This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
s390/qeth: fix GSO throughput regression
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
s390-qeth-fix-gso-throughput-regression.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Thu Dec 14 11:45:58 CET 2017
From: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 10:14:50 +0100
Subject: s390/qeth: fix GSO throughput regression
From: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 6d69b1f1eb7a2edf8a3547f361c61f2538e054bb ]
Using GSO with small MTUs currently results in a substantial throughput
regression - which is caused by how qeth needs to map non-linear skbs
into its IO buffer elements:
compared to a linear skb, each GSO-segmented skb effectively consumes
twice as many buffer elements (ie two instead of one) due to the
additional header-only part. This causes the Output Queue to be
congested with low-utilized IO buffers.
Fix this as follows:
If the MSS is low enough so that a non-SG GSO segmentation produces
order-0 skbs (currently ~3500 byte), opt out from NETIF_F_SG. This is
where we anticipate the biggest savings, since an SG-enabled
GSO segmentation produces skbs that always consume at least two
buffer elements.
Larger MSS values continue to get a SG-enabled GSO segmentation, since
1) the relative overhead of the additional header-only buffer element
becomes less noticeable, and
2) the linearization overhead increases.
With the throughput regression fixed, re-enable NETIF_F_SG by default to
reap the significant CPU savings of GSO.
Fixes: 5722963a8e83 ("qeth: do not turn on SG per default")
Reported-by: Nils Hoppmann <niho@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/s390/net/qeth_core.h | 3 +++
drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c | 2 ++
drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c | 2 ++
4 files changed, 38 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core.h
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core.h
@@ -1004,6 +1004,9 @@ struct qeth_cmd_buffer *qeth_get_setassp
int qeth_set_features(struct net_device *, netdev_features_t);
int qeth_recover_features(struct net_device *);
netdev_features_t qeth_fix_features(struct net_device *, netdev_features_t);
+netdev_features_t qeth_features_check(struct sk_buff *skb,
+ struct net_device *dev,
+ netdev_features_t features);
/* exports for OSN */
int qeth_osn_assist(struct net_device *, void *, int);
--- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c
@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@
#include <linux/mii.h>
#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/if_vlan.h>
+#include <linux/netdevice.h>
+#include <linux/netdev_features.h>
+#include <linux/skbuff.h>
+
#include <net/iucv/af_iucv.h>
#include <net/dsfield.h>
@@ -6240,6 +6245,32 @@ netdev_features_t qeth_fix_features(stru
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(qeth_fix_features);
+netdev_features_t qeth_features_check(struct sk_buff *skb,
+ struct net_device *dev,
+ netdev_features_t features)
+{
+ /* GSO segmentation builds skbs with
+ * a (small) linear part for the headers, and
+ * page frags for the data.
+ * Compared to a linear skb, the header-only part consumes an
+ * additional buffer element. This reduces buffer utilization, and
+ * hurts throughput. So compress small segments into one element.
+ */
+ if (netif_needs_gso(skb, features)) {
+ /* match skb_segment(): */
+ unsigned int doffset = skb->data - skb_mac_header(skb);
+ unsigned int hsize = skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size;
+ unsigned int hroom = skb_headroom(skb);
+
+ /* linearize only if resulting skb allocations are order-0: */
+ if (SKB_DATA_ALIGN(hroom + doffset + hsize) <= SKB_MAX_HEAD(0))
+ features &= ~NETIF_F_SG;
+ }
+
+ return vlan_features_check(skb, features);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(qeth_features_check);
+
static int __init qeth_core_init(void)
{
int rc;
--- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
@@ -1084,6 +1084,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops qeth_
.ndo_stop = qeth_l2_stop,
.ndo_get_stats = qeth_get_stats,
.ndo_start_xmit = qeth_l2_hard_start_xmit,
+ .ndo_features_check = qeth_features_check,
.ndo_validate_addr = eth_validate_addr,
.ndo_set_rx_mode = qeth_l2_set_rx_mode,
.ndo_do_ioctl = qeth_l2_do_ioctl,
@@ -1128,6 +1129,7 @@ static int qeth_l2_setup_netdev(struct q
if (card->info.type == QETH_CARD_TYPE_OSD && !card->info.guestlan) {
card->dev->hw_features = NETIF_F_SG;
card->dev->vlan_features = NETIF_F_SG;
+ card->dev->features |= NETIF_F_SG;
/* OSA 3S and earlier has no RX/TX support */
if (qeth_is_supported(card, IPA_OUTBOUND_CHECKSUM)) {
card->dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_IP_CSUM;
--- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c
@@ -3066,6 +3066,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops qeth_
.ndo_stop = qeth_l3_stop,
.ndo_get_stats = qeth_get_stats,
.ndo_start_xmit = qeth_l3_hard_start_xmit,
+ .ndo_features_check = qeth_features_check,
.ndo_validate_addr = eth_validate_addr,
.ndo_set_rx_mode = qeth_l3_set_multicast_list,
.ndo_do_ioctl = qeth_l3_do_ioctl,
@@ -3122,6 +3123,7 @@ static int qeth_l3_setup_netdev(struct q
card->dev->vlan_features = NETIF_F_SG |
NETIF_F_RXCSUM | NETIF_F_IP_CSUM |
NETIF_F_TSO;
+ card->dev->features |= NETIF_F_SG;
}
}
} else if (card->info.type == QETH_CARD_TYPE_IQD) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/s390-qeth-fix-thinko-in-ipv4-multicast-address-tracking.patch
queue-4.9/s390-qeth-fix-gso-throughput-regression.patch
queue-4.9/s390-qeth-fix-early-exit-from-error-path.patch
queue-4.9/s390-qeth-build-max-size-gso-skbs-on-l2-devices.patch