Re: [PATCH net-next v3 00/10] UDP/IPv6 refactoring

[David Ahern]

On 5/16/22 7:48 AM, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, 2022-05-13 at 16:26 +0100, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>> Refactor UDP/IPv6 and especially udpv6_sendmsg() paths. The end result looks
>> cleaner than it was before and the series also removes a bunch of instructions
>> and other overhead from the hot path positively affecting performance.
>>
>> Testing over dummy netdev with 16 byte packets yields 2240481 tx/s,
>> comparing to 2203417 tx/s previously, which is around +1.6%
> 
> I personally feel that some patches in this series have a relevant
> chance of introducing functional regressions and e.g. syzbot will not
> help to catch them. That risk is IMHO relevant considered that the
> performance gain here looks quite limited.
> 
> There are a few individual changes that IMHO looks like nice cleanup
> e.g. patch 5, 6, 8, 9 and possibly even patch 1.
> 
> I suggest to reduce the patchset scope to them.
> 

I agree with that sentiment. The set also needs testcases that captures
the various permutations.