sk = asoc->base.sk;
 	struct net *net = sock_net(sk);
+	u32 elapsed, timeout;
 
 	bh_lock_sock(sk);
 	if (sock_owned_by_user(sk)) {
@@ -378,6 +377,16 @@ void sctp_generate_heartbeat_event(unsigned long data)
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
+	/* Check if we should still send the heartbeat or reschedule */
+	elapsed = jiffies - transport->last_time_sent;
+	timeout = sctp_transport_timeout(transport);
+	if (elapsed < timeout) {
+		elapsed = timeout - elapsed;
+		if (!mod_timer(&transport->hb_timer, jiffies + elapsed))
+			sctp_transport_hold(transport);
+		goto out_unlock;
+	}
+
 	error = sctp_do_sm(net, SCTP_EVENT_T_TIMEOUT,
 			   SCTP_ST_TIMEOUT(SCTP_EVENT_TIMEOUT_HEARTBEAT),
 			   asoc->state, asoc->ep, asoc,
@@ -507,7 +516,7 @@ static void sctp_do_8_2_transport_strike(sctp_cmd_seq_t *commands,
 					     0);
 
 		/* Update the hb timer to resend a heartbeat every rto */
-		sctp_cmd_hb_timer_update(commands, transport);
+		sctp_transport_reset_hb_timer(transport);
 	}
 
 	if (transport->state != SCTP_INACTIVE &&
@@ -634,11 +643,8 @@ static void sctp_cmd_hb_timers_start(sctp_cmd_seq_t *cmds,
 	 * hold a reference on the transport to make sure none of
 	 * the needed data structures go away.
 	 */
-	list_for_each_entry(t, &asoc->peer.transport_addr_list, transports) {
-
-		if (!mod_timer(&t->hb_timer, sctp_transport_timeout(t)))
-			sctp_transport_hold(t);
-	}
+	list_for_each_entry(t, &asoc->peer.transport_addr_list, transports)
+		sctp_transport_reset_hb_timer(t);
 }
 
 static void sctp_cmd_hb_timers_stop(sctp_cmd_seq_t *cmds,
@@ -669,15 +675,6 @@ static void sctp_cmd_t3_rtx_timers_stop(sctp_cmd_seq_t *cmds,
 }
 
 
-/* Helper function to update the heartbeat timer. */
-static void sctp_cmd_hb_timer_update(sctp_cmd_seq_t *cmds,
-				     struct sctp_transport *t)
-{
-	/* Update the heartbeat timer.  */
-	if (!mod_timer(&t->hb_timer, sctp_transport_timeout(t)))
-		sctp_transport_hold(t);
-}
-
 /* Helper function to handle the reception of an HEARTBEAT ACK.  */
 static void sctp_cmd_transport_on(sctp_cmd_seq_t *cmds,
 				  struct sctp_association *asoc,
@@ -742,8 +739,7 @@ static void sctp_cmd_transport_on(sctp_cmd_seq_t *cmds,
 	sctp_transport_update_rto(t, (jiffies - hbinfo->sent_at));
 
 	/* Update the heartbeat timer.  */
-	if (!mod_timer(&t->hb_timer, sctp_transport_timeout(t)))
-		sctp_transport_hold(t);
+	sctp_transport_reset_hb_timer(t);
 
 	if (was_unconfirmed && asoc->peer.transport_count == 1)
 		sctp_transport_immediate_rtx(t);
@@ -1614,7 +1610,7 @@ static int sctp_cmd_interpreter(sctp_event_t event_type,
 
 		case SCTP_CMD_HB_TIMER_UPDATE:
 			t = cmd->obj.transport;
-			sctp_cmd_hb_timer_update(commands, t);
+			sctp_transport_reset_hb_timer(t);
 			break;
 
 		case SCTP_CMD_HB_TIMERS_STOP: