While investigating TCP performance, I found that TCP would
sometimes send big skbs followed by a single MSS skb,
in a 'locked' pattern.
For instance, BIG TCP is enabled, MSS is set to have 4096 bytes
of payload per segment. gso_max_size is set to 181000.
This means that an optimal TCP packet size should contain
44 * 4096 = 180224 bytes of payload,
However, I was seeing packets sizes interleaved in this pattern:
172032, 8192, 172032, 8192, 172032, 8192, <repeat>
tcp_tso_should_defer() heuristic is defeated, because after a split of
a packet in write queue for whatever reason (this might be a too small
CWND or a small enough pacing_rate),
the leftover packet in the queue is smaller than the optimal size.
It is time to try to make 'leftover packets' bigger so that
tcp_tso_should_defer() can give its full potential.
After this patch, we can see the following output:
14:13:34.009273 IP6 sender > receiver: Flags [P.], seq
4048380:
4098360, ack 1, win 256, options [nop,nop,TS val
3425678144 ecr
1561784500], length 49980
14:13:34.010272 IP6 sender > receiver: Flags [P.], seq
4098360:
4148340, ack 1, win 256, options [nop,nop,TS val
3425678145 ecr
1561784501], length 49980
14:13:34.011271 IP6 sender > receiver: Flags [P.], seq
4148340:
4198320, ack 1, win 256, options [nop,nop,TS val
3425678146 ecr
1561784502], length 49980
14:13:34.012271 IP6 sender > receiver: Flags [P.], seq
4198320:
4248300, ack 1, win 256, options [nop,nop,TS val
3425678147 ecr
1561784503], length 49980
14:13:34.013272 IP6 sender > receiver: Flags [P.], seq
4248300:
4298280, ack 1, win 256, options [nop,nop,TS val
3425678148 ecr
1561784504], length 49980
14:13:34.014271 IP6 sender > receiver: Flags [P.], seq
4298280:
4348260, ack 1, win 256, options [nop,nop,TS val
3425678149 ecr
1561784505], length 49980
14:13:34.015272 IP6 sender > receiver: Flags [P.], seq
4348260:
4398240, ack 1, win 256, options [nop,nop,TS val
3425678150 ecr
1561784506], length 49980
14:13:34.016270 IP6 sender > receiver: Flags [P.], seq
4398240:
4448220, ack 1, win 256, options [nop,nop,TS val
3425678151 ecr
1561784507], length 49980
14:13:34.017269 IP6 sender > receiver: Flags [P.], seq
4448220:
4498200, ack 1, win 256, options [nop,nop,TS val
3425678152 ecr
1561784508], length 49980
14:13:34.018276 IP6 sender > receiver: Flags [P.], seq
4498200:
4548180, ack 1, win 256, options [nop,nop,TS val
3425678153 ecr
1561784509], length 49980
14:13:34.019259 IP6 sender > receiver: Flags [P.], seq
4548180:
4598160, ack 1, win 256, options [nop,nop,TS val
3425678154 ecr
1561784510], length 49980
With 200 concurrent flows on a 100Gbit NIC, we can see a reduction
of TSO packets (and ACK packets) of about 30 %.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240418214600.1291486-4-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
tcp_chrono_set(tp, TCP_CHRONO_BUSY);
}
+/* First skb in the write queue is smaller than ideal packet size.
+ * Check if we can move payload from the second skb in the queue.
+ */
+static void tcp_grow_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int amount)
+{
+ struct sk_buff *next_skb = skb->next;
+ unsigned int nlen;
+
+ if (tcp_skb_is_last(sk, skb))
+ return;
+
+ if (!tcp_skb_can_collapse(skb, next_skb))
+ return;
+
+ nlen = min_t(u32, amount, next_skb->len);
+ if (!nlen || !skb_shift(skb, next_skb, nlen))
+ return;
+
+ TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq += nlen;
+ TCP_SKB_CB(next_skb)->seq += nlen;
+
+ if (!next_skb->len) {
+ TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq = TCP_SKB_CB(next_skb)->end_seq;
+ TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->eor = TCP_SKB_CB(next_skb)->eor;
+ TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tcp_flags |= TCP_SKB_CB(next_skb)->tcp_flags;
+ tcp_unlink_write_queue(next_skb, sk);
+ tcp_wmem_free_skb(sk, next_skb);
+ }
+}
+
/* This routine writes packets to the network. It advances the
* send_head. This happens as incoming acks open up the remote
* window for us.
max_segs = tcp_tso_segs(sk, mss_now);
while ((skb = tcp_send_head(sk))) {
unsigned int limit;
+ int missing_bytes;
if (unlikely(tp->repair) && tp->repair_queue == TCP_SEND_QUEUE) {
/* "skb_mstamp_ns" is used as a start point for the retransmit timer */
else
break;
}
+ cwnd_quota = min(cwnd_quota, max_segs);
+ missing_bytes = cwnd_quota * mss_now - skb->len;
+ if (missing_bytes > 0)
+ tcp_grow_skb(sk, skb, missing_bytes);
tso_segs = tcp_set_skb_tso_segs(skb, mss_now);
limit = mss_now;
if (tso_segs > 1 && !tcp_urg_mode(tp))
limit = tcp_mss_split_point(sk, skb, mss_now,
- min(cwnd_quota,
- max_segs),
+ cwnd_quota,
nonagle);
if (skb->len > limit &&