[ 35/46] net: revert 8728c544a9c ("net: dev_pick_tx() fix")

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Sep 12 2013 - 14:03:45 EST


3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 702821f4ea6f68db18aa1de7d8ed62c6ba586a64 ]

commit 8728c544a9cbdc ("net: dev_pick_tx() fix") and commit
b6fe83e9525a ("bonding: refine IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE capability")
are quite incompatible : Queue selection is disabled because skb
dst was dropped before entering bonding device.

This causes major performance regression, mainly because TCP packets
for a given flow can be sent to multiple queues.

This is particularly visible when using the new FQ packet scheduler
with MQ + FQ setup on the slaves.

We can safely revert the first commit now that 416186fbf8c5b
("net: Split core bits of netdev_pick_tx into __netdev_pick_tx")
properly caps the queue_index.

Reported-by: Xi Wang <xii@xxxxxxxxxx>
Diagnosed-by: Xi Wang <xii@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Fedorysychenko <nuclearcat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/flow_dissector.c | 11 +++--------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/net/core/flow_dissector.c
+++ b/net/core/flow_dissector.c
@@ -345,14 +345,9 @@ u16 __netdev_pick_tx(struct net_device *
if (new_index < 0)
new_index = skb_tx_hash(dev, skb);

- if (queue_index != new_index && sk) {
- struct dst_entry *dst =
- rcu_dereference_check(sk->sk_dst_cache, 1);
-
- if (dst && skb_dst(skb) == dst)
- sk_tx_queue_set(sk, queue_index);
-
- }
+ if (queue_index != new_index && sk &&
+ rcu_access_pointer(sk->sk_dst_cache))
+ sk_tx_queue_set(sk, queue_index);

queue_index = new_index;
}


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