linux/drivers/vhost
Jason Wang 0a0be13b8f vhost_net: batch submitting XDP buffers to underlayer sockets
This patch implements XDP batching for vhost_net. The idea is first to
try to do userspace copy and build XDP buff directly in vhost. Instead
of submitting the packet immediately, vhost_net will batch them in an
array and submit every 64 (VHOST_NET_BATCH) packets to the under layer
sockets through msg_control of sendmsg().

When XDP is enabled on the TUN/TAP, TUN/TAP can process XDP inside a
loop without caring GUP thus it can do batch map flushing. When XDP is
not enabled or not supported, the underlayer socket need to build skb
and pass it to network core. The batched packet submission allows us
to do batching like netif_receive_skb_list() in the future.

This saves lots of indirect calls for better cache utilization. For
the case that we can't so batching e.g when sndbuf is limited or
packet size is too large, we will go for usual one packet per
sendmsg() way.

Doing testpmd on various setups gives us:

Test                /+pps%
XDP_DROP on TAP     /+44.8%
XDP_REDIRECT on TAP /+29%
macvtap (skb)       /+26%

Netperf tests shows obvious improvements for small packet transmission:

size/session/+thu%/+normalize%
   64/     1/   +2%/    0%
   64/     2/   +3%/   +1%
   64/     4/   +7%/   +5%
   64/     8/   +8%/   +6%
  256/     1/   +3%/    0%
  256/     2/  +10%/   +7%
  256/     4/  +26%/  +22%
  256/     8/  +27%/  +23%
  512/     1/   +3%/   +2%
  512/     2/  +19%/  +14%
  512/     4/  +43%/  +40%
  512/     8/  +45%/  +41%
 1024/     1/   +4%/    0%
 1024/     2/  +27%/  +21%
 1024/     4/  +38%/  +73%
 1024/     8/  +15%/  +24%
 2048/     1/  +10%/   +7%
 2048/     2/  +16%/  +12%
 2048/     4/    0%/   +2%
 2048/     8/    0%/   +2%
 4096/     1/  +36%/  +60%
 4096/     2/  -11%/  -26%
 4096/     4/    0%/  +14%
 4096/     8/    0%/   +4%
16384/     1/   -1%/   +5%
16384/     2/    0%/   +2%
16384/     4/    0%/   -3%
16384/     8/    0%/   +4%
65535/     1/    0%/  +10%
65535/     2/    0%/   +8%
65535/     4/    0%/   +1%
65535/     8/    0%/   +3%

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-09-13 09:25:41 -07:00
..
Kconfig vhost: allow vhost-scsi driver to be built-in 2018-08-22 01:01:32 +03:00
Kconfig.vringh vhost: split out vringh Kconfig 2016-08-02 16:54:28 +03:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
net.c vhost_net: batch submitting XDP buffers to underlayer sockets 2018-09-13 09:25:41 -07:00
scsi.c virtio, vhost: fixes, tweaks 2018-08-24 08:45:19 -07:00
test.c treewide: kmalloc() -> kmalloc_array() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
test.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
vhost.c vhost: correctly check the iova range when waking virtqueue 2018-08-25 17:39:41 -07:00
vhost.h vhost: switch to use new message format 2018-08-06 10:41:04 -07:00
vringh.c treewide: kmalloc() -> kmalloc_array() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
vsock.c fw_cfg, vhost: features fixes 2018-04-06 19:21:41 -07:00