net: use a per task frag allocator

We currently use a per socket order-0 page cache for tcp_sendmsg()
operations.

This page is used to build fragments for skbs.

Its done to increase probability of coalescing small write() into
single segments in skbs still in write queue (not yet sent)

But it wastes a lot of memory for applications handling many mostly
idle sockets, since each socket holds one page in sk->sk_sndmsg_page

Its also quite inefficient to build TSO 64KB packets, because we need
about 16 pages per skb on arches where PAGE_SIZE = 4096, so we hit
page allocator more than wanted.

This patch adds a per task frag allocator and uses bigger pages,
if available. An automatic fallback is done in case of memory pressure.

(up to 32768 bytes per frag, thats order-3 pages on x86)

This increases TCP stream performance by 20% on loopback device,
but also benefits on other network devices, since 8x less frags are
mapped on transmit and unmapped on tx completion. Alexander Duyck
mentioned a probable performance win on systems with IOMMU enabled.

Its possible some SG enabled hardware cant cope with bigger fragments,
but their ndo_start_xmit() should already handle this, splitting a
fragment in sub fragments, since some arches have PAGE_SIZE=65536

Successfully tested on various ethernet devices.
(ixgbe, igb, bnx2x, tg3, mellanox mlx4)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 42 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
index a5beab1dc958..24a29a39e9a8 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
@@ -793,6 +793,7 @@ static int __ip_append_data(struct sock *sk,
                             struct flowi4 *fl4,
                             struct sk_buff_head *queue,
                             struct inet_cork *cork,
+                            struct page_frag *pfrag,
                             int getfrag(void *from, char *to, int offset,
                                         int len, int odd, struct sk_buff *skb),
                             void *from, int length, int transhdrlen,
@@ -987,47 +988,30 @@ alloc_new_skb:
                         }
                 } else {
                         int i = skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags;
-                        skb_frag_t *frag = &skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i-1];
-                        struct page *page = cork->page;
-                        int off = cork->off;
-                        unsigned int left;
-
-                        if (page && (left = PAGE_SIZE - off) > 0) {
-                                if (copy >= left)
-                                        copy = left;
-                                if (page != skb_frag_page(frag)) {
-                                        if (i == MAX_SKB_FRAGS) {
-                                                err = -EMSGSIZE;
-                                                goto error;
-                                        }
-                                        skb_fill_page_desc(skb, i, page, off, 0);
-                                        skb_frag_ref(skb, i);
-                                        frag = &skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i];
-                                }
-                        } else if (i < MAX_SKB_FRAGS) {
-                                if (copy > PAGE_SIZE)
-                                        copy = PAGE_SIZE;
-                                page = alloc_pages(sk->sk_allocation, 0);
-                                if (page == NULL)  {
-                                        err = -ENOMEM;
-                                        goto error;
-                                }
-                                cork->page = page;
-                                cork->off = 0;
 
-                                skb_fill_page_desc(skb, i, page, 0, 0);
-                                frag = &skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i];
-                        } else {
-                                err = -EMSGSIZE;
-                                goto error;
-                        }
-                        if (getfrag(from, skb_frag_address(frag)+skb_frag_size(frag),
-                                    offset, copy, skb->len, skb) < 0) {
-                                err = -EFAULT;
+                        err = -ENOMEM;
+                        if (!sk_page_frag_refill(sk, pfrag))
                                 goto error;
+
+                        if (!skb_can_coalesce(skb, i, pfrag->page,
+                                              pfrag->offset)) {
+                                err = -EMSGSIZE;
+                                if (i == MAX_SKB_FRAGS)
+                                        goto error;
+
+                                __skb_fill_page_desc(skb, i, pfrag->page,
+                                                     pfrag->offset, 0);
+                                skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags = ++i;
+                                get_page(pfrag->page);
                         }
-                        cork->off += copy;
-                        skb_frag_size_add(frag, copy);
+                        copy = min_t(int, copy, pfrag->size - pfrag->offset);
+                        if (getfrag(from,
+                                    page_address(pfrag->page) + pfrag->offset,
+                                    offset, copy, skb->len, skb) < 0)
+                                goto error_efault;
+
+                        pfrag->offset += copy;
+                        skb_frag_size_add(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i - 1], copy);
                         skb->len += copy;
                         skb->data_len += copy;
                         skb->truesize += copy;
@@ -1039,6 +1023,8 @@ alloc_new_skb:
 
         return 0;
 
+error_efault:
+        err = -EFAULT;
 error:
         cork->length -= length;
         IP_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTDISCARDS);
@@ -1079,8 +1065,6 @@ static int ip_setup_cork(struct sock *sk, struct inet_cork *cork,
         cork->dst = &rt->dst;
         cork->length = 0;
         cork->tx_flags = ipc->tx_flags;
-        cork->page = NULL;
-        cork->off = 0;
 
         return 0;
 }
@@ -1117,7 +1101,8 @@ int ip_append_data(struct sock *sk, struct flowi4 *fl4,
                 transhdrlen = 0;
         }
 
-        return __ip_append_data(sk, fl4, &sk->sk_write_queue, &inet->cork.base, getfrag,
+        return __ip_append_data(sk, fl4, &sk->sk_write_queue, &inet->cork.base,
+                                sk_page_frag(sk), getfrag,
                                 from, length, transhdrlen, flags);
 }
 
@@ -1439,7 +1424,8 @@ struct sk_buff *ip_make_skb(struct sock *sk,
         if (err)
                 return ERR_PTR(err);
 
-        err = __ip_append_data(sk, fl4, &queue, &cork, getfrag,
+        err = __ip_append_data(sk, fl4, &queue, &cork,
+                               &current->task_frag, getfrag,
                                from, length, transhdrlen, flags);
         if (err) {
                 __ip_flush_pending_frames(sk, &queue, &cork);