netdev - Re: [Patch bpf-next v4 0/4] tcp_bpf: improve ingress redirection performance with message corking

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Message-ID: <87qzyyn98v.fsf@cloudflare.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2025 13:05:20 +0200
From: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@...udflare.com>
To: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org,  bpf@...r.kernel.org,  john.fastabend@...il.com,
  zijianzhang@...edance.com,  zhoufeng.zf@...edance.com
Subject: Re: [Patch bpf-next v4 0/4] tcp_bpf: improve ingress redirection
 performance with message corking

On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 06:11 PM -07, Cong Wang wrote:
> This patchset improves skmsg ingress redirection performance by a)
> sophisticated batching with kworker; b) skmsg allocation caching with
> kmem cache.
>
> As a result, our patches significantly outperforms the vanilla kernel
> in terms of throughput for almost all packet sizes. The percentage
> improvement in throughput ranges from 3.13% to 160.92%, with smaller
> packets showing the highest improvements.
>
> For latency, it induces slightly higher latency across most packet sizes
> compared to the vanilla, which is also expected since this is a natural
> side effect of batching.
>
> Here are the detailed benchmarks:
>
> +-------------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
> | Throughput  | 64     | 128    | 256    | 512    | 1k     | 4k     | 16k    | 32k    | 64k    | 128k   | 256k   |
> +-------------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
> | Vanilla     | 0.17±0.02 | 0.36±0.01 | 0.72±0.02 | 1.37±0.05 | 2.60±0.12 | 8.24±0.44 | 22.38±2.02 | 25.49±1.28 | 43.07±1.36 | 66.87±4.14 | 73.70±7.15 |
> | Patched     | 0.41±0.01 | 0.82±0.02 | 1.62±0.05 | 3.33±0.01 | 6.45±0.02 | 21.50±0.08 | 46.22±0.31 | 50.20±1.12 | 45.39±1.29 | 68.96±1.12 | 78.35±1.49 |
> | Percentage  | 141.18%   | 127.78%   | 125.00%   | 143.07%   | 148.08%   | 160.92%   | 106.52%    | 97.00%     | 5.38%      | 3.13%      | 6.32%      |
> +-------------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
>
> +-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
> | Latency     | 64        | 128       | 256       | 512       | 1k        | 4k        | 16k       | 32k       | 63k       |
> +-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
> | Vanilla     | 5.80±4.02 | 5.83±3.61 | 5.86±4.10 | 5.91±4.19 | 5.98±4.14 | 6.61±4.47 | 8.60±2.59 | 10.96±5.50| 15.02±6.78|
> | Patched     | 6.18±3.03 | 6.23±4.38 | 6.25±4.44 | 6.13±4.35 | 6.32±4.23 | 6.94±4.61 | 8.90±5.49 | 11.12±6.10| 14.88±6.55|
> | Percentage  | 6.55%     | 6.87%     | 6.66%     | 3.72%     | 5.68%     | 4.99%     | 3.49%     | 1.46%     |-0.93%     |
> +-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+

Plots for easier review. Courtesy of Gemini.

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jsitnicki/f255aab05d050a56ab743247475426a1/raw/715011c50396ef01c9b5397a19f07d380d56cd25/sk_msg-redir-ingress-throughput.png
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jsitnicki/f255aab05d050a56ab743247475426a1/raw/715011c50396ef01c9b5397a19f07d380d56cd25/sk_msg-redir-ingress-latency.png