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Jon Maloy
78da088f7b tcp: unify payload and flags l2 frames array
In order to reduce static memory and code footprint, we merge
the array for l2 flag frames into the one for payload frames.

This change also ensures that no flag message will be sent out
over the l2 media bypassing already queued payload messages.

Performance measurements with iperf3, where we force all
traffic via the tap queue, show no significant difference:

Dual traffic both directions sinmultaneously, with patch:
========================================================
host->ns:
--------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec  36.3 GBytes  3.12 Gbits/sec  4759       sender
[  5]   0.00-100.04 sec  36.3 GBytes  3.11 Gbits/sec             receiver

ns->host:
---------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec   321 GBytes  27.6 Gbits/sec            receiver

Dual traffic both directions sinmultaneously, without patch:
============================================================
host->ns:
--------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec  35.0 GBytes  3.01 Gbits/sec  6001       sender
[  5]   0.00-100.04 sec  34.8 GBytes  2.99 Gbits/sec            receiver

ns->host
--------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec   345 GBytes  29.6 Gbits/sec            receiver

Single connection, with patch:
==============================
host->ns:
---------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec   138 GBytes  11.8 Gbits/sec  922       sender
[  5]   0.00-100.04 sec   138 GBytes  11.8 Gbits/sec            receiver

ns->host:
-----------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec   430 GBytes  36.9 Gbits/sec            receiver

Single connection, without patch:
=================================
host->ns:
------------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec   139 GBytes  11.9 Gbits/sec  900       sender
[  5]   0.00-100.04 sec   139 GBytes  11.9 Gbits/sec            receiver

ns->host:
---------
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-100.00 sec   440 GBytes  37.8 Gbits/sec            receiver

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2024-11-07 12:47:41 +01:00
Jon Maloy
ba38e67cf4 tcp: unify l2 TCPv4 and TCPv6 queues and structures
Following the preparations in the previous commit, we can now remove
the payload and flag queues dedicated for TCPv6 and TCPv4 and move all
traffic into common queues handling both protocol types.

Apart from reducing code and memory footprint, this change reduces
a potential risk for TCPv4 traffic starving out TCPv6 traffic.
Since we always flush out the TCPv4 frame queue before the TCPv6 queue,
the latter will never be handled if the former fails to send all its
frames.

Tests with iperf3 shows no measurable change in performance after this
change.

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2024-10-29 12:44:08 +01:00
David Gibson
4aff6f9392 tcp: Clean up tcpi_snd_wnd probing
When available, we want to retrieve our socket peer's advertised window and
forward that to the guest.  That information has been available from the
kernel via the TCP_INFO getsockopt() since kernel commit 8f7baad7f035.

Currently our probing for this is a bit odd.  The HAS_SND_WND define
determines if our headers include the tcp_snd_wnd field, but that doesn't
necessarily mean the running kernel supports it.  Currently we start by
assuming it's _not_ available, but mark it as available if we ever see
a non-zero value in the field.  This is a bit hit and miss in two ways:
 * Zero is perfectly possible window the peer could report, so we can
   get false negatives
 * We're reading TCP_INFO into a local variable, which might not be zero
   initialised, so if the kernel _doesn't_ write it it could have non-zero
   garbage, giving us false positives.

We can use a more direct way of probing for this: getsockopt() reports the
length of the information retreived.  So, check whether that's long enough
to include the field.  This lets us probe the availability of the field
once and for all during initialisation.  That in turn allows ctx to become
a const pointer to tcp_prepare_flags() which cascades through many other
functions.

We also move the flag for the probe result from the ctx structure to a
global, to match peek_offset_cap.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2024-09-18 17:14:47 +02:00
David Gibson
a09aeb4bd6 tcp: Correctly update SO_PEEK_OFF when tcp_send_frames() drops frames
When using the new SO_PEEK_OFF feature on TCP sockets, we must adjust
the SO_PEEK_OFF value whenever we move conn->seq_to_tap backwards.
Although it was discussed during development, somewhere during the shuffles
the case where we move the pointer backwards because we lost frames while
sending them to the guest.  This can happen, for example, if the socket
buffer on the Unix socket to qemu overflows.

Fixing this is slightly complicated because we need to pass a non-const
context pointer to some places we previously didn't need it.  While we're
there also fix a small stylistic issue in the function comment for
tcp_revert_seq() - it was using spaces instead of tabs.

Fixes: e63d281871 ("tcp: leverage support of SO_PEEK_OFF socket option when available")
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2024-07-24 09:27:46 +02:00
Laurent Vivier
fba2b544b6 tcp: move buffers management functions to their own file
Move all the TCP parts using internal buffers to tcp_buf.c
and keep generic TCP management functions in tcp.c.
Add tcp_internal.h to export needed functions from tcp.c and
tcp_buf.h from tcp_buf.c

With this change we can use existing TCP functions with a
different kind of memory storage as for instance the shared
memory provided by the guest via vhost-user.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2024-06-13 15:45:05 +02:00