sctp: linearize early if it's not GSO

Because otherwise when crc computation is still needed it's way more
expensive than on a linear buffer to the point that it affects
performance.

It's so expensive that netperf test gives a perf output as below:

Overhead  Command         Shared Object       Symbol
  18,62%  netserver       [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] crc32_generic_shift
   2,57%  netserver       [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] __pskb_pull_tail
   1,94%  netserver       [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] fib_table_lookup
   1,90%  netserver       [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] copy_user_enhanced_fast_string
   1,66%  swapper         [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] intel_idle
   1,63%  netserver       [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] _raw_spin_lock
   1,59%  netserver       [sctp]              [k] sctp_packet_transmit
   1,55%  netserver       [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] memcpy_erms
   1,42%  netserver       [sctp]              [k] sctp_rcv

# netperf -H 192.168.10.1 -l 10 -t SCTP_STREAM -cC -- -m 12000
SCTP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.10.1 () port 0 AF_INET
Recv   Send    Send                          Utilization       Service Demand
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed              Send     Recv     Send    Recv
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput  local    remote   local   remote
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/s  % S      % S      us/KB   us/KB

212992 212992  12000    10.00      3016.42   2.88     3.78     1.874   2.462

After patch:
Overhead  Command         Shared Object      Symbol
   2,75%  netserver       [kernel.vmlinux]   [k] memcpy_erms
   2,63%  netserver       [kernel.vmlinux]   [k] copy_user_enhanced_fast_string
   2,39%  netserver       [kernel.vmlinux]   [k] fib_table_lookup
   2,04%  netserver       [kernel.vmlinux]   [k] __pskb_pull_tail
   1,91%  netserver       [kernel.vmlinux]   [k] _raw_spin_lock
   1,91%  netserver       [sctp]             [k] sctp_packet_transmit
   1,72%  netserver       [mlx4_en]          [k] mlx4_en_process_rx_cq
   1,68%  netserver       [sctp]             [k] sctp_rcv

# netperf -H 192.168.10.1 -l 10 -t SCTP_STREAM -cC -- -m 12000
SCTP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.10.1 () port 0 AF_INET
Recv   Send    Send                          Utilization       Service Demand
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed              Send     Recv     Send    Recv
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput  local    remote   local   remote
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/s  % S      % S      us/KB   us/KB

212992 212992  12000    10.00      3681.77   3.83     3.46     2.045   1.849

Fixes: 3acb50c18d ("sctp: delay as much as possible skb_linearize")
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Marcelo Ricardo Leitner 2016-08-18 14:58:35 -03:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 187335cdfe
commit 4c2f245496
2 changed files with 7 additions and 17 deletions

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@ -119,7 +119,13 @@ int sctp_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb)
skb_transport_offset(skb))
goto discard_it;
if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(struct sctphdr)))
/* If the packet is fragmented and we need to do crc checking,
* it's better to just linearize it otherwise crc computing
* takes longer.
*/
if ((!(skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type & SKB_GSO_SCTP) &&
skb_linearize(skb)) ||
!pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(struct sctphdr)))
goto discard_it;
/* Pull up the IP header. */
@ -1177,9 +1183,6 @@ static struct sctp_association *__sctp_rcv_lookup_harder(struct net *net,
if ((skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type & SKB_GSO_SCTP) == SKB_GSO_SCTP)
return NULL;
if (skb_linearize(skb))
return NULL;
ch = (sctp_chunkhdr_t *) skb->data;
/* The code below will attempt to walk the chunk and extract

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@ -170,19 +170,6 @@ next_chunk:
chunk = list_entry(entry, struct sctp_chunk, list);
/* Linearize if it's not GSO */
if ((skb_shinfo(chunk->skb)->gso_type & SKB_GSO_SCTP) != SKB_GSO_SCTP &&
skb_is_nonlinear(chunk->skb)) {
if (skb_linearize(chunk->skb)) {
__SCTP_INC_STATS(dev_net(chunk->skb->dev), SCTP_MIB_IN_PKT_DISCARDS);
sctp_chunk_free(chunk);
goto next_chunk;
}
/* Update sctp_hdr as it probably changed */
chunk->sctp_hdr = sctp_hdr(chunk->skb);
}
if ((skb_shinfo(chunk->skb)->gso_type & SKB_GSO_SCTP) == SKB_GSO_SCTP) {
/* GSO-marked skbs but without frags, handle
* them normally