Re: zero-copy between interfaces

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On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 03:52:50PM -0500, Ryan Goodfellow wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 10:59:19AM +0100, Magnus Karlsson wrote:
> > 
> > Just sent out a patch on the mailing list. Would be great if you could
> > try it out.
> 
> Thanks for the quick turnaround. I gave this patch a go, both in the bpf-next
> tree and manually applied to the 5.5.0-rc3 branch I've been working with up to 
> this point. It does allow for allocating more memory, however packet 
> forwarding no longer works. I did not see any complaints from dmesg, but here 
> is an example iperf3 session from a client that worked before.
> 
> ry@xd2:~$ iperf3 -c 10.1.0.2
> Connecting to host 10.1.0.2, port 5201
> [  5] local 10.1.0.1 port 53304 connected to 10.1.0.2 port 5201
> [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
> [  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  5.91 MBytes  49.5 Mbits/sec    2   1.41 KBytes
> [  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec    1   1.41 KBytes
> [  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec    0   1.41 KBytes
> [  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec    1   1.41 KBytes
> [  5]   4.00-5.00   sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec    0   1.41 KBytes
> [  5]   5.00-6.00   sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec    0   1.41 KBytes
> [  5]   6.00-7.00   sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec    1   1.41 KBytes
> [  5]   7.00-8.00   sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec    0   1.41 KBytes
> [  5]   8.00-9.00   sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec    0   1.41 KBytes
> ^C[  5]  10.00-139.77 sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec    4   1.41 KBytes
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
> [  5]   0.00-139.77 sec  5.91 MBytes   355 Kbits/sec    9             sender
> [  5]   0.00-139.77 sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec                  receiver
> iperf3: interrupt - the client has terminated
> 
> I'll continue to investigate and report back with anything that I find.

Interestingly I found this behavior to exist in the bpf-next tree independent
of the patch being present.

I also gave the 5.5.0-rc6 branch a try (without the patch) and packets forward
OK.

-- 
~ ry



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