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| author | Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> | 2021-04-02 06:26:02 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2021-04-06 16:17:57 -0700 |
| commit | 0f6925b3e8da0dbbb52447ca8a8b42b371aac7db (patch) | |
| tree | c272d63aa465d54c9aaced4e06265892b27dd5f5 /drivers/net/virtio_net.c | |
| parent | b25b343db0526669947a427e9a31bac91d29bb06 (diff) | |
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virtio_net: Do not pull payload in skb->head
Xuan Zhuo reported that commit 3226b158e67c ("net: avoid 32 x truesize
under-estimation for tiny skbs") brought a ~10% performance drop.
The reason for the performance drop was that GRO was forced
to chain sk_buff (using skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list), which
uses more memory but also cause packet consumers to go over
a lot of overhead handling all the tiny skbs.
It turns out that virtio_net page_to_skb() has a wrong strategy :
It allocates skbs with GOOD_COPY_LEN (128) bytes in skb->head, then
copies 128 bytes from the page, before feeding the packet to GRO stack.
This was suboptimal before commit 3226b158e67c ("net: avoid 32 x truesize
under-estimation for tiny skbs") because GRO was using 2 frags per MSS,
meaning we were not packing MSS with 100% efficiency.
Fix is to pull only the ethernet header in page_to_skb()
Then, we change virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() to pull the missing
headers, instead of assuming they were already pulled by callers.
This fixes the performance regression, but could also allow virtio_net
to accept packets with more than 128bytes of headers.
Many thanks to Xuan Zhuo for his report, and his tests/help.
Fixes: 3226b158e67c ("net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs")
Reported-by: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg731397.html
Co-Developed-by: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/virtio_net.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c index 82e520d2cb12..0824e6999e49 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -406,9 +406,13 @@ static struct sk_buff *page_to_skb(struct virtnet_info *vi, offset += hdr_padded_len; p += hdr_padded_len; - copy = len; - if (copy > skb_tailroom(skb)) - copy = skb_tailroom(skb); + /* Copy all frame if it fits skb->head, otherwise + * we let virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() and GRO pull headers as needed. + */ + if (len <= skb_tailroom(skb)) + copy = len; + else + copy = ETH_HLEN + metasize; skb_put_data(skb, p, copy); if (metasize) { |