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Date:	Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:00:40 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@...rix.com>
Cc:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@...ux.intel.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	malcolm.crossley@...rix.com, david.vrabel@...rix.com,
	xen-devel@...ts.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/core: Order-3 frag allocator causes SWIOTLB
 bouncing under Xen

On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 21:47 +0100, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
> THIS PATCH IS NOT INTENDED TO BE UPSTREAMED, IT HAS ONLY INFORMING PURPOSES!
> 
> I've noticed a performance regression with upstream kernels when used as Dom0
> under Xen. The classic kernel can utilize the whole bandwidth of a 10G NIC
> (ca. 9.3 Gbps), but upstream can reach only ca. 7 Gbps. I found that it
> happens because SWIOTLB has to do double buffering. The per task frag
> allocator introduced in 5640f7 creates 32 kb frags, which are not contiguous
> in mfn space.
> This patch provides a workaround by going back to the old way. The possible
> ideas came up to solve this:
> 
> * make sure Dom0 memory is contiguous: it sounds trivial, but doesn't work with
> driver domains, and there are lots of situations where this is not possible.
> * use PVH Dom0: so we will have IOMMU. In the future sometime.
> * use IOMMU with PV Dom0: this seems to happen earlier.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@...rix.com>
> ---
>  net/core/sock.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
> index 2c097c5..854a0ea 100644
> --- a/net/core/sock.c
> +++ b/net/core/sock.c
> @@ -1812,7 +1812,7 @@ struct sk_buff *sock_alloc_send_skb(struct sock *sk, unsigned long size,
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(sock_alloc_send_skb);
>  
>  /* On 32bit arches, an skb frag is limited to 2^15 */
> -#define SKB_FRAG_PAGE_ORDER	get_order(32768)
> +#define SKB_FRAG_PAGE_ORDER	get_order(4096)
>  

Well, this hack is not new...

We have dev->gso_max_size and dev->gso_max_segs

We also have in net-next sk_pacing_rate and dynamic TSO sizing.

Maybe you could add proper infrastructure to deal with Xen limitations.



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