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Commit f21a3c48 authored by Arjun Roy's avatar Arjun Roy Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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net-zerocopy: Introduce short-circuit small reads.



Sometimes, we may call tcp receive zerocopy when inq is 0,
or inq < PAGE_SIZE, or inq is generally small enough that
it is cheaper to copy rather than remap pages.

In these cases, we may want to either return early (inq=0) or
attempt to use the provided copy buffer to simply copy
the received data.

This allows us to save both system call overhead and
the latency of acquiring mmap_sem in read mode for cases where
it would be useless to do so.

This patchset enables this behaviour by:
1. Returning quickly if inq is 0.
2. Attempting to perform a regular copy if a hybrid copybuffer is
   provided and it is large enough to absorb all available bytes.
3. Return quickly if no such buffer was provided and there are less
   than PAGE_SIZE bytes available.

For small RPC ping-pong workloads, normally we would have
1 getsockopt(), 1 recvmsg() and 1 sendmsg() call per RPC. With this
change, we remove the recvmsg() call entirely, reducing the syscall
overhead by about 33%. In testing with small (hundreds of bytes)
RPC traffic, this yields a syscall reduction of about 33% and
an efficiency gain of about 3-5% when defined as QPS/CPU Util.

Signed-off-by: default avatarArjun Roy <arjunroy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSoheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 936ced41
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