Re: [RFC 00/12] io_uring zerocopy send

[David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>]

On 12/1/21 8:32 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> 
> Sure. First, for dummy I set mtu by hand, not sure can do it from
> the userspace, can I? Without it __ip_append_data() falls into
> non-zerocopy path.
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/dummy.c b/drivers/net/dummy.c
> index f82ad7419508..5c5aeacdabd5 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/dummy.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/dummy.c
> @@ -132,7 +132,8 @@ static void dummy_setup(struct net_device *dev)
>      eth_hw_addr_random(dev);
>  
>      dev->min_mtu = 0;
> -    dev->max_mtu = 0;
> +    dev->mtu = 0xffff;
> +    dev->max_mtu = 0xffff;
>  }
> 
> # dummy configuration
> 
> modprobe dummy numdummies=1
> ip link set dummy0 up


No change is needed to the dummy driver:
  ip li add dummy0 type dummy
  ip li set dummy0 up mtu 65536


> # force requests to <dummy_ip_addr> go through the dummy device
> ip route add <dummy_ip_addr> dev dummy0

that command is not necessary.

> 
> 
> With dummy I was just sinking the traffic to the dummy device,
> was good enough for me. Omitting "taskset" and "nice":
> 
> send-zc -4 -D <dummy_ip_addr> -t 10 udp
> 
> Similarly with msg_zerocopy:
> 
> <kernel>/tools/testing/selftests/net/msg_zerocopy -4 -p 6666 -D
> <dummy_ip_addr> -t 10 -z udp

I get -ENOBUFS with '-z' and any local address.

> 
> 
> For loopback testing, as zerocopy is not allowed for it as Willem
> explained in
> the original MSG_ZEROCOPY cover-letter, I used a hack to bypass it:
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
> index ebb12a7d386d..42df33b175ce 100644
> --- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
> +++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
> @@ -2854,9 +2854,7 @@ static inline int skb_orphan_frags(struct sk_buff
> *skb, gfp_t gfp_mask)
>  /* Frags must be orphaned, even if refcounted, if skb might loop to rx
> path */
>  static inline int skb_orphan_frags_rx(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp_mask)
>  {
> -    if (likely(!skb_zcopy(skb)))
> -        return 0;
> -    return skb_copy_ubufs(skb, gfp_mask);
> +    return skb_orphan_frags(skb, gfp_mask);
>  }
>  

that is the key change that is missing in your repo. All local traffic
(traffic to the address on a dummy device falls into this comment) goes
through loopback. That's just the way Linux works. If you look at the
dummy driver, it's xmit function just drops packets if any actually make
it there.


>> mileage varies quite a bit.
> 
> Interesting, any brief notes on the setup and the results? Dummy

VM on Chromebook. I just cloned your repos, built, install and test. As
mentioned above, the skb_orphan_frags_rx change is missing from your
repo and that is the key to your reported performance gains.