When reading received messages with MSG_PEEK, we sometines have to read the leading bytes of the stream several times, only to reach the bytes we really want. This is clearly non-optimal. What we would want is something similar to pread/preadv(), but working even for tcp sockets. At the same time, we don't want to add any new arguments to the recv/recvmsg() calls. In this commit, we allow the user to set iovec.iov_base in the first vector entry to NULL. This tells the socket to skip the first entry, hence letting the iov_len field of that entry indicate the offset value. This way, there is no need to add any new arguments or flags. In the iperf3 logs examples shown below, we can observe a throughput improvement of ~20 % in the direction host->namespace when using the protocol splicer 'passt'. This is a consistent result. $ ./passt/passt/pasta --config-net -f MSG_PEEK with offset not supported. [root@fedora37 ~]# perf record iperf3 -s ----------------------------------------------------------- Server listening on 5201 (test #1) ----------------------------------------------------------- Accepted connection from 192.168.122.1, port 60344 [ 6] local 192.168.122.163 port 5201 connected to 192.168.122.1 port 60360 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate {...] [ 6] 13.00-14.00 sec 2.54 GBytes 21.8 Gbits/sec [ 6] 14.00-15.00 sec 2.52 GBytes 21.7 Gbits/sec [ 6] 15.00-16.00 sec 2.50 GBytes 21.5 Gbits/sec [ 6] 16.00-17.00 sec 2.49 GBytes 21.4 Gbits/sec [ 6] 17.00-18.00 sec 2.51 GBytes 21.6 Gbits/sec [ 6] 18.00-19.00 sec 2.48 GBytes 21.3 Gbits/sec [ 6] 19.00-20.00 sec 2.49 GBytes 21.4 Gbits/sec [ 6] 20.00-20.04 sec 87.4 MBytes 19.2 Gbits/sec - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate [ 6] 0.00-20.04 sec 48.9 GBytes 21.0 Gbits/sec receiver ----------------------------------------------------------- [jmaloy@fedora37 ~]$ ./passt/passt/pasta --config-net -f MSG_PEEK with offset supported. [root@fedora37 ~]# perf record iperf3 -s ----------------------------------------------------------- Server listening on 5201 (test #1) ----------------------------------------------------------- Accepted connection from 192.168.122.1, port 46362 [ 6] local 192.168.122.163 port 5201 connected to 192.168.122.1 port 46374 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate [...] [ 6] 12.00-13.00 sec 3.18 GBytes 27.3 Gbits/sec [ 6] 13.00-14.00 sec 3.17 GBytes 27.3 Gbits/sec [ 6] 14.00-15.00 sec 3.13 GBytes 26.9 Gbits/sec [ 6] 15.00-16.00 sec 3.17 GBytes 27.3 Gbits/sec [ 6] 16.00-17.00 sec 3.17 GBytes 27.2 Gbits/sec [ 6] 17.00-18.00 sec 3.14 GBytes 27.0 Gbits/sec [ 6] 18.00-19.00 sec 3.17 GBytes 27.2 Gbits/sec [ 6] 19.00-20.00 sec 3.12 GBytes 26.8 Gbits/sec [ 6] 20.00-20.04 sec 119 MBytes 25.5 Gbits/sec - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate [ 6] 0.00-20.04 sec 59.4 GBytes 25.4 Gbits/sec receiver ----------------------------------------------------------- Passt is used to support VMs in containers, such as KubeVirt, and is also generally supported in libvirt/QEMU since release 9.2 / 7.2. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy Signed-off-by: Jon Paul Maloy --- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c index 53bcc17c91e4..e9d3b5bf2f66 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c @@ -2310,6 +2310,7 @@ static int tcp_recvmsg_locked(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len, int *cmsg_flags) { struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk); + size_t peek_offset; int copied = 0; u32 peek_seq; u32 *seq; @@ -2353,6 +2354,20 @@ static int tcp_recvmsg_locked(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len, if (flags & MSG_PEEK) { peek_seq = tp->copied_seq; seq = &peek_seq; + if (!msg->msg_iter.__iov[0].iov_base) { + peek_offset = msg->msg_iter.__iov[0].iov_len; + msg->msg_iter.__iov = &msg->msg_iter.__iov[1]; + if (msg->msg_iter.nr_segs <= 1) + goto out; + msg->msg_iter.nr_segs -= 1; + if (msg->msg_iter.count <= peek_offset) + goto out; + msg->msg_iter.count -= peek_offset; + if (len <= peek_offset) + goto out; + len -= peek_offset; + *seq += peek_offset; + } } target = sock_rcvlowat(sk, flags & MSG_WAITALL, len); -- 2.39.2