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netem: Introduce skb_orphan_partial() helper
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Commit 547669d ("tcp: xps: fix reordering issues") added
unexpected reorders in case netem is used in a MQ setup for high
performance test bed.

ETH=eth0
tc qd del dev $ETH root 2>/dev/null
tc qd add dev $ETH root handle 1: mq
for i in `seq 1 32`
do
 tc qd add dev $ETH parent 1:$i netem delay 100ms
done

As all tcp packets are orphaned by netem, TCP stack believes it can
set skb->ooo_okay on all packets.

In order to allow producers to send more packets, we want to
keep sk_wmem_alloc from reaching sk_sndbuf limit.

We can do that by accounting one byte per skb in netem queues,
so that TCP stack is not fooled too much.

Tested:

With above MQ/netem setup, scaling number of concurrent flows gives
linear results and no reorders/retransmits

lpq83:~# for n in 1 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
 do echo -n "n:$n " ; ./super_netperf $n -H 10.7.7.84; done
n:1 198.46
n:10 2002.69
n:20 4000.98
n:30 6006.35
n:40 8020.93
n:50 10032.3
n:60 12081.9
n:70 13971.3
n:80 16009.7
n:90 17117.3
n:100 17425.5

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored and David S. Miller committed Jul 31, 2013
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions include/net/sock.h
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Expand Up @@ -1520,6 +1520,7 @@ extern struct sk_buff *sock_rmalloc(struct sock *sk,
unsigned long size, int force,
gfp_t priority);
extern void sock_wfree(struct sk_buff *skb);
extern void skb_orphan_partial(struct sk_buff *skb);
extern void sock_rfree(struct sk_buff *skb);
extern void sock_edemux(struct sk_buff *skb);

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19 changes: 19 additions & 0 deletions net/core/sock.c
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Expand Up @@ -1576,6 +1576,25 @@ void sock_wfree(struct sk_buff *skb)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(sock_wfree);

void skb_orphan_partial(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
/* TCP stack sets skb->ooo_okay based on sk_wmem_alloc,
* so we do not completely orphan skb, but transfert all
* accounted bytes but one, to avoid unexpected reorders.
*/
if (skb->destructor == sock_wfree
#ifdef CONFIG_INET
|| skb->destructor == tcp_wfree
#endif
) {
atomic_sub(skb->truesize - 1, &skb->sk->sk_wmem_alloc);
skb->truesize = 1;
} else {
skb_orphan(skb);
}
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_orphan_partial);

/*
* Read buffer destructor automatically called from kfree_skb.
*/
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5 changes: 1 addition & 4 deletions net/sched/sch_netem.c
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Expand Up @@ -412,12 +412,9 @@ static int netem_enqueue(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *sch)

/* If a delay is expected, orphan the skb. (orphaning usually takes
* place at TX completion time, so _before_ the link transit delay)
* Ideally, this orphaning should be done after the rate limiting
* module, because this breaks TCP Small Queue, and other mechanisms
* based on socket sk_wmem_alloc.
*/
if (q->latency || q->jitter)
skb_orphan(skb);
skb_orphan_partial(skb);

/*
* If we need to duplicate packet, then re-insert at top of the
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