Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] tuntap: XDP transmission

From: Jason Wang
Date: Mon Jan 01 2018 - 22:00:32 EST




On 2017å12æ29æ 20:32, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 18:00:04 +0800
Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This patch implements XDP transmission for TAP. Since we can't create
new queues for TAP during XDP set, exist ptr_ring was reused for
queuing XDP buffers. To differ xdp_buff from sk_buff, TUN_XDP_FLAG
(0x1ULL) was encoded into lowest bit of xpd_buff pointer during
ptr_ring_produce, and was decoded during consuming. XDP metadata was
stored in the headroom of the packet which should work in most of
cases since driver usually reserve enough headroom. Very minor changes
were done for vhost_net: it just need to peek the length depends on
the type of pointer.

Tests was done on two Intel E5-2630 2.40GHz machines connected back to
back through two 82599ES. Traffic were generated through MoonGen and
testpmd(rxonly) in guest reports 2.97Mpps when xdp_redirect_map is
doing redirection from ixgbe to TAP.
IMHO a performance measurement without something to compare against is
useless. What was the performance before?

Forgot to mention, skb mode of xdp_redirect_map gives us 2.5Mpps, so we get about 20% improvements.



Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/tun.c | 205 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
drivers/vhost/net.c | 13 +++-
include/linux/if_tun.h | 17 ++++
3 files changed, 197 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 2c89efe..be6d993 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -240,6 +240,24 @@ struct tun_struct {
struct tun_steering_prog __rcu *steering_prog;
};
+bool tun_is_xdp_buff(void *ptr)
+{
+ return (unsigned long)ptr & TUN_XDP_FLAG;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(tun_is_xdp_buff);
+
+void *tun_xdp_to_ptr(void *ptr)
+{
+ return (void *)((unsigned long)ptr | TUN_XDP_FLAG);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(tun_xdp_to_ptr);
+
+void *tun_ptr_to_xdp(void *ptr)
+{
+ return (void *)((unsigned long)ptr & ~TUN_XDP_FLAG);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(tun_ptr_to_xdp);
+
static int tun_napi_receive(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
{
struct tun_file *tfile = container_of(napi, struct tun_file, napi);
@@ -630,12 +648,25 @@ static struct tun_struct *tun_enable_queue(struct tun_file *tfile)
return tun;
}
+static void tun_ptr_free(void *ptr)
+{
+ if (!ptr)
+ return;
+ if (tun_is_xdp_buff(ptr)) {
+ struct xdp_buff *xdp = tun_ptr_to_xdp(ptr);
+
+ put_page(virt_to_head_page(xdp->data));
(Yet another XDP-free call point, I need to convert to use an accessor
later to transition driver into an xdp_buff return API)

That would be very useful if we can reuse driver specific recycling method. (We probably still need some synchronization since tun_ptr_free is called in different contexts).


+ } else {
+ __skb_array_destroy_skb(ptr);
+ }
+}
+
static void tun_queue_purge(struct tun_file *tfile)
{
- struct sk_buff *skb;
+ void *ptr;
- while ((skb = ptr_ring_consume(&tfile->tx_ring)) != NULL)
- kfree_skb(skb);
+ while ((ptr = ptr_ring_consume(&tfile->tx_ring)) != NULL)
+ tun_ptr_free(ptr);
skb_queue_purge(&tfile->sk.sk_write_queue);
skb_queue_purge(&tfile->sk.sk_error_queue);
@@ -688,8 +719,7 @@ static void __tun_detach(struct tun_file *tfile, bool clean)
unregister_netdevice(tun->dev);
}
if (tun)
- ptr_ring_cleanup(&tfile->tx_ring,
- __skb_array_destroy_skb);
+ ptr_ring_cleanup(&tfile->tx_ring, tun_ptr_free);
sock_put(&tfile->sk);
}
}
@@ -1201,6 +1231,54 @@ static const struct net_device_ops tun_netdev_ops = {
.ndo_get_stats64 = tun_net_get_stats64,
};
+static int tun_xdp_xmit(struct net_device *dev, struct xdp_buff *xdp)
+{
+ struct tun_struct *tun = netdev_priv(dev);
+ struct xdp_buff *buff = xdp->data_hard_start;
+ int headroom = xdp->data - xdp->data_hard_start;
+ struct tun_file *tfile;
+ u32 numqueues;
+ int ret = 0;
+
+ /* Assure headroom is available and buff is properly aligned */
+ if (unlikely(headroom < sizeof(*xdp) || tun_is_xdp_buff(xdp)))
+ return -ENOSPC;
+
+ *buff = *xdp;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+
+ numqueues = READ_ONCE(tun->numqueues);
+ if (!numqueues) {
+ ret = -ENOSPC;
+ goto out;
+ }
+ tfile = rcu_dereference(tun->tfiles[smp_processor_id() %
+ numqueues]);
Several concurrent CPUs can get the same 'tfile'.

Yes, but I believe we don't have better solution here since we can do per-cpu queues without notifying guest (userspace).


+ /* Encode the XDP flag into lowest bit for consumer to differ
+ * XDP buffer from sk_buff.
+ */
+ if (ptr_ring_produce(&tfile->tx_ring, tun_xdp_to_ptr(buff))) {
+ this_cpu_inc(tun->pcpu_stats->tx_dropped);
+ ret = -ENOSPC;
+ }
The ptr_ring_produce() will take a lock per packet, limiting the
performance. (Again a case where I would have liked a bulk API for
ndo_xdp_xmit()).

Yes and I'm considering to use your bulk method in cpu map on top in the future. The main bottleneck now is not ndo_xdp_xmit() (8Mpps) but vhost (3Mpps), with some improvements, vhost an have about 7Mpps but still slower than ndo_xdp_xmit().



+
+out:
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ return ret;
+}
+
+static void tun_xdp_flush(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ struct tun_struct *tun = netdev_priv(dev);
+ struct tun_file *tfile = tun->tfiles[0];
+
+ /* Notify and wake up reader process */
+ if (tfile->flags & TUN_FASYNC)
+ kill_fasync(&tfile->fasync, SIGIO, POLL_IN);
+ tfile->socket.sk->sk_data_ready(tfile->socket.sk);
+}
+
static const struct net_device_ops tap_netdev_ops = {
.ndo_uninit = tun_net_uninit,
.ndo_open = tun_net_open,
@@ -1218,6 +1296,8 @@ static const struct net_device_ops tap_netdev_ops = {
.ndo_set_rx_headroom = tun_set_headroom,
.ndo_get_stats64 = tun_net_get_stats64,
.ndo_bpf = tun_xdp,
+ .ndo_xdp_xmit = tun_xdp_xmit,
+ .ndo_xdp_flush = tun_xdp_flush,
};
static void tun_flow_init(struct tun_struct *tun)
@@ -1841,6 +1921,40 @@ static ssize_t tun_chr_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
return result;
}
+static ssize_t tun_put_user_xdp(struct tun_struct *tun,
+ struct tun_file *tfile,
+ struct xdp_buff *xdp,
+ struct iov_iter *iter)
+{
+ int vnet_hdr_sz = 0;
+ size_t size = xdp->data_end - xdp->data;
+ struct tun_pcpu_stats *stats;
+ size_t ret;
+
+ if (tun->flags & IFF_VNET_HDR) {
+ struct virtio_net_hdr gso = { 0 };
+
+ vnet_hdr_sz = READ_ONCE(tun->vnet_hdr_sz);
+ if (unlikely(iov_iter_count(iter) < vnet_hdr_sz))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ if (unlikely(copy_to_iter(&gso, sizeof(gso), iter) !=
+ sizeof(gso)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ iov_iter_advance(iter, vnet_hdr_sz - sizeof(gso));
+ }
+
+ ret = copy_to_iter(xdp->data, size, iter) + vnet_hdr_sz;
+
+ stats = get_cpu_ptr(tun->pcpu_stats);
+ u64_stats_update_begin(&stats->syncp);
+ stats->tx_packets++;
+ stats->tx_bytes += ret;
+ u64_stats_update_end(&stats->syncp);
+ put_cpu_ptr(tun->pcpu_stats);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
/* Put packet to the user space buffer */
static ssize_t tun_put_user(struct tun_struct *tun,
struct tun_file *tfile,
[...]
error = -ERESTARTSYS;
@@ -1977,36 +2090,42 @@ static struct sk_buff *tun_ring_recv(struct tun_file *tfile, int noblock,
out:
*err = error;
- return skb;
+ return ptr;
}
static ssize_t tun_do_read(struct tun_struct *tun, struct tun_file *tfile,
struct iov_iter *to,
- int noblock, struct sk_buff *skb)
+ int noblock, void *ptr)
{
ssize_t ret;
int err;
tun_debug(KERN_INFO, tun, "tun_do_read\n");
- if (!iov_iter_count(to)) {
- if (skb)
- kfree_skb(skb);
- return 0;
- }
+ if (!iov_iter_count(to))
+ tun_ptr_free(ptr);
- if (!skb) {
+ if (!ptr) {
/* Read frames from ring */
- skb = tun_ring_recv(tfile, noblock, &err);
- if (!skb)
+ ptr = tun_ring_recv(tfile, noblock, &err);
+ if (!ptr)
return err;
}
- ret = tun_put_user(tun, tfile, skb, to);
- if (unlikely(ret < 0))
- kfree_skb(skb);
- else
- consume_skb(skb);
+ if (tun_is_xdp_buff(ptr)) {
+ struct xdp_buff *xdp = tun_ptr_to_xdp(ptr);
+
+ ret = tun_put_user_xdp(tun, tfile, xdp, to);
+ put_page(virt_to_head_page(xdp->data));
This again tie us info a page-refcnt based XDP scheme.


+ } else {
+ struct sk_buff *skb = ptr;
+
+ ret = tun_put_user(tun, tfile, skb, to);
+ if (unlikely(ret < 0))
+ kfree_skb(skb);
+ else
+ consume_skb(skb);
+ }
return ret;
}
[...]

@@ -3191,8 +3323,7 @@ struct socket *tun_get_socket(struct file *file)
struct tun_file *tfile;
if (file->f_op != &tun_fops)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
- tfile = file->private_data;
- if (!tfile)
+ tfile = file->private_data; if (!tfile)
This change looks like a typo...

Oops, will fix this.

Thanks!


return ERR_PTR(-EBADFD);
return &tfile->socket;
}