| Message ID | 1322556107.2970.82.camel@edumazet-laptop |
|---|---|
| State | Accepted, archived |
| Delegated to: | David Miller |
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:41:47 +0100 > tcp_sendmsg() uses select_size() helper to choose skb head size when a > new skb must be allocated. > > If GSO is enabled for the socket, current strategy is to force all > payload data to be outside of headroom, in PAGE fragments. > > This strategy is not welcome for small packets, wasting memory. > > Experiments show that best results are obtained when using 2048 bytes > for skb head (This includes the skb overhead and various headers) > > This patch provides better len/truesize ratios for packets sent to > loopback device, and reduce memory needs for in-flight loopback packets, > particularly on arches with big pages. > > If a sender sends many 1-byte packets to an unresponsive application, > receiver rmem_alloc will grow faster and will stop queuing these packets > sooner, or will collapse its receive queue to free excess memory. > > netperf -t TCP_RR results are improved by ~4 %, and many workloads are > improved as well (tbench, mysql...) > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c index 704adad..cd45b44 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c @@ -897,9 +897,12 @@ static inline int select_size(const struct sock *sk, int sg) int tmp = tp->mss_cache; if (sg) { - if (sk_can_gso(sk)) - tmp = 0; - else { + if (sk_can_gso(sk)) { + /* Small frames wont use a full page: + * Payload will immediately follow tcp header. + */ + tmp = SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(2048 - MAX_TCP_HEADER); + } else { int pgbreak = SKB_MAX_HEAD(MAX_TCP_HEADER); if (tmp >= pgbreak &&
tcp_sendmsg() uses select_size() helper to choose skb head size when a new skb must be allocated. If GSO is enabled for the socket, current strategy is to force all payload data to be outside of headroom, in PAGE fragments. This strategy is not welcome for small packets, wasting memory. Experiments show that best results are obtained when using 2048 bytes for skb head (This includes the skb overhead and various headers) This patch provides better len/truesize ratios for packets sent to loopback device, and reduce memory needs for in-flight loopback packets, particularly on arches with big pages. If a sender sends many 1-byte packets to an unresponsive application, receiver rmem_alloc will grow faster and will stop queuing these packets sooner, or will collapse its receive queue to free excess memory. netperf -t TCP_RR results are improved by ~4 %, and many workloads are improved as well (tbench, mysql...) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> --- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html