[PATCH net-next RFC 3/3] virtio-net: conditionally enable tx interrupt

Eric Dumazet
Sat, 11 Oct 2014 14:48:19 -0000

On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 15:16 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> We free transmitted packets in ndo_start_xmit() in the past to get better
> performance in the past. One side effect is that skb_orphan() needs to be
> called in ndo_start_xmit() which makes sk_wmem_alloc not accurate in
> fact. For TCP protocol, this means several optimization could not work well
> such as TCP small queue and auto corking. This can lead extra low
> throughput of small packets stream.
>
> Thanks to the urgent descriptor support. This patch tries to solve this
> issue by enable the tx interrupt selectively for stream packets. This means
> we don't need to orphan TCP stream packets in ndo_start_xmit() but
enable
> tx interrupt for those packets. After we get tx interrupt, a tx napi was
> scheduled to free those packets.
>
> With this method, sk_wmem_alloc of TCP socket were more accurate than in
> the past which let TCP can batch more through TSQ and auto corking.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 164
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 128 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> index 5810841..b450fc4 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> @@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ struct send_queue {
>
>  	/* Name of the send queue: output.$index */
>  	char name[40];
> +
> +	struct napi_struct napi;
>  };
>
>  /* Internal representation of a receive virtqueue */
> @@ -217,15 +219,40 @@ static struct page *get_a_page(struct receive_queue
*rq, gfp_t gfp_mask)
>  	return p;
>  }
>
> +static int free_old_xmit_skbs(struct send_queue *sq, int budget)
> +{
> +	struct sk_buff *skb;
> +	unsigned int len;
> +	struct virtnet_info *vi = sq->vq->vdev->priv;
> +	struct virtnet_stats *stats = this_cpu_ptr(vi->stats);
> +	int sent = 0;
> +
> +	while (sent < budget &&
> +	       (skb = virtqueue_get_buf(sq->vq, &len)) != NULL) {
> +		pr_debug("Sent skb %p\n", skb);
> +
> +		u64_stats_update_begin(&stats->tx_syncp);
> +		stats->tx_bytes += skb->len;
> +		stats->tx_packets++;
> +		u64_stats_update_end(&stats->tx_syncp);
> +
> +		dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
> +		sent++;
> +	}
> +

You could accumulate skb->len in a totlen var, and perform a single

	u64_stats_update_begin(&stats->tx_syncp);
	stats->tx_bytes += totlen;
	stats->tx_packets += sent;
	u64_stats_update_end(&stats->tx_syncp);

after the loop.


> +	return sent;
> +}
> +

...

> +
> +static bool virtnet_skb_needs_intr(struct sk_buff *skb)
> +{
> +	union {
> +		unsigned char *network;
> +		struct iphdr *ipv4;
> +		struct ipv6hdr *ipv6;
> +	} hdr;
> +	struct tcphdr *th = tcp_hdr(skb);
> +	u16 payload_len;
> +
> +	hdr.network = skb_network_header(skb);
> +
> +	/* Only IPv4/IPv6 with TCP is supported */

	Oh well, yet another packet flow dissector :)

	If most packets were caught by your implementation, you could use it
for fast patj and fallback to skb_flow_dissect() for encapsulated
traffic.

	struct flow_keys keys;

	if (!skb_flow_dissect(skb, &keys))
		return false;

	if (keys.ip_proto != IPPROTO_TCP)
		return false;

	then check __skb_get_poff() how to get th, and check if there is some
payload...


> +	if ((skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_IP)) &&
> +	    hdr.ipv4->protocol == IPPROTO_TCP) {
> +		payload_len = ntohs(hdr.ipv4->tot_len) - hdr.ipv4->ihl * 4 -
> +			      th->doff * 4;
> +	} else if ((skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_IPV6) ||
> +		   hdr.ipv6->nexthdr == IPPROTO_TCP)) {
> +		payload_len = ntohs(hdr.ipv6->payload_len) - th->doff * 4;
> +	} else {
> +		return false;
> +	}
> +
> +	/* We don't want to dealy packet with PUSH bit and pure ACK packet */
> +	if (!th->psh && payload_len)
> +		return true;
> +
> +	return false;
>  }