bpf/lpm_trie: Inline longest_prefix_match for fastpath
The BPF map type LPM (Longest Prefix Match) is used heavily in production by multiple products that have BPF components. Perf data shows trie_lookup_elem() and longest_prefix_match() being part of kernels perf top. For every level in the LPM tree trie_lookup_elem() calls out to longest_prefix_match(). The compiler is free to inline this call, but chooses not to inline, because other slowpath callers (that can be invoked via syscall) exists like trie_update_elem(), trie_delete_elem() or trie_get_next_key(). bcc/tools/funccount -Ti 1 'trie_lookup_elem|longest_prefix_match.isra.0' FUNC COUNT trie_lookup_elem 664945 longest_prefix_match.isra.0 8101507 Observation on a single random machine shows a factor 12 between the two functions. Given an average of 12 levels in the trie being searched. This patch force inlining longest_prefix_match(), but only for the lookup fastpath to balance object instruction size. In production with AMD CPUs, measuring the function latency of 'trie_lookup_elem' (bcc/tools/funclatency) we are seeing an improvement function latency reduction 7-8% with this patch applied (to production kernels 6.6 and 6.1). Analyzing perf data, we can explain this rather large improvement due to reducing the overhead for AMD side-channel mitigation SRSO (Speculative Return Stack Overflow). Fixes: fb3bd914 ("x86/srso: Add a Speculative RAS Overflow mitigation") Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/171076828575.2141737.18370644069389889027.stgit@firesoul
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