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To: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v6 14/15] net: add devmem TCP documentation
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 17:52:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240307175251.309837e1@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240305020153.2787423-15-almasrymina@google.com>
On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 18:01:49 -0800 Mina Almasry wrote:
> +Intro
> +=====
> +
> +Device memory TCP (devmem TCP) enables receiving data directly into device
> +memory (dmabuf). The feature is currently implemented for TCP sockets.
> +
> +
> +Opportunity
> +-----------
> +
> +A large amount of data transfers have device memory as the source and/or
s/amount/number/
> +destination. Accelerators drastically increased the volume of such transfers.
s/volume/prevalence/
> +Some examples include:
> +
> +- Distributed training, where ML accelerators, such as GPUs on different hosts,
> + exchange data among them.
s/among them//
> +- Distributed raw block storage applications transfer large amounts of data with
> + remote SSDs, much of this data does not require host processing.
> +
> +Today, the majority of the Device-to-Device data transfers the network are
"Today" won't age well.
> +implemented as the following low level operations: Device-to-Host copy,
> +Host-to-Host network transfer, and Host-to-Device copy.
> +
> +The implementation is suboptimal, especially for bulk data transfers, and can
/The implementation/The flow involving host copies/
> +put significant strains on system resources such as host memory bandwidth and
> +PCIe bandwidth.
> +
> +Devmem TCP optimizes this use case by implementing socket APIs that enable
> +the user to receive incoming network packets directly into device memory.
> +More Info
> +---------
> +
> + slides, video
> + https://netdevconf.org/0x17/sessions/talk/device-memory-tcp.html
> +
> + patchset
> + [RFC PATCH v3 00/12] Device Memory TCP
> + https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231106024413.2801438-1-almasrymina@google.com/T/
Won't age well? :)
> +Interface
> +=========
> +
> +Example
> +-------
> +
> +tools/testing/selftests/net/ncdevmem.c:do_server shows an example of setting up
> +the RX path of this API.
> +
> +NIC Setup
> +---------
> +
> +Header split, flow steering, & RSS are required features for devmem TCP.
> +
> +Header split is used to split incoming packets into a header buffer in host
> +memory, and a payload buffer in device memory.
> +
> +Flow steering & RSS are used to ensure that only flows targeting devmem land on
> +RX queue bound to devmem.
> +
> +Enable header split & flow steering:
> +
> +::
You can put the :: at the end of the text, IIRC, like this:
Enable header split & flow steering::
> +
> + # enable header split (assuming priv-flag)
> + ethtool --set-priv-flags eth1 enable-header-split on
Olek added the "set" in commit 50d73710715d ("ethtool: add SET for
TCP_DATA_SPLIT ringparam"), no need for the priv flag any more.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-08 1:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-05 2:01 [RFC PATCH net-next v6 00/15] Device Memory TCP Mina Almasry
2024-03-05 2:01 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v6 01/15] queue_api: define queue api Mina Almasry
2024-03-08 1:30 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-03-08 2:08 ` Mina Almasry
2024-03-08 3:36 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-03-08 23:47 ` David Wei
2024-03-09 0:27 ` Mina Almasry
2024-03-11 1:12 ` David Ahern
2024-03-05 2:01 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v6 02/15] net: page_pool: create hooks for custom page providers Mina Almasry
2024-03-05 21:54 ` David Wei
2024-03-05 22:36 ` Mina Almasry
2024-03-06 14:29 ` Pavel Begunkov
2024-03-06 17:04 ` Mina Almasry
2024-03-06 19:12 ` Pavel Begunkov
2024-03-06 21:59 ` Mina Almasry
2024-03-07 14:25 ` Pavel Begunkov
2024-03-08 4:57 ` David Wei
2024-03-08 19:53 ` Mina Almasry
2024-03-18 2:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-03-18 2:49 ` David Wei
2024-03-18 23:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-03-22 17:40 ` Mina Almasry
2024-03-22 23:19 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-03-24 23:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-03-24 23:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-03-22 17:54 ` Mina Almasry
2024-03-24 23:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-03-26 20:19 ` Mina Almasry
2024-03-28 7:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-04-01 19:22 ` Mina Almasry
2024-04-08 15:34 ` Cong Wang
2024-03-05 2:01 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v6 03/15] net: page_pool: factor out page_pool recycle check Mina Almasry
2024-03-05 12:55 ` Yunsheng Lin
2024-03-05 2:01 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v6 04/15] net: netdev netlink api to bind dma-buf to a net device Mina Almasry
2024-03-05 2:01 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v6 05/15] netdev: support binding dma-buf to netdevice Mina Almasry
2024-03-05 9:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-03-05 20:00 ` Mina Almasry
2024-03-05 21:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-03-05 12:55 ` Yunsheng Lin
2024-03-05 21:17 ` Mina Almasry
2024-03-06 12:38 ` Yunsheng Lin
2024-03-06 22:10 ` Mina Almasry
2024-03-07 12:15 ` Yunsheng Lin
2024-03-08 3:58 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-03-05 2:01 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v6 06/15] netdev: netdevice devmem allocator Mina Almasry
2024-03-05 2:01 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v6 07/15] page_pool: convert to use netmem Mina Almasry
2024-03-05 21:30 ` Mina Almasry
2024-03-05 2:01 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v6 08/15] page_pool: devmem support Mina Almasry
2024-03-05 21:42 ` Mina Almasry
2024-03-05 2:01 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v6 09/15] memory-provider: dmabuf devmem memory provider Mina Almasry
2024-03-06 2:28 ` David Wei
2024-03-06 2:42 ` Mina Almasry
2024-03-06 2:46 ` David Wei
2024-03-06 2:54 ` Mina Almasry
2024-03-06 14:58 ` Pavel Begunkov
2024-03-06 16:51 ` Mina Almasry
2024-03-05 2:01 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v6 10/15] net: support non paged skb frags Mina Almasry
2024-03-05 2:01 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v6 11/15] net: add support for skbs with unreadable frags Mina Almasry
2024-03-05 2:01 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v6 12/15] tcp: RX path for devmem TCP Mina Almasry
2024-03-05 8:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-03-05 19:22 ` Mina Almasry
2024-03-05 19:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-03-05 2:01 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v6 13/15] net: add SO_DEVMEM_DONTNEED setsockopt to release RX frags Mina Almasry
2024-03-05 2:01 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v6 14/15] net: add devmem TCP documentation Mina Almasry
2024-03-08 1:52 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2024-03-05 2:01 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v6 15/15] selftests: add ncdevmem, netcat for devmem TCP Mina Almasry
2024-03-05 7:16 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v6 07/15] page_pool: convert to use netmem David Howells
2024-03-05 12:54 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v6 00/15] Device Memory TCP Yunsheng Lin
2024-03-05 19:38 ` Mina Almasry
2024-03-06 12:37 ` Yunsheng Lin
2024-03-26 0:28 ` Mina Almasry
2024-03-26 12:47 ` Yunsheng Lin
2024-03-26 20:14 ` Mina Almasry
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