From: Jon Maloy <jmaloy(a)redhat.com>
When reading received messages from a socket with MSG_PEEK, we may want
to read the contents with an offset, like we can do with pread/preadv()
when reading files. Currently, it is not possible to do that.
In this commit, we add support for the SO_PEEK_OFF socket option for TCP,
in a similar way it is done for Unix Domain sockets.
In the iperf3 log examples shown below, we can observe a throughput
improvement of 15-20 % in the direction host->namespace when using the
protocol splicer 'pasta' (
https://passt.top).
This is a consistent result.
pasta(1) and passt(1) implement user-mode networking for network
namespaces (containers) and virtual machines by means of a translation
layer between Layer-2 network interface and native Layer-4 sockets
(TCP, UDP, ICMP/ICMPv6 echo).
Received, pending TCP data to the container/guest is kept in kernel
buffers until acknowledged, so the tool routinely needs to fetch new
data from socket, skipping data that was already sent.
At the moment this is implemented using a dummy buffer passed to
recvmsg(). With this change, we don't need a dummy buffer and the
related buffer copy (copy_to_user()) anymore.
passt and pasta are supported in KubeVirt and libvirt/qemu.
j
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Server listening on 5201 (test #1)
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Accepted connection from 192.168.122.1, port 52084
[ 5] local 192.168.122.180 port 5201 connected to 192.168.122.1 port 52098
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate
[ 5] 0.00-1.00 sec 1.32 GBytes 11.3 Gbits/sec
[ 5] 1.00-2.00 sec 1.19 GBytes 10.2 Gbits/sec
[ 5] 2.00-3.00 sec 1.26 GBytes 10.8 Gbits/sec
[ 5] 3.00-4.00 sec 1.36 GBytes 11.7 Gbits/sec
[ 5] 4.00-5.00 sec 1.33 GBytes 11.4 Gbits/sec
[ 5] 5.00-6.00 sec 1.21 GBytes 10.4 Gbits/sec
[ 5] 6.00-7.00 sec 1.31 GBytes 11.2 Gbits/sec
[ 5] 7.00-8.00 sec 1.25 GBytes 10.7 Gbits/sec
[ 5] 8.00-9.00 sec 1.33 GBytes 11.5 Gbits/sec
[ 5] 9.00-10.00 sec 1.24 GBytes 10.7 Gbits/sec
[ 5] 10.00-10.04 sec 56.0 MBytes 12.1 Gbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate
[ 5] 0.00-10.04 sec 12.9 GBytes 11.0 Gbits/sec receiver
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Server listening on 5201 (test #2)
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^Ciperf3: interrupt - the server has terminated
logout
[ perf record: Woken up 20 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 5.040 MB perf.data (33411 samples) ]
jmaloy@freyr:~/passt$
The perf record confirms this result. Below, we can observe that the
CPU spends significantly less time in the function ____sys_recvmsg()
when we have offset support.
Without offset support:
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jmaloy@freyr:~/passt$ perf report -q --symbol-filter=do_syscall_64 \
-p ____sys_recvmsg -x --stdio -i perf.data | head -1
46.32% 0.00% passt.avx2 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] do_syscall_64 ____sys_recvmsg
With offset support:
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jmaloy@freyr:~/passt$ perf report -q --symbol-filter=do_syscall_64 \
-p ____sys_recvmsg -x --stdio -i perf.data | head -1
28.12% 0.00% passt.avx2 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] do_syscall_64 ____sys_recvmsg
Suggested-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni(a)redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio(a)redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy(a)redhat.com>
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v3: - Applied changes suggested by Stefano Brivio and Paolo Abeni
v4: - Same as v3. Posting was delayed because I first had to debug
an issue that turned out to not be directly related to this
change. See next commit in this series.