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Pavel Begunkov says: ==================== io_uring zerocopy send The patchset implements io_uring zerocopy send. It works with both registered and normal buffers, mixing is allowed but not recommended. Apart from usual request completions, just as with MSG_ZEROCOPY, io_uring separately notifies the userspace when buffers are freed and can be reused (see API design below), which is delivered into io_uring's Completion Queue. Those "buffer-free" notifications are not necessarily per request, but the userspace has control over it and should explicitly attaching a number of requests to a single notification. The series also adds some internal optimisations when used with registered buffers like removing page referencing. From the kernel networking perspective there are two main changes. The first one is passing ubuf_info into the network layer from io_uring (inside of an in kernel struct msghdr). This allows extra optimisations, e.g. ubuf_info caching on the io_uring side, but also helps to avoid cross-referencing and synchronisation problems. The second part is an optional optimisation removing page referencing for requests with registered buffers. Benchmarking UDP with an optimised version of the selftest (see [1]), which sends a bunch of requests, waits for completions and repeats. "+ flush" column posts one additional "buffer-free" notification per request, and just "zc" doesn't post buffer notifications at all. NIC (requests / second): IO size | non-zc | zc | zc + flush 4000 | 495134 | 606420 (+22%) | 558971 (+12%) 1500 | 551808 | 577116 (+4.5%) | 565803 (+2.5%) 1000 | 584677 | 592088 (+1.2%) | 560885 (-4%) 600 | 596292 | 598550 (+0.4%) | 555366 (-6.7%) dummy (requests / second): IO size | non-zc | zc | zc + flush 8000 | 1299916 | 2396600 (+84%) | 2224219 (+71%) 4000 | 1869230 | 2344146 (+25%) | 2170069 (+16%) 1200 | 2071617 | 2361960 (+14%) | 2203052 (+6%) 600 | 2106794 | 2381527 (+13%) | 2195295 (+4%) Previously it also brought a massive performance speedup compared to the msg_zerocopy tool (see [3]), which is probably not super interesting. There is also an additional bunch of refcounting optimisations that was omitted from the series for simplicity and as they don't change the picture drastically, they will be sent as follow up, as well as flushing optimisations closing the performance gap b/w two last columns. For TCP on localhost (with hacks enabling localhost zerocopy) and including additional overhead for receive: IO size | non-zc | zc 1200 | 4174 | 4148 4096 | 7597 | 11228 Using a real NIC 1200 bytes, zc is worse than non-zc ~5-10%, maybe the omitted optimisations will somewhat help, should look better for 4000, but couldn't test properly because of setup problems. Links: liburing (benchmark + tests): [1] https://github.com/isilence/liburing/tree/zc_v4 kernel repo: [2] https://github.com/isilence/linux/tree/zc_v4 RFC v1: [3] https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/cover.1638282789.git.asml.silence@gmail.com/ RFC v2: https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/cover.1640029579.git.asml.silence@gmail.com/ Net patches based: git@github.com:isilence/linux.git zc_v4-net-base or https://github.com/isilence/linux/tree/zc_v4-net-base API design overview: The series introduces an io_uring concept of notifactors. From the userspace perspective it's an entity to which it can bind one or more requests and then requesting to flush it. Flushing a notifier makes it impossible to attach new requests to it, and instructs the notifier to post a completion once all requests attached to it are completed and the kernel doesn't need the buffers anymore. Notifications are stored in notification slots, which should be registered as an array in io_uring. Each slot stores only one notifier at any particular moment. Flushing removes it from the slot and the slot automatically replaces it with a new notifier. All operations with notifiers are done by specifying an index of a slot it's currently in. When registering a notification the userspace specifies a u64 tag for each slot, which will be copied in notification completion entries as cqe::user_data. cqe::res is 0 and cqe::flags is equal to wrap around u32 sequence number counting notifiers of a slot. ==================== Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cover.1657643355.git.asml.silence@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> |
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Linux kernel
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