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Merge branch 'net-sched-singly-linked-list'
authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 19 Sep 2016 05:47:23 +0000 (01:47 -0400)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 19 Sep 2016 05:47:23 +0000 (01:47 -0400)
commit065c637208286ac6569632b6a0acf44ffc536b93
tree123595224534ee49f1175b6ef8371728b6d31538
parent78910987872f7aec1dca434f4b984a01b2f53da8
parent42ce57173f5f3ab702a4778802da3da951ef40b7
Merge branch 'net-sched-singly-linked-list'

Florian Westphal says:

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sched: convert queues to single-linked list

During Netfilter Workshop 2016 Eric Dumazet pointed out that qdisc
schedulers use doubly-linked lists, even though single-linked list
would be enough.

The double-linked skb lists incur one extra write on enqueue/dequeue
operations (to change ->prev pointer of next list elem).

This series converts qdiscs to single-linked version, listhead
maintains pointers to first (for dequeue) and last skb (for enqueue).

Most qdiscs don't queue at all and instead use a leaf qdisc (typically
pfifo_fast) so only a few schedulers needed changes.

I briefly tested netem and htb and they seemed fine.

UDP_STREAM netperf with 64 byte packets via veth+pfifo_fast shows
a small (~2%) improvement.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>