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Message-Id: <20220202120827.23716-1-alexandr.lobakin@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2022 13:08:27 +0100
From: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@...el.com>
To: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@...el.com>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] net: gro: minor optimization for dev_gro_receive()
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2022 11:09:41 +0100
> Hello,
Hi!
>
> On Tue, 2022-01-18 at 18:39 +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> > From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
> > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 17:31:00 +0100
> >
> > > On Tue, 2022-01-18 at 16:56 +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> > > > From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
> > > > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 16:24:19 +0100
> > > >
> > > > > While inspecting some perf report, I noticed that the compiler
> > > > > emits suboptimal code for the napi CB initialization, fetching
> > > > > and storing multiple times the memory for flags bitfield.
> > > > > This is with gcc 10.3.1, but I observed the same with older compiler
> > > > > versions.
> > > > >
> > > > > We can help the compiler to do a nicer work e.g. initially setting
> > > > > all the bitfield to 0 using an u16 alias. The generated code is quite
> > > > > smaller, with the same number of conditional
> > > > >
> > > > > Before:
> > > > > objdump -t net/core/gro.o | grep " F .text"
> > > > > 0000000000000bb0 l F .text 0000000000000357 dev_gro_receive
> > > > >
> > > > > After:
> > > > > 0000000000000bb0 l F .text 000000000000033c dev_gro_receive
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > include/net/gro.h | 13 +++++++++----
> > > > > net/core/gro.c | 16 +++++-----------
> > > > > 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> > > > >
> > > > > diff --git a/include/net/gro.h b/include/net/gro.h
> > > > > index 8f75802d50fd..a068b27d341f 100644
> > > > > --- a/include/net/gro.h
> > > > > +++ b/include/net/gro.h
> > > > > @@ -29,14 +29,17 @@ struct napi_gro_cb {
> > > > > /* Number of segments aggregated. */
> > > > > u16 count;
> > > > >
> > > > > - /* Start offset for remote checksum offload */
> > > > > - u16 gro_remcsum_start;
> > > > > + /* Used in ipv6_gro_receive() and foo-over-udp */
> > > > > + u16 proto;
> > > > >
> > > > > /* jiffies when first packet was created/queued */
> > > > > unsigned long age;
> > > > >
> > > > > - /* Used in ipv6_gro_receive() and foo-over-udp */
> > > > > - u16 proto;
> > > > > + /* portion of the cb set to zero at every gro iteration */
> > > > > + u32 zeroed_start[0];
> > > > > +
> > > > > + /* Start offset for remote checksum offload */
> > > > > + u16 gro_remcsum_start;
> > > > >
> > > > > /* This is non-zero if the packet may be of the same flow. */
> > > > > u8 same_flow:1;
> > > > > @@ -70,6 +73,8 @@ struct napi_gro_cb {
> > > > > /* GRO is done by frag_list pointer chaining. */
> > > > > u8 is_flist:1;
> > > > >
> > > > > + u32 zeroed_end[0];
> > > >
> > > > This should be wrapped in struct_group() I believe, or compilers
> > > > will start complaining soon. See [0] for the details.
> > > > Adding Kees to the CCs.
> > >
> > > Thank you for the reference. That really slipped-off my mind.
> > >
> > > This patch does not use memcpy() or similar, just a single direct
> > > assignement. Would that still require struct_group()?
> >
> > Oof, sorry, I saw start/end and overlooked that it's only for
> > a single assignment.
> > Then it shouldn't cause warnings, but maybe use an anonymous
> > union instead?
> >
> > union {
> > u32 zeroed;
> > struct {
> > u16 gro_remcsum_start;
> > ...
> > };
> > };
> > __wsum csum;
> >
> > Use can still use a BUILD_BUG_ON() in this case, like
> > sizeof(zeroed) != offsetof(csum) - offsetof(zeroed).
>
> Please forgive me for the very long delay. I'm looking again at this
> stuff for formal non-rfc submission.
Sure, not a problem at all (:
>
> I like the anonymous union less, because it will move around much more
> code - making the patch less readable - and will be more fragile e.g.
> some comment alike "please don't move around 'csum'" would be needed.
We still need comments around zeroed_{start,end}[0] for now.
I used offsetof(csum) as offsetofend(is_flist) which I'd prefer here
unfortunately expands to offsetof(is_flist) + sizeof(is_flist), and
the latter causes an error of using sizeof() against a bitfield.
>
> No strong opinion anyway, so if you really prefer that way I can adapt.
> Please let me know.
I don't really have a strong preference here, I just suspect that
zero-length array will produce or already produce -Warray-bounds
warnings, and empty-struct constructs like
struct { } zeroed_start;
u16 gro_remcsum_start;
...
struct { } zeroed_end;
memset(NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->zeroed_start, 0,
offsetofend(zeroed_end) - offsetsof(zeroed_start));
will trigger Fortify compile-time errors from Kees' KSPP tree.
I think we could use
__struct_group(/* no tag */, zeroed, /* no attrs */,
u16 gro_remcsum_start;
...
u8 is_flist:1;
);
__wsum csum;
BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof_field(struct napi_gro_cb, zeroed) != sizeof(u32));
BUILD_BUG_ON(!IS_ALIGNED(offsetof(struct napi_gro_cb, zeroed),
sizeof(u32))); /* Avoid slow unaligned acc */
*(u32 *)&NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->zeroed = 0;
This doesn't depend on `csum`, doesn't need `struct { }` or
`struct zero[0]` markers and still uses a direct assignment.
Also adding Gustavo, maybe he'd like to leave a comment here.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Paolo
Thanks,
Al
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