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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 12:24:04 -0400
From: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
To: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: tweak len/truesize ratio for coalesce candidates
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 9:27 AM Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 6:15 AM Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> >
> > tcp_grow_window() is using skb->len/skb->truesize to increase tp->rcv_ssthresh
> > which has a direct impact on advertized window sizes.
> >
> > We added TCP coalescing in linux-3.4 & linux-3.5:
> >
> > Instead of storing skbs with one or two MSS in receive queue (or OFO queue),
> > we try to append segments together to reduce memory overhead.
> >
> > High performance network drivers tend to cook skb with 3 parts :
> >
> > 1) sk_buff structure (256 bytes)
> > 2) skb->head contains room to copy headers as needed, and skb_shared_info
> > 3) page fragment(s) containing the ~1514 bytes frame (or more depending on MTU)
> >
> > Once coalesced into a previous skb, 1) and 2) are freed.
> >
> > We can therefore tweak the way we compute len/truesize ratio knowing
> > that skb->truesize is inflated by 1) and 2) soon to be freed.
> >
> > This is done only for in-order skb, or skb coalesced into OFO queue.
> >
> > The result is that low rate flows no longer pay the memory price of having
> > low GRO aggregation factor. Same result for drivers not using GRO.
> >
> > This is critical to allow a big enough receiver window,
> > typically tcp_rmem[2] / 2.
> >
> > We have been using this at Google for about 5 years, it is due time
> > to make it upstream.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> > Cc: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
> > Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
> > Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
>
> Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
>
> Thank you, Eric!
>
> > ---
> > net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> > 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
> > index bef2c8b64d83a0f3d4cca90f9b12912bf3d00807..501d8d4d4ba46f9a5de322ab690c320757e0990c 100644
> > --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
> > +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
> > @@ -454,11 +454,12 @@ static void tcp_sndbuf_expand(struct sock *sk)
> > */
> >
> > /* Slow part of check#2. */
> > -static int __tcp_grow_window(const struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb)
> > +static int __tcp_grow_window(const struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb,
> > + unsigned int skbtruesize)
> > {
> > struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
> > /* Optimize this! */
> > - int truesize = tcp_win_from_space(sk, skb->truesize) >> 1;
> > + int truesize = tcp_win_from_space(sk, skbtruesize) >> 1;
> > int window = tcp_win_from_space(sk, sock_net(sk)->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_rmem[2]) >> 1;
> >
> > while (tp->rcv_ssthresh <= window) {
> > @@ -471,7 +472,27 @@ static int __tcp_grow_window(const struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb)
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > -static void tcp_grow_window(struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb)
> > +/* Even if skb appears to have a bad len/truesize ratio, TCP coalescing
> > + * can play nice with us, as sk_buff and skb->head might be either
> > + * freed or shared with up to MAX_SKB_FRAGS segments.
> > + * Only give a boost to drivers using page frag(s) to hold the frame(s),
> > + * and if no payload was pulled in skb->head before reaching us.
> > + */
> > +static u32 truesize_adjust(bool adjust, const struct sk_buff *skb)
> > +{
> > + u32 truesize = skb->truesize;
> > +
> > + if (adjust && !skb_headlen(skb)) {
> > + truesize -= SKB_TRUESIZE(skb_end_offset(skb));
> > + /* paranoid check, some drivers might be buggy */
> > + if (unlikely((int)truesize < (int)skb->len))
> > + truesize = skb->truesize;
> > + }
> > + return truesize;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static void tcp_grow_window(struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb,
> > + bool adjust)
> > {
> > struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
> > int room;
> > @@ -480,15 +501,16 @@ static void tcp_grow_window(struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb)
> >
> > /* Check #1 */
> > if (room > 0 && !tcp_under_memory_pressure(sk)) {
> > + unsigned int truesize = truesize_adjust(adjust, skb);
> > int incr;
> >
> > /* Check #2. Increase window, if skb with such overhead
> > * will fit to rcvbuf in future.
> > */
> > - if (tcp_win_from_space(sk, skb->truesize) <= skb->len)
> > + if (tcp_win_from_space(sk, truesize) <= skb->len)
> > incr = 2 * tp->advmss;
> > else
> > - incr = __tcp_grow_window(sk, skb);
> > + incr = __tcp_grow_window(sk, skb, truesize);
> >
> > if (incr) {
> > incr = max_t(int, incr, 2 * skb->len);
> > @@ -782,7 +804,7 @@ static void tcp_event_data_recv(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
> > tcp_ecn_check_ce(sk, skb);
> >
> > if (skb->len >= 128)
> > - tcp_grow_window(sk, skb);
> > + tcp_grow_window(sk, skb, true);
> > }
> >
> > /* Called to compute a smoothed rtt estimate. The data fed to this
> > @@ -4769,7 +4791,7 @@ static void tcp_data_queue_ofo(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
> > * and trigger fast retransmit.
> > */
> > if (tcp_is_sack(tp))
> > - tcp_grow_window(sk, skb);
> > + tcp_grow_window(sk, skb, true);
> > kfree_skb_partial(skb, fragstolen);
> > skb = NULL;
> > goto add_sack;
> > @@ -4857,7 +4879,7 @@ static void tcp_data_queue_ofo(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
> > * and trigger fast retransmit.
> > */
> > if (tcp_is_sack(tp))
> > - tcp_grow_window(sk, skb);
> > + tcp_grow_window(sk, skb, false);
> > skb_condense(skb);
> > skb_set_owner_r(skb, sk);
> > }
> > --
> > 2.32.0.402.g57bb445576-goog
> >
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