tree 51f1daf90f01ee0775b82eab4727edbe36a80457
parent 187335cdfec32475677b8ea2e7a165843fc38675
author Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com> 1471543115 -0300
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1471651782 -0700

sctp: linearize early if it's not GSO

Because otherwise when crc computation is still needed it's way more
expensive than on a linear buffer to the point that it affects
performance.

It's so expensive that netperf test gives a perf output as below:

Overhead  Command         Shared Object       Symbol
  18,62%  netserver       [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] crc32_generic_shift
   2,57%  netserver       [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] __pskb_pull_tail
   1,94%  netserver       [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] fib_table_lookup
   1,90%  netserver       [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] copy_user_enhanced_fast_string
   1,66%  swapper         [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] intel_idle
   1,63%  netserver       [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] _raw_spin_lock
   1,59%  netserver       [sctp]              [k] sctp_packet_transmit
   1,55%  netserver       [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] memcpy_erms
   1,42%  netserver       [sctp]              [k] sctp_rcv

# netperf -H 192.168.10.1 -l 10 -t SCTP_STREAM -cC -- -m 12000
SCTP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.10.1 () port 0 AF_INET
Recv   Send    Send                          Utilization       Service Demand
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed              Send     Recv     Send    Recv
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput  local    remote   local   remote
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/s  % S      % S      us/KB   us/KB

212992 212992  12000    10.00      3016.42   2.88     3.78     1.874   2.462

After patch:
Overhead  Command         Shared Object      Symbol
   2,75%  netserver       [kernel.vmlinux]   [k] memcpy_erms
   2,63%  netserver       [kernel.vmlinux]   [k] copy_user_enhanced_fast_string
   2,39%  netserver       [kernel.vmlinux]   [k] fib_table_lookup
   2,04%  netserver       [kernel.vmlinux]   [k] __pskb_pull_tail
   1,91%  netserver       [kernel.vmlinux]   [k] _raw_spin_lock
   1,91%  netserver       [sctp]             [k] sctp_packet_transmit
   1,72%  netserver       [mlx4_en]          [k] mlx4_en_process_rx_cq
   1,68%  netserver       [sctp]             [k] sctp_rcv

# netperf -H 192.168.10.1 -l 10 -t SCTP_STREAM -cC -- -m 12000
SCTP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.10.1 () port 0 AF_INET
Recv   Send    Send                          Utilization       Service Demand
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed              Send     Recv     Send    Recv
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput  local    remote   local   remote
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/s  % S      % S      us/KB   us/KB

212992 212992  12000    10.00      3681.77   3.83     3.46     2.045   1.849

Fixes: 3acb50c18d8d ("sctp: delay as much as possible skb_linearize")
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>