netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 4/5] net/tun: implement ndo_set_rx

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Date:	Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:49:42 +0100
From:	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>,
	Jesse Gross <jesse@...nel.org>,
	Flavio Leitner <fbl@...close.org>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/5] net/tun: implement ndo_set_rx_headroom

On Tue, 2016-02-23 at 13:53 +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> ndo_set_rx_headroom controls the align value used by tun devices to
> allocate skbs on frame reception.
> When the xmit device adds a large encapsulation, this avoids an skb
> head reallocation on forwarding.
> 
> The measured improvement when forwarding towards a vxlan dev with
> frame size below the egress device MTU is around 6% when tunneling over
> ipv6.
> 
> In case of ipv4 tunnels there is no improvement, since the tun
> device default alignment provides enough headroom to avoid the skb
> head reallocation, at least on hosts with 64 bytes cacheline.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/tun.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
> index 88bb8cc..5812693 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/tun.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
> @@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ struct tun_struct {
>  #define TUN_USER_FEATURES (NETIF_F_HW_CSUM|NETIF_F_TSO_ECN|NETIF_F_TSO| \
>  			  NETIF_F_TSO6|NETIF_F_UFO)
>  
> +	int			align;

This needs to be initialized to NET_SKB_PAD, to preserved the current
behavior.

I'll fix it in v2.

Paolo