Re: [PATCH] make net_gso_ok return false when gso_type is zero(invalid)

[Wenhua Shi <march511@gmail.com>]

2018-04-10 18:32 GMT+02:00 Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Apr 08, 2018 at 08:41:21PM +0200, Wenhua Shi wrote:
>> 2018-04-08 18:51 GMT+02:00 David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>:
>> >
>> > From: Wenhua Shi <march511@gmail.com>
>> > Date: Fri,  6 Apr 2018 03:43:39 +0200
>> >
>> > > Signed-off-by: Wenhua Shi <march511@gmail.com>
>> >
>> > This precondition should be made impossible instead of having to do
>> > an extra check everywhere that this helper is invoked, many of which
>> > are in fast paths.
>>
>> I believe the precondition you said is quite true. In my situation, I
>> have to disable GSO for some packet and I notice that it leads to a
>> worse performance (slower than 1Mbps, was almost 800Mbps).
>>
>> Here's the hook I use on debian 9.4, kernel version 4.9:
>
> There is quite a distance between 4.9 and net/net-next. Did you test
> on a more recent kernel too?
>
> Note that TCP stack now works with GSO being always on.
> 0a6b2a1dc2a2 ("tcp: switch to GSO being always on")
>

I've tried testing on the Fedora rawhide channel. The kernel version
is 4.17.0. Detail information is attached.

Without the hook

    [root@fedora-s-1vcpu-1gb-sfo1-01 testing]# iperf -c
myanothernormalmachine -d
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    Server listening on TCP port 5001
    TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default)
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    Client connecting to myanothernormalmachine, TCP port 5001
    TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    [  3] local 107.170.240.XXX port 44692 connected with
104.131.148.XXX port 5001
    [  5] local 107.170.240.XXX port 5001 connected with
104.131.148.XXX port 53978
    [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
    [  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.04 GBytes   892 Mbits/sec
    [  5]  0.0-10.0 sec   757 MBytes   638 Mbits/sec

With the hook

    [root@fedora-s-1vcpu-1gb-sfo1-01 testing]# iperf -c
myanothernormalmachine -d
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    Server listening on TCP port 5001
    TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default)
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    Client connecting to myanothernormalmachine, TCP port 5001
    TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    [  3] local 107.170.240.XXX port 44694 connected with
104.131.148.XXX port 5001
    [  5] local 107.170.240.XXX port 5001 connected with
104.131.148.XXX port 53980
    [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
    [  5]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.04 GBytes   894 Mbits/sec
    [  3]  0.0-13.5 sec   170 KBytes   103 Kbits/sec

Kernel

    [root@fedora-s-1vcpu-1gb-sfo1-01 testing]# uname -a
    Linux fedora-s-1vcpu-1gb-sfo1-01.localdomain
4.17.0-0.rc0.git5.2.fc29.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Apr 9 17:16:30 UTC 2018
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Hook Source Code

    [root@fedora-s-1vcpu-1gb-sfo1-01 testing]# cat testing.c
    #include <linux/kernel.h>
    #include <linux/init.h>
    #include <linux/module.h>
    #include <linux/kernel.h>
    #include <linux/netfilter.h>
    #include <linux/netfilter_ipv4.h>
    #include <linux/netfilter_ipv6.h>
    #include <linux/skbuff.h>
    #include <linux/tcp.h>
    #include <linux/ip.h>

    unsigned int hook_outgoing(
            void * priv,
            struct sk_buff * skb,
            const struct nf_hook_state * state)
    {
            printk(KERN_INFO "Hook working...\n");
            /* for some reason I have to disable GSO */
            skb_gso_reset(skb);

            /* The following won't work any more. */
            // skb->sk->sk_gso_type = ~0;

            return NF_ACCEPT;

    }

    static struct nf_hook_ops hook =
    {
            .hook = hook_outgoing,
            .pf = PF_INET,
            .hooknum = NF_INET_POST_ROUTING,
            .priority = NF_IP_PRI_LAST,
    };

    static int __init init_testing(void)
    {
            nf_register_net_hook(&init_net, &hook);
            return 0;
    }

    static void __exit exit_testing(void)
    {
            nf_unregister_net_hook(&init_net, &hook);
    }

    MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
    module_init(init_testing);
    module_exit(exit_testing);




It turns out the problem exists and my previous bypassing trick is not
working any more. I'm now testing whether the patch is working for the
latest net-next branch.