[PATCH net-next v2] net: avoid indirect calls in L4 checksum calculation

[PATCH net-next v2] net: avoid indirect calls in L4 checksum calculation

[Matteo Croce]

Commit 283c16a2dfd3 ("indirect call wrappers: helpers to speed-up
indirect calls of builtin") introduces some macros to avoid doing
indirect calls.

Use these helpers to remove two indirect calls in the L4 checksum
calculation for devices which don't have hardware support for it.

As a test I generate packets with pktgen out to a dummy interface
with HW checksumming disabled, to have the checksum calculated in
every sent packet.
The packet rate measured with an i7-6700K CPU and a single pktgen
thread raised from 6143 to 6608 Kpps, an increase by 7.5%

Suggested-by: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
---
 net/core/skbuff.c | 15 +++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index e89be6282693..0c2e7d4946ef 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@
 #include <linux/highmem.h>
 #include <linux/capability.h>
 #include <linux/user_namespace.h>
+#include <linux/indirect_call_wrapper.h>
 
 #include "datagram.h"
 
@@ -2507,7 +2508,8 @@ __wsum __skb_checksum(const struct sk_buff *skb, int offset, int len,
 	if (copy > 0) {
 		if (copy > len)
 			copy = len;
-		csum = ops->update(skb->data + offset, copy, csum);
+		csum = INDIRECT_CALL_1(ops->update, csum_partial_ext,
+				       skb->data + offset, copy, csum);
 		if ((len -= copy) == 0)
 			return csum;
 		offset += copy;
@@ -2534,9 +2536,13 @@ __wsum __skb_checksum(const struct sk_buff *skb, int offset, int len,
 					      frag->page_offset + offset - start,
 					      copy, p, p_off, p_len, copied) {
 				vaddr = kmap_atomic(p);
-				csum2 = ops->update(vaddr + p_off, p_len, 0);
+				csum2 = INDIRECT_CALL_1(ops->update,
+							csum_partial_ext,
+							vaddr + p_off, p_len, 0);
 				kunmap_atomic(vaddr);
-				csum = ops->combine(csum, csum2, pos, p_len);
+				csum = INDIRECT_CALL_1(ops->combine,
+						       csum_block_add_ext, csum,
+						       csum2, pos, p_len);
 				pos += p_len;
 			}
 
@@ -2559,7 +2565,8 @@ __wsum __skb_checksum(const struct sk_buff *skb, int offset, int len,
 				copy = len;
 			csum2 = __skb_checksum(frag_iter, offset - start,
 					       copy, 0, ops);
-			csum = ops->combine(csum, csum2, pos, copy);
+			csum = INDIRECT_CALL_1(ops->combine, csum_block_add_ext,
+					       csum, csum2, pos, copy);
 			if ((len -= copy) == 0)
 				return csum;
 			offset += copy;
-- 
2.21.0

Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: avoid indirect calls in L4 checksum calculation

[David Miller]

From: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 17:13:48 +0200

> Commit 283c16a2dfd3 ("indirect call wrappers: helpers to speed-up
> indirect calls of builtin") introduces some macros to avoid doing
> indirect calls.
> 
> Use these helpers to remove two indirect calls in the L4 checksum
> calculation for devices which don't have hardware support for it.
> 
> As a test I generate packets with pktgen out to a dummy interface
> with HW checksumming disabled, to have the checksum calculated in
> every sent packet.
> The packet rate measured with an i7-6700K CPU and a single pktgen
> thread raised from 6143 to 6608 Kpps, an increase by 7.5%
> 
> Suggested-by: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>

Applied.