[PATCH net-next 1/2] net-zerocopy: Reduce compound page head access

[Coco Li <lixiaoyan@google.com>]

From: Xiaoyan Li <lixiaoyan@google.com>

When compound pages are enabled, although the mm layer still
returns an array of page pointers, a subset (or all) of them
may have the same page head since a max 180kb skb can span 2
hugepages if it is on the boundary, be a mix of pages and 1 hugepage,
or fit completely in a hugepage. Instead of referencing page head
on all page pointers, use page length arithmetic to only call page
head when referencing a known different page head to avoid touching
a cold cacheline.

Tested:
See next patch with changes to tcp_mmap

Correntess:
On a pair of separate hosts as send with MSG_ZEROCOPY will
force a copy on tx if using loopback alone, check that the SHA
on the message sent is equivalent to checksum on the message received,
since the current program already checks for the length.

echo 1024 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
./tcp_mmap -s -z
./tcp_mmap -H $DADDR -z

SHA256 is correct
received 2 MB (100 % mmap'ed) in 0.005914 s, 2.83686 Gbit
  cpu usage user:0.001984 sys:0.000963, 1473.5 usec per MB, 10 c-switches

Performance:
Run neper between adjacent hosts with the same config
tcp_stream -Z --skip-rx-copy -6 -T 20 -F 1000 --stime-use-proc --test-length=30

Before patch: stime_end=37.670000
After patch: stime_end=30.310000

Signed-off-by: Coco Li <lixiaoyan@google.com>
---
 net/core/datagram.c | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/datagram.c b/net/core/datagram.c
index e4ff2db40c98..5662dff3d381 100644
--- a/net/core/datagram.c
+++ b/net/core/datagram.c
@@ -622,12 +622,12 @@ int __zerocopy_sg_from_iter(struct msghdr *msg, struct sock *sk,
 	frag = skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags;
 
 	while (length && iov_iter_count(from)) {
+		struct page *head, *last_head = NULL;
 		struct page *pages[MAX_SKB_FRAGS];
-		struct page *last_head = NULL;
+		int refs, order, n = 0;
 		size_t start;
 		ssize_t copied;
 		unsigned long truesize;
-		int refs, n = 0;
 
 		if (frag == MAX_SKB_FRAGS)
 			return -EMSGSIZE;
@@ -650,9 +650,17 @@ int __zerocopy_sg_from_iter(struct msghdr *msg, struct sock *sk,
 		} else {
 			refcount_add(truesize, &skb->sk->sk_wmem_alloc);
 		}
+
+		head = compound_head(pages[n]);
+		order = compound_order(head);
+
 		for (refs = 0; copied != 0; start = 0) {
 			int size = min_t(int, copied, PAGE_SIZE - start);
-			struct page *head = compound_head(pages[n]);
+
+			if (pages[n] - head > (1UL << order) - 1) {
+				head = compound_head(pages[n]);
+				order = compound_order(head);
+			}
 
 			start += (pages[n] - head) << PAGE_SHIFT;
 			copied -= size;
-- 
2.40.0.rc1.284.g88254d51c5-goog