netdev - UDP GRO without Merging

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Date:   Wed, 25 Jul 2018 11:53:45 +0200
From:   Gauvain Roussel-Tarbouriech <gauvain@...anify.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: UDP GRO without Merging

Subject:

Hello Netdev,

I am working on WireGuard as part of Google Summer of Code and Jason and
I are working on adding GRO to WireGuard, on the udp_tunnel side of
things. The goal is to inform udp_tunnel’s gro_receive that certain
packets are part of the same flow. Then sometime later, we’d like to
have a list of those same-flow packets appear in gro_complete. As far as
I can tell, the API seems well suited for merging packets in
gro_receive, such that gro_complete only then gets one single merged
packet. However, we need to receive the entire list of same-flow packets
in gro_complete, unmerged. Is this possible with the present APIs?

The goal of this, by the way, is to have more efficient clumping in
multi-core packet decryption, similar to what’s done using GSO on the
send/encryption side. See Jason’s netdevconf presentation for details on
this: https://www.wireguard.com/papers/wireguard-netdev22.pdf (section
“Generic Segmentation Offload Batching”).

Thanks,
-G