Re: Major network performance regression in 3.7

[Eric Dumazet]

On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 17:40 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 02:30 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> 
> > Ah interesting because these were some of the mm patches that I had
> > tried to revert.
> 
> Hmm, or we should fix __skb_splice_bits()
> 
> I'll send a patch.
> 

Could you try the following ?

diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 3ab989b..c5246be 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -1768,14 +1768,15 @@ static bool __skb_splice_bits(struct sk_buff *skb, struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
 			      struct splice_pipe_desc *spd, struct sock *sk)
 {
 	int seg;
+	struct page *page = virt_to_page(skb->data);
+	unsigned int poff = skb->data - (unsigned char *)page_address(page);
 
 	/* map the linear part :
 	 * If skb->head_frag is set, this 'linear' part is backed by a
 	 * fragment, and if the head is not shared with any clones then
 	 * we can avoid a copy since we own the head portion of this page.
 	 */
-	if (__splice_segment(virt_to_page(skb->data),
-			     (unsigned long) skb->data & (PAGE_SIZE - 1),
+	if (__splice_segment(page, poff,
 			     skb_headlen(skb),
 			     offset, len, skb, spd,
 			     skb_head_is_locked(skb),


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