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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2013-12-13 13:51:23 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-12-17 15:15:25 -0500
commitd4589926d7a9a4b88e650bb9154bab71e8d2a7dd (patch)
tree692b45bcf6e29af4f1a33f996aef054756574bee /drivers/net
parent477bb93320cec7ae74d5ccfad4f2bfa0b28fbe90 (diff)
tcp: refine TSO splits
While investigating performance problems on small RPC workloads, I noticed linux TCP stack was always splitting the last TSO skb into two parts (skbs). One being a multiple of MSS, and a small one with the Push flag. This split is done even if TCP_NODELAY is set, or if no small packet is in flight. Example with request/response of 4K/4K IP A > B: . ack 68432 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001> IP A > B: . 65537:68433(2896) ack 69632 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001> IP A > B: P 68433:69633(1200) ack 69632 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001> IP B > A: . ack 68433 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6525001 6524593> IP B > A: . 69632:72528(2896) ack 69633 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6525001 6524593> IP B > A: P 72528:73728(1200) ack 69633 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6525001 6524593> IP A > B: . ack 72528 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001> IP A > B: . 69633:72529(2896) ack 73728 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001> IP A > B: P 72529:73729(1200) ack 73728 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001> We can avoid this split by including the Nagle tests at the right place. Note : If some NIC had trouble sending TSO packets with a partial last segment, we would have hit the problem in GRO/forwarding workload already. tcp_minshall_update() is moved to tcp_output.c and is updated as we might feed a TSO packet with a partial last segment. This patch tremendously improves performance, as the traffic now looks like : IP A > B: . ack 98304 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834277 6834685> IP A > B: P 94209:98305(4096) ack 98304 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834277 6834685> IP B > A: . ack 98305 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834686 6834277> IP B > A: P 98304:102400(4096) ack 98305 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834686 6834277> IP A > B: . ack 102400 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834279 6834686> IP A > B: P 98305:102401(4096) ack 102400 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834279 6834686> IP B > A: . ack 102401 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834687 6834279> IP B > A: P 102400:106496(4096) ack 102401 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834687 6834279> IP A > B: . ack 106496 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834280 6834687> IP A > B: P 102401:106497(4096) ack 106496 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834280 6834687> IP B > A: . ack 106497 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834688 6834280> IP B > A: P 106496:110592(4096) ack 106497 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834688 6834280> Before : lpq83:~# nstat >/dev/null;perf stat ./super_netperf 200 -t TCP_RR -H lpq84 -l 20 -- -r 4K,4K 280774 Performance counter stats for './super_netperf 200 -t TCP_RR -H lpq84 -l 20 -- -r 4K,4K': 205719.049006 task-clock # 9.278 CPUs utilized 8,449,968 context-switches # 0.041 M/sec 1,935,997 CPU-migrations # 0.009 M/sec 160,541 page-faults # 0.780 K/sec 548,478,722,290 cycles # 2.666 GHz [83.20%] 455,240,670,857 stalled-cycles-frontend # 83.00% frontend cycles idle [83.48%] 272,881,454,275 stalled-cycles-backend # 49.75% backend cycles idle [66.73%] 166,091,460,030 instructions # 0.30 insns per cycle # 2.74 stalled cycles per insn [83.39%] 29,150,229,399 branches # 141.699 M/sec [83.30%] 1,943,814,026 branch-misses # 6.67% of all branches [83.32%] 22.173517844 seconds time elapsed lpq83:~# nstat | egrep "IpOutRequests|IpExtOutOctets" IpOutRequests 16851063 0.0 IpExtOutOctets 23878580777 0.0 After patch : lpq83:~# nstat >/dev/null;perf stat ./super_netperf 200 -t TCP_RR -H lpq84 -l 20 -- -r 4K,4K 280877 Performance counter stats for './super_netperf 200 -t TCP_RR -H lpq84 -l 20 -- -r 4K,4K': 107496.071918 task-clock # 4.847 CPUs utilized 5,635,458 context-switches # 0.052 M/sec 1,374,707 CPU-migrations # 0.013 M/sec 160,920 page-faults # 0.001 M/sec 281,500,010,924 cycles # 2.619 GHz [83.28%] 228,865,069,307 stalled-cycles-frontend # 81.30% frontend cycles idle [83.38%] 142,462,742,658 stalled-cycles-backend # 50.61% backend cycles idle [66.81%] 95,227,712,566 instructions # 0.34 insns per cycle # 2.40 stalled cycles per insn [83.43%] 16,209,868,171 branches # 150.795 M/sec [83.20%] 874,252,952 branch-misses # 5.39% of all branches [83.37%] 22.175821286 seconds time elapsed lpq83:~# nstat | egrep "IpOutRequests|IpExtOutOctets" IpOutRequests 11239428 0.0 IpExtOutOctets 23595191035 0.0 Indeed, the occupancy of tx skbs (IpExtOutOctets/IpOutRequests) is higher : 2099 instead of 1417, thus helping GRO to be more efficient when using FQ packet scheduler. Many thanks to Neal for review and ideas. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com> Cc: Van Jacobson <vanj@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Tested-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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