Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: add GRO support via gro_cells

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On Monday 08 March 2021 20:55:20 Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 06:57:57PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > From: Alexander Lobakin <bloodyreaper@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > commit e131a5634830047923c694b4ce0c3b31745ff01b upstream.
> > 
> > gro_cells lib is used by different encapsulating netdevices, such as
> > geneve, macsec, vxlan etc. to speed up decapsulated traffic processing.
> > CPU tag is a sort of "encapsulation", and we can use the same mechs to
> > greatly improve overall DSA performance.
> > skbs are passed to the GRO layer after removing CPU tags, so we don't
> > need any new packet offload types as it was firstly proposed by me in
> > the first GRO-over-DSA variant [1].
> > 
> > The size of struct gro_cells is sizeof(void *), so hot struct
> > dsa_slave_priv becomes only 4/8 bytes bigger, and all critical fields
> > remain in one 32-byte cacheline.
> > The other positive side effect is that drivers for network devices
> > that can be shipped as CPU ports of DSA-driven switches can now use
> > napi_gro_frags() to pass skbs to kernel. Packets built that way are
> > completely non-linear and are likely being dropped without GRO.
> > 
> > This was tested on to-be-mainlined-soon Ethernet driver that uses
> > napi_gro_frags(), and the overall performance was on par with the
> > variant from [1], sometimes even better due to minimal overhead.
> > net.core.gro_normal_batch tuning may help to push it to the limit
> > on particular setups and platforms.
> > 
> > iperf3 IPoE VLAN NAT TCP forwarding (port1.218 -> port0) setup
> > on 1.2 GHz MIPS board:
> > 
> > 5.7-rc2 baseline:
> > 
> > [ID]  Interval         Transfer     Bitrate        Retr
> > [ 5]  0.00-120.01 sec  9.00 GBytes  644 Mbits/sec  413  sender
> > [ 5]  0.00-120.00 sec  8.99 GBytes  644 Mbits/sec       receiver
> > 
> > Iface      RX packets  TX packets
> > eth0       7097731     7097702
> > port0      426050      6671829
> > port1      6671681     425862
> > port1.218  6671677     425851
> > 
> > With this patch:
> > 
> > [ID]  Interval         Transfer     Bitrate        Retr
> > [ 5]  0.00-120.01 sec  12.2 GBytes  870 Mbits/sec  122  sender
> > [ 5]  0.00-120.00 sec  12.2 GBytes  870 Mbits/sec       receiver
> > 
> > Iface      RX packets  TX packets
> > eth0       9474792     9474777
> > port0      455200      353288
> > port1      9019592     455035
> > port1.218  353144      455024
> > 
> > v2:
> >  - Add some performance examples in the commit message;
> >  - No functional changes.
> > 
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20191230143028.27313-1-alobakin@xxxxxxxx/
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <bloodyreaper@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > ---
> > This patch radically increase network performance on DSA setup.
> > 
> > Please include this patch into stable releases.
> > 
> > I have done following tests:
> > 
> > NAT is a tested Espressobin board (ARM64 Marvell Armada 3720 SoC with
> > Marvell 88E6141 DSA switch) which was configured for IPv4 masquerade.
> > WAN and LAN are another two static boxes on which was running iperf3.
> > 
> > 4.19.179 without e131a5634830047923c694b4ce0c3b31745ff01b
> > 
> > WAN --> NAT --> LAN
> > [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
> > [  5]   0.00-10.01  sec   440 MBytes   369 Mbits/sec   12             sender
> > [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   437 MBytes   367 Mbits/sec                  receiver
> > 
> > WAN <-- NAT <-- LAN
> > [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
> > [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   390 MBytes   327 Mbits/sec   90             sender
> > [  5]   0.00-10.01  sec   388 MBytes   326 Mbits/sec                  receiver
> > 
> > 4.19.179 with e131a5634830047923c694b4ce0c3b31745ff01b
> > 
> > WAN --> NAT --> LAN
> > [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
> > [  5]   0.00-10.01  sec   616 MBytes   516 Mbits/sec   18             sender
> > [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   613 MBytes   515 Mbits/sec                  receiver
> > 
> > WAN <-- NAT <-- LAN
> > [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
> > [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   573 MBytes   480 Mbits/sec   32             sender
> > [  5]   0.00-10.01  sec   570 MBytes   478 Mbits/sec                  receiver
> > 
> > 5.4.103 without e131a5634830047923c694b4ce0c3b31745ff01b
> > 
> > WAN --> NAT --> LAN
> > [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
> > [  5]   0.00-10.01  sec   454 MBytes   380 Mbits/sec   62             sender
> > [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   451 MBytes   378 Mbits/sec                  receiver
> > 
> > WAN <-- NAT <-- LAN
> > [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
> > [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   425 MBytes   356 Mbits/sec  155             sender
> > [  5]   0.00-10.01  sec   422 MBytes   354 Mbits/sec                  receiver
> > 
> > 5.4.103 with e131a5634830047923c694b4ce0c3b31745ff01b
> > 
> > WAN --> NAT --> LAN
> > [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
> > [  5]   0.00-10.01  sec   604 MBytes   506 Mbits/sec    8             sender
> > [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   601 MBytes   504 Mbits/sec                  receiver
> > 
> > WAN <-- NAT <-- LAN
> > [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
> > [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   578 MBytes   485 Mbits/sec   79             sender
> > [  5]   0.00-10.01  sec   575 MBytes   482 Mbits/sec                  receiver
> > ---
> >  net/dsa/Kconfig    |  1 +
> >  net/dsa/dsa.c      |  2 +-
> >  net/dsa/dsa_priv.h |  3 +++
> >  net/dsa/slave.c    | 10 +++++++++-
> >  4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> So this patch should be applied to the 4.19 and 5.4 stable queues?

Yes! Patch was introduced in 5.8 and applies cleanly for 4.19 and 5.4
stable releases without any modifications. Trying to apply it for 4.14
results in patch conflicts. So I have done tests only for 4.19 and 5.4.

> Speed increases like this are always nice to see :)
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h



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