I noticed "ip route list cache x.y.z.t" can be *very* slow.
While strace-ing -T it I also noticed that first part of route cache
is fetched quite fast :
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=
00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202
GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3772 <0.000047>
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=
00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\234\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\
202GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3736 <0.000042>
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=
00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\204\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\
202GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3740 <0.000055>
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=
00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\234\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\
202GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3712 <0.000043>
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=
00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\204\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\
202GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3732 <0.000053>
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=
00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202
GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3708 <0.000052>
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=
00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202
GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3680 <0.000041>
while the part at the end of the table is more expensive:
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=
00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\204\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3656 <0.003857>
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=
00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\204\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3772 <0.003891>
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=
00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3712 <0.003765>
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=
00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3700 <0.003879>
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=
00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3676 <0.003797>
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=
00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3724 <0.003856>
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=
00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\234\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3736 <0.003848>
The following patch corrects this performance/latency problem,
removing quadratic behavior.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>