virtio-net: Set needed_headroom for virtio-net when VIRTIO_F_ANY_LAYOUT is true
authorZhangjie \(HZ\) <zhangjie14@huawei.com>
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 10:43:22 +0000 (18:43 +0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:31:26 +0000 (13:31 -0400)
commit6ebbc1a6383fe78be3c0961d1475043ac6cc2542
tree434e55877e1085233ba57a3ecea22231030b80d2
parent1621b94d2a655c8548ddbdfc8ccf907a5bbdc860
virtio-net: Set needed_headroom for virtio-net when VIRTIO_F_ANY_LAYOUT is true

This is a small supplement for commit e7428e95a06fb516fac1308bd0e176e27c0b9287
("virtio-net: put virtio-net header inline with data"). TCP packages have
enough room to put virtio-net header in, but UDP packages do not. By
setting dev->needed_headroom for virtio-net device, UDP packages could have
enough room.

For UDP packages, sk_buff is alloced in fun __ip_append_data. The size is
"alloclen + hh_len + 15", and "hh_len = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(rt-dst.dev);".
The Macro is defined as follows:
#define LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev) \
     ((((dev)->hard_header_len+(dev)->needed_headroom)\
     &~(HH_DATA_MOD - 1)) + HH_DATA_MOD)
By default, for UDP packages, after skb is allocated, only 16 bytes
reserved. And 2 bytes remained after mac header is set. That is not enough
to put virtio-net header in. If we set dev->needed_headroom to 12 or 10
(according to mergeable_rx_bufs is on or off ), more room can be reserved.
Then there is enough room for UDP packages to put the header in.

test result list as below:
guest and host: suse11sp3, netperf, intel 2.4GHz
+-------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
|       |   old             |   new             |
+-------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
| UDP   |  Gbit/s | pps     |  Gbit/s | pps     |
| 64    |  0.57   | 692232  |  0.61   | 742420  |
| 256   |  1.60   | 686860  |  1.71   | 733331  |
| 512   |  2.92   | 674576  |  3.07   | 710446  |
| 1024  |  4.99   | 598977  |  5.17   | 620821  |
| 1460  |  5.68   | 483757  |  7.16   | 610519  |
| 4096  |  6.98   | 637468  |  7.21   | 658471  |
+-------+---------+---------+---------+---------+

Signed-off-by: Zhang Jie <zhangjie14@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/virtio_net.c