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Message-ID: <CAKyyzSRfO_Hw4bDimfzV9+-8damc9RwoqA_RLkBBa_gMw9e62Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 1 Jun 2014 14:39:39 +0300
From:	Igor Royzis <igorr@...rtex.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>,
	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
	Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@...rix.com>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Anton Nayshtut <anton@...rtex.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixed zero copy GSO without orphaning the fragments

The patch discussion seems got lost due to a delay it took us to get
the numbers. We believe that a 24% improvement in VM's network
performance (and probably the better improvement the more guests are
running on a host) is worth commenting and getting to some conclusion.

> Before your patch :
>
> sizeof(struct skb_shared_info)=0x140
> offsetof(struct skb_shared_info, frags[1])=0x40
>
> SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info)) -> 0x140
>
> After your patch :
>
> sizeof(struct skb_shared_info)=0x148
> offsetof(struct skb_shared_info, frags[1])=0x48
>
> SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info)) -> 0x180
>
> Thats a serious bump, because it increases all skb truesizes, and
> typical skb with one fragment will use 2 cache lines instead of one in
> struct skb_shared_info, so this adds memory pressure in fast path.
>
> So while this patch might increase performance for some workloads,
> it generally decreases performance on many others.

Would moving  the parent fragment pointer from skb_shared_info to
skbuff solve this issue?

Regards,
-Igor

On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Igor Royzis <igorr@...rtex.com> wrote:
>> If true, I'd like to see some performance numbers please.
>
> The numbers have been obtained by running iperf between 2 QEMU Win2012
> VMs, 4 vCPU/ 4GB RAM each.
> iperf parameters: -w 256K -l 256K -t 300
> Original kernel 3.15.0-rc5:           34.4 Gbytes transferred, 984
> Mbits/sec bandwidth.
> Kernel 3.15.0-rc5 with our patch: 42.5 Gbytes transferred, 1.22
> Gbits/sec bandwidth.
>
> Overall improvement is about 24%.
> Below are raw iperf outputs.
>
> kernel 3.15.0-rc5:
> C:\iperf>iperf -c 192.168.11.2 -w 256K -l 256K -t 300
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Client connecting to 192.168.11.2, TCP port 5001
> TCP window size:  256 KByte
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> [  3] local 192.168.11.1 port 49167 connected with 192.168.11.2 port 5001
> [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
> [  3]  0.0-300.7 sec  34.4 GBytes   984 Mbits/sec
>
> kernel 3.15.0-rc5-patched:
> C:\iperf>iperf -c 192.168.11.2 -w 256K -l 256K -t 300
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Client connecting to 192.168.11.2, TCP port 5001
> TCP window size:  256 KByte
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> [  3] local 192.168.11.1 port 49167 connected with 192.168.11.2 port 5001
> [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
> [  3]  0.0-300.7 sec  42.5 GBytes   1.22 Gbits/sec
>
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 02:24:21PM +0300, Igor Royzis wrote:
>> > Fix accessing GSO fragments memory (and a possible corruption therefore) after
>> > reporting completion in a zero copy callback. The previous fix in the commit 1fd819ec
>> > orphaned frags which eliminates zero copy advantages. The fix makes the completion
>> > called after all the fragments were processed avoiding unnecessary orphaning/copying
>> > from userspace.
>> >
>> > The GSO fragments corruption issue was observed in a typical QEMU/KVM VM setup that
>> > hosts a Windows guest (since QEMU virtio-net Windows driver doesn't support GRO).
>> > The fix has been verified by running the HCK OffloadLSO test.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Igor Royzis <igorr@...rtex.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Anton Nayshtut <anton@...rtex.com>
>>
>> OK but with 1fd819ec there's no corruption, correct?
>> So this patch is in fact an optimization?
>> If true, I'd like to see some performance numbers please.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> > ---
>> >  include/linux/skbuff.h |    1 +
>> >  net/core/skbuff.c      |   18 +++++++++++++-----
>> >  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
>> > index 08074a8..8c49edc 100644
>> > --- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
>> > +++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
>> > @@ -287,6 +287,7 @@ struct skb_shared_info {
>> >       struct sk_buff  *frag_list;
>> >       struct skb_shared_hwtstamps hwtstamps;
>> >       __be32          ip6_frag_id;
>> > +     struct sk_buff  *zcopy_src;
>> >
>> >       /*
>> >        * Warning : all fields before dataref are cleared in __alloc_skb()
>> > diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
>> > index 1b62343..6fa6342 100644
>> > --- a/net/core/skbuff.c
>> > +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
>> > @@ -610,14 +610,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kfree_skb);
>> >   */
>> >  void kfree_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
>> >  {
>> > +     struct sk_buff *zcopy_src;
>> >       if (unlikely(!skb))
>> >               return;
>> >       if (likely(atomic_read(&skb->users) == 1))
>> >               smp_rmb();
>> >       else if (likely(!atomic_dec_and_test(&skb->users)))
>> >               return;
>> > +     zcopy_src = skb_shinfo(skb)->zcopy_src;
>> >       trace_kfree_skb(skb, __builtin_return_address(0));
>> >       __kfree_skb(skb);
>> > +     if (unlikely(zcopy_src))
>> > +             kfree_skb(zcopy_src);
>> >  }
>> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree_skb);
>> >
>> > @@ -662,14 +666,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_tx_error);
>> >   */
>> >  void consume_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
>> >  {
>> > +     struct sk_buff *zcopy_src;
>> >       if (unlikely(!skb))
>> >               return;
>> >       if (likely(atomic_read(&skb->users) == 1))
>> >               smp_rmb();
>> >       else if (likely(!atomic_dec_and_test(&skb->users)))
>> >               return;
>> > +     zcopy_src = skb_shinfo(skb)->zcopy_src;
>> >       trace_consume_skb(skb);
>> >       __kfree_skb(skb);
>> > +     if (unlikely(zcopy_src))
>> > +             consume_skb(zcopy_src);
>> >  }
>> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(consume_skb);
>> >
>> > @@ -2867,7 +2875,6 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment(struct sk_buff *head_skb,
>> >       skb_frag_t *frag = skb_shinfo(head_skb)->frags;
>> >       unsigned int mss = skb_shinfo(head_skb)->gso_size;
>> >       unsigned int doffset = head_skb->data - skb_mac_header(head_skb);
>> > -     struct sk_buff *frag_skb = head_skb;
>> >       unsigned int offset = doffset;
>> >       unsigned int tnl_hlen = skb_tnl_header_len(head_skb);
>> >       unsigned int headroom;
>> > @@ -2913,7 +2920,6 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment(struct sk_buff *head_skb,
>> >                       i = 0;
>> >                       nfrags = skb_shinfo(list_skb)->nr_frags;
>> >                       frag = skb_shinfo(list_skb)->frags;
>> > -                     frag_skb = list_skb;
>> >                       pos += skb_headlen(list_skb);
>> >
>> >                       while (pos < offset + len) {
>> > @@ -2975,6 +2981,11 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment(struct sk_buff *head_skb,
>> >                                                nskb->data - tnl_hlen,
>> >                                                doffset + tnl_hlen);
>> >
>> > +             if (skb_shinfo(head_skb)->tx_flags & SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY) {
>> > +                     skb_shinfo(nskb)->zcopy_src = head_skb;
>> > +                     atomic_inc(&head_skb->users);
>> > +             }
>> > +
>> >               if (nskb->len == len + doffset)
>> >                       goto perform_csum_check;
>> >
>> > @@ -3001,7 +3012,6 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment(struct sk_buff *head_skb,
>> >                               i = 0;
>> >                               nfrags = skb_shinfo(list_skb)->nr_frags;
>> >                               frag = skb_shinfo(list_skb)->frags;
>> > -                             frag_skb = list_skb;
>> >
>> >                               BUG_ON(!nfrags);
>> >
>> > @@ -3016,8 +3026,6 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment(struct sk_buff *head_skb,
>> >                               goto err;
>> >                       }
>> >
>> > -                     if (unlikely(skb_orphan_frags(frag_skb, GFP_ATOMIC)))
>> > -                             goto err;
>> >
>> >                       *nskb_frag = *frag;
>> >                       __skb_frag_ref(nskb_frag);
>> > --
>> > 1.7.9.5
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