virtio-net: use mtu size as buffer length for big packets
Currently add_recvbuf_big() allocates MAX_SKB_FRAGS segments for big packets even when GUEST_* offloads are not present on the device. However, if guest GSO is not supported, it would be sufficient to allocate segments to cover just up the MTU size and no further. Allocating the maximum amount of segments results in a large waste of buffer space in the queue, which limits the number of packets that can be buffered and can result in reduced performance. Therefore, if guest GSO is not supported, use the MTU to calculate the optimal amount of segments required. Below is the iperf TCP test results over a Mellanox NIC, using vDPA for 1 VQ, queue size 1024, before and after the change, with the iperf server running over the virtio-net interface. MTU(Bytes)/Bandwidth (Gbit/s) Before After 1500 22.5 22.4 9000 12.8 25.9 And result of queue size 256. MTU(Bytes)/Bandwidth (Gbit/s) Before After 9000 2.15 11.9 With this patch no degradation is observed with multiple below tests and feature bit combinations. Results are summarized below for q depth of 1024. Interface MTU is 1500 if MTU feature is disabled. MTU is set to 9000 in other tests. Features/ Bandwidth (Gbit/s) Before After mtu off 20.1 20.2 mtu/indirect on 17.4 17.3 mtu/indirect/packed on 17.2 17.2 Signed-off-by: Gavin Li <gavinl@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Gavi Teitz <gavi@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@oracle.com> Message-Id: <20220914144911.56422-3-gavinl@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
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