Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] vsock: add support for sockmap

[Bobby Eshleman]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 11:49:02AM +0100, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> Hi Bobby,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 12:27:39PM -0800, Bobby Eshleman wrote:
> > Add support for sockmap to vsock.
> > 
> > We're testing usage of vsock as a way to redirect guest-local UDS requests to
> > the host and this patch series greatly improves the performance of such a
> > setup.
> > 
> > Compared to copying packets via userspace, this improves throughput by 221% in
> > basic testing.
> 
> Cool, nice series!
> 
> > 
> > Tested as follows.
> > 
> > Setup: guest unix dgram sender -> guest vsock redirector -> host vsock server
> > Threads: 1
> > Payload: 64k
> > No sockmap:
> > - 76.3 MB/s
> > - The guest vsock redirector was
> >  "socat VSOCK-CONNECT:2:1234 UNIX-RECV:/path/to/sock"
> > Using sockmap (this patch):
> > - 168.8 MB/s (+221%)
> 
> Assuming the absolute value is correct, there is a typo here, it would be
> +121% right?
> 

Lol, yes.

> > - The guest redirector was a simple sockmap echo server,
> >  redirecting unix ingress to vsock 2:1234 egress.
> > - Same sender and server programs
> > 
> > Only the virtio transport has been tested.
> 
> I think is fine for now.
> 
> > The loopback transport was used in
> > writing bpf/selftests, but not thoroughly tested otherwise.
> 
> I did a quick review mainly for vsock stuff.
> Hoping others can take a better look at net/vmw_vsock/vsock_bpf.c, since I'm
> not very familiar with that subsystem.
> 
> FYI I will be off the next two weeks (till Feb 7) with limited internet
> access.
> 

Roger that.

Thanks,
Bobby

> Thanks,
> Stefano
> 
> > 
> > This series requires the skb patch.
> > 
> > To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Mykola Lysenko <mykolal@xxxxxx>
> > To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx>
> > To: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: KP Singh <kpsingh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Hao Luo <haoluo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: bpf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: linux-kselftest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Bobby Eshleman <bobby.eshleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > ---
> > Bobby Eshleman (3):
> >      vsock: support sockmap
> >      selftests/bpf: add vsock to vmtest.sh
> >      selftests/bpf: Add a test case for vsock sockmap
> > 
> > drivers/vhost/vsock.c                              |   1 +
> > include/linux/virtio_vsock.h                       |   1 +
> > include/net/af_vsock.h                             |  17 ++
> > net/vmw_vsock/Makefile                             |   1 +
> > net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c                           |  59 ++++++-
> > net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c                   |   2 +
> > net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c            |  22 +++
> > net/vmw_vsock/vsock_bpf.c                          | 180 +++++++++++++++++++++
> > net/vmw_vsock/vsock_loopback.c                     |   2 +
> > tools/testing/selftests/bpf/config.x86_64          |   4 +
> > .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/sockmap_listen.c      | 163 +++++++++++++++++++
> > tools/testing/selftests/bpf/vmtest.sh              |   1 +
> > 12 files changed, 447 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > ---
> > base-commit: f12f4326c6a75a74e908714be6d2f0e2f0fd0d76
> > change-id: 20230118-support-vsock-sockmap-connectible-2e1297d2111a
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > -- 
> > Bobby Eshleman <bobby.eshleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> 
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