Re: [PATCH v4 net-next v4 6/6] net: add heuristic for enabling TCP fraglist GRO

[Eric Dumazet]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 8:23 PM Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When forwarding TCP after GRO, software segmentation is very expensive,
> especially when the checksum needs to be recalculated.
> One case where that's currently unavoidable is when routing packets over
> PPPoE. Performance improves significantly when using fraglist GRO
> implemented in the same way as for UDP.
>
> When NETIF_F_GRO_FRAGLIST is enabled, perform a lookup for an established
> socket in the same netns as the receiving device. While this may not
> cover all relevant use cases in multi-netns configurations, it should be
> good enough for most configurations that need this.
>
> Here's a measurement of running 2 TCP streams through a MediaTek MT7622
> device (2-core Cortex-A53), which runs NAT with flow offload enabled from
> one ethernet port to PPPoE on another ethernet port + cake qdisc set to
> 1Gbps.
>
> rx-gro-list off: 630 Mbit/s, CPU 35% idle
> rx-gro-list on:  770 Mbit/s, CPU 40% idle
>
> Signe-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx>


Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>

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