Subject: [PATCH v3 0/2] gro: optimise redundant parsing of packets

From: Richard Gobert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 17:25:34 +0100

Currently the IPv6 extension headers are parsed twice: first in
ipv6_gro_receive, and then again in ipv6_gro_complete.

By using the new ->transport_proto and ->network_proto fields, and also
storing the size of the network header, we can avoid parsing a second time
during the gro complete phase.

The first commit frees up space in the GRO CB. The second commit reduces
the redundant parsing during the complete phase, using the freed CB space.

In addition, the second commit contains a fix for a potential future
problem in BIG TCP, which is detailed in the commit message itself.

Performance tests for TCP stream over IPv6 with extension headers
demonstrate rx improvement of ~0.7%.

For the benchmarks, I used 100Gbit NIC mlx5 single-core (power management
off), turboboost off.

Typical IPv6 traffic (zero extension headers):

    for i in {1..5}; do netperf -t TCP_STREAM -H 2001:db8:2:2::2 -l 90 | tail -1; done
    # before
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    16391.20
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    16403.50
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    16403.30
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    16397.84
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    16398.00

    # after
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    16399.85
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    16392.37
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    16403.06
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    16406.97
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    16406.09

IPv6 over IPv6 traffic:

    for i in {1..5}; do netperf -t TCP_STREAM -H 4001:db8:2:2::2 -l 90 | tail -1; done
    # before
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    14791.61
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    14791.66
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    14783.47
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    14810.17
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    14806.15

    # after
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    14793.49
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    14816.10
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    14818.41
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    14780.35
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    14800.48

IPv6 traffic with varying extension headers:

    for i in {1..5}; do netperf -t TCP_STREAM -H 2001:db8:2:2::2 -l 90 | tail -1; done
    # before
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    14812.37
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    14813.04
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    14802.54
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    14804.06
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    14819.08

    # after
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    14927.11
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    14910.45
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    14917.36
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    14916.53
    131072  16384  16384    90.00    14928.88

Richard Gobert (2):
  gro: decrease size of CB
  gro: optimise redundant parsing of packets

 include/net/gro.h      | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 net/core/gro.c         | 18 +++++++++++-------
 net/ethernet/eth.c     | 14 +++++++++++---
 net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
 4 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

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