[PATCH net-next 0/4] zerocopy refinements

[PATCH net-next 0/4] zerocopy refinements

[Willem de Bruijn]

From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>

1/4 is a small optimization follow-up to the earlier fix to skb_segment:
    check skb state once per skb, instead of once per frag.
2/4 makes behavior more consistent between standard and zerocopy send:
    set the PSH bit when hitting MAX_SKB_FRAGS. This helps GRO.
3/4 resolves a surprising inconsistency in notification:
    because small packets were not stored in frags, they would not set
    the copied error code over loopback. This change also optimizes
    the path by removing copying and making tso_fragment cheaper.
4/4 follows-up to 3/4 by no longer allocated now unused memory.
    this was actually already in RFC patches, but dropped as I pared
    down the patch set during revisions.
   
Willem de Bruijn (4):
  skbuff: in skb_segment, call zerocopy functions once per nskb
  tcp: push full zerocopy packets
  tcp: place all zerocopy payload in frags
  tcp: do not allocate linear memory for zerocopy skbs

 net/core/skbuff.c | 14 +++++++++-----
 net/ipv4/tcp.c    | 24 +++++++++++++++---------
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

-- 
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[PATCH net-next 1/4] skbuff: in skb_segment, call zerocopy functions once per nskb

[Willem de Bruijn]

From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>

This is a net-next follow-up to commit 268b79067942 ("skbuff: orphan
frags before zerocopy clone"), which fixed a bug in net, but added a
call to skb_zerocopy_clone at each frag to do so.

When segmenting skbs with user frags, either the user frags must be
replaced with private copies and uarg released, or the uarg must have
its refcount increased for each new skb.

skb_orphan_frags does the first, except for cases that can handle
reference counting. skb_zerocopy_clone then does the second.

Call these once per nskb, instead of once per frag.

That is, in the common case. With a frag list, also refresh when the
origin skb (frag_skb) changes.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
---
 net/core/skbuff.c | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index a3cb0be4c6f3..00b0757830e2 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -3656,6 +3656,10 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment(struct sk_buff *head_skb,
 		skb_shinfo(nskb)->tx_flags |= skb_shinfo(head_skb)->tx_flags &
 					      SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG;
 
+		if (skb_orphan_frags(frag_skb, GFP_ATOMIC) ||
+		    skb_zerocopy_clone(nskb, frag_skb, GFP_ATOMIC))
+			goto err;
+
 		while (pos < offset + len) {
 			if (i >= nfrags) {
 				BUG_ON(skb_headlen(list_skb));
@@ -3667,6 +3671,11 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment(struct sk_buff *head_skb,
 
 				BUG_ON(!nfrags);
 
+				if (skb_orphan_frags(frag_skb, GFP_ATOMIC) ||
+				    skb_zerocopy_clone(nskb, frag_skb,
+						       GFP_ATOMIC))
+					goto err;
+
 				list_skb = list_skb->next;
 			}
 
@@ -3678,11 +3687,6 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment(struct sk_buff *head_skb,
 				goto err;
 			}
 
-			if (unlikely(skb_orphan_frags(frag_skb, GFP_ATOMIC)))
-				goto err;
-			if (skb_zerocopy_clone(nskb, frag_skb, GFP_ATOMIC))
-				goto err;
-
 			*nskb_frag = *frag;
 			__skb_frag_ref(nskb_frag);
 			size = skb_frag_size(nskb_frag);
-- 
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[PATCH net-next 2/4] tcp: push full zerocopy packets

[Willem de Bruijn]

From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>

Skbs that reach MAX_SKB_FRAGS cannot be extended further. Do the
same for zerocopy frags as non-zerocopy frags and set the PSH bit.
This improves GRO assembly.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 67d39b79c801..44102484a76f 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -1371,8 +1371,10 @@ int tcp_sendmsg_locked(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t size)
 			pfrag->offset += copy;
 		} else {
 			err = skb_zerocopy_iter_stream(sk, skb, msg, copy, uarg);
-			if (err == -EMSGSIZE || err == -EEXIST)
+			if (err == -EMSGSIZE || err == -EEXIST) {
+				tcp_mark_push(tp, skb);
 				goto new_segment;
+			}
 			if (err < 0)
 				goto do_error;
 			copy = err;
-- 
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[PATCH net-next 3/4] tcp: place all zerocopy payload in frags

[Willem de Bruijn]

From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>

This avoids an unnecessary copy of 1-2KB and improves tso_fragment,
which has to fall back to tcp_fragment if skb->len != skb_data_len.

It also avoids a surprising inconsistency in notifications:
Zerocopy packets sent over loopback have their frags copied, so set
SO_EE_CODE_ZEROCOPY_COPIED in the notification. But this currently
does not happen for small packets, because when all data fits in the
linear fragment, data is not copied in skb_orphan_frags_rx.

Reported-by: Tom Deseyn <tom.deseyn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 44102484a76f..947348872c3e 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -1186,7 +1186,7 @@ int tcp_sendmsg_locked(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t size)
 	int flags, err, copied = 0;
 	int mss_now = 0, size_goal, copied_syn = 0;
 	bool process_backlog = false;
-	bool sg;
+	bool sg, zc = false;
 	long timeo;
 
 	flags = msg->msg_flags;
@@ -1204,7 +1204,8 @@ int tcp_sendmsg_locked(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t size)
 			goto out_err;
 		}
 
-		if (!(sk_check_csum_caps(sk) && sk->sk_route_caps & NETIF_F_SG))
+		zc = sk_check_csum_caps(sk) && sk->sk_route_caps & NETIF_F_SG;
+		if (!zc)
 			uarg->zerocopy = 0;
 	}
 
@@ -1325,13 +1326,13 @@ int tcp_sendmsg_locked(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t size)
 			copy = msg_data_left(msg);
 
 		/* Where to copy to? */
-		if (skb_availroom(skb) > 0) {
+		if (skb_availroom(skb) > 0 && !zc) {
 			/* We have some space in skb head. Superb! */
 			copy = min_t(int, copy, skb_availroom(skb));
 			err = skb_add_data_nocache(sk, skb, &msg->msg_iter, copy);
 			if (err)
 				goto do_fault;
-		} else if (!uarg || !uarg->zerocopy) {
+		} else if (!zc) {
 			bool merge = true;
 			int i = skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags;
 			struct page_frag *pfrag = sk_page_frag(sk);
-- 
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[PATCH net-next 4/4] tcp: do not allocate linear memory for zerocopy skbs

[Willem de Bruijn]

From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>

Zerocopy payload is now always stored in frags, and space for headers
is reversed, so this memory is unused.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp.c | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 947348872c3e..7ac583a2b9fe 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -1104,12 +1104,15 @@ static int linear_payload_sz(bool first_skb)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int select_size(const struct sock *sk, bool sg, bool first_skb)
+static int select_size(const struct sock *sk, bool sg, bool first_skb, bool zc)
 {
 	const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 	int tmp = tp->mss_cache;
 
 	if (sg) {
+		if (zc)
+			return 0;
+
 		if (sk_can_gso(sk)) {
 			tmp = linear_payload_sz(first_skb);
 		} else {
@@ -1282,6 +1285,7 @@ int tcp_sendmsg_locked(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t size)
 
 		if (copy <= 0 || !tcp_skb_can_collapse_to(skb)) {
 			bool first_skb;
+			int linear;
 
 new_segment:
 			/* Allocate new segment. If the interface is SG,
@@ -1295,9 +1299,8 @@ int tcp_sendmsg_locked(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t size)
 				goto restart;
 			}
 			first_skb = tcp_rtx_and_write_queues_empty(sk);
-			skb = sk_stream_alloc_skb(sk,
-						  select_size(sk, sg, first_skb),
-						  sk->sk_allocation,
+			linear = select_size(sk, sg, first_skb, zc);
+			skb = sk_stream_alloc_skb(sk, linear, sk->sk_allocation,
 						  first_skb);
 			if (!skb)
 				goto wait_for_memory;
-- 
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Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] zerocopy refinements

[David Miller]

From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 19:00:16 -0500

> From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
> 
> 1/4 is a small optimization follow-up to the earlier fix to skb_segment:
>     check skb state once per skb, instead of once per frag.
> 2/4 makes behavior more consistent between standard and zerocopy send:
>     set the PSH bit when hitting MAX_SKB_FRAGS. This helps GRO.
> 3/4 resolves a surprising inconsistency in notification:
>     because small packets were not stored in frags, they would not set
>     the copied error code over loopback. This change also optimizes
>     the path by removing copying and making tso_fragment cheaper.
> 4/4 follows-up to 3/4 by no longer allocated now unused memory.
>     this was actually already in RFC patches, but dropped as I pared
>     down the patch set during revisions.

Looks good, series applied, thanks.