From patchwork Mon Mar 3 19:34:12 2014 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Vlad Yasevich X-Patchwork-Id: 326046 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 633692C00D2 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2014 06:35:49 +1100 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754502AbaCCTfZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2014 14:35:25 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:31496 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753717AbaCCTfY (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2014 14:35:24 -0500 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s23JYG3x028061 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 3 Mar 2014 14:34:16 -0500 Received: from vyasevic.redhat.com (ovpn-113-107.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.107]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s23JYE6S009703; Mon, 3 Mar 2014 14:34:15 -0500 From: Vlad Yasevich To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Vlad Yasevich , Florian Westphal , Christian Borntraeger , Jason Wang , "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: [PATCH net] macvlan: Add support for 'always_on' offload features Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 14:34:12 -0500 Message-Id: <1393875252-17154-1-git-send-email-vyasevic@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.22 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org Macvlan currently inherits all of its features from the lower device. When lower device disables offload support, this causes macvlan to disable offload support as well. This causes performance regression when using macvlan/macvtap in bridge mode. It can be easily demonstrated by creating 2 namespaces using macvlan in bridge mode and running netperf between them: MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 10.0.0.1 () port 0 AF_INET Recv Send Send Socket Socket Message Elapsed Size Size Size Time Throughput bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec 87380 16384 16384 20.00 1204.61 To restore the performance, we add software offload features to the list of "always_on" features for macvlan. This way when a namespace or a guest using macvtap initially sends a packet, this packet will not be segmented at macvlan level. It will only be segmented when macvlan sends the packet to the lower device. MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 10.0.0.1 () port 0 AF_INET Recv Send Send Socket Socket Message Elapsed Size Size Size Time Throughput bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec 87380 16384 16384 20.00 5507.35 Fixes: 6acf54f1cf0a6747bac9fea26f34cfc5a9029523 (macvtap: Add support of packet capture on macvtap device.) Fixes: 797f87f83b60685ff8a13fa0572d2f10393c50d3 (macvlan: fix netdev feature propagation from lower device) CC: Florian Westphal CC: Christian Borntraeger CC: Jason Wang CC: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger --- drivers/net/macvlan.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c index a5d2189..2625d2a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c @@ -506,6 +506,9 @@ static int macvlan_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu) static struct lock_class_key macvlan_netdev_xmit_lock_key; static struct lock_class_key macvlan_netdev_addr_lock_key; +#define ALWAYS_ON_FEATURS \ + (NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_GEN_CSUM | NETIF_F_GSO_SOFTWARE | NETIF_F_LLTX) + #define MACVLAN_FEATURES \ (NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_ALL_CSUM | NETIF_F_HIGHDMA | NETIF_F_FRAGLIST | \ NETIF_F_GSO | NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_UFO | NETIF_F_GSO_ROBUST | \ @@ -539,7 +542,7 @@ static int macvlan_init(struct net_device *dev) dev->state = (dev->state & ~MACVLAN_STATE_MASK) | (lowerdev->state & MACVLAN_STATE_MASK); dev->features = lowerdev->features & MACVLAN_FEATURES; - dev->features |= NETIF_F_LLTX; + dev->features |= ALWAYS_ON_FEATURES; dev->gso_max_size = lowerdev->gso_max_size; dev->iflink = lowerdev->ifindex; dev->hard_header_len = lowerdev->hard_header_len; @@ -699,7 +702,7 @@ static netdev_features_t macvlan_fix_features(struct net_device *dev, features = netdev_increment_features(vlan->lowerdev->features, features, mask); - features |= NETIF_F_LLTX; + features |= ALWAYS_ON_FEATURES; return features; }