From 0d63a9816f225228d72461444c6b1e5f58c6f90b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:12:06 -0400 Subject: tcp: allow splice() to build full TSO packets MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit [ This combines upstream commit 2f53384424251c06038ae612e56231b96ab610ee and the follow-on bug fix commit 35f9c09fe9c72eb8ca2b8e89a593e1c151f28fc2 ] vmsplice()/splice(pipe, socket) call do_tcp_sendpages() one page at a time, adding at most 4096 bytes to an skb. (assuming PAGE_SIZE=4096) The call to tcp_push() at the end of do_tcp_sendpages() forces an immediate xmit when pipe is not already filled, and tso_fragment() try to split these skb to MSS multiples. 4096 bytes are usually split in a skb with 2 MSS, and a remaining sub-mss skb (assuming MTU=1500) This makes slow start suboptimal because many small frames are sent to qdisc/driver layers instead of big ones (constrained by cwnd and packets in flight of course) In fact, applications using sendmsg() (adding an additional memory copy) instead of vmsplice()/splice()/sendfile() are a bit faster because of this anomaly, especially if serving small files in environments with large initial [c]wnd. Call tcp_push() only if MSG_MORE is not set in the flags parameter. This bit is automatically provided by splice() internals but for the last page, or on all pages if user specified SPLICE_F_MORE splice() flag. In some workloads, this can reduce number of sent logical packets by an order of magnitude, making zero-copy TCP actually faster than one-copy :) Reported-by: Tom Herbert Cc: Nandita Dukkipati Cc: Neal Cardwell Cc: Tom Herbert Cc: Yuchung Cheng Cc: H.K. Jerry Chu Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski Cc: Mahesh Bandewar Cc: Ilpo Järvinen Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 2 +- net/socket.c | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'net') diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c index 34f5db1e1c8b..36611ab36652 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c @@ -860,7 +860,7 @@ wait_for_memory: } out: - if (copied) + if (copied && !(flags & MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST)) tcp_push(sk, flags, mss_now, tp->nonagle); return copied; diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c index 2dce67a59f98..273cbce27ecc 100644 --- a/net/socket.c +++ b/net/socket.c @@ -791,9 +791,9 @@ static ssize_t sock_sendpage(struct file *file, struct page *page, sock = file->private_data; - flags = !(file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) ? 0 : MSG_DONTWAIT; - if (more) - flags |= MSG_MORE; + flags = (file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) ? MSG_DONTWAIT : 0; + /* more is a combination of MSG_MORE and MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST */ + flags |= more; return kernel_sendpage(sock, page, offset, size, flags); } -- cgit v1.2.3