Hi all: This series tries to batch submitting packets to underlayer socket through msg_control during sendmsg(). This is done by: 1) Doing userspace copy inside vhost_net 2) Build XDP buff 3) Batch at most 64 (VHOST_NET_BATCH) XDP buffs and submit them once through msg_control during sendmsg(). 4) Underlayer sockets can use XDP buffs directly when XDP is enalbed, or build skb based on XDP buff. For the packet that can not be built easily with XDP or for the case that batch submission is hard (e.g sndbuf is limited). We will go for the previous slow path, passing iov iterator to underlayer socket through sendmsg() once per packet. This can help to improve cache utilization and avoid lots of indirect calls with sendmsg(). It can also co-operate with the batching support of the underlayer sockets (e.g the case of XDP redirection through maps). Testpmd(txonly) in guest shows obvious improvements: Test /+pps% XDP_DROP on TAP /+44.8% XDP_REDIRECT on TAP /+29% macvtap (skb) /+26% Netperf TCP_STREAM TX from guest shows obvious improvements on small packet: size/session/+thu%/+normalize% 64/ 1/ +2%/ 0% 64/ 2/ +3%/ +1% 64/ 4/ +7%/ +5% 64/ 8/ +8%/ +6% 256/ 1/ +3%/ 0% 256/ 2/ +10%/ +7% 256/ 4/ +26%/ +22% 256/ 8/ +27%/ +23% 512/ 1/ +3%/ +2% 512/ 2/ +19%/ +14% 512/ 4/ +43%/ +40% 512/ 8/ +45%/ +41% 1024/ 1/ +4%/ 0% 1024/ 2/ +27%/ +21% 1024/ 4/ +38%/ +73% 1024/ 8/ +15%/ +24% 2048/ 1/ +10%/ +7% 2048/ 2/ +16%/ +12% 2048/ 4/ 0%/ +2% 2048/ 8/ 0%/ +2% 4096/ 1/ +36%/ +60% 4096/ 2/ -11%/ -26% 4096/ 4/ 0%/ +14% 4096/ 8/ 0%/ +4% 16384/ 1/ -1%/ +5% 16384/ 2/ 0%/ +2% 16384/ 4/ 0%/ -3% 16384/ 8/ 0%/ +4% 65535/ 1/ 0%/ +10% 65535/ 2/ 0%/ +8% 65535/ 4/ 0%/ +1% 65535/ 8/ 0%/ +3% Please review. Thanks Jason Wang (11): net: sock: introduce SOCK_XDP tuntap: switch to use XDP_PACKET_HEADROOM tuntap: enable bh early during processing XDP tuntap: simplify error handling in tun_build_skb() tuntap: tweak on the path of non-xdp case in tun_build_skb() tuntap: split out XDP logic tuntap: move XDP flushing out of tun_do_xdp() tun: switch to new type of msg_control tuntap: accept an array of XDP buffs through sendmsg() tap: accept an array of XDP buffs through sendmsg() vhost_net: batch submitting XDP buffers to underlayer sockets drivers/net/tap.c | 87 +++++++++++++- drivers/net/tun.c | 251 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- drivers/vhost/net.c | 171 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--- include/linux/if_tun.h | 7 ++ include/net/sock.h | 1 + 5 files changed, 437 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-) -- 2.17.1