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Commit 5503fcec authored by Jason Wang's avatar Jason Wang Committed by David S. Miller
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tun: rx batching



We can only process 1 packet at one time during sendmsg(). This often
lead bad cache utilization under heavy load. So this patch tries to do
some batching during rx before submitting them to host network
stack. This is done through accepting MSG_MORE as a hint from
sendmsg() caller, if it was set, batch the packet temporarily in a
linked list and submit them all once MSG_MORE were cleared.

Tests were done by pktgen (burst=128) in guest over mlx4(noqueue) on host:

                                 Mpps  -+%
    rx-frames = 0                0.91  +0%
    rx-frames = 4                1.00  +9.8%
    rx-frames = 8                1.00  +9.8%
    rx-frames = 16               1.01  +10.9%
    rx-frames = 32               1.07  +17.5%
    rx-frames = 48               1.07  +17.5%
    rx-frames = 64               1.08  +18.6%
    rx-frames = 64 (no MSG_MORE) 0.91  +0%

User were allowed to change per device batched packets through
ethtool -C rx-frames. NAPI_POLL_WEIGHT were used as upper limitation
to prevent bh from being disabled too long.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 0ed005ce
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