Because otherwise when crc computation is still needed it's way more
expensive than on a linear buffer to the point that it affects
performance.
It's so expensive that netperf test gives a perf output as below:
Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
18,62% netserver [kernel.vmlinux] [k] crc32_generic_shift
2,57% netserver [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __pskb_pull_tail
1,94% netserver [kernel.vmlinux] [k] fib_table_lookup
1,90% netserver [kernel.vmlinux] [k] copy_user_enhanced_fast_string
1,66% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_idle
1,63% netserver [kernel.vmlinux] [k] _raw_spin_lock
1,59% netserver [sctp] [k] sctp_packet_transmit
1,55% netserver [kernel.vmlinux] [k] memcpy_erms
1,42% netserver [sctp] [k] sctp_rcv
# netperf -H 192.168.10.1 -l 10 -t SCTP_STREAM -cC -- -m 12000
SCTP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.10.1 () port 0 AF_INET
Recv Send Send Utilization Service Demand
Socket Socket Message Elapsed Send Recv Send Recv
Size Size Size Time Throughput local remote local remote
bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/s % S % S us/KB us/KB
212992 212992 12000 10.00 3016.42 2.88 3.78 1.874 2.462
After patch:
Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
2,75% netserver [kernel.vmlinux] [k] memcpy_erms
2,63% netserver [kernel.vmlinux] [k] copy_user_enhanced_fast_string
2,39% netserver [kernel.vmlinux] [k] fib_table_lookup
2,04% netserver [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __pskb_pull_tail
1,91% netserver [kernel.vmlinux] [k] _raw_spin_lock
1,91% netserver [sctp] [k] sctp_packet_transmit
1,72% netserver [mlx4_en] [k] mlx4_en_process_rx_cq
1,68% netserver [sctp] [k] sctp_rcv
# netperf -H 192.168.10.1 -l 10 -t SCTP_STREAM -cC -- -m 12000
SCTP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.10.1 () port 0 AF_INET
Recv Send Send Utilization Service Demand
Socket Socket Message Elapsed Send Recv Send Recv
Size Size Size Time Throughput local remote local remote
bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/s % S % S us/KB us/KB
212992 212992 12000 10.00 3681.77 3.83 3.46 2.045 1.849
Fixes: 3acb50c18d8d ("sctp: delay as much as possible skb_linearize")
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
skb_transport_offset(skb))
goto discard_it;
- if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(struct sctphdr)))
+ /* If the packet is fragmented and we need to do crc checking,
+ * it's better to just linearize it otherwise crc computing
+ * takes longer.
+ */
+ if ((!(skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type & SKB_GSO_SCTP) &&
+ skb_linearize(skb)) ||
+ !pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(struct sctphdr)))
goto discard_it;
/* Pull up the IP header. */
if ((skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type & SKB_GSO_SCTP) == SKB_GSO_SCTP)
return NULL;
- if (skb_linearize(skb))
- return NULL;
-
ch = (sctp_chunkhdr_t *) skb->data;
/* The code below will attempt to walk the chunk and extract
chunk = list_entry(entry, struct sctp_chunk, list);
- /* Linearize if it's not GSO */
- if ((skb_shinfo(chunk->skb)->gso_type & SKB_GSO_SCTP) != SKB_GSO_SCTP &&
- skb_is_nonlinear(chunk->skb)) {
- if (skb_linearize(chunk->skb)) {
- __SCTP_INC_STATS(dev_net(chunk->skb->dev), SCTP_MIB_IN_PKT_DISCARDS);
- sctp_chunk_free(chunk);
- goto next_chunk;
- }
-
- /* Update sctp_hdr as it probably changed */
- chunk->sctp_hdr = sctp_hdr(chunk->skb);
- }
-
if ((skb_shinfo(chunk->skb)->gso_type & SKB_GSO_SCTP) == SKB_GSO_SCTP) {
/* GSO-marked skbs but without frags, handle
* them normally