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    virtio_net: Do not pull payload in skb->head · 0f6925b3
    Eric Dumazet authored
    Xuan Zhuo reported that commit 3226b158 ("net: avoid 32 x truesize
    under-estimation for tiny skbs") brought  a ~10% performance drop.
    
    The reason for the performance drop was that GRO was forced
    to chain sk_buff (using skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list), which
    uses more memory but also cause packet consumers to go over
    a lot of overhead handling all the tiny skbs.
    
    It turns out that virtio_net page_to_skb() has a wrong strategy :
    It allocates skbs with GOOD_COPY_LEN (128) bytes in skb->head, then
    copies 128 bytes from the page, before feeding the packet to GRO stack.
    
    This was suboptimal before commit 3226b158 ("net: avoid 32 x truesize
    under-estimation for tiny skbs") because GRO was using 2 frags per MSS,
    meaning we were not packing MSS with 100% efficiency.
    
    Fix is to pull only the ethernet header in page_to_skb()
    
    Then, we change virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() to pull the missing
    headers, instead of assuming they were already pulled by callers.
    
    This fixes the performance regression, but could also allow virtio_net
    to accept packets with more than 128bytes of headers.
    
    Many thanks to Xuan Zhuo for his report, and his tests/help.
    
    Fixes: 3226b158 ("net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs")
    Reported-by: default avatarXuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
    Link: https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg731397.htmlCo-Developed-by: default avatarXuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarXuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
    Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
    Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
    Acked-by: default avatarJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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