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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 13:02:55 +1100
From: David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>
To: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@...hat.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
kuba@...nel.org, passt-dev@...st.top, sbrivio@...hat.com,
lvivier@...hat.com, dgibson@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] tcp: add support for SO_PEEK_OFF
On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 05:13:34AM -0500, Jon Maloy wrote:
>
>
> On 2024-02-16 04:21, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 10:14 AM Paolo Abeni<pabeni@...hat.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2024-02-15 at 17:24 -0500, Jon Maloy wrote:
> > > > On 2024-02-15 12:46, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 6:41 PM Paolo Abeni<pabeni@...hat.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Note: please send text-only email to netdev.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Thu, 2024-02-15 at 10:11 -0500, Jon Maloy wrote:
> > > > > > > I wonder if the following could be acceptable:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > if (flags & MSG_PEEK)
> > > > > > > sk_peek_offset_fwd(sk, used);
> > > > > > > else if (peek_offset > 0)
> > > > > > > sk_peek_offset_bwd(sk, used);
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > peek_offset is already present in the data cache, and if it has the value
> > > > > > > zero it means either that that sk->sk_peek_off is unused (-1) or actually is zero.
> > > > > > > Either way, no rewind is needed in that case.
> > > > > > I agree the above should avoid touching cold cachelines in the
> > > > > > fastpath, and looks functionally correct to me.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The last word is up to Eric :)
> > > > > >
> > > > > An actual patch seems needed.
> > > > >
> > > > > In the current form, local variable peek_offset is 0 when !MSG_PEEK.
> > > > >
> > > > > So the "else if (peek_offset > 0)" would always be false.
> > > > >
> > > > Yes, of course. This wouldn't work unless we read sk->sk_peek_off at the
> > > > beginning of the function.
> > > > I will look at the other suggestions.
> > > I *think* that moving sk_peek_off this way:
> > >
> > > ---
> > > diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
> > > index a9d99a9c583f..576a6a6abb03 100644
> > > --- a/include/net/sock.h
> > > +++ b/include/net/sock.h
> > > @@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ struct sock {
> > > unsigned int sk_napi_id;
> > > #endif
> > > int sk_rcvbuf;
> > > - int sk_disconnects;
> > > + int sk_peek_off;
> > >
> > > struct sk_filter __rcu *sk_filter;
> > > union {
> > > @@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ struct sock {
> > > struct rb_root tcp_rtx_queue;
> > > };
> > > struct sk_buff_head sk_write_queue;
> > > - __s32 sk_peek_off;
> > > + int sk_disconnects;
> > > int sk_write_pending;
> > > __u32 sk_dst_pending_confirm;
> > > u32 sk_pacing_status; /* see enum sk_pacing */
> > > ---
> > >
> > > should avoid problematic accesses,
> > >
> > > The relevant cachelines layout is as follow:
> > >
> > > /* --- cacheline 4 boundary (256 bytes) --- */
> > > struct sk_buff * tail; /* 256 8 */
> > > } sk_backlog; /* 240 24 */
> > > int sk_forward_alloc; /* 264 4 */
> > > u32 sk_reserved_mem; /* 268 4 */
> > > unsigned int sk_ll_usec; /* 272 4 */
> > > unsigned int sk_napi_id; /* 276 4 */
> > > int sk_rcvbuf; /* 280 4 */
> > > int sk_disconnects; /* 284 4 */
> > > // will become sk_peek_off
> > > struct sk_filter * sk_filter; /* 288 8 */
> > > union {
> > > struct socket_wq * sk_wq; /* 296 8 */
> > > struct socket_wq * sk_wq_raw; /* 296 8 */
> > > }; /* 296 8 */
> > > struct xfrm_policy * sk_policy[2]; /* 304 16 */
> > > /* --- cacheline 5 boundary (320 bytes) --- */
> > >
> > > // ...
> > >
> > > /* --- cacheline 6 boundary (384 bytes) --- */
> > > __s32 sk_peek_off; /* 384 4 */
> > > // will become sk_diconnects
> > > int sk_write_pending; /* 388 4 */
> > > __u32 sk_dst_pending_confirm; /* 392 4 */
> > > u32 sk_pacing_status; /* 396 4 */
> > > long int sk_sndtimeo; /* 400 8 */
> > > struct timer_list sk_timer; /* 408 40 */
> > >
> > > /* XXX last struct has 4 bytes of padding */
> > >
> > > /* --- cacheline 7 boundary (448 bytes) --- */
> > >
> > > sk_peek_off will be in the same cachline of sk_forward_alloc /
> > > sk_reserved_mem / backlog tail, that are already touched by the
> > > tcp_recvmsg_locked() main loop.
> > >
> > > WDYT?
> > I was about to send a similar change, also moving sk_rcvtimeo, and
> > adding __cacheline_group_begin()/__cacheline_group_end
> > annotations.
> >
> > I can finish this today.
> >
> There is also the following alternative:
>
> if (flags & MSG_PEEK)
> sk_peek_offset_fwd(sk, used);
> else if (flags & MSG_TRUNC)
> sk_peek_offset_bwd(sk, used);
>
> This is the way we use it, and probably the typical usage.
> It would force a user to drain the receive queue with MSG_TRUNC whenever he
> is using
> MSG_PEEK_OFF, but I don't really see that as a limitation.
I really don't like this, although it would certainly do what we need
for passt/pasta. SO_PEEK_OFF has established semantics for Unix
sockets, which includes regular recv() adjusting the offset. Having
it behave subtlety differently for TCP seems like a very bad idea.
> Anyway, if Paolo's suggestion solves the problem this shouldn't be
> necessary.
>
> ///jon
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