netdev - Re: ipsec impact on performance

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Message-ID: <1449173322.25029.13.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Thu, 03 Dec 2015 12:08:42 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ipsec impact on performance

On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 14:33 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 12:59:53 -0500
> 
> > I instrumented iperf with and without ipsec, just using esp-null, 
> > and 1 thread, to keep things simple. I'm seeing some pretty dismal 
> > performance numbers with ipsec, and trying to think of ways to
> > improve this. Here are my findings, please share feedback.
> 
> Doesn't skb_cow_data() contribute significantly to the ESP base cost,
> especially for TCP packets?
> 
> I mean, we're copying every TCP data frame.
> 
> If this is the case, even with GSO/whatever offloads, I expect that
> performance will be roughly halfed.

This reminds me this thing I noticed is that we (un)clone all xmit GRE
GSO packets because of following code in iptunnel_handle_offloads() :

        if (skb_is_gso(skb)) {
                err = skb_unclone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
                if (unlikely(err))
                        goto error;
                skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type |= gso_type_mask;
                return skb;
        }

This is certainly something we should avoid, since we have ~1500 bytes
of payload in skb->head per TCP skb

Ideally, part of gso_type should belong to skb, not skb_shinfo(skb) :(



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