tree 90f8dcb39e9c7b62034c8010e054cc237940339a
parent ee80d1ebe5ba7f4bd74959c873119175a4fc08d3
author Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> 1524764537 -0400
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1524769684 -0400

udp: generate gso with UDP_SEGMENT

Support generic segmentation offload for udp datagrams. Callers can
concatenate and send at once the payload of multiple datagrams with
the same destination.

To set segment size, the caller sets socket option UDP_SEGMENT to the
length of each discrete payload. This value must be smaller than or
equal to the relevant MTU.

A follow-up patch adds cmsg UDP_SEGMENT to specify segment size on a
per send call basis.

Total byte length may then exceed MTU. If not an exact multiple of
segment size, the last segment will be shorter.

The implementation adds a gso_size field to the udp socket, ip(v6)
cmsg cookie and inet_cork structure to be able to set the value at
setsockopt or cmsg time and to work with both lockless and corked
paths.

Initial benchmark numbers show UDP GSO about as expensive as TCP GSO.

    tcp tso
     3197 MB/s 54232 msg/s 54232 calls/s
         6,457,754,262      cycles

    tcp gso
     1765 MB/s 29939 msg/s 29939 calls/s
        11,203,021,806      cycles

    tcp without tso/gso *
      739 MB/s 12548 msg/s 12548 calls/s
        11,205,483,630      cycles

    udp
      876 MB/s 14873 msg/s 624666 calls/s
        11,205,777,429      cycles

    udp gso
     2139 MB/s 36282 msg/s 36282 calls/s
        11,204,374,561      cycles

   [*] after reverting commit 0a6b2a1dc2a2
       ("tcp: switch to GSO being always on")

Measured total system cycles ('-a') for one core while pinning both
the network receive path and benchmark process to that core:

  perf stat -a -C 12 -e cycles \
    ./udpgso_bench_tx -C 12 -4 -D "$DST" -l 4

Note the reduction in calls/s with GSO. Bytes per syscall drops
increases from 1470 to 61818.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>