David Ahern
2021-Apr-19 16:48 UTC
[PATCH net-next v3] virtio-net: page_to_skb() use build_skb when there's sufficient tailroom
On 4/16/21 2:16 AM, Xuan Zhuo wrote:> In page_to_skb(), if we have enough tailroom to save skb_shared_info, we > can use build_skb to create skb directly. No need to alloc for > additional space. And it can save a 'frags slot', which is very friendly > to GRO. > > Here, if the payload of the received package is too small (less than > GOOD_COPY_LEN), we still choose to copy it directly to the space got by > napi_alloc_skb. So we can reuse these pages. > > Testing Machine: > The four queues of the network card are bound to the cpu1. > > Test command: > for ((i=0;i<5;++i)); do sockperf tp --ip 192.168.122.64 -m 1000 -t 150& done > > The size of the udp package is 1000, so in the case of this patch, there > will always be enough tailroom to use build_skb. The sent udp packet > will be discarded because there is no port to receive it. The irqsoftd > of the machine is 100%, we observe the received quantity displayed by > sar -n DEV 1: > > no build_skb: 956864.00 rxpck/s > build_skb: 1158465.00 rxpck/s >virtio_net is using napi_consume_skb, so napi_build_skb should show a small increase from build_skb.
Jason Wang
2021-Apr-20 02:49 UTC
[PATCH net-next v3] virtio-net: page_to_skb() use build_skb when there's sufficient tailroom
? 2021/4/20 ??12:48, David Ahern ??:> On 4/16/21 2:16 AM, Xuan Zhuo wrote: >> In page_to_skb(), if we have enough tailroom to save skb_shared_info, we >> can use build_skb to create skb directly. No need to alloc for >> additional space. And it can save a 'frags slot', which is very friendly >> to GRO. >> >> Here, if the payload of the received package is too small (less than >> GOOD_COPY_LEN), we still choose to copy it directly to the space got by >> napi_alloc_skb. So we can reuse these pages. >> >> Testing Machine: >> The four queues of the network card are bound to the cpu1. >> >> Test command: >> for ((i=0;i<5;++i)); do sockperf tp --ip 192.168.122.64 -m 1000 -t 150& done >> >> The size of the udp package is 1000, so in the case of this patch, there >> will always be enough tailroom to use build_skb. The sent udp packet >> will be discarded because there is no port to receive it. The irqsoftd >> of the machine is 100%, we observe the received quantity displayed by >> sar -n DEV 1: >> >> no build_skb: 956864.00 rxpck/s >> build_skb: 1158465.00 rxpck/s >> > virtio_net is using napi_consume_skb, so napi_build_skb should show a > small increase from build_skb. >Yes and we probably need to do this in receive_small(). Thanks