netdev - Re: [PATCH net] macvtap: unbreak receiving of gro skb with frag list

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Message-ID: <56303825.6070307@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 Oct 2015 10:51:17 +0800
From:	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] macvtap: unbreak receiving of gro skb with frag list



On 10/27/2015 05:05 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:58:25AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>>
>> On 10/26/2015 04:30 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 02:53:38PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>>>> On 10/26/2015 02:09 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:15:57AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>>>>>> On 10/23/2015 09:37 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 12:57:05AM -0400, Jason Wang wrote:
>>>>>>>> We don't have fraglist support in TAP_FEATURES. This will lead
>>>>>>>> software segmentation of gro skb with frag list. Fixes by having
>>>>>>>> frag list support in TAP_FEATURES.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> With this patch single session of netperf receiving were restored from
>>>>>>>> about 5Gb/s to about 12Gb/s on mlx4.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Fixes a567dd6252 ("macvtap: simplify usage of tap_features")
>>>>>>>> Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>
>>>>>>>> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
>>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>> Does this mean we should look at re-adding NETIF_F_FRAGLIST
>>>>>>> to virtio-net as well?
>>>>>> Not sure I get the point, but probably not. This is for receiving and
>>>>>> skb_copy_datagram_iter() can deal with frag list.
>>>>> Point is:
>>>>> - bridge within guest
>>>>> - assigned device creating gro skbs with frag list bridged to virtio
>>>> I see, but this problem looks not specific to virtio. Most cards does
>>>> not support frag list.
>>> These will be slower when used with a bridge then, won't they?
>> For forwarding, not sure. GRO has latency and cpu overhead anyway.
> Right but that's up to the user. You aren't disabling GRO
> on source, you are just splitting it up.
>
>> Anyway I can try to add the support for this.
> Which reminds me: on modern devices there are commands to control
> offloads, so for these, we should support turning offloads on/off using
> ethtool.
>

Trying to implement frag list but see a problem. Looks like driver need
to scan the possible number of io vectors? (Since vhost support max to
UIO_MAXIOV number of io vectors). Looks like there's no clarification on
this in the spec. (Which only limit the length of descriptor chain to
Queue size).
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