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| author | Ray Zhang <sgzhang@google.com> | 2026-11-01 00:51:45 -0700 |
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| committer | Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> | 2026-11-05 11:16:38 +0100 |
| commit | c4e4056b21355356f6a95bcdf03a850edd9f49e7 (patch) | |
| tree | 669ffa725a9285f3a0067907642ca0fbee79d9f4 /tools/perf/scripts/python/flamegraph.py | |
| parent | 547b1ae5ec50b7d81b05b4219e0db7e56279d65f (diff) | |
net: count last skb of each sk_backlog pass in __release_sock()
Running 500 concurrent TCPv6 streams (neper "tcp_stream -6 -T 1 -F 500")
on a 2-core Cortex-A53 (CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y, HZ=1000, LATENCY_WARN)
triggers resched_latency_warn() in __release_sock():
[ 3655.311821] sched: CPU 0 need_resched set for > 100006892 ns (100 ticks) without schedule
[ 3655.311889] Call trace:
...
[ 3655.311944] resched_latency_warn+0x7c/0x88
[ 3655.311958] sched_tick+0x1c0/0x418
...
[ 3655.312578] net_rx_action+0x238/0x438
...
[ 3655.312641] do_softirq+0x4c/0x90
[ 3655.312651] __local_bh_enable_ip+0x84/0x90
[ 3655.312663] local_bh_enable+0x1c/0x28
[ 3655.312674] __dev_queue_xmit+0x4a8/0xb00
...
[ 3655.312782] tcp_v6_do_rcv+0x240/0x5f8
[ 3655.312793] __release_sock+0x9c/0x188
[ 3655.312806] release_sock+0x150/0x168
[ 3655.312817] tcp_sendmsg+0x4c/0x70
__release_sock() can loop past 100 ms without calling cond_resched():
- Each outer-loop pass drains sk_backlog, but "if (!skb) break;" runs
before "++nb", so a pass of B skbs only adds B - 1 to nb (0 for 1 skb).
- With 500 TCPv6 streams and NAPI sharing two Cortex-A53 cores, runnable
tasks keep TIF_NEED_RESCHED set on CPU 0.
- During spin_unlock_bh() and TX softirqs (__dev_queue_xmit() ->
local_bh_enable()), tcp_add_backlog() coalesces arriving pure ACKs into
a single tail skb.
- Repeated 1-skb passes never advance nb or call cond_resched(),
triggering resched_latency_warn() after 100 ticks.
Restore the do-while loop and drop "if (!skb) break;" so every skb
increments nb across passes and calls cond_resched() every 16 skbs.
Reproduced the issue and verified the fix on two 2-core Cortex-A53 hosts
(CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y, HZ=1000, LATENCY_WARN, latency_warn_once=0) with
a userspace reproducer over /dev/net/tun:
- CPU 0 runs a TCPv6 sender and a second runnable task while CPU 1 writes
pure ACKs to /dev/net/tun (~30k TCPBacklogCoalesce/run), sustaining
1-skb sk_backlog refills in __release_sock() for ~400 ms (ftrace).
- Before: CPU 0 stayed unscheduled in __release_sock(), hitting
resched_latency_warn() 293 and 275 times on the two hosts (> 100.9 ms).
- After: cond_resched() yielded CPU 0 inside __release_sock(), with
0 resched_latency_warn() hits on both hosts.
- Also observed no regression with the workload from
commit 16c610162d1f ("net: call cond_resched() less often in
__release_sock()"), "super_netperf 4 -H srv -T,10 -l 3000 &".
Fixes: 16c610162d1f ("net: call cond_resched() less often in __release_sock()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ray Zhang <sgzhang@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261101075145.698399-1-sgzhang@google.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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