linux-brain/include
Eric Dumazet a05fb4ac72 virtio_net: Do not pull payload in skb->head
[ Upstream commit 0f6925b3e8da0dbbb52447ca8a8b42b371aac7db ]

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>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2021-05-22 11:38:28 +02:00
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asm-generic vmlinux.lds.h: add DWARF v5 sections 2021-03-04 10:26:09 +01:00
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dt-bindings clk: imx8mn: Fix incorrect clock defines 2020-03-18 07:17:55 +01:00
keys KEYS: Don't write out to userspace while holding key semaphore 2020-04-23 10:36:45 +02:00
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linux virtio_net: Do not pull payload in skb->head 2021-05-22 11:38:28 +02:00
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