While investigating performance problems on small RPC workloads,
I noticed linux TCP stack was always splitting the last TSO skb
into two parts (skbs). One being a multiple of MSS, and a small one
with the Push flag. This split is done even if TCP_NODELAY is set,
or if no small packet is in flight.
Example with request/response of 4K/4K
IP A > B: . ack 68432 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001>
IP A > B: . 65537:68433(2896) ack 69632 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001>
IP A > B: P 68433:69633(1200) ack 69632 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001>
IP B > A: . ack 68433 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6525001 6524593>
IP B > A: . 69632:72528(2896) ack 69633 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6525001 6524593>
IP B > A: P 72528:73728(1200) ack 69633 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6525001 6524593>
IP A > B: . ack 72528 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001>
IP A > B: . 69633:72529(2896) ack 73728 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001>
IP A > B: P 72529:73729(1200) ack 73728 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6524593 6525001>
We can avoid this split by including the Nagle tests at the right place.
Note : If some NIC had trouble sending TSO packets with a partial
last segment, we would have hit the problem in GRO/forwarding workload already.
tcp_minshall_update() is moved to tcp_output.c and is updated as we might
feed a TSO packet with a partial last segment.
This patch tremendously improves performance, as the traffic now looks
like :
IP A > B: . ack 98304 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834277 6834685>
IP A > B: P 94209:98305(4096) ack 98304 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834277 6834685>
IP B > A: . ack 98305 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834686 6834277>
IP B > A: P 98304:102400(4096) ack 98305 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834686 6834277>
IP A > B: . ack 102400 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834279 6834686>
IP A > B: P 98305:102401(4096) ack 102400 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834279 6834686>
IP B > A: . ack 102401 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834687 6834279>
IP B > A: P 102400:106496(4096) ack 102401 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834687 6834279>
IP A > B: . ack 106496 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834280 6834687>
IP A > B: P 102401:106497(4096) ack 106496 win 2783 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834280 6834687>
IP B > A: . ack 106497 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834688 6834280>
IP B > A: P 106496:110592(4096) ack 106497 win 2768 <nop,nop,timestamp 6834688 6834280>
Before :
lpq83:~# nstat >/dev/null;perf stat ./super_netperf 200 -t TCP_RR -H lpq84 -l 20 -- -r 4K,4K
280774
Performance counter stats for './super_netperf 200 -t TCP_RR -H lpq84 -l 20 -- -r 4K,4K':
205719.049006 task-clock # 9.278 CPUs utilized
8,449,968 context-switches # 0.041 M/sec
1,935,997 CPU-migrations # 0.009 M/sec
160,541 page-faults # 0.780 K/sec
548,478,722,290 cycles # 2.666 GHz [83.20%]
455,240,670,857 stalled-cycles-frontend # 83.00% frontend cycles idle [83.48%]
272,881,454,275 stalled-cycles-backend # 49.75% backend cycles idle [66.73%]
166,091,460,030 instructions # 0.30 insns per cycle
# 2.74 stalled cycles per insn [83.39%]
29,150,229,399 branches # 141.699 M/sec [83.30%]
1,943,814,026 branch-misses # 6.67% of all branches [83.32%]
22.173517844 seconds time elapsed
lpq83:~# nstat | egrep "IpOutRequests|IpExtOutOctets"
IpOutRequests 16851063 0.0
IpExtOutOctets 23878580777 0.0
After patch :
lpq83:~# nstat >/dev/null;perf stat ./super_netperf 200 -t TCP_RR -H lpq84 -l 20 -- -r 4K,4K
280877
Performance counter stats for './super_netperf 200 -t TCP_RR -H lpq84 -l 20 -- -r 4K,4K':
107496.071918 task-clock # 4.847 CPUs utilized
5,635,458 context-switches # 0.052 M/sec
1,374,707 CPU-migrations # 0.013 M/sec
160,920 page-faults # 0.001 M/sec
281,500,010,924 cycles # 2.619 GHz [83.28%]
228,865,069,307 stalled-cycles-frontend # 81.30% frontend cycles idle [83.38%]
142,462,742,658 stalled-cycles-backend # 50.61% backend cycles idle [66.81%]
95,227,712,566 instructions # 0.34 insns per cycle
# 2.40 stalled cycles per insn [83.43%]
16,209,868,171 branches # 150.795 M/sec [83.20%]
874,252,952 branch-misses # 5.39% of all branches [83.37%]
22.175821286 seconds time elapsed
lpq83:~# nstat | egrep "IpOutRequests|IpExtOutOctets"
IpOutRequests 11239428 0.0
IpExtOutOctets 23595191035 0.0
Indeed, the occupancy of tx skbs (IpExtOutOctets/IpOutRequests) is higher :
2099 instead of 1417, thus helping GRO to be more efficient when using FQ packet
scheduler.
Many thanks to Neal for review and ideas.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Cc: Van Jacobson <vanj@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Tested-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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